D.C. Guard chief says 'unusual' restrictions slowed deployment of backup during Capitol riot
Source: Washington Post
The memo was unusual in that .?.?. it required me to seek authorization from the secretary of the Army and the secretary of defense to essentially even protect my Guardsmen, Walker said. Maj. Gen. William J. Walker said he did not receive approval to change the D.C. Guards mission and send his forces to the Capitol on Jan. 6 until three hours and 19 minutes after he first received an emotional call from the Capitol Police chief requesting urgent backup.
The officials involved in the Pentagons response that day include Christopher C. Miller, acting defense secretary at the time; then-Army Secretary Ryan D. McCarthy; top Army generals Walter E. Piatt and Charles A. Flynn; and Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. None have given public testimony in Congress about the Pentagons response to the riot.
Walker also addressed a phone call on the afternoon of Jan. 6, during which top Pentagon officials expressed reluctance to deploy the National Guard to the Capitol as the riot unfolded. Asked who made those comments, Walker pointed to Piatt, the director of the Army staff, and Flynn, the deputy chief of staff for operations and the brother of former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn.
They both said it wouldnt be in their best military advice to advise the secretary of the Army to have uniformed Guardsmembers at the Capitol during the election confirmation, Walker said, describing the comments as frustrating to him and the other officials on the call.
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Congress should immediately subpoena the DOD members on that call: Miller, McCarthy, Flynn, Piatt and Milley. The fact that DOD did not send these traitors to the hearing speaks volumes.
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)This is all so much bullsh*t.
SunSeeker
(51,698 posts)sheshe2
(83,898 posts)Maj. Gen. Walker was livid! I don't blame him.
SunSeeker
(51,698 posts)sheshe2
(83,898 posts)He gave very damaging testimony. I want heads to roll.
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)Treason
PSPS
(13,614 posts)SunSeeker
(51,698 posts)The MSM is stil reluctant to even call Trump's lies what they are: lies.
LiberalArkie
(15,728 posts)troop transport planes to get them and their equipment into DC. How could they have ever known about it. Now it seems the DOD picked some low bid food supplier the sends uncooked meat and moldy bread. Things are rough when you are not in an American state.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,286 posts)Why are they always taking a sledge hammer to everything? Anger? Stupidity? It's all the same game isn't it? Channel MAGA obsessions with some targeted item ... it's all the same ploy.
But it's never end tax cuts ... end police malfeasance ... end the military. They're always after a lib thing.
Martin68
(22,879 posts)SunSeeker
(51,698 posts)Here's the unusual memo Miller issued January 4 that Walker described in his testimony today:
Link to tweet
Smoking gun?