How one general saw January 6

 Newsweek - If law enforcement officials were all underplaying the possibilities for violence on January 6, Army Gen. Mark Milley was practically panicking. Milley had told his closest aides that he believed President Donald Trump was stoking unrest with the hope of using it as an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act, and thereby call out active duty military troops. Under the Act, those troops would then be relieved of the restrictions of Posse Comitatus, the Civil War-era law which limits the powers of the federal government to use military personnel to enforce the law. (One of the exceptions to Posse Comitatus is specifically when the president invokes the Insurrection Act.)

Milley told his closest colleagues that listening to the president was like reading George Orwell's "1984": "Lies are truth. Division is unity. Evil is good," he said, according to Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker's "I Alone Can Fix It."