Think about this when regarding
“Army Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt lied to Congress about their inaction during the Capitol insurrection.”
Think about what a knife-edge they may have been walking. Their real goal may have been to send in troops with Martial Law or Insurrection Act powers (two things I know nothing about the mechanics or legalities, full disclosure)
But they are being pressured mightily by all of the proper powers (as opposed to Chump’s illegitimate motivations) to send in troops to stop the mob that was ransacking the Capitol and hunting officials.
How do these guys send in a group to quell the mob when their real motivation was to send in troops to basically do the opposite? What a tightrope, and they couldn’t do both. Or maybe they thought they could, but how do you give two sets of instructions or send in troops to do one thing, then in the chaos have it turn on a dime and become another thing? Flynn and Piatt need some REAL looking in to.