General accused of lying about Jan. 6

 The Lid:

Politico reports that  Col. Earl Matthews, who on January 6 was serving as the top attorney to Maj. Gen. William Walker, then commanding general of the D.C. National Guard. The Colonel wrote a detailed 36-page letter to the House saying that General Charles Flynn and Lt. General Walter Piatt lied to Congress about the delay of the national guard showing up to help out in the Capitol riot. Matthews also slammed “Pentagon’s inspector general for what he calls an error-riddled report that protects a top Army official who argued against sending the National Guard to the Capitol on January 6, delaying the insurrection response for hours.”

Col. Matthews claims that General Walker wanted to send the National Guard as soon as he was asked, but Generals Flynn and Platt delayed the response. And they were “absolute and unmitigated liars” for their characterization of the events of that day.

On the other hand, Matthews backed up the testimony of General Walker:

“Every leader in the D.C. Guard wanted to respond and knew they could respond to the riot at the seat of government” before they were given clearance to do so on Jan. 6, Matthews’ memo reads. Instead, he said, D.C. guard officials “set [sic] stunned watching in the Armory” during the first hours of the attack on Congress during its certification of the 2020 election results.

Matthews’ memo levels major accusations: that Flynn and Piatt lied to Congressabout their response to pleas for the D.C. Guard to quickly be deployed on Jan. 6; that the Pentagon inspector general’s November report on Army leadership’s response to the attack was “replete with factual inaccuracies”;and that the Army has created its own closely held revisionist document about the Capitol riot that’s “worthy of the best Stalinist or North Korea propagandist.”

Yikes, that sounds like one angry Colonel.

General Walker had already asked the Inspector General to withdraw his report. As reported in the Washington Post on November 18:

William J. Walker, now retired from the military and serving at the Capitol as House sergeant-at-arms, said in an interview that he never received a call from Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy at 4:35 p.m., as alleged in a report by the Defense Department’s acting inspector general, Sean O’Donnell. Walker, repeating comments he made during sworn Senate testimony in March, said that he received authorization to deploy troops at 5:08 p.m. and immediately dispatched those forces, already loaded onto several buses to depart the D.C. Armory.

“Every minute mattered. You have to understand: These are my friends here,” Walker said, referring to his close relationship with former Capitol Police chief Steven Sund, who was forced to resign following the attack, and other law enforcement officials. He called the report “incomplete,” “inaccurate” and “sloppy work.”

According to Matthews’ during a  2:30 pm. conference call with senior military and law enforcement officials, plus General Walker and himself during the capitol riot “then Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund ‘pleaded” for the immediate deployment of the National Guard to the Capitol,  Matthews said, Flynn and Piatt, both opposed the move (The two men were the highest-ranking Army officials who on the 2:30 call).

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I wonder if the Jan. 6 committee has read this report?  Or, are they too focused on trying to build a case against Trump who actually offed to send Nationa Guard troops that were refused by Pelosi.