Only the secretary of the army could send in the National Guard it was his call and his call alone



Maj. Gen. William J. Walker made the request and it was delayed for 3.5 hours. Even though the Secretary of the Army was the only one who could make the call, Flynns brother Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn and Gen. Walter Piatt didn't want it. They subsequently lied to Congress saying they pleaded for national guard to be deployed.



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"Walker said he was told then-Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy was meeting with then-acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller and they could not be on the call, but the senior military leaders who were on the call said it was their best advice not to have uniformed Guardsmen on the Capitol grounds.

Walker identified those senior leaders as Gen. Walter Piatt and Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn — the brother of Trump’s first national security adviser"