National security analyst Malcolm Nance says the management of the U.S. Capitol police should be fired, and the officers involved should be investigated Wednesday for possible complicity in the uprising.
Compared to the protesters of Black Lives Matter in DC during the summer, the insurgents exercised ‘the ultimate white privilege’, he says.
“I saw a national security disaster unfold and then turn into a national security disaster,” he said. ‘I monitor right-wing extremist chat groups, their Telegram channels, their private internet forums. And we saw it coming a long time ago. ”
Police’s response to the pro-Trump extremists was “a complete failure,” Nance said. There are 2,200 officers in the Capitol police, making it the ninth largest police force in the country, he says.
“Why they could not respond on their own is because they thought the protesters were on their side,” he said.
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What Nance saw from a national security perspective
” As you recall, a few months ago there was a conspiracy uncovered by U.S. lawyers against six men in Michigan who were planning to kidnap and try to execute Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. The plan B for the group was to take 200 men, storm the Statehouse, bring all the Democratic and liberal people to the fore, or as they point out, people in the Statehouse, to try and execute them by to shoot or hang the Statehouse. The viable plan was the first thing I thought of when I watched their live streams [Wednesday] and see them move away from the Mall and go to the Capitol. I said, ‘This is going to turn into something bad.’ ”
At Capitol, police are unprepared
‘I have to compare it to the protests we saw, the Black Lives Matter protests this summer in Washington, DC, and it’s simple. This summer, all of the government’s resources were mobilized to protect the White House and confront the protesters of the Black Lives Matter because they were under the explicit command of Donald Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr to use every resource in the United States. States to bring forward. States federal system. They brought riot response teams from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. They used the National Guard with a protected symbol on it and actually brought in the National Guard from three other states. And they use it like an iron nail on the protesters.
“In this one, because after a speech attended by President Trump, they considered it, I suspect, that these protesters were about to practice what I could only identify as the ultimate white privilege. They were seen as connected to law enforcers when they came to the west side of the Capitol, it was an open warfare with law enforcers. But those who went to the east side who eventually invaded the building almost cooperated with them as if they were an extremely large high school tour group. It was a total collapse of the Capitol Hill police’s responsibilities and their protocols. Everyone in the management of the organization should be fired and then all officers should be examined to see if they were complicit in it. ”
About Vice President Mike Pence approving order to deploy National Guard instead of Trump
‘Here’s the real reason we’re seen any reaction whatsoever and that the President of the United States has apparently had to report that he does not want the DC National Guard to be mobilized by the Department of Justice. The reason there was a response was because Mike Pence and Kamala Harris, the incoming vice president and special security force for Nancy Pelosi, who is part of the Capitol Hill police, made an emergency call for immediate response from federal agencies that the vice President was immediately and threateningly threatened. That’s why the FBI’s strike teams pulled out, that’s why other police forces mobilized. But they did not call the Metropolitan Police Department, which has jurisdiction over all other parts of the city except Capitol Hill. And it was the FBI and the Secret Service that really evacuated the building with the help of some elements of Capitol Hill’s emergency response forces, a total failure.
‘It was Mike Pence who threw out his secret service forces, called on the state of Virginia to send military police National Guards, and only later did the Department of Justice give the Washington police the power to dispose of all 1200 of his To mobilize National Guards. , and thereafter the mayor was granted cooperative authority to allow the Metropolitan Police Department to effectively secure Capitol Hill. ”
Preparations for the pro-Trump protests had to be dealt with from the beginning
‘It should have been an integrated network of all law enforcers brought in to support all the diverse activities that were going on, the most important of which was the fact that you were in a joint session of Congress. All members of the House of Representatives and all members of the U.S. Senate were in one room. This alone should have posed a threat to national security, meaning that every resource of the US government should have been there, just as for the state of the Union. The only thing missing was the President of the United States. Why they failed in this, therefore, does not go beyond me.
‘But more importantly, it’s taken like a regular day of Mike Pence going to the golf course, instead of all law enforcement being fully integrated with an FBI security room ready for all the resources to get from the DC police. respond. police, improved SWAT units and the protesters to channel more to Union Station and away from the Capitol itself. I think Donald Trump was very pleased with the answer, and that’s why we do not hear from them. And that obliged the security details of the vice presidents to ensure the entire operation for the Capitol. This is shameful. ”
About what he expects from the investigation ahead
‘I’m not fickle when I say that ISIS is furious that they never came up with this idea of coming in through a mass protest, doing a hostage barricade and executing everyone inside the building, because it was viable. [on Wednesday]. And I do not know whether the people who had five firearms on them, or the loop that was erected outside the Capitol, or whether they were fully intent on having a murder cell in there, which is completely and utterly independent of the protesters would be. that building, besieged it and started killing people.
‘Every person in management has failed. Every person in that part of the Capitol Hill police force that allowed protesters, who did not guard the building, to fail. Now there is a template to take over the American Capitol building. All you need is a mass protest of people who look like someone other than Black Lives Matter and antifa, and you can just take over a government building. This has happened before. And I think in many state houses across the country, they fear that this will happen again soon. ”
Julia Corcoran produced and edited this interview for the Todd Mundt broadcast. Allison Hagan and Serena McMahon adapted it for the internet.