(9 Jul 2024)
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Washington – 9 July 2024
1. Banner hanging outside NATO Summit convention center
2. U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Matt Stohler walking with others
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Stohler, U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge:
“So the NATO summit has been designated as a national special security event by the Secretary of Homeland Security. That designation occurred back in December of last year. So we’ve known for quite some time this has ben coming. As part of that, we established an executive steering committee comprised of agency leadership for all the key stakeholders who would help out with all that security planning. And underneath that is a series of subcommittees. In this case, there’s 22 subcommittees focused on things that are part of the security plan, such as transportation, airspace, security, communications, things of that nature.”
4. Wide of security fencing with the old post office building in the background
5. Police car parked within security fencing
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Stohler, U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge:
“Within those groups, the stakeholders within those groups would work together to determine what the security needs are. So once the host committee determines which sites, which venues are going to be utilized for the summit itself, it’s our responsibility to secure those. So, so the teams work together to determine what resources are needed to do so.”
7. Security presence by Freedom Plaza
8. Security check point
9. Secret Service members talking
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Stohler, U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge:
“So, the Secret Service, as with all of our partners, respect the right for people to express themselves, express their First Amendment protected activities. As an agency, the Secret Services does not designate areas for, for folks to protest, or to express those those, the First Amendment, and, but we certainly set up a security perimeter. And so outside of the security perimeter, we rely on our partners, here in D.C., this permitting process that occurs for that as well, for folks who would like to set up and have a demonstration or have some sort of an event to express themselves. And so we monitor what the, what our, our local counterparts are doing in that regard. Oh, but we don’t set up specific zones.”
10. Fencing around Freedom Plaza
11. Pan of pigeons atop security fencing
12. Stohler walking through security checkpoint
STORYLINE:
The NATO Summit kicked off Tuesday in Washington, D.C., and Secret Service planning over the last year is now in operation.
Matt Stohler, U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge, says the NATO Summit was designated as a national special security event by the Secretary of Homeland Security last December.
“So we’ve known for quite some time this has ben coming. As part of that, we established an executive steering committee comprised of agency leadership for all the key stakeholders who would help out with all that security planning,” Stohler said.
Beneath the stakeholders are 22 subcommittees focused on focused on things that are part of the security plan, such as transportation, airspace, security, and communications.
“The stakeholders within those groups would work together to determine what the security needs are. So once the host committee determines which sites, which venues are going to be utilized for the summit itself, it’s our responsibility to secure those. So, so the teams work together to determine what resources are needed to do so,” Stohler said.
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