John Solomon and Steven Richards, Just the News, July 28, 2024, citing memos and texts obtained with House Administration Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk: the night of January 5, 2021, Capitol Police Deputy Chief Sean Gallagher warned of open-source comments about tunnel entrances and blocking members. A second warning concerned online collection of addresses of justices. The sergeant-at-arms office, the article says, scheduled a briefing for McCullough the next morning. Text, as published: McCullough to Irving, “Good morning Paul. Let me know a good time to connect this morning.” Irving said he would get back “shortly.” A separate published email from McCullough: “Paul - when is a good time to talk about this afternoon and the floor tomorrow?”
The article says the pattern shows Pelosi’s office involved in security planning — edits, feedback, updates. Just the News previously published the January 4 Dear Colleague chain. A House Administration National Guard timeline PDF names McCullough: Irving “seeks out Speaker Pelosi’s Chief of Staff, Terri McCullough, on the House Floor to relay Chief Sund’s request for National Guard support to the Speaker.” That is a committee timeline sentence, not a finding that she issued a denial.
Allegation: Loudermilk told Just the News, “She or her staff are the ones who denied the request by Chief (Steven) Sund for the National Guard.” That is Loudermilk’s claim. It is not a court finding. It is not treated here as a proven McCullough order. Pelosi’s spokesperson told Just the News the Speaker is not in charge of Capitol complex security. Steven Sund’s later public account of “optics” and delayed Guard requests is his testimony, cited in Federalist commentary; it is not restated here as a McCullough quotation.