Maryland Governor Says Pentagon 'Repeatedly Denied' Approval To Send National Guard To Capitol
Source: Forbes
Andrew Solender Forbes Staff
Updated Jan 9, 2021, 05:26pm EST
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday that the Department of Defense repeatedly denied requests to authorize deployment of Marylands National Guard troops to help quell violence at the Capitol on Wednesday.
KEY FACTS
Hogan said during a press conference that he convened an emergency meeting of his unified command team when he was informed of a mob of Trump supporters descending on the Capitol as lawmakers attempted to certify President-elect Joe Bidens victory.
Hogan says he mobilized 200 specially trained state troopers and instructed Maj. Gen. Timothy Gowen, the general of the Maryland National Guard, to mobilize his troops.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called Hogan from an undisclosed bunker and were pleading with him for assistance from his state and national forces, the governor said.
However, Hogan, who requires the Department of Defenses authority to mobilize his National Guard troops, said he was repeatedly denied approval to do so from the Pentagon despite being ready, willing and able to assist.
Hogan said he had a back and forth trying to get that authorization and that, about an hour and a half later, Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy gave approval to send his troops to Washington, D.C.
Forbes has reached out to the Department of Defense for comment.
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/01/07/maryland-governor-says-pentagon-repeatedly-denied-approval-to-send-national-guard-to-capitol/?sh=24bbbd26cb42
I've posted this in LBN since it's an update dated today.
BusyBeingBest
(8,059 posts)Gen. Gowen, the Army Sec., anyone else in the chain who can shed light on what happened.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)loom large in this bit of fuckery.
Bluethroughu
(5,202 posts)And nobody came.
Wow. Fucking wow.
Disgusting.
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Baitball Blogger
(46,763 posts)StClone
(11,688 posts)Incompetence and lackeys in-charge and often no chain of control and command. Result is anarchy wins.
oasis
(49,426 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)oasis
(49,426 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)firebrand!
Fiendish Thingy
(15,669 posts)If Trump doesnt start issuing pardons, theyre going to really start sweating...as awful as the past week/2 months/4 years was, the potential for some glorious rewards is quite exciting...
JohnnyRingo
(18,656 posts)...republicans would subpoena everyone from the Secretary Of State on down to come before Congress to find out why five people died. No expense would be spared.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)quakerboy
(13,921 posts)that the government will need a thorough delousing as soon as the adults are back in charge.
EVERY single trump appointee needs to be replaced ASAP. And most if not all of the employees those appointees brought in need a ton of scrutiny at the minimum, if not just a complete replacement.
Its gonna take a lot of time and work. But it has to be done. We can not have RW extremists or Russian moles loose in our government.
Hestia
(3,818 posts)at every turn. Scrub scrub scrub away