Adam Schiff’s list of worries just grew longer.
This is a problem Schiff thought was long ago in his rear-view mirror.
And one whistleblower’s testimony has Adam Schiff in panic mode.
As Conservative Reboot reports:
Nancy Pelosi put the January 6 Select Committee together to prod the Biden Justice Department into indicting Donald Trump.
The committee did its job when its criminal referrals eventually formed the backbone of Jack Smith’s election interference indictments.
But Americans are now learning for the first time that the committee’s report was a pack of politically motivated falsehoods and selective evidence.
Army whistleblowers – who were never asked to testify before the January 6 committee – appeared before Congress and dropped bombshell after bombshell about why the National Guard didn’t arrive at the Capitol until after 5 p.m.
The committee – and Jack Smith – used a three-hour gap between when Trump’s speech at the Ellipse ended and when the Guard finally arrived to claim Trump’s inaction was proof that he wanted his supporters to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power to overthrow the government.
Whistleblowers Captain Timothy Nick and Brig. Gen. Aaron Dean had a different story to tell that blew the committee and Jack Smith’s narrative to smithereens.
Nick testified that the Defense Department inspector general’s report on January 6 contained multiple errors, specifically the testimony of then-Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy.
“I’m here today to aid the subcommittee in resolving factual errors in the official record of what happened on January 6th, 2021, specifically regarding the alleged District of Columbia National Guard delayed response caused by a critical presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed Pentagon senior officials,” Captain Nick told the committee.
Captain Nick explained that he was the aide-de-camp for Major General William Walker of the D.C. National Guard.
McCarthy claimed that he made multiple calls to Walker to deploy the Guard, but that the deployment was delayed.
Captain Nick testified that no such calls took place.
“At no time did Gen. Walker take any calls, nor did we ever hear from the secretary on any of the ongoing conference calls or the secure video teleconferencing throughout the day,” Captain Nick’s testimony continued. “This I know because I was with the command general the entire time recording the events.”
Captain Nick also explained that then-acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller ordered the Guard deployed to the Capitol at 1:50 p.m., but that McCarthy threw up another roadblock by insisting on drawing up his own battle plan.
“I know if we were able to deploy immediately when Gen. Walker made the request, the National Guard could have helped end civil disturbance and restore order quickly,” Captain Nick added.
Brigadier General Dean testified that Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt and Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn were also a source of a stop to action on deploying the Guard as, during a 2:30 p.m. conference call on January 6, they raised an objection about the optics of deploying troops to the Capitol.
“I did hear the word optics. And they did use it. Specifically, Gen. Piatt said ‘optics.’ And his concern was that he did not want soldiers or airmen on Capitol grounds, with the Capitol in the background,” Brig. Gen. Dean stated. “They were giving every other reason why we should be around the Capitol, away from the Capitol, and not responding to the Capitol.”
It didn’t take three hours for the Guard to get to the Capitol because Donald Trump held them back in hopes that an insurrection would keep him in power like Smith and the January 6 committee claimed.
The delay in getting the National Guard on the scene was simply bureaucratic paralysis and incompetence.