Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), Chair of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, has accused the Pentagon of deliberate inaction during the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots. In a strongly worded letter to Defense Department Inspector General Robert P. Storch, Loudermilk claimed the Department of Defense (DoD) intentionally delayed deploying the D.C. National Guard (DCNG) and issued a misleading report to shield senior officials from accountability.
The letter challenges the credibility of the DoD Inspector General’s Report No. 2022-039, which was presented as a comprehensive review of the Pentagon’s role in managing the Capitol breach. According to Loudermilk, the report is rife with inaccuracies and omits critical evidence of systemic failures.
Loudermilk’s investigation highlights the failure of key Pentagon officials, including then-Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy, to relay deployment orders to Major General William Walker, the DCNG Commander. This delay, Loudermilk asserts, left Capitol security personnel vulnerable during the critical early hours of the riot.
The subcommittee also criticized the DoD Inspector General’s report for disregarding testimony that allegedly exposed misconduct at the highest levels of the Pentagon.
“The report whitewashes the Pentagon’s actions on January 6 and ignores testimony that directly implicates senior officials,” Loudermilk stated in his letter.
The Subcommittee on Oversight was created to investigate the security failures surrounding January 6. Loudermilk described the Pentagon’s handling of the situation as a “systemic failure” and accused the DoD of prioritizing political optics over public safety.
The subcommittee’s findings suggest that delays in National Guard deployment were not merely bureaucratic errors but potentially deliberate actions designed to minimize backlash against senior Pentagon officials.
Loudermilk has called on Inspector General Storch to reevaluate the report and address the alleged omissions. The subcommittee also plans to hold additional hearings to uncover the full extent of Pentagon involvement in the January 6 security breakdown.
“We owe it to the American people to ensure the truth is known,” Loudermilk concluded.
This latest development adds fuel to the ongoing debate over the federal response to January 6, raising fresh questions about accountability and transparency at the highest levels of government.
More from the letter:
Given the D.C. National Guard’s history of success supporting both the Federal Government and the City Government in responding to civil unrest, and the significant role the Guard played in ensuring the safety and security of Members of Congress at the Capitol on January 6, it is essential that Report No. 2022-039 accurately reflect objective facts so that we can identify the serious problems, abuses, and deficiencies to recommend corrective actions consistent with the Inspector General Act of 19782.
Throughout the Subcommittee’s extensive investigation into the failures of January 6, 2021, we have discovered numerous flaws and objective inaccuracies in the report that your office has yet to appropriately address.
After a thorough examination of e-mails and documents, including letters, memorandums, agreements, plans, orders, reports, briefings, statements made in congressional hearings, closeddoor testimony to the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (“Select Committee”), and closed-door testimony made to the DoD IG, the Subcommittee’s investigation has concluded that the Department of Defense intentionally delayed the deployment of the DCNG to the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Furthermore, the Subcommittee also maintains that the DoD IG knowingly concealed the extent of the delay in constructing a narrative that is favorable to DoD and Pentagon leadership.
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In March of 2021, D.C. National Guard Major General William Walker testified before Congress that the Guard’s response to the Capitol on January 6 was delayed by senior DoD officials.
In April of 2024, Colonel Earl Matthews, Major General Walker’s legal advisor, Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks, Major General Walker’s Senior Enlisted Officer, Brigadier General Aarond Dean, Major General Walker’s Adjutant General, and Captain Timothy Nick, Major General Walker’s Aide-De-Camp, testified before Congress that the Secretary of the Army, Ryan McCarthy, was not in communication with the Guard and that their response to the Capitol was “most certainly delayed [by the Army].” These key DCNG personnel were intentionally not included as witnesses by the DoD IG.
The Subcommittee is deeply concerned that the DoD IG’s failure to interview witnesses who testify to an account of events on January 6 which are contradictory to the report’s conclusions, erode any suggestion that this report is correct or unbiased.
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A report that includes biased and incomplete statements to favor the Department of Defense and U.S. Army while disparaging the D.C. National Guard fails to represent the DoD IG’s philosophy and practice of producing unbiased, objective, impartial, and independent reviews as well as recommendations grounded in evidence and free from external influence.
Therefore, we are left with no choice but to reject Report No. 2022-039 and request that you publish a formal correction on behalf of the 10,432 congressional staff members and 535 Members of Congress who donned gas masks and retreated from their Chambers while the DCNG sat on buses waiting, less than 2 miles from the Capitol at the D.C. Armory, for communication from Secretary Ryan McCarthy.
“My Subcommittee worked with the DoD IG in good faith throughout our investigation to provide multiple opportunities for the DOD IG to produce corroborating materials or evidence to support their conclusions,” said Chairman Loudermilk in a statement.
“Unfortunately, the DoD IG continues to promote an inaccurate narrative that protects senior Pentagon officials and attempts to cast fault on the D.C. National Guard, who were ready and waiting less than 2 miles from the Capitol but unable to respond on January 6 due to lack of communication from the Secretary of the Army,” he added.
He continued, “My Subcommittee released transcripts that show that not only were political concerns of ‘optics’ at play, but that DoD officials continued to delay as the riot at the Capitol worsened. The evidence is conclusive: DoD officials misled Congress into believing that help was ‘on the way’ with full knowledge that it wasn’t.”
The letter also reveals a shocking claim that thousands of National Guard personnel were ready and equipped to respond yet were left waiting for orders due to “unnecessary bureaucracy and mismanagement.”
The Subcommittee is demanding a formal correction to the report and insists the Pentagon disclose all evidence related to January 6. It has also sought guidance from the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency to ensure accurate historical records.
That’s no surprise since it was found out that the Pentagon Military leaders especially the Communist General Milley has been in contact with the Communist CCP during President Trump’s term in 2016.
President Trump has made it clear that he’s going to fire alot of Generals and I hope he has everyone of those who have become Communist towards America and the Constitution and violations of their Oath of office.!
This should not be a forgive and forget situation like President Trump did with Communist Hitlery Clinton.
He needs to go all in and Charge each and every one of the Communist Democrats and Rinos who have violated their Oath of office and the Constitution by destroying the lives of millions of Americans all for power and enriching themselves through Kickbacks, Pushing for WAR against Russia through $ Billions of taxpayers Money and high theft.
Just how is it that KJP, AOC, Muslim Bitches Illhan Omar and Rashid Taileb and all the new Communist Democrats who already have Multi Million Dollar Homes and Luxury Yachts While Americans have gotten poorer.
Arrest them all and seize all assets, Send them to the Ghalloes and allow all Americans whose lost son’s and daughters to Illegals, Fentenyl and gangs to pull the lever.
Amen!!!
Willful disobedience of a lawful order is a very serious infraction.
If it does turn out, through a thorough investigation, that DOD was derelict of duty, especially in light of the circumstances with a riot at the Capitol, it could be a courts martial offense.
The Uniform Code of Military Justice would apply.
A military tribunal should be the next step if this indeed is willful failure to obey a legal order.
Certainly, there needs to be investigation and accountability
Criminal Investigation Division of the Army should be investigating this situation.
Why is Pelosi not indicted as a conspirator she was the main reason there was no security no national guard present how come she was never subpoenaed to testify. This is all democrats corruption from t to bottom. Also how come the guard who shot and killed a unarmed person isn’t in prison for excessive on provoked murder. This is one hundred percent democrats and Pelosi cover up Pelosi belongs in prison and how come Pelosi daughter just happened to be there to film the whole process.
A blind man can see this as a conspiracy organized by democrats
There should be a bunch of people in prison for fraud and corruption. The shooting guard is a murderer no self defense claim he wasn’t in a life threatening situation. Maybe the should have Bragg or James Or Fat Willis prosecute them Since the will indict a ham sandwich. Democrats are so corrupt and crooked their own corruption is overwhelming and obvious.
Hopefully Trumps Team will hang these assholes. You can run you can destroy evidence but you can’t hide. 4 years this government been nothing but a disgrace to the world
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Just my thoughts– Pelosi knew by time the investigations into what the heck the Pentagon was doing on J6 — Pelosi would be out of office counting her inside trading bucks.
Yes!!!
With The NEW Sheriff In Town This Treasonous Cult Will ALL End Up With the Same Treatment As the J6 Prisoners!-Leaving The Country Only Means Getting Interpol Involved!-You Can Run!-But You Can’t Hide! Making It Worse For Causing The Courts To Chase You Down Means Maximum Sentencing!!-Mean While Nuremberg 2.0 is Waiting in the Wings!-25,000 Indictments And Counting!-The New Age Of Accountability!-Watch em Scatter!
It is my suspicion that the DoD is hauling and covering ashes for the then Speaker of the House’s orders. This reeks of Pelosi’s handling of the riot, and her trap set for President Trump’s supporters. I further still suspect that most of the people who did any damage on Jan. 6, 2021 were her plants likely from Antifa and BLM. It should be further noted that the so-called ‘hero’ of the day, a police lieutenant and BLM supporter, murdered an unarmed woman who was attempting to de-escalate tensions within the Capitol Building. Pelosi fell all over herself showering him with praise. That was sickening.
Pelosi and FBI’s crime against America uncovered
Loudermilk, trying to cover your a** now. You were part of the J6 committee with traitor Chaney. You were all lies them and now. Another money grabbing minion that needs to be deported to who cates where.