According to these whistleblowers, military leaders on Jan. 6 did not want to deploy the national guard. This is because they were reportedly concerned about “optics.”

From Just the News. Four former D.C. National Guard officials turned whistleblowers excoriated military leadership for their response to the January 6 riot at a hearing held by the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight Wednesday.

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Based their firsthand accounts, they said that senior leadership failed to act decisively to authorize the deployment of the D.C. National Guard to the Capitol and subsequently crafted a misleading narrative about their actions that day to paper over the delays.

“These whistleblowers are coming forward today to share, for the first time under oath, their first hand account related to National Guard deployment on January 6,” said Chairman Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., in his opening statement.

“None of today’s whistleblowers were interviewed under oath by the Department of Defense Inspector General or the Select Committee,” he added, highlighting what he believes is evidence of a lack of a truly thorough investigation into the events of that transpired that day. …

The hearing included four witnesses who served in various roles with the D.C. National Guard during the January 6 riot:

• Colonel Earl Matthews – Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
• Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks – Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
• Captain Timothy Nick – Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
• Brigadier General Aaron Dean – Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard …

In his opening statement, Brooks criticized a Department of Defense Inspector General report that determined the military responded appropriately to the riot at the Capitol and that no officials delayed or obstructed the department’s response. …

Brooks relayed in an earlier transcribed interview with the subcommittee that military leaders were particularly concerned with the “optics” of deploying the D.C. National Guard to the Capitol and instead wished to use the guardsmen to replace D.C. Metropolitan Police Officers. …

Both Brigadier General Aaron Dean, now retired, and Captain Timothy Nick, who now serves in the Florida National Guard, confirmed Brooks’ assessment and recalled hearing senior military officials concerns about the “optics” of deploying the guard to the Capitol, causing delays.

Colonel Earl Matthews, who served as the Chief Legal Advisor for the D.C. Army National Guard on January 6, told the committee he believes senior Pentagon leadership lied to Congress and mislead investigators about what actually happened that day.

“I’m here today because to senior general officers of the United States Army General Charles A. Flynn and Lieutenant General Walter E Piatt have acted contrary to [army] values. Generals Piatt and Flynn have lied to Congress, to federal investigators and to the American people about why it took so long for the District of Columbia National Guard to the US Capitol on January 6 2021,” Matthews asserted.

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(Excerpt from Just the News. Photo Credit: Tyler Merbler from USA – DSC09254-2, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia)