old salt wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:19 pm
jhu72 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:06 pm
old salt wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:03 pm
jhu72 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:00 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:50 pm
baloney...they argued about the optics, kept saying they didn't agree.
So, let's hear Charlie Flynn under oath, let's hear the rest of the participants under oath before we're 100% sure this was clean as a whistle and just a matter of bureaucratic fumbling.
sheesh...Benghazi...
Given the lack of clarity that is certainly a responsible position, congressional inquiry that gets everyone on the record.
...yeah, let's drag Mike Flynn's brother before Congress & make him deny absurd conspiracy theories, ...KFC snacks provided.
His testimony is of less interest than many of the others.
Yeah. I'd love to hear from the fired Sergeants at Arms & the CP Chief about what guidance they got from Congressional leadership about the optics of NG troops surrounding the Capital before what they planned for as a 1st Amendment event.
Certainly would be important to know. We've heard from the CP Chief that he wanted NG, but the Sergeants at Arms pushed back on him about optics...certainly a mistake...was that at other's direction or insistence or their mistake?
But you're quite wrong about the Army's story...it doesn't line up with the CP Chief asking for the help as confirmed by others...so, let's hear from all those in the room, yes, including Mike Flynn's brother.
Also want to hear from various intelligence groups as to why the chatter was not taken more seriously.
There's lots of blame to go around on why they were underprepared for what came, sheesh we were talking about this possibility back last summer and there certainly was a ton of chatter coming down the stretch. And, like Benghazi, there's real question as to why the response was bungled, why there was so much friction to getting swift support.
Maybe it was all bureaucratic fumbling top to bottom, maybe they all just figured Trump supporters wouldn't actually go violent, maybe they all failed to imagine paramilitary as the vanguard of a mob...maybe they simply couldn't believe what they were watching on TV and the CP chief is begging them to move A double S to help.
But, with all deep and due respect to the guys lost at Benghazi, this was a much more serious event...steps away from VP death, Senators, Congress people, staff deaths. Successful insurrection, martial law, the whole nine yards. Steps and moments away.