removed. you had a bunch of very close loyalists to trump installed and senior civilian positions at the pentagon and that chain of command wasn t what it normally would be, t w where you had a uniformed military increasingly uncomfortable with an erratic commander in chief and you had these political hacks, ti essentially, installed at the pentagon, and clearly, what investigators are wanting to know is whether anything inappropriate was done or any optical concerns that should have been the concern of uniformed military was given greater prioritization than securing the capitol and that is both important to understand for the historical record but also as it was referenced to make sure that there are clear protocols so the next time this type of thing might happen, there s a better response. miles, i want to read a little bit more from politico s reporting. again, they were first to report of the existence of this memo. reached for comment, matthews said ther memo he wrote is entir
time. but i mean, the larger point is that we don t know. these are all questions, i guess, before the 1/6 committee. we don t know, yeah. e dojackie, let me bring you on this memo, just on the matthews memo where he calls out flynn and piatt, calls them liars.he the cumulative of the testimonies and the attendant negative stories coupled with the revelation that army leaders had, for a time, falsely denied that lieutenant general flynn was even on the 2:30 p.m. call worked to create an narrative which made army senior leadership look bad. a in march 2021, major general walker was told by a friend that lieutenant general piatt was sot upset with walker that he directed the development of an army white paper to retell events of january 6th in light of more in a light more favorable to flynn, piatt, secretary mccarthy and the army stuff. the army staff sought to change that narrative and to create ana alternate history which would be the army s official recollection
of events.n piatt and laneve literally changed facts and recollections overnight. the end product, a revisionist tract, worthy of the best stalinist or north korea prop propagandaist was close hold. again, these are really, really serious hese aallegations, not f the conduct during the insurrection but of a cover-up. what is your sort of understanding of these events and this memo? yeah, nicole, we haven t gotten too much response to the memo just yet as the january 6th committee has not returned to congress to resume their work before the holidays but i think that if we re taking a step back here, it reminds us just how broad this investigation is and just how many various threads there are that this committee is pulling at.riou both flynn brothers have been a target of this investigation from thef very beginning.
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fundamentally flawed. politico, who was first to report on the existence of the e memo reports this. matthews memo levels major accusations that flynn and piatt lied to congress about their response to pleas for the d.c. guard to be deployed on january 6th. the report was, quote, replete t with factual inaccuracies and the army has created its own closely held revisionist ld document about the capitol riot that is, quote, worthy of the best stalinist or north korea propaganda. in his report, matthews gives this warning about the pentagon ig report. quote, the danger is that if this report with its glaring errors and wholesale adoption of the w army company line is accorded the deference typically afforded inspector general investigations, the report willg become part of the historical record. a false narrative will have been adopted as fact. discerning what happened on january 6th is too important to get wrong. if we do not fully comprehend