Col. Earl Matthews, a former lawyer for the D.C. National Guard, has accused Army officials of retaliating against him for telling Congress two top Army officers lied about the delay in deployment of the National Guard on Jan. 6th, according to a complaint filed with the Defense Department. Via the New York Times:

Colonel Matthews, who was involved in key meetings about the Guard deployment, said he initially gave his account of what happened to Congress in 2021 after he saw top Army officials try to downplay their role in the delay.

In particular, Colonel Matthews said he was infuriated by a report he said was overseen by Lt. Gen. Walter E. Piatt of the Army that he described as a “misleading, factually flawed and revisionist recitation of events” that he viewed as shifting the blame for the delay onto D.C. National Guard leadership. He was also angered by what he viewed as a faulty report from the Defense Department’s inspector general that relied on some of the same material.

Colonel Matthews drafted a 36-page memo that he submitted to the House Jan. 6 committee, accusing General Piatt and Gen. Charles Flynn of being “absolute and unmitigated liars” in their testimony before Congress.

We know who Gen. Flynn is, right?

General Flynn is the brother of Michael T. Flynn, a former Army general who was President Donald J. Trump’s first, short-lived national security adviser. Michael Flynn later took an active role in trying to overturn the 2020 election and urged Mr. Trump to use the apparatus of government to seize voting machines.

[...] Charles Flynn told Congress he had not participated in the call but merely overheard portions of it when he entered the room. He said he had not heard any discussion of political considerations with regard to sending in the Guard.

“I did not use the word ‘optics,’ nor did I hear the word used during the call on Jan. 6, 2021,” he said.

But Colonel Matthews called those comments by General Flynn “outright perjury” and said he “unmistakably heard him say that optics of a National Guard presence on Capitol Hill was an issue for him.”

Guess he was afraid of his own brother, the little wienie. Which pretty much answers any questions we had about both Flynns being part of the insurrection.