D.C. police refuse to release interviews of Capitol security officials from siege, citing privacy – IOTW Report

D.C. police refuse to release interviews of Capitol security officials from siege, citing privacy

Just The News:

Interviews could shed light on what congressional leaders like Pelosi and McConnell were told before and during Capitol riots.

The Metropolitan Police Department in Washington D.C., which is leading the investigation into the deadly Capitol siege last week, is denying a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by Just the News seeking records of its interviews with top congressional security officials, claiming their release would invade the privacy of the officers.

In the FOIA request, Just the News sought “copies of public records that include notes, reports, and summaries of interviews done by the Metropolitan Police Department with the former Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives Paul Irving, Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate Jennifer Hemingway, and the former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund regarding January 6, 2021.”

The MPD responded Wednesday that it has “determined to withhold responsive records” because they deemed the information “of a personal nature where the public disclosure thereof would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”

Both the House of Representatives Sergeant at Arms and the U.S. Capitol Police Chief resigned from their positions following the siege at the Capitol on Jan. 6. 

Sund gave an interview to the Washington Post saying he was turned down six times by Capitol security officials when he requested National Guard reinforcements starting two days before the riots on the grounds that having soldiers guarding Congress would create bad optics. read more

15 Comments on D.C. police refuse to release interviews of Capitol security officials from siege, citing privacy

  1. I sincerely hope that these idiots don’t get emboldened to the point that they consider this an actual insurrection.
    Go ahead and cry your fake-assed tears about how your life was in endangered AOC, but please think long and HARD about revoking the 2nd Amendment.
    At that point it won’t be TikTok theatre, the shit WILL BE VERY FUCKING REAL!
    You better be afraid for REAL at that point!

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  2. There is no end to keeping the general public in the dark about simple facts.

    All too often IF the public is to be informed….there are few, if any, facts.

    The government DOES NOT answer to the people.

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  3. Wake up, the shit has hit the fan, just look around you, the democrat instigators are everywhere and in full denial.”I didn’t do anything it was them.”

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  4. I’m told the second impeachment is impossible because impeachment can only be done to sitting federal officials. But then I’m also told this impeachment conviction will prohibit Trump from running again in 2024. Not sure about that, but I don’t think he’d run in 2024 anyway.

    But my question is…what if 2020 fraud made Biden’s election illegitimate, and Biden/Harris had to step down? Would this current impeachment, if it resulted in a conviction, disallow Trump from assuming his rightful second term? And how does Pence look now?

    I know, just silly conjecture. But the Dems/Deepers/Media sure act like they’ve thought about it.

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  5. Those that do evil love the darkness, because their deeds are evil. The Congress is a den of thieves flourishing in the miasma of the swamp. God will throw many of them into the Lake of Fire with Satan and his dominions of demons. The Judas party, formerly known as Republicans have become so corrupted they too will be rewarded for their betrayal of the American People they were sworn to serve. What a bunch ungrateful people who don’t deserve any respect, and shall not get any from me or any Proud American. End of RANT, an attempt to calm my troubled heart in the wake of this continual madness we are all living with today!

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