Security cameras for the Pelosi home weren’t ‘actively monitored,’ Capitol Police admit in court documents; video showed Democratic lawmaker not wearing a face mask
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday she was “absolutely confident” that her home was not under surveillance during her recent visit to Puerto Rico.
But the Washington police chief in charge of Pelosi’s security, who has been testifying in her defense this week in a federal court hearing, has admitted his agency was responsible for not taking any “precautions” or recording any conversations between Pelosi and her security.
The former chief of the Capitol police, Gary J. Hale, told the court that Capitol police did not record any conversations Pelosi had with staff or visitors to her office in the House of Representatives, even when there were visitors.
The judge presiding over the case, B. Todd Jones, has not yet ruled on whether the security agency is liable for not doing enough to provide proper care to Pelosi during the seven-day trip to Puerto Rico and five other visits to the US territory.
The case involves allegations that Pelosi’s security service provided her with defective medical equipment, such as an oxygen tank, that she used during a long flight from San Francisco to Detroit on 6 December 2018. She remains in Washington to appear before US district judge William Zloch in Washington this week.
When I went to go see my doctor last night, he said: ‘I am not going to treat the president’s wife. There is no way we could care for her.’
Nancy Pelosi, speaker emerita, is seen in this undated handout photo. Pelosi was taken by ambulance after fainting on a flight from San Francisco to Detroit before returning to Washington on 6 December 2018. Photograph: Reuters
The video obtained by the Associated Press shows Pelosi fainting and collapsing on a plane to Detroit, where she was returned to DC by a police officer in a special ambulance.
The incident was caught on video, and Pelosi had been due to return to Washington on Friday, though a House committee has refused to release it.
Hale’s deposition, at a hearing Monday, was the first of three hearings that will be held into the
