Kim Bidemi Agbor
The leader of the US National Guard said he is not concerned about an internal security threat with Biden's inauguration.
"It's not a threat to me. I don't worry about that," General Daniel Hokanson, head of the National Guard (NGB), told NBC today about the threat of "treason.
US National Guard at Biden's inauguration ceremony in Washington on January 18 Photo: Reuters.
Hokanson added that "this kind of check is the norm" for all security officials at an event of the size and importance of a presidential inauguration.
Hokanson's comments came after the Washington Post said the FBI warned that QAnon conspirators had discussed impersonating members of the National Guard.
The National Guard will deploy 25,000 troops from Washington and across the United States to assist law enforcement in blocking a large area of the capital for the ceremony.
Major General William Walker, the head of the Washington National Guard, on Jan. 18 told ABC that the numbers were "checked before they left the state" and then "continued to be checked until they were deployed.
Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller also said "there is no intelligence to indicate the danger of treason" from the National Guard responsible for defending Biden's upcoming inauguration.
