Trump had no grand plan and no interest in mapping out what to do if the dog actually caught the car.
, Secret Service, Federal Protective Service, ATF and the U.S. Marshals. They were joined by the Metropolitan Police Department and Metro Transit Police and police officers from Maryland and Virginia.
And yet at the same time, lurking in the shadows, was the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team and other special operations components of both the Justice Department and the Pentagon, all of them deployed to Washington for the possibility of a catastrophic event on January 6th, an incongruity where the left hand was preparing for the very worst while the right hand was working on a contingency no more severe that some symbolic march on the Capitol.
But the notion that the military would have made a difference is also fallacious and dangerous. There were all of 150 Guardsmen and Guardswomen ready on January 6th. The number of staff officers in Washington intelligence and command centers exceeded that number by a ratio of thousands to one.
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