The incoming Donald J. Trump administration should investigate whether Pentagon officials engaged in nefarious acts that encouraged the January 6 insurrection or acted politically outside of their legal authority. a former assistant secretary of the Army told Blaze News.
One of the Pentagon's top civilians during the first Trump administration said in an extensive interview with Blaze Media investigative reporter Steve Baker that some of the Pentagon's actions may have been seditious. He said there is.
“There are people at the top of the Army and the military who appear to have been operating outside of the Constitution and certainly outside of the authority granted to them by the Commander-in-Chief,” said Casey Wardin, former assistant secretary of the Army. Mr. Ski said. Reserve and personnel issues. “They were operating in a very political way. Could they have been involved?”
“I think the fact that that question is a viable question means we need to dig into it,” Wardynski said in an hour-long interview. Blaze TV And also on YouTube.
“What really happened on January 6th?” How did it come so far? ”
Regarding the possibility of U.S. military personnel operating at the Capitol on January 6, Baker raised the following: 2021 Columnand by newsweekAccording to , an FBI source told the publication that military operators, who are technically under FBI authority, and “operators on alert as part of a national task force were in the Capital Region.”
Wardynski, who held the Pentagon post from 2019 to 2021, said January 6 was some kind of “insurrection” or de facto “coup” orchestrated by President Trump to maintain power. He rejected the talking points of the corporate media and the Democratic Party.
“January 6 was a pivotal event in the history of this country,” Wardynski said. “Some people claim it was the most serious rebellion since the Civil War, but there were no guns. It's a funny civil war. We have [250] People in prison, many of whom have received little or no due process. they are still awaiting trial [in some cases]. ”
As we consider whether the Pentagon committed any wrongdoing on Capitol Hill, we should look back at recent history and how the U.S. military has been involved in fostering strategic instability around the world. only, Wardynski said.
“If you look at what happened in Ukraine, a color revolution, what happened in Kazakhstan, a color revolution. Georgia. For many people, it looks like a color revolution,” he said. “Okay, how could that have happened? Who should have helped? What was the attitude of the people who might have led that help?”
“This culture grew as we got closer to the election and became frankly inflammatory.”
President Trump visited historic St. John's Church during the June 2020 riots in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Park. Leftists accused Trump of using tear gas and violence to clear protesters so he could walk to St. John's for a “photo op.”
In the wake of this provocative event, Gen. Mark Milley, who has served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Trump administration since 2018, decided to opt for the now-famous photo of Trump holding a Bible outside St. John's Church. He broke up with his boss over the matter and threatened to resign. Mr. Wardynski said General Milley began to show his true colors at this point.
President Donald Trump poses with a Bible outside St. John's Episcopal Church after a press conference in the White House Rose Garden on Monday, June 1, 2020 in Washington, DC.Photo by Sean Hsu/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images
“We have a man at the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who is manipulating this issue and is in regular contact with the president, and he attacks the president after his visit to St. John's Church,” Wardynski said. . ”
“So Mr. Milley is not a politically elected person and he has no political stance, but you can't be chairman or the Joint Chiefs of Staff if you don't understand politics,” Wardynski said. “So he's frustrated, he's going to resign, and now he's starting to show his true colors.”
Milley consulted with his former boss, Robert Gates, former Secretary of Defense under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
“Mr. Gates was strongly opposed to Mr. Trump,” Mr. Wardensky said. “Mr. Gates encouraged Mr. Milley, “Don't quit.'' Milley made a fuss about resigning, but Milly encouraged him, “Don't quit.'' Stay there and fight him. ”
“Okay, well, it's not a military man's job to stay there and fight the commander-in-chief,” Wardynski said. “This culture has grown and, frankly, become more inflammatory as we get closer to the election.”
He said Jan. 6 left a series of serious questions for Congress and the incoming Trump administration to answer.
“What really happened on January 6th? How did it get that far, and why was it allowed to go even further by refusing to send in the National Guard?” Wardynski asked. Ta. “There are some good questions. Good leaders ask good questions and get good answers.”
On January 6, 2021, a protester clashes with a Metropolitan Police Department police officer in riot gear in the West Plaza of the U.S. Capitol.
Photo by Steve Baker/Blaze Media
On January 6, two Pentagon generals and Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy blocked the deployment of the District of Columbia National Guard as Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund implored troops to be sent to protect the Capitol. Mr. Wardynski had a front row seat to the drama as it unfolded. .
Despite attempts to shift the blame for not deploying the Guard in time to the D.C. National Guard's command staff, Wardynski said the “Capital Guard” is trained and briefed on the mission. , said they were ready to move to the Capitol. But that order didn't come until it was too late.
Mr. Wardynski said he had lost confidence in the Pentagon's top commanders during and after January 6, saying their actions were clearly political.
“It has become clear that they are very partisan and very aligned with Democratic Party politics,” he said.
A recent report by the House Administration Committee Oversight Subcommittee had a similar theme, stating that concerns about “optics” trumped concerns about protecting life and property. The report blames Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy, General Walter Piatt and General Charles Flynn for sidelining the D.C. Guard during an insurrection, perhaps for the first time in its nearly 220-year history. He blamed the Secretary of War and Generals Walter Piatt and Charles Flynn.
Wardensky said Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller and Secretary of the Army McCarthy essentially disobeyed President Trump's orders to deploy security forces to ensure security at the Capitol and the Ellipse on January 6th. He echoed the House of Commons report's assertion that
“Instead, what we learned at the Pentagon is that what happened was that they tightened the deployment standards for the D.C. Guard to such an extent that they no longer had the discretion to deploy immediate response forces at the request of the chief of police. Previous operating procedures. . So deploying the Guard became more difficult, not easier.”
Maj. Gen. William Walker testified in 2021 that the restrictions placed on him and the D.C. Guard were “extraordinary.”
D.C. National Guard members at the U.S. Capitol on the night of January 6, 2021. Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images
House investigators described them in almost comical terms, with the Army chief ostensibly hiding behind the Metropolitan Police and drafting an “operational concept” document for the deployment of the Guard. That work and the procedures flowing from it were carried out by the staff of the Guard Armory.
Wardynski said General Walker was in contact with Chief Sund and top police officials as the situation at the Capitol deteriorated.
“I guess he's talking to these people. That's exactly what I remember talking to him about. He was hearing from them that things were getting out of control at the Capitol.” he said. “They needed his help right away.”
What they got was that two Pentagon generals were against bringing troops to the Capitol because the optics were bad. Even if Sund sounded genuinely desperate on a 2:30 p.m. conference call with Pentagon leaders.
“January 6th is a political issue, and they're saying, 'The best military advice is that we don't think it's a good idea for Army soldiers to stand in front of the Capitol.'” Dinsky said. “That was it. That's not military advice. That's political advice.”
After his 2:30 p.m. phone call with Sund, Mr. Wardynski participated in a video conference with General Walker and senior Pentagon officials. He said the latest information from the ground, combined with politics, made it clear that things couldn't get any better.
“I can hear his voice in the background. [Gen. Walker’s] The deputy said, “Virginia National Guard and Maryland National Guard are on their way,'' Wardynski said. “Well, that got my attention. 'Okay, what's going on at the Capitol?'
“This is a metropolitan area. There's a reason we have so many troops here,” he said. “This is the seat of government. And now state-level troops are storming the Capitol.”
Send the guard back to WNC
Wardynski continued to criticize how the military was being misused and underutilized after Hurricane Helen destroyed large swathes of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. Photos and videos posted daily on social media show that daily life has not improved in many areas since the wall of water swept away entire communities.
He said the National Guard should be redoubled and sent in by President-elect Trump to carry out the mission that must be done before winter sets in the Appalachians.
The National Guard, Army and Air Force withdrew from western North Carolina in December, leaving many families living in tents and hundreds more on the brink of losing hotel vouchers from the federal government.
He credited the Federal Emergency Management Agency with delivering and installing just a few dozen mobile homes across North Carolina while volunteers with donated RVs housed hundreds of residents evacuated by the storm. denounced.
Record flooding washed away a farm in Burnsville, North Carolina, after Hurricane Helen dumped tons of rain on the North Carolina mountains.Photo by Woody Faircloth/EmergencyRV
“That's ridiculous,” he said.
“You can fly over an entire city,” he said. “It's a tent city with everything we need. This is where our main engineer battalion comes into play. We can light and power 72,000 homes. Later we bring in contractors to come up with a permanent solution. Please take measures.”
Wardynski said either North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper did not support military aid or military aid was suppressed by the Biden-Harris administration.
“Where the heck is the governor? Where are his resources, the mutual aid from neighboring states, and the federal money that's coming in to help pay for all of that going?”
Cooper's office did not respond to repeated requests for comment from Blaze News about the situation in Western North Carolina since November. Blaze News reached out to the Pentagon for comment but did not receive a response.
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