Exclusive: DOD ‘Intentionally Delayed’ National Guard Deployment To The Capitol On Jan. 6:
‘The DoD IG knowingly concealed the extent of the delay in constructing a narrative that is favorable to DoD and Pentagon leadership,’ the letter says.
Federal bureaucrats within the Department of Defense (DoD) delayed the deployment of the National Guard on Jan. 6, 2021 and covered it up, according to a House Republican investigation of government conduct related to the Capitol riot.
On Thursday, Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., who is leading a review of the work completed by the partisan Jan. 6 probe run by then-Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, sent a letter to the inspector general for the Department of Defense demanding a correction to an agency report published in November 2021.
“This report was the final product of the DoD IG’s review into the events of January 6, and reviewed how the DoD responded to requests for support as the events unfolded,” Loudermilk, the chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight for the House Administration Committee, wrote. “Throughout the Subcommittee’s extensive investigation into the failures of January 6, 2021, we have discovered numerous flaws and inaccuracies in the report that your office has yet to appropriately address.”
Such flaws and inaccuracies, however, may have been part of a partisan cover-up after GOP lawmakers discovered the Pentagon was responsible for delays in guard deployment.
“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.”
“Furthermore,” Loudermilk added, “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.” --->READ MORE HERE
Republican lawmakers accuse Pentagon IG of hiding Jan. 6 evidence:
The Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk sent a letter to the Defense Department’s inspector general demanding a correction in the Pentagon’s Jan. 6 report.
Mr. Loudermilk, Georgia Republican, says his subcommittee learned that the delay of the National Guard going to the U.S. Capitol was because the Pentagon purposely delayed the troops from deploying there until the violence on Jan. 6, 2021, ended.
According to the subcommittee, the Pentagon’s inspector general hid the extent and cause of the delay to protect Defense Department leadership.
The Washington Times reached out to the IG, Robert Storch, for comment.
The subcommittee says it found numerous instances where the IG “failed to disclose evidence that contradicted [his] erroneous conclusion.”
The panel says that the IG’s report reflects an “alarming failure” to adequately evaluate the actions of senior officials, including Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, who failed to communicate deployment orders to Army Maj. Gen. William Walker, who commanded the District of Columbia National Guard on Jan. 6.
In the Nov. 16, 2021, Defense Department report, the IG said the actions at the Pentagon were “reasonable in light of the circumstances” at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
The IG also determined that officials “did not delay or obstruct” the Pentagon’s response to the Capitol Police’s request for assistance. --->READ MORE HERE
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