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Colonel Earl Matthews, the legal adviser to then D.C. National Guard Commander William Walker, accused senior military leadership of falsifying timelines in order to cover for their deliberate delay in sending reinforcements to the besieged Capitol.
A former D.C. National Guard official blasted the Pentagon inspector general’s report on the military’s response to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and directly accused two top generals of lying about their role in the delays deploying the National Guard that day.
Guard troops to get to the capitol building and defend the capitol. the defense department's internal watchdog, its inspector general released a report earlier this year that was basically exculpatory. it essentially said that the pentagon did everything it could have done, that senior pentagon leaders were doing their best, and that this day on the whole looks good for the u.s. military. what we have emerging now is a counternarrative coming not from the pentagon, but from the d.c. national guard, the actual group of troops who were called to respond to the capitol building. of course, we've ...
Start drafting a plan for courses of action. but the key point is that in that call, where they are saying hey we need people, the national guard does not get sent and from the beginning there's been a question of why not. >> there's been a question of why it took so long for national guard troops to get to the capital building and defend the capital. the defense department internal watchdog, its inspector general released a report earlier this year. was basically exculpatory. essentially said that the pentagon did everything that it could have done. that senior pentagon leaders were doing the...
The report denies that top officials held up the dispatching of troops, claiming the three-hour delay was “reasonable” even though rioters were overrunning the Capitol.