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The deployment of the National Guard to the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, involved a measurable delay driven by , with multiple post-event timelines describing a several-hour gap between initial re...
unnecessary but reportedly unintentionaloverlapping factors The Department of Defense and Army guidance in place around Jan. 6 required explicit authorization before District of Columbia National Guar...
Pentagon memoranda issued in the days before Jan. 6 imposed unusual limits on how the D.C. National Guard could be used and on the commander’s ability to move forces without higher authorization, and ...
The House Select Committee concluded that President Trump never gave an order to deploy the National Guard to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, that the authority to order D.C. Guard forces rested with ...
Congressional leaders shaped key security decisions on January 6, 2021 by controlling the formal request path for reinforcements, by evacuating members which altered command-and-control inside the Cap...
Multiple officials at different agencies both approved and denied requests for National Guard and other assistance around January 6, 2021: the D.C. National Guard activation was approved by Acting Def...
Before the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack the D.C. National Guard occupied an unusual chain of command: the commanding general formally reports to the President, but operational control had been delegate...
The record shows conflicting accounts: some officials and witnesses say requests for National Guard assistance on January 6 were denied or delayed for reasons including , while Pentagon internal findi...
The Pentagon imposed procedural constraints and layered approval requirements that slowed the D.C. National Guard’s ability to move immediately when the U.S. Capitol was under attack on January 6, 202...
The immediate authority to request National Guard assistance at the U.S. Capitol rested with the Capitol Police Board and the Capitol Police chief, but the D.C. National Guard could not deploy to the ...
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 ...
The chain of command — a complex overlay of the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP), the Capitol Police Board, and Department of Defense (DoD) actors — created both legal and practical impediments that slowed ...
Available reporting shows there is no credible evidence that former President Donald Trump issued a formal order to deploy 10,000 or 20,000 National Guard troops to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021; P...
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...
After the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, Defense and Guard leaders loosened some restrictions so Guardsmen in Washington, D.C., could be armed in support of civil authorities; by January 2021 Pentagon ...
A reliable, single aerial-photo–based crowd estimate for the January 6 “Save America” rally does not exist in the available reporting because consistent, comprehensive aerial imagery and an agreed met...
President Donald Trump possessed *legal pathways* to order the D.C. National Guard on January 6, 2021, because the District’s Guard uniquely reports to the President and statutes give the federal gove...