{"id":51989,"date":"2022-06-19T17:38:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T17:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51989"},"modified":"2022-06-19T17:38:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T17:38:24","slug":"pelosi-is-not-part-of-this-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51989","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi is not part of this story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/161130-nancypelosi-editorial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27974\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/161130-nancypelosi-editorial-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/161130-nancypelosi-editorial-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/161130-nancypelosi-editorial-768x294.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/161130-nancypelosi-editorial-1024x393.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/161130-nancypelosi-editorial.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I generally don&#8217;t like responding to Internet trolls, but one guy who follows my blog keeps insisting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should&#8217;ve done a better job of &#8220;securing&#8221; the Capitol prior to the 1\/6 insurrection.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I found out: <em>The Speaker of the House is not in charge of Capitol security. That\u2019s the responsibility of the Capitol Police Board, which oversees the US Capitol Police and approves requests for National Guard assistance. Jane L. Campbell, president and CEO of the US Capitol Historical Society, says that \u201cthe Speaker of the House does not oversee security of the US Capitol, nor does this official oversee the Capitol Police Board.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This comes from a CNN fact-check of a comment that came from Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, one of Donald Trump&#8217;s staunchest congressional defenders. To be sure, I am certain my blog follower won&#8217;t accept that the answer comes from CNN, which he likely considers to be a tainted news outlet, a purveyor of &#8220;fake news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My point, thus, is this: Speaker Pelosi is not part of the problem that befell the Capitol Police as its brave officers fought with the traitors who sought to overturn the 2020 election on 1\/6.<\/p>\n<p>She might have her share of faults &#8230; as a fallible human being. Capitol security isn&#8217;t one of them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I generally don&#8217;t like responding to Internet trolls, but one guy who follows my blog keeps insisting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should&#8217;ve done a better job of &#8220;securing&#8221; the Capitol prior to the 1\/6 insurrection. Here&#8217;s what I found out: The Speaker of the House is not in charge of Capitol security. That\u2019s the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51989\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pelosi is not part of this story<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2280,3178],"class_list":["post-51989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-insurrection","tag-nancy-pelosi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51990,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51989\/revisions\/51990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}