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U.S. Capitol Police will begin fielding military surveillance equipment as part of sweeping security upgrades as the force becomes “an intelligence-based protective agency” after the Jan. 6 attack.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recently approved a Capitol Police request for eight Persistent Surveillance Systems Ground - Medium (PSSG-M) units. The system provides high-definition surveillance video and is enabled with night vision. The system does not include facial recognition capabilities, the Pentagon said.
“This technology will be integrated with existing USCP camera infrastructure, providing greater high definition surveillance capacity to meet steady-state mission requirements and help identify emerging threats,” the Pentagon said.
The technology allowed U.S. troops fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to monitor large areas 24/7 through extremely high-resolution cameras.
Some privacy rights advocates have raised concern that Capitol Police are getting into the business of spying on Americans.
In a wartime application, the persistent surveillance units were mounted on tethered blimps. The data could be stored, combined with sensor data from other platforms, and later referenced or rewound to track individuals or groups. --->READ MORE HERE
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On Thursday, we reported about an unconstitutional move by the Capitol Police to expand beyond the Capitol to open up field offices around the country.
One of the biggest problems we all should have about this action is that the Capitol Police are federal, but unlike other federal law enforcement agencies, the Capitol Police are not subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) inquiries and are not part of the Executive Branch. In fact, they are under the control of Nancy Pelosi.
So we have a radical leftist Speaker of the House who took it upon herself to play politics with the Capitol Police and apparently they are only beholden to Nancy Pelosi. It can’t possibly be Constitutional to expand the “Capitol” police’s jurisdiction to outside the “Capitol.”
But she’s doing it anyway, and it’s because she realizes people are not taking the whole January 6 “insurrection” chanting seriously. Most people know the riot was a one-off event and they also understand that there’s a real cover-up going on about the events of that day like the government not releasing 14,000 hours of video, witnesses saying that Capitol Police started attacking peaceful protesters, they still won’t give out the name of the Capitol Police officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran who didn’t pose a threat to anyone, and much more.
The Democrats are using the January 6 riot at the Capitol in any way they can to degrade and humiliate Republican members of Congress all the way to the 2022 midterm elections. It is beyond abuse of power. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to related stories:
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