D.C. Mayor Sees Long-Term Change in Security: Inaugural Update

(Bloomberg) -- The mayor of Washington suggested some security changes made for the inauguration will be longer lasting. The Federal Communications Commission warned about not using amateur or ham radio to facilitate criminal activity. Composer Lin-Manuel Miranda of “Hamilton” fame will take part in the inaugural festivities.

There are three days until Biden’s swearing in.

D.C. Mayor Sees Longer-Term Security Changes (12:20 p.m.)

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said the nation’s capital will need to rethink how it handles security after the unprecedented lockdown for the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration ends, to account for a rise in threats from white supremacists and other domestic terrorists.

“We have to take another posture in our city that is more domestic-terrorist focused than external to our country and act accordingly,” Bowser said in an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press. “Now, we don’t want to see fences. We definitely don’t want to see armed troops on our streets. But we do have to take a different posture.”

Bowser said the deadly riot at the Capitol building Jan. 6 shows that “we didn’t take it seriously enough.”

“We’ve never believed that so-called patriots would attempt to overthrow their government and kill police officers,” Bowser said. “But that’s exactly what happened.”

The mayor said she believes the inauguration will be a safe event, but she worries about other state capitals and the residential areas of D.C., where some 700,000 people live.

FCC Warns About Use of Ham Radio to Commit Crimes (10:23 a.m.)

Licensed amateur and personal radio services shouldn’t be used to coordinate criminal acts, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau warned after reports that some people were looking to radios as an alternative to social media platforms, which are being monitored by law enforcement following the deadly Jan. 6 raid on the U.S. Capitol.

“The Bureau reminds amateur licensees that they are prohibited from transmitting ‘communications intended to facilitate a criminal act’ or ‘messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning,” the agency said in a statement Sunday.

The licensees, which would include Citizens Band radios, Family Radio Service walkie-talkies, and General Mobile Radio Service, would face fines, seizure of their equipment and possible criminal prosecution. -- Sue Decker

Miranda Added to List of Inauguration Entertainers (10:00 a.m.)

Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of the Broadway play ‘Hamilton,’ was added to the roster of artists taking part in Inauguration Day activities, the Biden campaign announced on Sunday.

Miranda was part of a new list of participants in the Wednesday evening program, along with chef Jose Andres, former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, labor leader Dolores Huerta, and the Miami Marlins’ Kim Ng, the highest ranking female executive in Major League Baseball.

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