A new book written by former US Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, and obtained in advance by the Washington Post, claims that while high-level generals at the Pentagon were denying his urgent requests to deploy National Guard soldiers to the Capitol as it was under siege by Trump’s right-wing mob on January 6, 2021, the Department of Defense ordered security forces be sent to protect the homes and offices of high-level department officials and generals.
In the book, Courage Under Fire, according to the Post account, Sund wrote that during the attack on Congress, “the Pentagon fully understands the urgency and danger of the situation even as it does nothing to support us on the Hill.”
Sund resigned from his post at the urging of then Speaker Nancy Pelosi one day following the attack on Congress.
In the book the former top cop of the US Capitol Police confirmed that his requests for National Guard support to the Capitol were denied by Lt. General Walter Piatt during a 2:35 p.m. conference call on January 6.
Sund wrote that Piatt told him and others on the mid-afternoon call, including Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, and then D.C. National Guard commander Major General William Walker, that he did not like the “optics” of sending soldiers to help Congress. This came as Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, neo-Nazis and other fascists stormed the building, seeking to capture and/or kill politicians who refused to unconstitutionally...
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