One Defense Department official said law enforcement agencies are planning for a range of outcomes, including a worse-case scenario in which people with firearms try to attack dignitaries, “suicide-type aircraft” try to fly into the capital’s restricted airspace and even remote-controlled drones that could be used to attack the crowd.
While those scenarios are among the more extreme, the officials said they were particularly worried about the possibility of multiple, violent confrontations, including with firearms, simultaneously flaring up around the inaugural dignitaries.
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The National Guard is expected to officially announce the arming of some of the troops Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. The decision is important because in the past, federal and local officials have shied away from militarizing the Capitol.
I don't like this, not any of it. I believe the Pentagon is deeply worried. I don't think that is crocodile tears posturing. How though to square that, and the Joint Chief's offer to "support," with this? Because they don't like the "optics" of a militarized Capitol? Would the scenes from the 1814 or from 1/6/21 be easier on their sensitive eyes? The U.S. has not had this "worrying" a threat to the Capitol since the War of 1812 and the stymied Flight 93 attack of 9/11/01. They're "shy" from the past? That doesn't ring true, or sensible.
Armed coupsters suddenly firing at Biden, Harris and others, is precisely how Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
The pipe bombs found at RNC and DNC headquarters, and the truck, I think it was Lonnie Coffman’s, that was loaded with weapons and homemade napalm drew some of the already understaffed and disloyal Capitol Police away from the Capitol building.
The permits should have been canceled. I thought they had. Mayor Bowser put in that request to the National Park Service yesterday. But here, the 16 permitted groups are mentioned again. There was a request for check points. Nothing about check points here. The crisis is coming to a head.
