Who Is In Charge, Anyway?
Two recent reports in the New York Times and Time point very strongly to the true story of the nature of government in the United States today. It is not a comforting one.
By William B. Allen
February 16, 2021
Finally, the most important question to be raised concerning the Capitol riots on January 6 received a hearing in the New York Times: “What Trump Did as the Capitol Was Attacked.†The three-quarter page exposé canvassed meticulously all that President Trump was doing, save the single most important thing. The essay by reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin relates details of conversations with officeholders and White House officials, with a timeline of decisions and nondecisions, all to demonstrate that Trump sat on his hands while the riot unfolded.
It failed, however, to ask the obvious follow-up questions the answers to which reveal the likelier truth.
Where was Trump’s national security team, and what counsel did they provide? The gravity of this obvious lacuna should instantly appear to anyone who considers this was a national security event of the greatest significance, equivalent to the firing upon Fort Sumter or the raid on Harpers Ferry more than 150 years ago or the bombing of Pearl Harbor 80 years ago. That it was a national security event is apparent from the immediate and since daily repeated descriptions of the riot as an attempted “insurrection†or “coup.†It is also apparent what protocols prevail in such an event: a national security team exists precisely to appraise and respond to such threats.
But where was FBI Director Christopher Wray? Where was the director of national intelligence? Where was the director of homeland security? Where was the attorney general? Where was the secretary of defense? Where was the director of central intelligence? Were they gathered in the White House within 30 minutes of the development of an event that lasted for hours? What counsel did they give? Were they rebuffed by the president? If the president were guilty of criminal negligence (a “high misdemeanorâ€), here would be the irrefutable proof of the fact.
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