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The Speaker of the House does not have legal authority to deploy the District of Columbia National Guard; , while specific requests to support the U.S. Capitol require approval by the Capitol Police B...
The immediate authority to deploy the District of Columbia National Guard rests with federal actors in this episode: President Trump issued the initial August 11 presidential memorandum and the Defens...
Mayor Muriel Bowser submitted a written request on Dec. 31, 2020 asking for District of Columbia National Guard (DCNG) assistance for inauguration-related security; the Pentagon authorized limited, mo...
Nancy Pelosi publicly said she for January 6 and later said she “begged” for troops, but the documentary and testimonial record in these analyses does show direct, corroborated communications from Pel...
Department of Defense policies and approval procedures — notably pre‑Jan. 6 memos and a centralized chain of command for the unique D.C. National Guard — shaped both what forces were authorized and ho...
House and Capitol security leadership played a central operational and oversight role in the runup to and response during the January 6, 2021, attack: U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) leaders failed to prep...
Local leaders can and do ask for National Guard help, but the legal pathway, who controls the troops, and when they can be used depend on whether the Guard is serving under state or federal authority,...
Internal communications and contemporaneous timelines show that Capitol Police and D.C. authorities asked for National Guard support multiple times before and during January 6, that those requests enc...
Pentagon and D.C. National Guard timelines show that multiple, incremental requests and conversations about National Guard support occurred before and during the January 6 violence, but authorization ...
The Select Committee leaned heavily on the Army’s planning-and-execution timeline as a central evidentiary anchor to trace who could — and when they did — authorize the D.C. National Guard on January ...
Internal Department of Defense documents and testimony show repeated debate among Pentagon and Army officials about whether deploying the D.C. National Guard would be perceived as a political or “opti...
The D.C. National Guard was placed on alert and some troops were prepared to move on January 6, 2021, but only a limited number of Guardsmen actually arrived at the Capitol during the afternoon; the f...
Multiple bipartisan investigations and contemporaneous reporting found that requests and approvals for National Guard assistance on Jan. 6, 2021, were delayed by layered approval processes and competi...
The timing of National Guard arrival at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 is disputed across official timelines and later analyses, with accounts placing significant activity between early afternoon...