EXTENSIVE thread live tweeted from related courtroom action today:

Mike Pence apparently has gotten some political advisors telling him to pretend like none it ever happened and it's 1994?

More proof federal forces aren't trained to handle civil unrest; up until now they've left that up to police. While those at the Portland Federal courthouse sent by the Trump admin. may or may not have been thugs, that's not the heart of the issue, which is: they simply aren't trained to do it, haven't a clue:

So the "Operation Legend" started under Barr's DOJ, where FBI & ATF etc. are sent to work with local police forces that need help dealing with crime waves, was not to my mind a completely wack idea. Reading up on it during Trump presidency, I got the inkling that it was a project that came bottom up from rank & file DOJ, not top down from Trumpies, that many see the problem percolating of domestic extremism and crime and unrest, and they felt there should be much more communication.

That Barr/Trump may have promoted it for other motives doesn't necessarily negate the need.

Here's the real problem with it ideologically:  libertarians, many conservatives, some lefties, including anarchist-leaners, feel very strongly that policing should be a locally controlled issue where the Federal government should not interfere.

A pumped-up TSA was no brainer that few could argue with because it's about cross-country and international travel.

But protection of Federal buildings located within local police jurisdictions is another matter. There is resistance by many of pumping up Federal forces, on a constitutional level. The unprepared-ness of Capitol Police force may have been intentional in a way.

Funny-not-that this ideological conflict also connects with the debate about DC statehood! If DC were a state, then...get what I am saying?

Edit to add: go back to Janet Reno, the evil enemy of freeeeedom, interfering in matters none of her business, burner of compounds with children in them, etc. Not to mention sending a little boy back to Cuba by force (where were the social workers )

Ex-Pentagon chief, House Democrat clash during Capitol attack hearing: 'You're ridiculous'

By Rebecca Kheel @ TheHill.com, May 12

Former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller clashed with Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) on Wednesday over former President Trump’s culpability in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack after the ex-Pentagon chief appeared to walk back previous comments blaming Trump.

At a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing, Lynch asked Miller whether the attack would have happened without Trump’s speech at a rally that preceded the breach, noting comments Miller made to Vice in March blaming Trump [....]