Congress considers how anti-Israel rioters took over D.C.'s Union Station.

I'm Elizabeth Mitchell. This is the Daily Signal, Top News, Intent for Tuesday, December 10th.

How did violent anti-Israel pro-Hamas rioters get away with destroying government property, burning American flags and an effigy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and raising a Palestinian flag in place of Old Glory on July 24th.

GOP members of Congress on Tuesday asked this at a House Natural Resources Subcommittee

on Oversight Hearing titled, Desecrating Old Glory, investigating how the pro-Hamas protests turned

National Park Service land into a violent disgrace. On July 24th, protesters swarmed Union Station in Washington, D.C.

to tear down the three American flags that stand tall outside the transit hub and replace them with Palestinian flags instead.

The rally in March was a protest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington to address a joint session of Congress.

The National Park Service's associate director was unable to answer Representative Rudy Yakim's question about how many park police officers were on site during the anti-Israel protest.

Here's the exchange between Yakim and Charles

Cuvier, the associate director of visitor and resource protection for the National Parks Service.

Mr. Cuvillier, why did the U.S. Park police only have 29 officers to monitor what was expected

to be a 5,000 person protest?

Thank you for the question, sir.

In our planning for the event, it was considered a full force commitment.

We committed 174 officers of the force to participate in the event,

and were assigned various duties and responsibilities with the permitted activity.

A full force commitment means we ask officers to surrender their days off or time off,

and I want to commend all of the force who consistently do this to provide for the number of First Amendment or other special events that occur within the National Capital Region.

But in fact, we had 174 personnel committed to the event.

So you had 174 personnel actually on site?

They were assigned a number of different functions within the planning cycle for the entire length and in physical footprint.

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