In a stunning display of ineptitude that could have led to deadly consequences, government enforcement agencies on Wednesday night erroneously set the U.S. Capitol on high alert, igniting wide-scale panic that saw congressional staffers evacuating the legislative building.
The mayhem was in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s U.S. Capitol Police identifying an aircraft that they said posed “a probable threat” and issuing an alert that triggered the evacuation.
The chaos was misplaced, however, when it was learned that the aircraft in question was the U.S. Army’s Golden Knights’ parachute demonstration into the Washington Nationals’ baseball stadium.
... Pelosi wasted no time to congratulate the Capitol Police for keeping the peace after setting D.C. on high alert and people scrambling in terror and panic.
“Today, and every day, our Congressional community is extraordinarily grateful for the heroism of our United States Capitol Police officers,” Pelosi said in a statement.
... Looking for somewhere to place the blame outside the purview of her Capitol force, Pelosi lashed the incompetence of the Federal Aviation Administration, whose “apparent failure to notify Capitol Police of the pre-planned flyover Nationals Stadium is outrageous and inexcusable.”
And, of course, sow that she is, she also brought up "the trauma of the attack ..... of Jan. 6th".
