* . *
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Earth-News
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    Webtoon Entertainment Stages Recovery With Disney’s Stamp of Approval – The Wall Street Journal

    Webtoon Entertainment Soars to New Heights with Disney’s Stamp of Approval

    Georgia Tech Launches Arts, Entertainment, and Creative Technologies Degree – Georgia Tech News Center

    Georgia Tech Unveils Exciting New Degree in Arts, Entertainment, and Creative Technologies

    John Davison departs from IGN Entertainment – GamesIndustry.biz

    John Davison Steps Down from IGN Entertainment Leadership

    JPMorgan raises Flutter Entertainment stock price target to GBP273 – Investing.com

    JPMorgan Raises Flutter Entertainment Price Target to £273, Signaling Strong Growth Ahead

    Star Entertainment reaches deal to sell 50% stake in Brisbane resort to HK investors – Reuters

    Star Entertainment Seals Landmark Deal, Sells Half of Brisbane Resort to Hong Kong Investors

    Country music star ripped by ex-wife amid court battle: ‘Karma is a … well you know’ – PennLive.com

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Indirect tax transformation: Navigating change, embracing technology – Thomson Reuters tax and accounting

    Revolutionizing Indirect Tax: Embracing Technology to Navigate Change

    California’s wildfire moonshot: How new technology will defeat advancing flames – Los Angeles Times

    California’s Wildfire Revolution: How Cutting-Edge Technology Is Poised to Stop Raging Flames

    LSU grad uses 3D printing to create adaptive technology for children – CBS News

    LSU Graduate Revolutionizes Adaptive Technology for Kids with 3D Printing

    Gas-to-liquids technology can support national resilience – The Strategist | ASPI’s analysis and commentary site

    Unlocking National Strength: How Gas-to-Liquids Technology Drives Resilience

    Micron Technology (MU) Launched a New Memory Chip for Space Application – Yahoo Finance

    Micron Technology Launches Revolutionary Memory Chip Built for Space Exploration

    United Airlines passengers in US delayed after tech glitch halts flights – BBC

    United Airlines passengers in US delayed after tech glitch halts flights – BBC

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    Webtoon Entertainment Stages Recovery With Disney’s Stamp of Approval – The Wall Street Journal

    Webtoon Entertainment Soars to New Heights with Disney’s Stamp of Approval

    Georgia Tech Launches Arts, Entertainment, and Creative Technologies Degree – Georgia Tech News Center

    Georgia Tech Unveils Exciting New Degree in Arts, Entertainment, and Creative Technologies

    John Davison departs from IGN Entertainment – GamesIndustry.biz

    John Davison Steps Down from IGN Entertainment Leadership

    JPMorgan raises Flutter Entertainment stock price target to GBP273 – Investing.com

    JPMorgan Raises Flutter Entertainment Price Target to £273, Signaling Strong Growth Ahead

    Star Entertainment reaches deal to sell 50% stake in Brisbane resort to HK investors – Reuters

    Star Entertainment Seals Landmark Deal, Sells Half of Brisbane Resort to Hong Kong Investors

    Country music star ripped by ex-wife amid court battle: ‘Karma is a … well you know’ – PennLive.com

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Indirect tax transformation: Navigating change, embracing technology – Thomson Reuters tax and accounting

    Revolutionizing Indirect Tax: Embracing Technology to Navigate Change

    California’s wildfire moonshot: How new technology will defeat advancing flames – Los Angeles Times

    California’s Wildfire Revolution: How Cutting-Edge Technology Is Poised to Stop Raging Flames

    LSU grad uses 3D printing to create adaptive technology for children – CBS News

    LSU Graduate Revolutionizes Adaptive Technology for Kids with 3D Printing

    Gas-to-liquids technology can support national resilience – The Strategist | ASPI’s analysis and commentary site

    Unlocking National Strength: How Gas-to-Liquids Technology Drives Resilience

    Micron Technology (MU) Launched a New Memory Chip for Space Application – Yahoo Finance

    Micron Technology Launches Revolutionary Memory Chip Built for Space Exploration

    United Airlines passengers in US delayed after tech glitch halts flights – BBC

    United Airlines passengers in US delayed after tech glitch halts flights – BBC

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
Earth-News
No Result
View All Result
Home Entertainment

“It Was Horrific”: A Situation Room Officer’s Harrowing Account of an American Insurrection

May 10, 2024
in Entertainment
“It Was Horrific”: A Situation Room Officer’s Harrowing Account of an American Insurrection
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

The situation was “surreal,” said Stiegler. But he was wary of disclosing more. “I have to be careful,” he told me. “I have been giving a lot of testimony, and I don’t know where the lines quite are.” I ventured that one of his points of contact must have been the Secret Service. He paused, then said, “That’s fair.” Which meant that he was getting real-time updates directly from the chaos in the Capitol building, as the mobs surged through the halls.

The most harrowing part?

“How close we came to losing the vice president,” he told me. He paused, then looked up at the ceiling, struggling to compose himself. “The screams, the yelling. The different things that we heard that day.” Stiegler is a young man with a cheerful disposition, but when he talked about January 6 he seemed to age before my eyes.

“It was horrific,” he said quietly. “There’s a group of us that were on duty that day, and we don’t know how to process it still…We don’t know how to talk about it. And we don’t know who to talk about it with. There are a lot of things we witnessed that day that we can’t talk about. And how do you deal with that?”

In the six decades since the creation of the Situation Room, it has been the crisis center during America’s catastrophes. The men and women of the Sit Room have dealt with nuclear scares, the assassination of a president and attempts on two others. They stayed at their posts on 9/11, when the White House itself was the target of terrorists. And they tracked and analyzed American wars that cost hundreds of thousands of lives and billions upon billions of dollars. But never before had they dealt with an insurrection against our own government, inspired by the president of the United States.

If the election certification hadn’t gone through, Stiegler told me, “I think we would have possibly seen an institution just crack, crumble. I think a lot of us would have walked out.” These staffers serve the per-son who lives in the White House, but they work for the presidency, not the president. “Your allegiance to your country supersedes your allegiance to your role,” said Stiegler. Those dueling loyalties had never been tested like this.

By the time mobs stormed the Capitol on January 6, Mike Stiegler had been serving in the Situation Room for a year and a half. It had been an exhausting time, and Stiegler was nearing the end of his emotional rope.

He’d arrived for work at the White House at 4:20 a.m. on January 6, and for the next twelve hours he endured the insanity of seeing a sitting president encourage a coup, wondering if the vice president would survive the day, and unsure whether America’s 245-year-old democratic experiment was crashing to an end.

“It was so surreal,” he says, “in the sense that you had utter chaos happening at the Capitol, and we had just witnessed all of this craziness. And you walked out of the White House grounds and nothing was happening. It was empty. There’s nobody on the streets, because all of them were blocked off at that point…It was literally a ghost town.”

The handful of Sit Room staffers who’d just finished their shifts walked slowly to their cars. “We just stood there for a few minutes,” Stiegler recalls. “It’s like when you mix cold water with hot water, you have to take a second for it to meld together to one temperature. We had to take a minute to feel, Okay, all right. Get in the car. Keep moving. Let’s get out of here.”

I asked Stiegler what he said to his wife when he got home. “I don’t, I don’t think…” he said, then had to stop. “Now you’re getting me all teary.” He took a breath. “I don’t think we even really said anything…I still don’t know how to talk about half of it.” He recalls that his wife asked if he wanted to watch the news. “I said, ‘No, don’t turn it on. I can’t right now. I can’t do it.’ And I had to go back the next day.”

>>> Read full article>>>
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source : VanityFair – https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/capitol-officer-account-jan-6

Tags: “Itentertainmenthorrific
Previous Post

Trump, Whose Own Brain Appears to Have Been Eaten by Worms, Claims RFK Jr. Is a “Fake” Anti-Vaxxer Whose Family Is Plotting to Take Over the Country

Next Post

Thousands march in Sweden’s Malmo against Israel’s Eurovision participation

My Day: The End of World War II – The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

My Day: The End of World War II – The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

August 14, 2025
Las Vegas’ Sinking Tourism Numbers Are a Bad Sign for the U.S. Economy – Fodors Travel Guide

Las Vegas’ Sinking Tourism Numbers Are a Bad Sign for the U.S. Economy – Fodors Travel Guide

August 14, 2025
Webtoon Entertainment Stages Recovery With Disney’s Stamp of Approval – The Wall Street Journal

Webtoon Entertainment Soars to New Heights with Disney’s Stamp of Approval

August 14, 2025
A personal health large language model for sleep and fitness coaching – Nature

Revolutionizing Sleep and Fitness: Introducing a Personalized Health Language Model

August 14, 2025
Fareed’s take: The false narrative guiding American policy – CNN

Fareed’s Insight: Uncovering the False Narrative Shaping American Policy

August 14, 2025
Animal ecology major renamed wildlife and fisheries conservation and ecology – Iowa State University

Iowa State University Revamps Animal Ecology Major to Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation and Ecology

August 14, 2025
How Volunteer Work Helped Me Further My Love for Environmental Science – THE ROCKAWAY TIMES

How Volunteering Ignited My Passion for Environmental Science

August 14, 2025
The Science of Reading and Play Go Hand-in-Hand. Schools Must Make It Happen – The 74

How Reading and Play Together Unlock Children’s Learning Potential – And Why Schools Need to Act Now

August 14, 2025
If you haven’t done these 8 things by 40, you’re already ‘behind’ (but here’s why that’s okay) – VegOut

If you haven’t done these 8 things by 40, you’re already ‘behind’ (but here’s why that’s okay) – VegOut

August 14, 2025

Technology Sector Drives Nearly 40% of Office Leasing as Global Enterprises Expand in India

August 14, 2025

Categories

Archives

August 2025
MTWTFSS
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
« Jul    
Earth-News.info

The Earth News is an independent English-language daily published Website from all around the World News

Browse by Category

  • Business (20,132)
  • Ecology (770)
  • Economy (793)
  • Entertainment (21,670)
  • General (16,461)
  • Health (9,832)
  • Lifestyle (803)
  • News (22,149)
  • People (794)
  • Politics (801)
  • Science (16,006)
  • Sports (21,290)
  • Technology (15,771)
  • World (776)

Recent News

My Day: The End of World War II – The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

My Day: The End of World War II – The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

August 14, 2025
Las Vegas’ Sinking Tourism Numbers Are a Bad Sign for the U.S. Economy – Fodors Travel Guide

Las Vegas’ Sinking Tourism Numbers Are a Bad Sign for the U.S. Economy – Fodors Travel Guide

August 14, 2025
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

Go to mobile version