Ex-Chief Steven Sund compares Capitol security and intelligence lapses to 9/11, says he was “dumbfounded” by threat warnings that were kept from him.
The Capitol Police chief who handled the Jan. 6 riot says political bureaucracy under Speaker Nancy Pelosi put optics over safety and hampered his department from crafting an appropriate security plan to protect the home of Congress that fateful day.
Steven Sund, who resigned as the head of the $600 million a year Capitol Police Department after the tragedy, told the “Just the News, No Noise” television show on Wednesday that significant lapses occurred inside his department, inside the political leadership of Congress and across federal law enforcement and security agencies in the days before the Capitol riot.
Sund warned that the Capitol still remains vulnerable to future attacks because it has not addressed the core intelligence and security failures exposed that day or streamlined the political bureaucracy that governs his former force. The interview was part of Sund’s tour to promote his new book “Courage under Fire.”
“I point out in the book how politicized security on Capitol [Hill] is, and that hasn’t changed. It’s still the same,” he said. “You still have way too much politics playing a role in security. All the oversight over the police department is all politically aligned. And anytime you have oversight that reports to a certain political party, it’s a recipe for disaster.”
Sund said that as chief he could not make major decisions about security planning for events like Jan. 6 without getting approval of the Capitol Police Board or alerting the House and Senate sergeants at arms. He directly challenged Pelosi’s claim in a February 2021 news conference that her Speaker’s office played no role in Capitol security, noting he communicated with Pelosi through then-House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving, who resigned along with Sund.
Pelosi did not want ANY security because then she would not be able to Set-Up Trump !!!!! Jan 06
That’s WHY SHE & DC Mayor REFUSED Trump request for the National Guard Before Jan 06 !!!!
Pelosi Murdered innocent Veteran Female Unarmed Ashley Babbitt Jan 06 invited in by her police > SHOT !!!!!
we know it was not Trump’s fault if you heard about crowds saying they were going to the capital it was covered by the news media their is a record of Trump stated”if you are going to the capitol to protest or be heard do it peacefully “. This is not a lie millions of us heard it and their are records showing it by the media.
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