https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/03\/03\/dc-national-guard-chief-capitol-attack-473266<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Three hours and 19 minutes, while a riot raged at the Capitol.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s how long the commanding general of the D.C. National Guard says elapsed between then-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund\u2019s \u201cfrantic\u201d plea for help quelling a violent mob and the ultimate approval of military aid by the Pentagon. The discrepancy between his estimate and the Pentagon’s conflicting testimony is now at the heart of lawmakers\u2019 investigation into the security lapses that prolonged the siege on Congress on Jan. 6.”<\/p>\n
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“D.C. National Guard chief William Walker told senators he was blocked from reacting quickly while Pentagon officials disputed his account.”<\/p>\n
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” Walker, with evident exasperation, told two Senate committees that he preemptively loaded troops on buses amid the chaos of the insurrection while awaiting approval from acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller. That approval took hours to arrive, he said. In the interim, top Army leaders \u2014 including the brother of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn \u2014 pushed back, worrying that the visual of National Guard troops ringing the Capitol could \u201cinflame\u201d the rioters, Walker said.<\/p>\n
Pentagon officials challenge that account, saying Miller reacted rapidly but that his approval may not have been communicated to Walker efficiently. Nonetheless, Walker testified that earlier action by the Pentagon could have made a difference.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could have helped extend the perimeter and push back the crowd,\u201d Walker said.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[336,1138,1145,1135,874,1134],"class_list":["post-4613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-attack","tag-capitol-building","tag-capitol-police","tag-insurrection","tag-national-guard","tag-riot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4614,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions\/4614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}