Those that have been into federal buildings in DC, since 9/11, will recall the airport-like security, with metal detectors, scanners and several armed LEOs at every entrance. This happens at literally every building for every department and agency, for the offices of the Congressional Representatives and Senators, for the common committee and meeting rooms --- literally all of DC officialdom is very protected at each and every entrance.
And the Capitol Building itself has this, plus external structures. It kinda makes sense that there are layers of protection.
My continuing question is about those entrances. Ashli Babbit was shot at one, probably by one of those LEOs defending the entrance. But why were there no others shot, or blocked from entering? Where did those LEOs go when they were not at the entrances securing the building? If they had been overrun, there would have been evidence of battles, injuries and video from many sources. That didn't happen because they abandoned their security duty at each entrance. Why did they do that?
There had to have been either a dereliction of duty by the LEOs or an order for them to vacate the entrances --- and to let the protestors in, without any security at all. Since there have been no charges about dereliction of duty, and all entrances --- during a so-called "insurrection" -- were vacated of security LEOs, it seems obvious that someone --- during an "insurrection" -- told security to not only stand down, but to abandon their posts.
Was it Trump or his people that "opened the gates" to the mob? Probably not, or that would have been big news. So somebody else, in the face of an invasion of the US Capitol, ordered the LEOs to abandon all entrances, clearly leaving those internal in the building at the mercy of the insurgents.
I truly do not understand why this decion-making isn't the centerpiece of all discussions of Jan 6, because someone ordered that the security perimeter of the Capitol building, each entrance, to be abandoned. This clearly gave easy access to the building and its occupants, and would seem like exactly the opposite of a proper response to an attack on the sovereignty of the US Capitol, and its leaders.
So who let the bad guys in?