No comment on the FOIA angle. In general if I were a lawmaker I would be very shook right now. The people who are supposed to protect me are either incompetent

No comment on the FOIA angle. In general if I were a lawmaker I would be very shook right now. The people who are supposed to protect me are either incompetent or untrustworthy. Hindsight is 20/20 now but with more organization today could have been a major attack. My guess is that we'll see a purge followed by an increased militarization / professionalization of the force that protects lawmakers. The Secret Service is well known, yet I haven't heard of the Capitol Police until this incident. Edit: Or maybe it'll be a wakeup call for lawmakers to investigate whether they actually have the allegiance of the various law enforcement agencies that were present or absent today. At an even more general level one key institution (the presidency) has just passively (actively?) supported a major bodily threat to the most powerful people of another key institution (the lawmakers) so I imagine we'll see the full force of America's checks and balances in play now.