2021, Capitol Police officials announced plans.
Congress overwhelmingly supported a bill last year to fork over $2.1 billion in new funding to the Capitol Police.
Capitol Police investigators are preparing secret dossiers on lawmakers, congressional staff, donors, and even constituents who visit their representatives in public or in private.
"After the Jan. 6 insurrection, the Capitol Police's intelligence unit quietly started scrutinizing the backgrounds of people who meet with lawmakers," reporters Betsy Woodruff Swan and Daniel Lippman wrote.
"Several Capitol Police intelligence analysts have already raised concerns about the practice to the department's inspector general," one source told Politico.
"Major changes in the Capitol Police intelligence unit started in fall of 2020, when the department brought on former Department of Homeland Security official Julie Farnam to help run its intelligence unit, which is housed in its Intelligence and Interagency Coordination Division," Politico.
This week to both sergeants-at-arms, the Capitol Police chief, and the architect of the Capitol to demand answers, insisting the new spy initiative "Constitutes a dramatic and troubling expansion of the USCP's authority."
https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/27/meet-the-capitol-polices-new-spy-chief/
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