Quote Originally Posted by jp1 View Post
Hopefully they’ll start with investigating why security was so woefully inadequate at the capitol today. Anyone who isn’t comatose was concerned that what ended up happening was going to happen. There should have been blm level security and we need to learn who made the decisions to not have it.
Apparently you can take over a joint session of Congress and subvert the US government with far less effort than your average Gerard Butler "The ____ Has Fallen" movie leads us to believe.

I'd always assumed there were layers of security not normally on public display. Certainly I have seen such layered deployments of resources in Sweden, Norway, and the UK.