Two former DC National Guard leaders are pushing back against the US Army's report about the Pentagon's response to the Capitol riot, Politico reported.
included a timeline of the planning and preparation by federal law enforcement to respond to the Capitol.
Sergeant at Arms William Walker, then Major General with the National Guard said the Guard didn't need the Army to create the plan. The report went on to say that top Army officials were in communication with DC Guard leaders to develop a plan to deploy National Guard troops to the Capitol. "That call didn't happen," he said of the 3 p.m. call in the report, in which McCarthy directed Walker to prepare troops to deploy to the Capitol. "I would never have to prepare [Guardsmen] to move. I would just order them to move. And they already had the equipment."
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