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ormer U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund has declared that Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) handling of security on January 6, 2021, was a “recipe for disaster.”
Steven Sund, who led the department during the Jan. 6 riot, says Pelosi, who was House speaker at the time, put political bureaucracy and optics over safety.
Sund accuses Pelosi of hampering his department from crafting an appropriate security plan to protect the home of Congress that fateful day.
The former Capitol Police boss, who resigned as the head of the $600 million a year department after Jan. 6, dropped the hammer on Pelosi during a new interview on the “Just the News, No Noise” television show.
Sund revealed that significant lapses occurred inside his department, inside the political leadership of Congress, and across federal law enforcement and security agencies in the days before the Capitol riot.
He warns that the Capitol still remains vulnerable to future attacks because it has not addressed the core intelligence and security failures exposed that day or streamlined the political bureaucracy that governs his former force.
The interview was part of Sund’s tour to promote his new book “Courage under Fire.”
“I point out in the book how politicized security on Capitol [Hill] is, and that hasn’t changed,” Sund told Just the News.
