House Report: ‘Irrefutable Evidence’ Pentagon ‘Intentionally Delayed’ Deployment of National Guard on Jan 6
“The DoD IG concealed the extent and cause of the delay [to deploy the D.C. National Guard] to protect Department of Defense and Pentagon leadership.”
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Barry Loudermilk’s (R-GA) investigation into the work of the highly partisan House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack has discovered “irrefutable evidence” that the “Department of Defense [DoD] intentionally delayed the deployment of the D.C. National Guard to the Capitol on January 6, 2021.”
According to a Committee press release, Loudermilk sent a letter on Thursday to DoD Inspector General Robert Storch, “demanding a correction of the DoD’s factually inaccurate January 6 report.”
The press release stated:
The DoD IG concealed the extent and cause of the delay [to deploy the D.C. National Guard] to protect Department of Defense and Pentagon leadership. The Subcommittee found multiple instances where the DoD IG failed to disclose evidence that contradicted the DoD IG’s erroneous conclusion.
The DoD IG’s report reflects an alarming failure to adequately evaluate the actions of senior DoD officials, including Secretary of the Army, Ryan McCarthy, who failed to communicate deployment orders to Major General William Walker, the Commander of the DCNG on January 6.
In his letter to Storch, Loudermilk wrote that his committee has “discovered numerous flaws and inaccuracies in the report that your office has yet to appropriately address.” After describing the HOC’s painstaking investigation, he informed Storch they have “concluded that the Department of Defense intentionally delayed the deployment of the DC [National Guard] to the Capitol on January 6, 2021.”
Loudermilk alleged that Storch altered the timeline to protect DoD and Pentagon leaders. He wrote:
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.
Unfortunately, the DoD IG continues to promote an inaccurate narrative that protects senior Pentagon officials and attempts to cast fault on the D.C. National Guard, who were ready and waiting less than 2 miles from the Capitol but unable to respond on January 6 due to lack of communication from the Secretary of the Army.
My Subcommittee released transcripts that show that not only were political concerns of ‘optics’ at play, but that DoD officials continued to delay as the riot at the Capitol worsened. The evidence is conclusive: DoD officials misled Congress into believing that help was ‘on the way’ with full knowledge that it wasn’t.
The press release encouraged readers to “watch never-before-seen video footage from HBO, showing the Secretary of the Army’s false statements to Congressional leadership. At 3:18pm, Secretary McCarthy tells sheltering Members of Congress that he is not blocking deployment of the National Guard and, while referencing the D.C. National Guard, shares that ‘We have the greenlight. We are moving’. However, the Secretary of the Army’s own timeline indicates that the DCNG did not physically leave the Armory until 17:00 [5pm].”
What a difference an hour and 42 minutes would have made that day, huh?
Loudermilk also wrote:
A report that includes biased and incomplete statements to favor the Department of Defense and U.S. Army while disparaging the D.C. National Guard fails to represent the DoD IG’s philosophy and practice of producing unbiased, objective, impartial, and independent reviews as well as recommendations grounded in evidence and free from external influence.19 Therefore, we are left with no choice but to reject Report No. 2022-039 and request that you publish a formal correction on behalf of the 10,432 2021 congressional staff members and 535 Members of Congress who donned gas masks and retreated from their Chambers while the DCNG sat on buses waiting, less than 2 miles from the Capitol at the D.C. Armory, for communication from Secretary Ryan McCarthy.
The press release clarifies that “Report No. 2022-039” refers to a report released by Storch (DoD IG) on Nov. 16, 2021. It was titled “Review of the Department of Defense’s Role, Responsibilities, and Actions to Prepare for and Respond to the Protest and its Aftermath at the U.S. Capitol Campus on January 6, 2021.”
It also clearly establishes that “this report was the final product of the DoD IG’s investigation into the events of January 6, 2021.”
Chairman @RepLoudermilk's investigation has uncovered irrefutable evidence the DoD and DoD IG suppressed the truth of January 6, 2021 in order to protect Pentagon leadership, at the expense of D.C. National Guard.
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— Oversight Subcommittee (@OversightAdmn) November 21, 2024
So, what are we to make of this report? First, it comes as no surprise. But more importantly, it appears to corroborate some of the evidence that was deliberately ignored by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s sham Jan. 6 Committee.
For nearly four years, Democrats have portrayed the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as a deadly insurrection staged by supporters of then-President Donald Trump. They have elevated the threat it posed to our “democracy” to the level of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
They did so by cherry-picking the surveillance footage the public was allowed to see and keeping the rest under wraps for “security reasons.”
With control of the White House, both chambers of Congress, and the powerful federal agencies that conspired to frame Trump for inciting the “insurrection,” perhaps the real purveyors of “disinformation” will finally be held to account.
For starters, Pelosi and Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C., must be questioned under oath about why they declined Trump’s offer of National Guard troops ahead of Jan. 6. Both women were privy to FBI reports that suggested the high possibility of violence.
And FBI Director Christopher Wray must provide the truth about the presence of undercover FBI agents at the Capitol that day. Specifically, what was the role of the mysterious Ray Epps?
Why were some Capitol Police officers waving protestors into the building?
I imagine there are quite a few very nervous career bureaucrats at the moment. After years of complicity, many will finally be made to answer for their roles in the corruption that has taken hold and undermined our federal government for more than a decade.
To those convinced accountability will never happen, you never thought that Trump would be able to overcome the Democrats’ margin of fraud to win the 2024 election. It will and he did.
On a separate but related note, did anyone else find it odd that a paper shredding truck was parked outside of the Department of Justice building on Tuesday? Just wondering.
🚨PAPER SHREDDING TRUCK AT DOJ🚨
We have maintained a physical investigative presence by the @TheJusticeDept, which also is more convenient for cooperating sources.
Today a paper shredding truck arrived. pic.twitter.com/iWop5XnU8L
— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) November 19, 2024
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I wonder how the just of this will be written when more facts are uncovered about this event. I hope it won’t be kind to any leftist or Democrat.
AutoINcorrect strikes again: “I wonder how the history of this event…..”
Happens to me all the time. I wish this site had an edit function.
Convene a joint session of Congress to hold trial for all those who orchestrated this and covered it up.
To be meaningful, there must be a lot of scalps, jail time, huge fines and civil liability.
Congress is not a court and cannot hear criminal trials. All it can do is impeach and remove people from office. And gather evidence which the DOJ can then use to try people, if it so chooses.
Not even treason?
Yes, not even treason. The legislative branch is not and cannot ever act as the judicial branch. That is fundamental to our system of government.
Then let them refer them to the new, REAL DOJ, after Jan 20.
Write up a good report, you do have an incoming Commander in Chief that would be more than happy to act upon it
Let’s hope so!
So we have:
Jan 5 – National Guard requested by Trump, ignored by DC mayor and House/Senate leaders
Jan 6 – Noon – No NG troops at Capitol. No request by DC mayor and House/Senate leaders. Trump giving speech a mile away
Jan 6 – 1PM US Capitol Police begin firing explosives, tear gas, and plastic bullets into the crowd, mostly gassing their own unprepared officers due to the wind. Trump still giving speech a mile away.
Jan 6 – 3PM Riot mostly over, people in the Capitol leaving, House/Senate leaders say “Why isn’t the NG here yet? Oh, we have to ask them?”
Jan 6 – 5PM. Janitorial staff in Capitol begin picking up trash. NG troops are finally permitted to leave their armory and head to the Capitol building.
Jan 6 – 6PM news : “It’s Trump’s Fault!”
He was set up. Pelosi and Bowser declined a National Guard troop presence because they were hoping for a riot.
“It will and he did.”
You have more faith than I, sister. It’s just another HOC
strongly worded letterreport similar to the 487, 629 issued since 1980. All talk: no action.When I see these corrupt-o-crats frog marched into prison, I will cheer, then buy you a coffee, and tip my hat.
I completely understand your skepticism. But with all due respect, you sound like those who believed Trump could never get elected because of the Democrats fraud. You may not see them frog marched into prison, but you will see many of them shown the door. There’s a new sheriff in town. Trump has learned a lot in the past 9 years. And incoming AG Pam Bondi is no Jeff Sessions.
Only DOJ can bring charges. What should congress have done?
Paper shredding trucks are a common sight at all law firms, medical facilities, and any other agency which deals with confidential information on paper.
Even when they are legally directed to retain any and all paperwork?
Dems, yes.
Yes, cuz Federal agencies are ALWAYS careful to maintain their paper records and would NEVER do such a thing as shred confidentialincriminating documents.
But nothing to see here, amirite, lonejustice?
They are but considering the last 4 years I’d think an order to not shred anything until Trump’s new AG is in place and investigating everything would be in order.
Me too.
America’s version of the 1933 Reichstag fire.
In 1933 the goal was to eliminate political opposition to the Nazi party and assume total power.
In 2021 the goal was to eliminate political opposition to the Democrat party and assume total power.
If you mean the way both events were exploited afterwards, then yes.
But there’s no evidence the Nazis set the fire, nor that the Dems orchestrated the riot.
Yet.
Well there’s certainly not going to be any new evidence on that fire. There was never any basis for blaming the nazis, and there’s never going to be any.
…the plot thickens.
I sure hope we have a treason trial soon, and that the major networks are forced to air the trial and executions live.
It is time to show how Americans deal with treason and Matt Gaetz misdirection was a shot over the bow.
Gird thy loins, thirty six months of pitfall traps await.
How do you squeeze any of this into a treason charge? Treason requires (1) actually literally making war on the USA, or (2) adhering to the cause of an actual literal enemy of the USA (i.e. someone who is literally making war on the USA), and giving them material support (“aid and comfort”) as a result of that adherence.
(Note that knowingly giving an enemy at war with the USA aid and comfort, but doing so for some reason other than adherence to the enemy’s cause, is not treason, though it may be a dozen other crimes.)
Isn’t a “silent” coup against the Commander in Chief an effective act of war?
The enemy within.
No, it isn’t.
But, is it irrefragable and apodictic?
Wut?
Let me sum up what everybody knows about this crap.
The left worked themselves up into a fever pitch convinced Trump was about to declare himself dictator, so they refused to deploy the National Guard, in their minds stopping Trump from using them to take over the country.
Meanwhile, a different part of the left had planned to agitate and stage enough of a ‘riot’ to justify removing Trump.
Their problem was those 2 were mutually exclusive. You can’t refuse to deploy the National Guard, while simultaneously claiming J6 was ‘literally insurrection’, that you refused to deploy the National Guard to stop.
Don’t forget the fake pipe bombs that they tried to sell … and then dropped the minute it became obvious that they were total set-ups. The MSM and FBI and everyone lost interest in the fake pipe bombs very, very quickly.
The latest in that is that the phone geo-location information that the FBI claimed was corrupted has been refuted by the phone carriers. The data still exists, so the “pipe bomber” can be easily identified.
Also, what happened with the cell phone geo-location data that connected the Butler shooter and a device that visited a Washington DC building where the FBI had an office …
Bongino has been keeping this whole issue of the unknown “pipe bomber” alive. The phone companies sure waited long enough to dispute the FBI’s claim on the corrupted data. Your telling me that in the heart of DC they can’t identify 1 guy dropping off so called bombs and the Secret Service and others walked right past them for hours while they were sitting in plain sight? I’m going with an inside job or a training exercise gone wrong.
The 60-minute kitchen timers attached to them were a nice touch. The “bomber” (likely FBI employee) dropped them off in the middle of the night.
I think he’s on to something.
What was once conspiracy theory is rapidly approaching verifiable fact (once again).
Make no mistake: the virus may or may not have been deliberately engineered and released but it is perfectly plain that the deep state saw a perfect crisis and did not waste it. They scared everyone to death, many literally, in order to force Trump out. When that wasn’t certain to work, they began to cheat, using the pandemic as cover. Biden was *never* a legitimately elected president (and he was terrible none the less).
Now, instead of living in the last few months of Trumps second term, one in which he was impeached monthly and got nothing through Congress, he is back and he’s mad as hell.
January 6th was a set up. It is beyond reprehensible that this once great nation has political prisoners.
Those responsible for the deep state actions against the American people (not Trump!) need to be tried , convicted and sentenced to prison.
I suggest we build a new one just for them in Point Barrow Alaska. Lots of concrete & steel. Not much heat. Beautiful view of some new oil rigs nearby. And polar bears. Got to have some polar bears.
Hence my hope for televised trials.
Anyone who paid attention knew all of this although it was surpressed by the partisan committee. I knew guys in the NG that were deployed up there for Joey’s Supreme Leader installment and they all said it was total nonsense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TnkJ8_BmSI
“Seven Days In May” comes to mind.
Jan 6 was among the dirtiest of government operations in America … EVER. The people behind this are the worst traitors this country has ever had and they need to be held fully liable for their crimes. There are a lot of people involved in this and they are all, to a very man and woman, deep scum, from the high level politicians who were running this operation against the citizenry down to the boots on the ground that carried it all out.
And the worst punishments are for all of those involved.in the post-Jan 6th persecutions. The attorneys and the judges and their clerks and helpers and everyone who helped to round up innocent Americans for torture and ruin need to suffer 7 times the pain and suffering they inflicted – for every single person they inflicted this on.
Yes. As I have written before, I used to be a fan of Royce Lamberth, but after the way he treated the Jan-6-2021 defendants I can’t think of him the same way again. And he didn’t do it to get along with anyone; he doesn’t care about that, which is why I liked him in the first place. So he must have been a true believer in the Dem fantasy about that day’s events. I hope once the full truth is out he will show regret for his actions.
“At 3:18pm, Secretary McCarthy tells sheltering Members of Congress that he is not blocking deployment of the National Guard… ‘We have the greenlight. We are moving’. However, the Secretary of the Army’s own timeline indicates that the DCNG did not physically leave the Armory until 17:00 [5pm].”
What a difference an hour and 42 minutes would have made that day, huh?”
There was no conspiracy. The Pride Flags had just arrived from 4imprint and needed ironing before deployment
no kidding
Even though we had all seen the footage that day – the vast majority of the people actually welcomed into the Capitol by the Capitol police holding the doors open.
What is really weird is how Traitor Joe’s junta’s reaction right after inauguration was totally memory-holed. THey turned DC into a friggin army garrison. They had concrete blocks and fences and barbed wire surrounding every building, with the military standing guard in force. The MSM even tried to make pretend nothing was happening in DC but they had to report on things when the national guard personnel were left out in the cold without anything. This went on FOR MONTHS!!! We never had anything like this – and all of America that even knew of it knew that it was all a farce.
But you never, ever hear about it … like it never happened. It was major. It was totally insane. All DC walled and barb-wired and manned by military …
Totally insane.
Pelosi and that illegitimate committee full of partisan hacks have frantically hidden everything for a reason. From Trumps offer of NG turned down by Pelosi and Bowser to the fake pipe bombs. Still no answer as to why Kamala right at a pivotal moment suddenly decided to leave the Capital and drive over to DNC HQ for a few hours. Sounds like she may have known something.