#SeditionHunters - three weeks ago the DoD Inspector General released a Jan 6 timeline so discrepant with former statements that it couldn't fit in our timeline. Now a bombshell memo call Lt. Generals Charles Flynn and Walter Piatt "unmitigated liars". 1/ politico.com/news/2021/12/0…
Former DC National Guard Col. Earl Matthews focuses on claims that it took hours to prepare National Guard to deploy to the Capitol, says those statements “constituted the willful deception of Congress.” 2/
Maj. Gen. Walker, former commander of the DC National Guard, had immediately called for the IG report to be retracted - it threw him under the bus, claimed he got a call at 4:35 PM to deploy the Guard and sat on it til 5:08 PM. Walker says that's a lie. 3/ washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Walker says NG was ready to go immediately, no planning needed, no reason for delay. He called the report "inaccurate", "incomplete", and "sloppy". (It is certainly sloppy, listing one phone call at both 2:20 & 2:22 PM.) Links to all documents and to our timeline will follow. 4/
For context, here is our timeline, showing both events at the Capitol and DoD / police communications, based on reports that came out soon after Jan. 6th. Link here is timeline in table form. Sources document to follow. 5/ docs.google.com/document/d/1jx…
Here's the sources document - screenshot highlights the period when DoD says Walker was called 4:35 PM; he says 5:08. Either time was too late to help much, though. The US Capitol seems saved largely by city police (DC, VA, MD) with FBI SWAT backup. 6/ docs.google.com/document/d/1yM…
The National Guard deployment in that timeline was based off a memo issued by the DoD on January 11. 7/ media.defense.gov/2021/Jan/11/20…
Here's the new DoD IG report of Nov 18. Among the odd changes: events in the crucial period from 4-4:40 PM are moved earlier by 5 minutes. Originally the 4:18 PM verbal authorization of state NG came 1 minute after Trump's "go home" Tweet at 4:17 PM... 8/ s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2111…
Politico links to another timeline, not widely known, issued by DC NG on Jan 7. It highlights (boldface, italics!) that the time from the first call for assistance til "final approval from McCarthy and Miller was two hours and fifty-six minutes" 9/ politico.com/f/?id=0000017d…
Here is the shockingly blunt memo on the DoD IG report: "at least two general officers of the Army engaged in repeated violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 907, 1001, 1621. One of these general officers [Charles Flynn] now leads an Army Service Component Command." 10/
And a possibly relevant update (h/t @visionsurreal): Former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, brother of Gen. Charles Flynn of the Matthews memo and scheduled to give his deposition to the January 6 Committee today... has been "granted [a] short postponement". 11/
A correction: Gen. Charles Flynn's rank was mis-stated in the first Tweet as Lt. Gen. Wikipedia "On November 30, 2020, [Flynn's] nomination for promotion to general was submitted to the U.S. Senate and was confirmed by voice vote of the full Senate on December 20, 2020". 12/
Timelines don't prove culpability, but they are informative, suggestive. They tell you what MIGHT have led to what. So let's add: on Nov. 25, 2020, 5 days before recommending Charles Flynn's promotion, Former Pres. Donald Trump pardoned Michael Flynn. 13/
Since we're talking NG timelines, let's re-up a puzzle: Shortly after 3:30 PM, Disclose.tv & Press secretary Kayleigh McEnany Tweeted that the National Guard was being deployed. Why? That info was rebroadcast on InfoWars, widely heard. 14/
What happened near 3:30 PM? The NG timeline suggests that Acting Def. Sec Miller issued some statement then, but there's no Miller statement in the DoD timeline. This discrepancy has been very concerning. Here are the Tweets in context, and the timing from the NG memo. 15/
The NG memo also lists a 3:31 PM event: "REDCON1 recommended by Gen. Flynn". (REDCON = "full alert"). Is this related to the deployment Tweets that come within minutes? But this event is completely absent from the DoD IG report, which has - oddly - 22 blank minutes just then. 16/
Inspectors General should be the final arbiter of truth, the watchdogs. The gaping blanks here, unexplained discrepancies with previous timelines, and internal inconsistencies are all a huge red flag, even beyond what the report says. This is not how IG reports should look. 17/
An update to unwind confusion - an exhaustive recap of Jan 6 NG decisions near 3:30 PM, h/t a helpful VA resident.
It's all initiated by Virginia & Maryland racing to help. At 3:29 PM, VA Gov. Northam posts a widely-seen Tweet that he's sending the VA Guard + state police 18/
Northam's words are repeated by Disclose.tv at 3:32 PM & shown on InfoWars at 3:34. Then at 3:36 PM, Kayleigh McEnany confusingly Tweets that "the National Guard" is coming at "Trump's direction", though no-one seems to have yet authorized state NGs to enter DC. 19/
Gen. Daniel Hokanson in DC hears of the plan to mobilize the VA NG & calls the VA Adjutant General at 3:46 PM. Then it's MD's turn: at 3:47 Gov. Hogan Tweets his plan to help & Hokanson calls their AG at 3:55. (Below is from a Jan 8 press release). 20/ defense.gov/News/Releases/…
We don't know what was said in those calls, but at least they're consistently reported in Jan. In the new IG report, though, Bowser disappears from the timeline; the 3:46 VA AG call is gone; and 3:55 PM is now "General Hokanson initiates communications with state governors." 21/
The IG report was supposed to clarify the DoD response to requests for help at the Capitol. In Jan, MD Governor Hogan expressed his frustration: "we aren't getting answers". The IG report doesn't give those answers - instead opens new questions. 22/ usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
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Reminder: Ed Martin, Trump's US Pardon attorney (R) and George Santos, whose sentence he just helped commute (L) were both speakers at the Stop the Steal rally the day before the Jan 6 Capitol attack. The next day, they both sat in the VIP section at Trump's Ellipse rally. 1/
On Jan 6, Ed Martin, as a founding member of Ali Alexander's Stop the Steal team, had a better seat than George Santos, a lesser figure. Brandon Straka, the man who first got Santos into politics, sat in the front row center; Ed two rows back; Santos deeper in the crowd. 2/
Santos, who rocketed from a minor part of Brandon Straka's WalkAway operation to a member of Congress, was sentenced to over 7 years in prison for wire fraud and identity theft. Today Trump let him out. Ed Martin says he was "honored" to help "make clemency great again". 3/
Trump's move this week revoking 6 visas for posting about Charlie Kirk is a wake-up call. These weren't random. They were all prominent people in the arts, with business visas. One is German filmmaker Mario Sixtus, whose new documentary criticizes AI and US tech firms. 1/
Sixtus' documentary examines how AI slop is infecting the internet, making it a "dumping ground for machine-generated nonsense". He's based in Berlin, but interviews famed US AI researcher Melanie Mitchell. Now he can't come to the US to promote it. 2/ arte.tv/de/videos/1221…
These six are not random. Another revokee, music exec Nota Baloyi from South Africa, has said he was targeted and wonders if South African right-wingers sent in a tip. US journalists need to ask how these six were chosen. Whose speech is being barred? 3/ news24.com/southafrica/ne…
A big caution here: we have to take seriously that GOP has coordinated talking points that No Kings will involve an act of terrorism. We have to ask seriously whether someone has planned such an act. It wouldn't be provoking people in frog costumes. It would be worse 1/
The last time we heard so much talk about "Antifa" as a terrorist threat was Jan 2021, just before the Capitol attack. The 200+ Proud Boys who kicked it off didn't wear "colors"; they came "dressed as Antifa". They talked about it repeatedly. That instruction came from above. 2/
Remember: in 1999, a month after he was made Prime Minister, Putin solidified his power using explosions that killed hundreds. He blamed Chechen terrorists as a pretext for a crackdown. Regardless of who planted the bombs, Putin found a use for them. 3/ henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/upl…
Jan 6 is in the news again as GOP Senators reveal that FBI searched their phone records in 2023. A totally reasonable action, but what's surprising is the list. The FBI left off Ted Cruz, by far the Senator with the most known ties to Jan 6! And they added some surprises 1/
The article by @etuckerAP & @stephengroves gives the basics, but not why this information was released now or why these Senators were chosen. Before Jan 6, Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz were talked of as a team plotting something - so why isn't Cruz here? 2/ apnews.com/article/fbi-ja…
The FBI has private sources of information, but the list is still baffling. (Why Dan Sullivan of AK?) The Congressional Insurrection Scores rank lawmakers by publicly known actions around Jan 6. In this metric, Sens Cruz, Hawley, & Tuberville stand out. 3/ docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
Just unbelievable stuff coming from independent journalists. Jack Posobiec, a Roger Stone protege, was one of the biggest spreaders of Russian disinfo in 2016. Of Pizzagate. Of election-fraud claims in 2020. And it took til now to show he was voting fraudulently himself? 1/
Slate picked up this article (kudos!) but both journos are independent.
Poso was one of the first people tapped for Ali Alexander's Stop the Steal. He pushed election-fraud claims to 1M followers, watched the J6 attack from Alex Jones' rented rooftop. 2/ slate.com/news-and-polit…
How is it that with all the resources of mainstream media his own voter fraud gets uncovered only now? How did CBS cover Poso, a major propagandist and a vector for foreign influence? They interviewed him about "the death of his friend Charlie Kirk". 3/
Dear god, our politicians have learned nothing. DO NOT LET YOUR OPPONENT SET THE NARRATIVE. Offense, not defense. The answer to "you are shutting the government down to give illegal immigrants healthcare" is "The GOP shut down the government to give handouts to billionaires." 1/
Never, never, use their framing. It does not work to try to avoid a fight by saying "we all agree", if your opponent is determined to fight. It just concedes territory. It makes their framing the topic Don't defend against a bad-faith argument. Attack and move forward. 2/
If someone insists on fighting you, you have to fight back. DO NOT ANSWER A BAD-FAITH QUESTION. Do not cede that authority. Just say the question is bs - attack their motivation - and move on to say what you think is true. Be the boss, set the terms of the debate. 3/