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The Pentagon say different. From that same article:
"Pentagon officials have pointed to the fact that Capitol Police did not request D.C. National Guard ahead of the protest or ask for a riot contingency plan involving the Guard.
“We rely on Capitol Police and federal law enforcement to provide an assessment of the situation,” Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said last week, according to the Post. “And based on that assessment that they had, they believed they had sufficient personnel and did not make a request.”"
Its intriguing for sure. Here’s what our governor, Maryland’s, had to say about getting authorization to send in our neighboring troops
Maryland's governor still baffled by delay in approval for National Guard help
"All I know is that we were trying to get answers and we weren't getting answers."
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