A House Republican investigation into government behavior related to the Capitol riot revealed that federal bureaucrats at the Department of Defense ( DoD ) delayed and covered up the National Guard’s deployment on January 6, 2021.
On Thursday, Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., who is leading a review of the job completed by the republican Jan. 6 probe work by then-Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, sent a letter to the inspector general for the Department of Defense demanding a modification to an organization review published in November 2021.
The House Administration Committee’s chair, Loudermilk, wrote that the last item of the DoD IG’s investigation into the events of January 6 was” the review of how the DoD responded to requests for assistance as the activities unfolded.” Your business has not yet properly addressed the many errors and inaccuracies found in the report despite the Subcommittee’s thorough analysis into the failures of January 6, 2021.
Such deficiencies and inconsistencies, however, may have been part of a political cover-up after GOP legislators discovered the Pentagon was responsible for difficulties in protect implementation.
” After a thorough examination of emails and documents, including letters, memorandums, agreements, plans, orders, reports, briefings, statements made in congressional hearings, closed-door testimony to the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol ( ‘ Select Committee ‘), and closed-door testimony made to the DoD IG”, Loudermilk wrote,” the Subcommittee’s investigation has concluded that the Department of Defense intentionally delayed the deployment of the DC]National Guard ] to the Capitol on January 6, 2021″.
The DoD IG knowingly concealed the degree of the delay in developing a tale that is suitable to DoD and Pentagon leadership, Loudermilk added.
According to Loudermilk, the organization forbade the evidence of numerous officers who attributed Ryan McCarthy’s ineffective communication with the National Guard over January 6. Then-President Donald Trump had ordered 10, 000 troops to be on standby for the day of political documentation, a truth covered up by the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 which was anxious to describe an indifferent commander-in-chief relishing in the violence at the Capitol.
Prior to the day of the six-day anniversary, Cheney had written an editorial in which former security secretaries op-ed the mobilization of troops. Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, who was House speech at the time, had also objected to the National Guard’s proactive rollout several time due to the “optics” of supplementary national troops in the capital.
Kash Patel, who was chief of staff for the Department of Defense, wrote in March for The Federalist,” For over three years, I have done countless media interviews, answered numerous subpoenas, and testified before congressional committees and grand juries about the 45th president’s actions regarding the National Guard in the lead-up to Jan. 6, 2021″.
” Unfortunately for the propaganda press, the truth never changed, nor did any of my testimony”, Patel wrote. ” Indeed, Donald Trump authorized at least 10, 000 National Guard troops days before Jan. 6 in the Oval Office with the secretary of defense, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, chief of staff to President Trump, me, and others present. Pursuant to that authorization, senior DOD officials were dispatched to D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office and the Capitol Police. Each of our respective testimonials, under oath, confirms this key fact”.
In order to “ensure the accurate preservation of historical records,” Loudermilk requested that the Defense Department inspector general correct its 2021 report regarding the National Guard’s deployment.
Read the full letter from Rep. Loudermilk below:
11.21.2024 Loudermilk DOD I… by The Federalist
