I can distinctly remember where I was when the January 6th Capitol riot took place, perhaps because I was still in the military. I remember watching the Capitol building breached while wearing my uniform, wondering, how is this happening? Where are the National Guard and law enforcement?
Fast forward to the overhyped January 6th committee hearings, and the answers to the questions that mattered to most Americans went mostly unanswered. Instead of uncovering the truth, the hearing was merely political theater meant to be used for political gain versus serving the American people.
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However, if you dig deep enough into the testimonies, you can find some interesting answers – but good luck trying to find much media coverage of these details.
You are in luck, though, dear reader, because we’ve taken the time to weed through the nitty details for you to bring to light what those we elected on the Hill don’t want you to see.
1. Pelosi directly implicated in security failures on Jan. 6. She put politics before protection in rejecting National Guard offered by President Trump. There’s no wonder why the defunct committee never took her testimony or investigated any of it.
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) January 3, 2023
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A Stalled Pentagon
Amazingly, after months and months of investigations and primetime TV theater from the committee, it’s a new book that gives some of the information we want.
Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund’s new book Courage Under Fire hits mainly on the failure of the Pentagon to provide the assistance requested to help protect the Capitol and bolster the Capitol Police.
Mr. Sund explains that three days prior, he had asked the National Guard to be placed on standby, only to be rejected by the two Sergeants at Arms for the House and Senate.
It wouldn’t be until after the riots that he discovered the two believed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would disapprove of his request. So the question is, why?
Good luck finding that answer.
On the day of the riots, Mr. Sund requested again National Guard assistance only to be told by Lieutenant General Walter Piatt that he didn’t like the “optics” of sending uniformed Guard members to the Capitol. It would take over three hours for the Guard to respond, well after the riot and the Capitol were cleared of protestors.
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The Washington D.C. National Guard Commander General William Walker testified that the reason it took three hours for him to receive permission from the Pentagon to deploy his troops was that:
“…someone or somebodies were willfully, deliberately denying making the decision.”
General Walker went further, stating that the Secretary of the Army who had the authority to make the decision was “inaccessible” in the days leading up to and the day of the riot, claiming “someone” was “running around the Pentagon looking for him.”
Gee, that seems odd, almost as if the Secretary knew to be out of pocket, but why… again good luck getting that answer.
These J6 committee transcripts are something.
More evidence that advance planning for Jan 6 happened in the summer of 2020. This from Lt. Gen Walter Piatt (director of Army staff) interview: pic.twitter.com/46IIM0Bcqy
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) January 2, 2023
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Not-So-Intelligent Intelligence
Mr. Sund states in his new book that from December 21st to January 5th, the Capitol Police Intelligence Division received emails and various tips on plots to attack the Capitol. Yet, this information never made it to Mr. Sund or his other Commanders.
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In his testimony, Mr. Sund states that analysts in the intelligence division didn’t emphasize messages they had received, such as:
“we will storm the government buildings, kill cops, kill security guards, kill federal employees and agents.”
Yikes, that seems like pretty alarming messaging that you’d think might’ve been worthwhile for the Chief of the Capitol Police to have before January 6th. Was this information willfully held back from Mr. Sund, or just plain negligence?
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On January 5th, an internal FBI situational report warned that individuals were planning to wage a “war” at the Capitol. However, the following morning Matt Blue, the acting chief of the DOJ’s Counterterrorism Section, wrote in an email to his superiors:
“No credible threats as of the 10:00 brief.”
Was Mr. Blue not aware of the internal report, and if so, why? Or was he aware and just decided on his own not to channel that information forward? And if so, why?
Don’t these seem like important questions for a committee that stood for months and months, allegedly “investigating” what happened?
Our Government protected every pedophile on Epstein’s list and the FBI colluded with big tech to interfere (cheat) in our elections.
But they’re telling the truth about fair elections, COVID, Jan 6, the billions going to Ukraine, and the vaccine.
👉 (farting sound)
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The Unanswered Question
In Mr. Sund’s book, he correctly points out that the question that remains to be answered and is perhaps the most critical question Congress and the American people should be asking is:
“Why were we so unprepared?”
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Unfortunately, the reality more than likely is that not only were the intelligence community, Pentagon, and members of Congress aware of the threat, but they deliberately chose not to take measures to mitigate and possibly even deter what happened on January 6th.
According to Mr. Sund, while the Pentagon didn’t like the optics of sending the National Guard to the Capitol, they had no problem beefing up security at the homes of top military officials leading up to and on the day of the riots.
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Why beef up the security at Pentagon brass’ homes if there wasn’t some knowledge of a threat? Mr. Sund claims in his book that D.C. Guard Commander General Walker told him after the riots:
“Steve, I felt so bad. I wanted to help you immediately…but they wouldn’t let me come.”
It’s always ‘they’; if only ‘they’ had names, and if only we had some apparatus to get to the truth about ‘their’ motives.
Sund writes that Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt told him he didn’t like the OPTICS of sending uniformed Guard troops to the Capitol but could allow them to replace police officers at roadside checkpoints.
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) January 2, 2023
Nothing Ever Changes
This has a similar stink to what we discovered after the September 11th attacks when yet another piss-poor, albeit slightly more comprehensive, committee investigation disclosed that numerous intelligence signs could’ve mitigated the attacks that rocked our nation.
Mr. Sund points out:
“The security and information-sharing policies and mandates put in place after September 11 failed miserably on January 6.”
But did they fail because they were flawed policies and mandates, or did they fail because they were disregarded? It’s important to note that the Chief of the Capitol Police position is subject to the whims of an inflated bureaucratic system.
Mr. Sund explains:
“The security apparatus that exists on Capitol Hill creates a no-win situation for whoever is Chief. You have the Capitol Police Board, four oversight committees, and 535 bosses plus their staffs telling you what to do.”
Yet it was Mr. Sund who House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demanded resign after the riot, taking no responsibility herself for the lack of security response. And what about the intelligence agencies? What did the committee recommend after their ‘exhaustive’ investigation?
The asst. chief of intelligence, Yogananda Pittman, told Congress the intelligence should have been circulated but Sund said he and other commanders never received it. A review found the warnings were never shared outside Pittman’s division. She was promoted to chief after J6.
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) January 2, 2023
Buried in Appendix 1, the committee recommends:
“Federal agencies with intelligence and security missions should review their intelligence sharing protocols.”
And so the world continues to turn, and the federal government continues to fail either due to incompetence or corruption, probably both, with absolutely no real consequences. But thank goodness equally toothless criminal referrals for President Trump came out of the January 6th committee hearings.
I feel so much better now, don’t you?
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During the attack when Pelosi was asking for the military why didn’t Trump send in the national guard immediately?
Next Time going to be way Better watch 2025 when We can not take this Cheating Lien and stealing any more from the COMMIE left Hate America BS
There needs to be accountability here, one way or the other.
Where’s Mr HarHar Eightyone Million President holidaying this week I wonder ? Nowhere he has to actually “Pay For” I imagine.
Great reporting Kathleen! I wish Nancy Pelosi, Jan 6 com and the RINOs have your common sense
They had no problem shooting a Female unarmed Veteran! Piglosi is Guilty! All shall be REVEALED! The Whole Global Cabal, demoncRATs and RINOS, ALL SATAN’S DEMON SPAWN MINIONS DESERVE DIRT NAPS. NCSWIC, WWG1WGA, P.A.N.I.C. LGB,FJB! President Trump’s still my President. Yahweh save our poor souls Amen.
***“Why were we so unprepared?”
Ya can’t have a Reichstag fire if the fire department and cops are ready and on site.
The events the Federal Govt. took after jan6 were totally illegal and the arrests of people said to be involved against the safeguards of the Constitution. Then the DOJ has used this riot to monitor and intinimate many conservatives more merely speaking out agaiinst the government – – not promoting violence at all. We are living in a totalitarian government.
Anyone who’s watched every Jan 6th video knows it was a set-up, an entrapment. Pelosi didn’t want the Guards there to foil the swamp’s plan to incite a riot and incriminate Trump. Jan 6th was NOT an insurrection. The real insurrection is the non-stop political persecution of Trump by the establishment since the 2016 election.
it appears quite obviously that the “fix” was in to destroy The Donald and he helped it along by not calling of the rioters.
It time to hold these democrats accountable for their actions. Removing the immunity from in front of their title. They have violation the CONSTITUTION laws since Clinton was president. These politicians deserve nothing when they retired! They divided the country, did nothing to bring it together! So they accomplished nothing! And taxpayers should not be forced to pay their pension fund! We have lost thousands of jobs with democrats in control. We are heading toward a very bad situation with democrats in control. So people you need to march on your capital and RECALLED THESE POLITICIANS! If you love this country, you would do the RIGHT THING! Your children and grandchildren deserve a futures!
I think Pelosi actually wanted the protesters to come to the capitol. The National Guard would have prevented that, and she didn’t want it prevented so she would have “something” on President Trump.
Come on people this is a plan that Pelosi and her closest people in power had Knew what was coming on Jan 6.why in the hell else would she turn President Trump down for the national troops ??? I’ll tell you why because she said from the beginning in 2016 we must Do what ever it takes to bring Trump down.And in time you will fine there where people planted to get J6 started and to make sure it don’t come back to bite Pelosi and her so called powerful friends look at the picture they wanted J6 to happen if this new congress is smart they should get to the bottom of all this crap Starting with the evil STAR PELOSI NUMBER ONE THEN SCHUMER NUMBER 2 AND SO ON..
I have so many thoughts running through my head at this time – I don’t know where to start – ….I ,too, was at the Jan 6th event [FYI – I did not enter the building] ….& based on what I witnessed that day – The ONLY thing that makes any sense based on what I witnessed that day – The breach of our Capital building was Simply “ALLOWED” to happen. There’s a reason they are not releasing ALL of the video from that day [It would show what I witnessed that day] There was ALOT was going on that day [honestly the most surreal day of my life]….While people were climbing the walls – trying to get on the balcony…. I saw a steady line of people going to the side of the building – I followed …There were several police standing nearby [It seemed like they had been instructed to stand down…For the life of me, I do not understand why the police did not make a loud speaker announcement for people to move to a specific area away from the building….Myself 99.9% of the people there would have complied ] – just watching people walk up a ramp to the same balcony area that people were climbing walls to get access to…While at the same time [at the center front of the building] The police and the protesters were becoming much more aggressive [they have released all that video] – I didn’t realize all of that until I watched TV that evening….The main stream media & Dems are only reporting news that supports their preconceived [FALSE] narrative…Truth of that day be Damned!
Climbing the walls and assaulting cops made for the optics they planned to use when “impeaching” President Trump again.
Do ya wonder why epps was not arrested when so many who did far less are still sitting in jail, waiting to be persecuted in court.
Piglosi should be brought up on charges for failure to protect the Capitol, and for orchestrating the “ insurrection” in order to impeach Trump again! She already had the articles of impeachment ready to go BEFORE the so called” riot” she set up! And Epps was her hired henchman!
Accountability has been erased form the language in Washington. In the rest of the world any other that failed so miserably would be immediately removed and barred from ever holding that position again, if not shot. Excuses, like a holes, every body has one but only the elite get to suck without consequence.
So Far ! Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense ! History has a habit of making Full Circles – eventually ;)
Maybe 23 will be their comeuppance time – maybe we’ll have to wait till 24 – we’ll see. It’s going to be painful waiting, but Boy ! when the time arrives the fireworks will be worth it !
There was no problem sending uniformed soldiers to uncle joe’s installation.
Just more plots against Trump. These traitors will do anything to keep their gravy train rolling
There you have it.