Security officials to scale back fencing around U.S. Capitol
The fencing will be scaled back in two phases, Timothy Blodgett, the acting House sergeant-at-arms, said Monday in a memo to members of Congress and their staff.
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The fencing will be scaled back in two phases, Timothy Blodgett, the acting House sergeant-at-arms, said Monday in a memo to members of Congress and their staff.
The decision underscores concerns about security at the Capitol, two months after rioters breached the building in an attack that left five people dead.
Read more about US Capitol Police chief appeals for National Guard to stay amid threats on Business Standard. Police want to keep the fence indefinitely. In her letter, Pittman said she would ask for a drawdown of the deployment "based on the threat environment and physical and operational security capability
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