Capitol Hill police get some exercise, 3 civilians get their man

ABC’s Tom Shine blogs about Politics As Usual: The Hill newspaper, Sen. Wayne Allard (R-CO) and the Washington Post all confirm that it WASN’T THE CAPITOL HILL POLICE who finally caught up with 20-year-old Carlos Greene who was apparently high on drugs when he drove his SUV through a police checkpoint and then ran into the U.S. Capitol at 7:45am last Monday packing heat. No, it was 3 CIVILIANS who work in the FLAG OFFICE who stopped Greene and captured him. After waiting 9 hours to hold a newser about this very serious breach of security, acting Capitol Police Chief Christopher McGaffin told reporters that it was his officers who captured and subdued the assailant. According to this morning’s Washington Post, McGaffin has acknowledged that 3 employees who work in a basement office filling orders for flags that have flown over the U.S. Capitol “confronted the individual” and provided "the few precious seconds we needed to catch up with this suspect." So taxpayers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on new security equipment and additional officers — 1,600 officers now protect 95 acres of land, called the Capitol Hill complex and it all comes down to three civilians folding flags!