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WASHINGTON Law enforcement officials are vetting hundreds of potential airplane passengers and beefing up airport security as officials amplify warnings of violence before the presidential inauguration from extremists emboldened by the Capitol attack last week.
The Transportation Security Administration is increasing the number of federal marshals on flights and explosive-detection dogs at airports. Screening officers will be deployed to assist a militarized green zone in downtown Washington.
Federal officials say the security perimeter, which includes an increasing number of armed members of the National Guard, is necessary to prevent an attack from domestic extremists. Such groups pose the most likely threat to the inauguration, according to a joint threat assessment from the F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security, which warned that attackers could target federal buildings and public officials in the days leading to the inauguration of Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the 46th president.
The extremists remain a concern due to their ability to act with little to no warning, willingness to attack civilians and soft targets, and ability to inflict significant casualties with weapons that do not require specialized knowledge, federal officials wrote in the bulletin obtained by The New York Times.
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Arne
(2,027 posts)Boston City Hall Plaza, April 5, 1976
Arne
(2,027 posts)Bet he has swastika tats.
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)has reached the sound and fury stage. I expect it to exit with just whimpers by scattered crazies.
They're crawling back under their rocks as we clutch our pearls.