Former SecDef Chris Miller throws Trump and Trump supporters under the bus

[midnight rambler]

No mention of the real trouble makers, or how the Capitol Police waved everyone past the barricades and inside the building -

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-trump-pentagon-chief-says-capitol-riot-would-not-happen-without-rally-speech

[vacuum]

Wow.

[Cebu_4_2]

Definitely a war going on.

[Shami-Amourae]

Definitely a war going on.

It's only a war if both sides are fighting.

[midnight rambler]

It's only a war if both sides are fighting.

I have doubts you're paying attention. Both sides ARE fighting right now, and have been, the fight hasn't gone fully kinetic...yet.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=antifa+shooting


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iryQSpxSlrg

[keehah]

No mention of the real trouble makers, or how the Capitol Police waved everyone past the barricades and inside the building -
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-trump-pentagon-chief-says-capitol-riot-would-not-happen-without-rally-speech

[acting Defense Secretary Christopher] Miller, who faced criticism over the time it took for the National Guard to secure the Capitol complex, was also asked about the delay. The response “comes back to understanding how the military works," he said.

“This isn’t a video game. It’s not Halo. It’s not Black Ops Call [of] Duty,” Miller said.

The former acting Pentagon chief said he did not speak to Trump on the day of the Capitol siege.


Perhaps Chris Miller was the crucial trouble maker.

Daily KOS: Body cam video shows violence on Jan. 6 as woman trampled by insurgents eager to attack police (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/29/2012660/-Memo-shows-extreme-restrictions-placed-on-National-Guard-as-video-reveals-brutality-of-Jan-6-event)

January 29, 2021
In testimony before the House this week (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/27/2012180/-Testimony-shows-police-had-just-170-officers-in-riot-gear-on-Jan-6-as-Pentagon-delayed-use-of-Guard), Capitol Police and D.C. National Guard officials acknowledged that by Jan. 4 they understood that “… the January 6th event would not be like any of the previous protests held in 2020...

On that same day, former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller issued a memo (https://twitter.com/lukebroadwater/status/1354836817925832705) to the secretary of the Army placing some extremely unusual limits on National Guard forces for that event. It’s not a to-do list. It’s a list of thou shalt nots. A long list. A list that says guard forces can’t arrest any of the pro-Trump protesters, or search them, or even touch them. And that’s just for starters.

The full memo shows that the D.C. Guard did receive a request from D.C. government for guard presence during the Jan. 6 event. Miller responds promptly to go ahead, so long as the soldiers are given no weapons, no body armor, and no helmets. They can bring agents like pepper spray or flashbangs. They can’t share any gear with Capitol Police or Metro D.C. Police. They can’t … really do much of anything.

When initial reports indicate that the handful of National Guard forces that were deployed to D.C. on that day were dedicated to directing traffic several blocks away from the area of the Trump rally, it may simply be because that’s the only thing they could find for them to do considering the restrictions that were given. It’s clear that these restrictions would have absolutely prevented any guard forces from trying to protect any location.

[osoab]

It's only a war if both sides are fighting.

Is it war if the majority don't even know it exists?