U.S. Capitol Police Surveilled by FBI Prior to Obama Inauguration!!

[Phx_Dem]

Holy shit. They were surveilling them because they'd been seen in the company of radical racists who were being watched by the FBI. The FBI made sure none of the policemen were on duty during Obama's Inauguration.

Jesus. This country is so fully of violent-leaning radicals sometimes I feel like I live in the Middle East.

In the days leading up to President Obama's inauguration, U.S. law enforcement agencies huddled regularly in an effort to minimize any possible security risk to an event that promised record crowds for the country's first black president. But one agenda item led authorities to a target close to home: the ranks of the U.S. Capitol Police.

An FBI investigation that included taped surveillance had placed two off-duty veteran Capitol Police officers in the company of individuals whose racial views and capacity for violence were under scrutiny. Although the recorded discussion did not center on Obama, federal law enforcement officials wanted to ensure that the officers were not on duty covering the Capitol, where the president took the oath of office, according to two sources involved in the matter.

The FBI alerted Capitol Police officials, but some federal officials grew concerned when no immediate action was taken, according to the sources. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan voiced his frustration to then-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, according to a senior federal official with knowledge of the incident. Chertoff, a former federal appeals court judge, told officials that if the Capitol Police did not act, he was prepared to take the issue to members of Congress overseeing the inauguration, the senior federal official said.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/06/AR2009030601369.html?hpid=topnews

[SpartanDem]

1. That is very scary

[vaberella]

2. And people think America's changed completely...

Way too many radical racists out there. We can't trust any one.

[paul_fromatlanta]

3. I'm not that concerned that there were two potentially bad cops

I'm not that concerned that there were two potentially bad cops in a city the size of D.C. I'm much more concerned that even with a black mayor and black police chief, the D.C. police could not or did not deal with the problem once the FBI picked it up.

[Hekate]

4. So, if those cops were not on duty in DC, just where were they then?

I was hoping it would turn out they were riding a desk under close supervision.
:scared:

Hekate