I am concerned why the request by the Capitol Police to have the National Guard at the ready on Jan 6 was refused because of optics.
I'm really concerned with finding out why the Department of Defense did not respond to requests for help when the Capitol was attacked.
The Department of Defense is responsible for national security. Why did they do such a piss poor job? Why did they refuse to respond to requests for assistance from the former Capitol Police Chief, the DC Mayor and the Governor of Maryland?
If we don't hold them accountable and figure out who the traitors are in the Pentagon how can we feel our capitol is safe when these people attack again.
https://news.yahoo.com/former-capito...144732071.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ot/6618084002/
Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund said he requested that the National Guard be placed on standby in the days before the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, but House and Senate security officials turned him down.
Sund, who resigned his post the day after the riot, told The Washington Post he had been concerned that the protest planned for Jan. 6 would be larger than expected. Sund said he asked House and Senate security officials for permission to request that the National Guard be placed on standby.
Sund said House and Senate sergeants at arms told him they were not comfortable with the “optics” of declaring an emergency days before the protest and suggested Sund should informally ask Guard officials to be on alert. Both have since resigned.
Sund said he pleaded for help five more times as the riot unfolded. A crowd of several thousand quickly overran the Capitol Police contingent of 1,400 officers at the scene.
“If we would have had the National Guard, we could have held them at bay longer, until more officers from our partner agencies could arrive,” Sund told the Post.
Sund said the crowd breached the Capitol just before 2 p.m. A half-hour later, he was on the phone with the Pentagon, he said. Sund and others said Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt, director of the Army Staff, balked at recommending that his boss, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, approve the request. Again, optics were cited.
National Guard troops arrived around 5:40 p.m., after the riot had been quelled.
Under federal law, the mayor of the District of Columbia does not have authority over the Guard. Neighboring Maryland must gain approval from the Pentagon to send its troops across the border into the District of Columbia.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said he received a call Wednesday afternoon from House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., saying the Capitol had been overrun. Hogan said he authorized the mobilization of the Maryland National Guard and was ready to deploy them to the Capitol.
"However, we were repeatedly denied approval to do so," Hogan said.
“I can't speak as to what was going on on the other end of the line back at the Pentagon or in the White House,” Hogan said. “I was in the middle of a meeting when my chief of staff came in and said the Capitol was under attack. ... We were in contact with the mayor's office, who requested assistance. We immediately sent police assistance. I immediately called up the National Guard.”
“All I know is that we were trying to get answers and we weren't getting answers,” Hogan said.
Pentagon officials on Sunday downplayed Hogan’s assessment, arguing that even if the authorization had been granted, it would have taken several hours for troops to assemble at their armory and equip themselves to join the effort to control the rioters. Guardsmen generally require four hours to leave their jobs or homes for their armories.