{"id":6905,"date":"2021-12-27T20:23:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T20:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6905"},"modified":"2021-12-27T20:23:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T20:23:06","slug":"this-call-never-happened-ex-d-c-guard-leaders-push-back-as-internal-army-report-on-jan-6-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6905","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This call never happened\u2019: Ex-D.C. Guard leaders push back as internal Army report on Jan. 6 emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The Army report<\/a>, obtained by POLITICO,lays the foundation for the Pentagon\u2019s defense against criticism that it took too long to approve the Guard\u2019s response to the Capitol attack. The March 18 reportsays Guard members weren\u2019t prepared to respond quickly to the riot and describes multiple communications between top Army officials and the D.C. Guard\u2019s commander, then-Maj. Gen. William Walker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Walker, now sergeant at arms in the House, says some of those communications the Army describes in the report never actually happened. He and a former top lawyer for the D.C. Guard, Col. Earl Matthews, also say the Guard members were readyto be deployed to the Capitol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s whole fiction,\u201d said Matthews, who has accused two Army generals of lying to Congress about their role in the Jan. 6 response. Matthews was on a call with leaders from the Capitol Police and the Army during the siege.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Matthews alleges that the report is a secretive attempt to whitewash the Army\u2019s record on Jan. 6 and shift blame to the Capitol Police and Guard leaders, thus taking the focus off the Army\u2019s own missteps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Army spokesperson Mike Brady says the Jan. 6 report was designed for internal staff use as part of routine procedure and drafted with information from the Guard.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“\u201cOne side or the other is lying,\u201d said Sol Wisenberg, a white collar defense attorney and former federal prosecutor. \u201cOne side or the other has committed perjury or obstructed a congressional inquiry concerning a topic of paramount importance. The Department of Justice should unquestionably be investigating this matter for possible perjury and\/or obstruction charges. Something this serious cannot be left to Congress alone.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/12\/09\/guard-leaders-push-back-army-january-6-report-523995<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The Army report, obtained by POLITICO, lays the foundation for the Pentagon\u2019s defense against criticism that it took too long to approve the Guard\u2019s response to the Capitol attack. The March 18 report says Guard members weren\u2019t prepared to respond quickly to the riot and describes multiple communications between top Army officials and the D.C. Guard\u2019s commander, then-Maj. Gen. William Walker.<\/p>\n

But Walker, now sergeant at arms in the House, says some of those communications the Army describes in the report never actually happened. He and a former top lawyer for the D.C. Guard, Col. Earl Matthews, also say the Guard members were ready to be deployed to the Capitol.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s whole fiction,\u201d said Matthews, who has accused two Army generals of lying to Congress about their role in the Jan. 6 response. Matthews was on a call with leaders from the Capitol Police and the Army during the siege.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Matthews alleges that the report is a secretive attempt to whitewash the Army\u2019s record on Jan. 6 and shift blame to the Capitol Police and Guard leaders, thus taking the focus off the Army\u2019s own missteps.<\/p>\n

Army spokesperson Mike Brady says the Jan. 6 report was designed for internal staff use as part of routine procedure and drafted with information from the Guard.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“\u201cOne side or the other is lying,\u201d said Sol Wisenberg, a white collar defense attorney and former federal prosecutor. \u201cOne side or the other has committed perjury or obstructed a congressional inquiry concerning a topic of paramount importance. The Department of Justice should unquestionably be investigating this matter for possible perjury and\/or obstruction charges. Something this serious cannot be left to Congress alone.\u201d”<\/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":[886,336,1138,1135,119,1107,172,1499,1134],"class_list":["post-6905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-army","tag-attack","tag-capitol-building","tag-insurrection","tag-investigations","tag-liars","tag-lying","tag-perjury","tag-riot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905","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=6905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6906,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905\/revisions\/6906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}