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Nancy Pelosi did not possess unilateral authority to activate the National Guard for the Capitol on January 6, 2021; decisions involved the Capitol Police Board, the House Sergeant at Arms, and reques...
The primary on-the-ground responsibility for security at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, rested with the United States Capitol Police (USCP), led at the time by Chief Steven Sund; oversight and p...
Authority to call up the National Guard on January 6, 2021, was legally and practically split among multiple actors: the District of Columbia Mayor could request DC National Guard assistance, the Capi...
On Jan. 6, 2021 the formal chain of authority to request National Guard support for the Capitol ran through the Capitol Police Board — composed of the House and Senate sergeants at arms and the Archit...
The National Guard was not sent to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, by a single, instantaneous order from the President; the deployment that did occur was ultimately approved through the Department of ...
President Donald Trump did not make a documented, formal request to deploy the D.C. National Guard before January 6, 2021; official investigations and Department of Defense timelines find , while some...
Claims that Speaker Nancy Pelosi “declined” or “refused” National Guard assistance before or during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack are widely disputed in reporting and fact‑checks: independent fact‑checkers ...
On January 6, 2021, the U.S. Capitol Police and the Mayor of Washington, D.C., formally requested , including immediate National Guard assistance and additional federal law-enforcement support, but ap...
The short answer: the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) did not submit a formal written request to the Department of Defense for National Guard troops to be positioned on the Capitol grounds in the days befo...
The Capitol Police Board—comprised of the House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving, the Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael Stenger, and the Architect of the Capitol—decided on January 3, 2021, not to request a...
Congress changed the formal approval path after Jan. 6 so the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) Chief can directly request the D.C. National Guard or federal law-enforcement assistance in an emergency withou...
Former House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving and former Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael Stenger gave testimony that differs from Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund’s account about when formal National Guar...
Chief Steven Sund made repeated, contemporaneous oral requests for National Guard assistance during a chaotic conference call at about 2:26 p.m. on Jan. 6, a plea that Pentagon timelines and later tes...
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...
The Capitol Police Board — the three-member panel composed of the House Sergeant at Arms, the Senate Sergeant at Arms and the Architect of the Capitol — opted not to pre-authorize a National Guard dep...
A careful reading of contemporaneous records and multiple fact‑checks finds no evidence that then‑Speaker Nancy Pelosi “turned down” or blocked the National Guard on Jan. 6; authority to activate the ...
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 documents and analyses you provided do not show that the January 6 committee report makes any explicit finding about Nancy Pelosi’s direct communications with the Pentagon; instead, recent comment...
Nancy Pelosi did not have formal authority to order D.C. National Guard forces to the Capitol on January 6, 2021; the , and the Speaker does not direct Guard deployments . Contemporaneous timelines sh...