Explosive Accusation in Report to Select Committee: Two High-Ranking Generals Lied About 1/6

One cannot assistance but debar the evidence, that has agelong been coming out, drip by drip, week by week, that January 6th was a coordinated conspiracy controlled astatine the highest levels of the White House, Congress, protestation organizers, and present the Pentagon.

As everyone recalls, good earlier the assemblage adjacent got to Congress, it became evident that the Capitol Police would request the benignant of backup that lone the National Guard could provide. In Washington D.C. (alone), that determination is made by the Pentagon and done the Pentagon, the president. There is nary “governor” to telephone them out. And, by present astir cognize that the Pentagon made immoderate peculiar decisions that time to withhold those critically-needed National Guard troops.

Now a D.C. National Guard authoritative has written a study alleging that 2 high-ranking Army Generals lied to Congress successful “rewriting” the Pentagon’s effect to the January 6th riot. These accusations aren’t coming retired successful a partisan interrogation connected CNN, the allegations travel wrong a ceremonial report, 1 which states that 2 elder Army leaders lied to Congress.  The study is present successful the hands of the House Select Committee.

According to Politico:

In a 36-page memo, Col. Earl Matthews, who held high-level National Security Council and Pentagon roles during the Trump administration, slams the Pentagon’s inspector wide for what helium calls an error-riddled study that protects a apical Army authoritative who argued against sending the National Guard to the Capitol connected Jan. 6, delaying the insurrection effect for hours.

Matthews’ memo, sent to the Jan. 6 prime committee this month and obtained by POLITICO, includes elaborate recollections of the insurrection effect arsenic it calls 2 Army generals — Gen. Charles Flynn, who served arsenic lawman main of unit for operations connected Jan. 6, and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt, the manager of Army unit — “absolute and unmitigated liars” for their characterization of the events of that day. Matthews has ne'er publically discussed the chaos of the Capitol siege.

Mike Flynn’s brother, the antheral wrong the concatenation of bid to dispatch the D.C. National Guard, Charles Flynn, huh? And again, this comes successful a study to Congress, arsenic written testimony, and surely signed nether punishment of perjury. It was not said by idiosyncratic seeking airtime to merchantability a book. It is astir intolerable to overstate the value of the report. There person agelong been questions astir the peculiar hold addressed successful the report.

Matthews’ memo levels large accusations: that Flynn and Piatt lied to Congress about their effect to pleas for the D.C. Guard to rapidly beryllium deployed connected Jan. 6; that the Pentagon inspector general’s November study connected Army leadership’s effect to the onslaught was “replete with factual inaccuracies”; and that the Army has created its ain intimately held revisionist papers astir the Capitol riot that’s “worthy of the champion Stalinist oregon North Korea propagandist.”

As Politico makes clear, this is astir troops sitting successful the armory wondering wherefore they weren’t being deployed. The hold has ever been 1 of the azygous astir troubling signs that the full time was coordinated astatine the highest levels, a level precocious capable to power the Pentagon.

As said above, these reports look to drip retired week by week, much and much grounds that inescapably points to a conspiracy involving dozens, possibly implicit 1 100 people: the White House, the Trump family, the rally organizers, the Secret Service, members of Congress, and present the Pentagon. All associated with grounds coming retired only because Nancy Pelosi had yet had capable and went guardant with a peculiar committee to analyse January 6th.

Not a peep from DOJ, contempt the information that Mitch McConnell expected a transgression probe connected the time helium voted “not guilty” arsenic to Trump’s 2nd impeachment.

Perhaps the Select Committee volition bash “too bully a job” and virtually unit Merrick Garland’s manus by tying each this together. Because, astatine immoderate point, with capable grounds coming retired and inactive nary authoritative DOJ transgression investigation, Garland is going to commencement looking similar portion of the problem, with possibly his ain agenda., There could travel a constituent wherever helium indispensable explicate to President Biden wherefore law enforcement continues to perceive grounds of – possibly – the largest transgression against the United States authorities successful history, and yet the Department of Justice has lone prosecuted the model breakers.

Is determination a problem, Mr. Attorney General?