DC police help DOGE force its way into office of Institute of Peace
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Anonymous
True. Perhaps it works differently when the intruders are there at the behest of the POTUS? |
Anonymous
Obviously yes. But someone at MPD must have told the police officers who let DOGE in and escorted USIP out to allow the "intruders" in. Who? |
Anonymous
They were told to do so by Ed Martin, the USA for DC. |
Anonymous
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The WaPo has a detailed description of what happened. USIP’s private security company Intercon said they were threatened with the loss of all federal contracts if they didn’t let DOGE in. So they took their key and tried to do so but USIP’s head of security stopped them and DOGE.
MPD arrived after and USIP security let them in thinking they were responding to his call about intruders but MPD just let the DOGE people in. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/18/doge-institute-of-peace-takeover-musk-trump/ O’Brien, the USIP security chief, compiled a timeline of what happened next. “On Sunday, I personally notified the [Inter-Con] guard force that their contract was suspended and had them depart … letting them know all [entry] badges had been deactivated and they were not authorized on the property,” O’Brien said in an interview. The contract was officially canceled Monday. “On Monday, at approximately 2:30 p.m.” four members of Inter-Con’s local office “came onto the property and attempted to use their key cards to open the doors. Ken Jackson was sitting in a government Lincoln Navigator on 23rd Street.” The security guards “walked around, trying different badge readers” on different doors. Eventually, one “who had retained a manual key to the building” used it to open a side door. At the time, only O’Brien, Moose, USIP communications director Gonzo Gallegos and two lawyers were in the building. When the four entered and refused to leave, O’Brien said, the head of the Inter-Con team “said DOGE had called them and threatened every one of their federal contracts if we didn’t let them in.” The four headed for the locked armory, where firearms for security personnel at the site were kept. One remained at the opened weapons safe while the three others headed for the front door, O’Brien said. “I called 911” at 2:59 p.m., he said, telling the dispatcher that four individuals “had illegally entered USIP.” O’Brien said he activated “lockdown procedure” preventing the opening of any doors. As the security contractors approached the door, “members of DOGE were running up to enter the building. When they were unsuccessful, they went back to their cars.” It was all, he said, on USIP security cameras. Inter-Con did not respond Tuesday to calls and emails to both its Pasadena, California, headquarters and its local office in Arlington, Virginia. When the police arrived at about 5:30 p.m., O’Brien went outside to meet them, believing that they were responding to USIP’s 911 call hours earlier. “I invited them in so they could take a statement,” he said. One of the officers opened the door to allow Jackson and other DOGE representatives inside, along with about a dozen additional uniformed officers. According to a D.C. police statement issued Tuesday, they were responding to a 4 p.m. call from Martin “regarding an ongoing incident at the United States Institute of Peace” who advised that “at least one person who was refusing to leave the property at the direction of the acting USIP president, who was lawfully in charge of the facility.” All USIP personnel present, including Moose, whose locked door on the fifth floor was forced open, were escorted by police from the building and prevented from reentering. |
Anonymous
| Who was brandishing guns at the USIP personnel? |
Anonymous
| Seems like a trend. Intercon gets threatened with loss of federal contracts and sells out client USIP. MPD presumably told by someone from above that DOGE trumps the inhabitants of the USIP office. Law firms who prosecuted January 6 clients told they will lose all their federal contracts for prosecuting the January 6 terrorists. Sad times. |
Anonymous
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Extortion:
"the act or practice of extorting especially money or other property especially : the offense committed by an official engaging in such practice" |