Senate To Question Officials From FBI, National Guard About Capitol Attack | Talking Points Memo

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In the sequel to a hearing with Capitol security leaders last week, Senators today will grill officials from the FBI, National Guard, Defense Department and Department of Homeland Security on security failures during the January 6 insurrection.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1363027
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Yep, keep the spotlight on this.

Kinda wish they would have done this on March 4th, just for the irony of it.

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Cruz-Hawley-Lee:

“Boys, what have you got on us?”

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FBI warns of extremist chatter about an attack on the capitol tomorrow. Anyone who has been aware of the new March 4th conspiracy theory, arising just after Inauguration, would have predicted this.

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so what is it,

hours long delay
took us 60 minutes to deploy
10,000 troops authorized
Nancy refused
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My take, create enough confusion with “leadership” providing multiple answers that fit anyone’s narrative. FUBAR in spades.

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So, if the “Mar 4th inauguration” nonsense is predicated upon “sovereign citizen” conspiracists, can we just consider them enemy combatants from the jump? Asking for the US Army.

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While the witnesses are mostly civilians, commanding general of the D.C. National Guard Major General William J. Walker was added to the list last-minute. Walker may be able to explain the delays in the authorization and deployment of the Guard

I am mystified as to why they didn’t have him at the top of the list. Last minute addition? Does anybody know what the reasoning was here?

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This is the real source of failure, the treason of various hand picked officials at the Pentagon.

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As I understand it, witnesses are under oath when testifying before Congress. Let’s cut to the chase here - let’s get testimony from Hawley, Cruz, MTG, et al. They’ve got to know by now that they’ve left a trail that will be followed by the FBI. That was the gist of Hawley’s questioning of Wray - essentially, 'what have you got on me"?
We need to know exactly what was discussed at the WH on the evening of Jan 5. Let’s hear from all who were there.

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This is what I’ve suspected; however, actual proof needs to materialize. Surely, there are people at the Pentagon who’ve been saving up the proof with the hope of being able to hand it over.

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But, then it would have had to fight with the inauguration for air time. Wouldn’t it?

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Hawley: “I am deeply concerned about the behavior of the persons charged with the implementation of important measures designed to effect appropriate actions needed to deal with the crises that I ultimately am responsible for.”

Got that?

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That’s when we can start looking for someone to roll over on Donnie.

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Anyone know if there will be any big March Fourth one-term, twice-impeached, lost-the-popular-vote-twice, no longer president sales?

I could use a new mattress.

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But that was by design. There is not a single appointment or nomination/confirmation made by the previous administration that didn’t get us to this point. I am not sure how stupid the American people are, but this is so obvious that it is painful and it was damned near fatal.

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The DominionPillow company might have a sale.

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Only with the promo code ‘Marchfourth’.

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Who cares about some silly invasion of the Capitol?

We’ve got to get to the bottom of why Obama supported racist authors.

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Some very damning shit coming out:

Gen. Walker is up, explaining why a Jan. 5 memo from the secretary of the Army laying out the Guard’s role on Jan. 6 was “unusual.”

“It required me to seek authorization to protect my guardsmen,” Walker said, adding that the memo required new, additional layers of authorization for him to do virtually anything.

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And didn’t Dr. Seuss wear tan suits?

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