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A former DC National Guard official has accused two senior Army officials of lying to Congress about the circumstances surrounding the January 6th Capitol riot in order to protect a top Army official who didn't want to send the Guard to the Capitol, Politico reports.In a 36-page memo sent to the Jan. 6 select committee this month, Col. Earl Matthews - who held high-level National Security Council and Pentagon positions under Trump - accused Army General Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of being "absolute and unmitigated liars" for how they characterized the events of Jan. 6.Of note, Flynn...

WASHINGTON - New evidence is emerging that the top Democrat on the Senate committee currently investigating Jack Abramoff got political money arranged by the lobbyist back in 2002 shortly after the lawmaker took action favorable to Abramoff's tribal clients. A lawyer for the Louisiana Coushatta Indians told The Associated Press that Abramoff instructed the tribe to send $5,000 to Sen. Byron Dorgan (news, bio, voting record)'s political group just three weeks after the North Dakota Democrat urged fellow senators to fund a tribal school program Abramoff's clients wanted to use.The check was one of about five dozen the Coushattas listed...