Exclusive: DOD ‘Intentionally Delayed’ National Guard Deployment To The Capitol On Jan. 6
By: The Federalist
Federal bureaucrats within the Department of Defense (DoD) delayed the deployment of the National Guard on Jan. 6, 2021 and covered it up, according to a House Republican investigation of government conduct related to the Capitol riot.
On Thursday, Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., who is leading a review of the work completed by the partisan Jan. 6 probe run by then-Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, sent a letter to the inspector general for the Department of Defense demanding a correction to an agency report published in November 2021.
"This report was the final product of the DoD IG's review into the events of January 6, and reviewed how the DoD responded to requests for support as the events unfolded," Loudermilk, the chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight for the House Administration Committee, wrote. "Throughout the Subcommittee's extensive investigation into the failures of January 6, 2021, we have discovered numerous flaws and inaccuracies in the report that your office has yet to appropriately address."
Such flaws and inaccuracies, however, may have been part of a partisan cover-up after GOP lawmakers discovered the Pentagon was responsible for delays in guard deployment.
"After a thorough examination of emails and documents, including letters, memorandums, agreements, plans, orders, reports, briefings, statements made in congressional hearings, closed-door testimony to the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol ('Select Committee'), and closed-door testimony made to the DoD IG," Loudermilk wrote, "the Subcommittee's investigation has concluded that the Department of Defense intentionally delayed the deployment of the DC [National Guard] to the Capitol on January 6, 2021."
"Furthermore," Loudermilk added, "the Subcommittee also maintains that the DoD IG knowingly concealed the extent of the delay in constructing a narrative that is favorable to DoD and Pentagon leadership."
Loudermilk wrote the agency excluded testimony from myriad officials who blamed then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy for his failure to properly communicate with the National Guard over Jan. 6. Then-President Donald Trump had ordered 10,000 troops to be on standby for the day of electoral certification, a fact covered up by the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 which was eager to depict an apathetic commander-in-chief relishing in the violence at the Capitol.
In the days leading up to Jan. 6, Cheney had organized an op-ed by former defense secretaries days to preemptively condemn troop mobilization. Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, who was House speaker at the time, had also objected to the National Guard's preemptive deployment multiple time due to the "optics" of additional federal troops in the capital.
Kash Patel, who was chief of staff for the Department of Defense, wrote in March for The Federalist, "For over three years, I have done countless media interviews, answered numerous subpoenas, and testified before congressional committees and grand juries about the 45th president's actions regarding the National Guard in the lead-up to Jan. 6, 2021."
"Unfortunately for the propaganda press, the truth never changed, nor did any of my testimony," Patel wrote. "Indeed, Donald Trump authorized at least 10,000 National Guard troops days before Jan. 6 in the Oval Office with the secretary of defense, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, chief of staff to President Trump, me, and others present. Pursuant to that authorization, senior DOD officials were dispatched to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's office and the Capitol Police. Each of our respective testimonials, under oath, confirms this key fact."
Loudermilk requested the Defense Department inspector general correct its 2021 report regarding the National Guard's deployment "to ensure the accurate preservation of historical records."
Read the full letter from Rep. Loudermilk below:
https://www.scribd.com/document/795241826/11-21-2024-Loudermilk-DOD-IG-Letter?secret_password=Orob99OYmijLgEvJe68p#download&from_embed
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Pelosi and her merry band of partisan hacks lied to the country and many took those lies as fact.
Never in question to thinking, non triggered folks.
It is all coming out now AFTER THE ELECTION and BEFORE BONDI TAKES OVER THE FILES AT DOJ.
Just like:
Ashley Babbitt was killed attempting to violently enter a part of the House of Representatives that was visibly locked and barricaded . The cop could reasonably presume she was up to no good and acted in defense of the representatives, which was his job.
I fear they won't be able to any action against this officer due to double jeopardy.
This cop was reckless in the shooting Babbit without warning and endangering other officers in the line of his fire. He should have been fired and charged.
She was attempting to climb through an already broken window and was UNARMED.
Nothing violent about it. She was murdered by a trigger happy cop.
Instead the liberal left as well as the J6 committee went out of their way to villify Babbit and make the police officer look like a good cop just doing his duty. He should have been held accountable.
If he had shot a Biden supporter he would have been.
If Babbit were a minority many on the left would have gotten stuck if they should be outraged or not. There would have been a massive brain reboot to try and get past it.
She was killed by somebody who should not have been in the position he was in.
If that were true then she would have not been the only person killed that day.
There is always the civil side.
I hope that's happening!
So that is what is required for a death sentence?
Wonder how many of said files pertaining to J6 will still be available or even still exist?
I wonder how much physical evidence will be released.
Without that, it's just one set of politicians accusing another set of lying, like 2 mafia families accusing each other of racketeering.
There is a bigger coverup taking place on Jan 6th that no one talks about, which is a pipe bomb at the DNC that could have possibly killed the new Vice President Kamala Harris.
Please post your evidence that Trump "ordered" 10,000 troops to be on standby. Orders by the president are given in writing. Otherwise it may be on the level of him saying he could declassify top secret documents by thinking about them.
But , aside from that we have evidence Trump didnt care about the riot. He sat for hours watching it unfold live on television without doing so much as making a phone call to see what he could do to stop it.
Well, show us that evidence, if in fact, it exists. How could he have stopped it once it started? A phone call? An email? Be specific.
Read the J6 report. I'm tired of doing the work for people who are not interested.
Many have. And know it as the fiction its being exposed as. Information like this suppressed to fulfill a partisan hissy fit.
Since you know absolutely nothing about the J6 Report excuse me if I dont listen to you about it.
I'm skeptical about this, too. It just seems a massively implausible claim.
He did not. There is no evidence that he did.
He made the suggestion (possibly because he was aware that the people who he had been/was lying to were going to "be there. It'll be wild") to one of his underlings... I think that they shot it down because of the optics of the president walking down to the Capitol (right after excoriating the mob with "If you don't fight like hell, you won't have a country." ) with 10,000 troops in tow to make sure that congress performed their duties "faithfully" would seem kind of like a coup. It has been awhile since I have studied it, but I believe that was the general idea.
Does the DC National Guard even have 10,000 members?
Here you go.
Also, Trump doesn't have to give the orders in writing. He just has to give them, which he clearly did.
In the end, the Generals and whoever else was responsible for making the decisions were clearly more worried about optics and the political ramifications then they were about doing their job. At the very least, the acting SecDef should have been put in prison for gross insubordination and dereliction of duty.
House and Senate are going to be very busy passing Trump's agenda but can hopefully set aside enough time to investigate these partisan duplicitous scoundrels.
Ah yes, once again rightwing conservatives are trying to deflect and distract from the fact that their fellow Trump supporters attacked the capital and tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power. None of the above changes that simple fact. Also, just because Pelosi didn't want to preemptively deploy the national guard DOES NOT IN ANY WAY put the attack on the capital on Democrats. But I'm sure the traitors to our nation and constitution, those defending Trump and the insurrectionists, will continue to try to deflect and distract because it's all those weak fucking losers have.
Simply put , they blame everybody but Trump. The police for letting them enter the building, the mayor of DC, Nancy Pelosi, the guard that shot Babbitt, Liz Cheney, the media, ad nauseum.
Why were those people even there on Jan 6th? Because Trump had been lying to them, non stop, for 2 months.
Since the article is about the DoD's response to that event, wouldn't that make you the one trying to deflect and distract? Is there something wrong with talking about how the DoD reacted on that day?
I mean, it's pretty clear to me that the DoD's response to the riot was every bit as bad as the riot itself, especially since they had the National Guard ready to go but refused to use them for what seems like political reasons. The National Guard should have been on their way to the capital the moment the rioters left the park and headed there.
In my opinion, they delayed the deployment of the Guard because they wanted the riot to happen. It was the first thought in my head as soon as I saw the live broadcast. The second thought in my head is that Pelosi was probably having unending orgasms. What's so funny is that the stated reason for not deploying the Guard was "bad optics", never mind that the Capital being overrun by a riot with absolutely no effective, or even noticeable response from the government was itself about the worst optics there could be. The only reason I can see for that is that the capital being overrun by Trump supporters was very good optics, for the Dems. And so political generals delayed the Guard.
That's what seems obvious to me. It's either that or we entrusted the safety of our country to generals so incompetent it beggars the imagination.