>But today he mentioned the plan was to arrest them all at the inauguration and that POTUS was surprised the mission failed.
Not too familiar with the guy, but was under the impression the mission was scrubbed because of an imminent and valid thread to family members. Even a mass casualty FF would have caused POTUS to postpone. The round up will not be as speedy, but so be it. More NG troops in DC today has already been posted here & elsewhere.
>I say the above with the caveat that Simon could be passing along information that he has been given to pass along, and that info could be deliberate false information.
Like him and RS Steele and Charlie Ward heading up a fact finding mission. If Parkes leaves out info, his bias is revealed, and if he sweetens his own loaf of bread he basically calls himself out for ridicule. Part of the game.