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DOD \u2018Intentionally Delayed\u2019 National Guard Deployment To The Capitol On Jan. 6<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0report<\/a> published in November 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis report was the final product of the DoD IG\u2019s review into the events of January 6, and reviewed how the DoD responded to requests for support as the events unfolded,\u201d Loudermilk, the chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight for the House Administration Committee, wrote. \u201cThroughout the Subcommittee\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAfter 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 (\u2018Select Committee\u2019), and closed-door testimony made to the DoD IG,\u201d Loudermilk wrote, \u201cthe Subcommittee\u2019s investigation has concluded that the Department of Defense intentionally delayed the deployment of the DC [National Guard] to the Capitol on January 6, 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFurthermore,\u201d Loudermilk added, \u201cthe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Loudermilk wrote the agency excluded testimony from myriad officials who blamed then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy for his failure to properly communicate with the National Guard over Jan. 6. Then-President Donald Trump had ordered 10,000 troops to be on standby for the day of electoral certification, a fact\u00a0covered up<\/a>\u00a0by the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 which was eager to depict an apathetic commander-in-chief relishing in the violence at the Capitol.<\/p>\n

In the days leading up to Jan. 6, Cheney had\u00a0organized<\/a>\u00a0an op-ed by former defense secretaries days to preemptively condemn troop mobilization. Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, who was House speaker at the time, had also\u00a0objected<\/a>\u00a0to the National Guard\u2019s preemptive deployment multiple time due to the \u201coptics\u201d of additional federal troops in the capital.<\/p>\n

Kash Patel, who was chief of staff for the Department of Defense,\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0in March for The Federalist, \u201cFor over three years, I have done countless media interviews, answered numerous subpoenas, and testified before congressional committees and grand juries about the 45th president\u2019s actions regarding the National Guard in the lead-up to Jan. 6, 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately for the propaganda press, the truth never changed, nor did any of my testimony,\u201d Patel wrote. \u201cIndeed, 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\u2019s office and the Capitol Police. Each of our respective testimonials, under oath, confirms this key fact.\u201d<\/p>\n

Loudermilk requested the Defense Department inspector general correct its 2021 report regarding the National Guard\u2019s deployment \u201cto ensure the accurate preservation of historical records.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full letter from Rep. Loudermilk below:<\/p>\n