D.C. National Guard chief: Pentagon dragged its feet on Jan. 6 backup

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico


“We already had Guardsmen on buses ready to move to the Capitol,” Walker wrote in his prepared remarks.

By KYLE CHENEY and ANDREW DESIDERIO

03/03/2021 10:27 AM EST

Senior Pentagon officials took more than three hours to approve sending troops to the Capitol as it was being violently breached on Jan. 6, even as troops were loaded on buses and ready to go, according to testimony the commanding general of the D.C. National Guard is set to deliver Wednesday.

William Walker plans to tell senators that senior Pentagon leaders did not approve then-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund’s “frantic” request until three hours and 19 minutes after Sund's initial plea. Walker said in written testimony that he received Sund’s call for aid at 1:49 p.m. and raced to send the request to senior Pentagon officials.

“We already had Guardsmen on buses ready to move to the Capitol,” Walker wrote in his prepared remarks to two Senate committees that will hold a hearing on the Jan. 6 insurrection.

But Walker says he didn’t get a response until after 5 p.m. — well after rioters had overtaken the Capitol, sending lawmakers fleeing for safety. He singled out then-acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller in particular as he described the slow-walking of Sund's request.

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[Botany]

1. Trump installed Christopher Miller after the election as head of the DoD and on 1/4/21 he gave a ...

.... stand down order.

This memorandum responds directly to your January 4, 2021 memorandum regarding the District of Columbia request for District of Columbia National Guard (DCNG) support in response to planned demonstrations from January 5-6, 2021. You are authorized to approve the requested support, subject to my guidance below and subject to consultation with the Attorney General, as required by Executive Order 11485.

Without my subsequent, personal authorization, the DCNG is not authorized the following:

* To be issued weapons, ammunition, bayonets, batons, riot control agents or ballistic protection equipment such as helmets and body armor.

* To interact physically with protesters, except when necessary in self-defense or defense of others.

* Prohibited from sharing “equipment with law enforcement agencies” or seeking support from any non-DC National Guard units.

* Forbidden from conducting “searches, seizures, arrests, or other similar direct law enforcement activity.”

* Forbidden from using “Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance assets” or to conduct “Incident, Awareness and Assessment activities.”

* No helicopters or “any other air assets.”

[dalton99a]

3. +1. He knew.

[dchill]

5. He trusted the plan.

[Bev54]

2. Yeah the big brave bad asses in the Pentagon sent a guy

who was not even on the call or in the chain of command, to the hearing. The senate should not accept this and I would hope they will subpoena, if necessary, those to be grilled over their decisions.

[blueinredohio]

4. Lock his ass up and throw away the key.

[riversedge]

6. k and R