In a report that was met with little disbelief on social media, the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General said there were no undercover FBI agents in the crowd on January 6 and that FBI information was present that day. He said only a few of the 26 donors were on site. Inside the National Diet Building.
“We have found no evidence in the materials we have reviewed or in the testimony we have received to indicate or suggest that the FBI had agents infiltrating various protest crowds or the Capitol building on January 6th. ” he said. 88 page document said.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) slammed Attorney General Merrick Garland, saying he had “lied to me under oath for years about whether confidential human intelligence sources were in the Capitol.” It was on,” he said. Massey said the OIG report was an excuse for President-elect Donald J. Trump to pardon all defendants on January 6th.
“MAGA J6ers Indicted by the Department of Justice for Coming to the Capitol on January 6th” Massey I wrote to X. “FBI J6ers were reimbursed by the Department of Justice for coming to the Capitol on January 6th!”
Critics say the OIG's use of the term “undercover personnel” in its report is an easy cover to hide the true scale of the FBI's presence on the Jan. 6 Ellipse and at the Capitol. said. The role of undercover investigation.
“We need a complete autopsy of J6!”
Special agents typically do not wear uniforms unless they are part of a tactical unit such as SWAT or a hostage rescue team. Limiting the discussion to undercover personnel would exclude many special agents who were working in Washington, D.C., and other FBI field offices on January 6th.
Former FBI Special Agent Steve Friend told Blaze News that the term “undercover agent” does not include agents who engaged in mobile surveillance or acted as counterintelligence observers in crowds. he said.
A May 2024 court filing states that on January 6, William Pope Nearly 50 listed FBI agents and other agents working under the agency's auspices on January 6th — personnel from the Joint Terrorism Task Force, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Service, and later on January 6th. Other investigators who wrote probable cause affidavits for the day's arrest warrants and others.
The long-awaited OIG report focuses solely on the FBI's use of confidential informants on January 6, and includes other important information, including the pipe bombs found at Republican and Democratic headquarters at 12:42 p.m. that day. I haven't delved into the topic.
The Justice Department's inspector general said 26 FBI informants were in the Jan. 6 crowd to come to Washington and report on “domestic terrorism targets who may have been attending the event.” They discovered that only three people had been appointed by the FBI Bureau.
Of the 26 informants the FBI calls “confidential human sources,” four entered the Capitol during the Jan. 6 protests and riots, according to an OIG report. . No one was authorized by the FBI to violate any laws or enter restricted areas, and “no one at CHS was directed by the FBI to encourage others to commit illegal activities on January 6.”
No FBI informant has been criminally charged for being present on January 6, the report said.
This statement contradicts an account given by James Ehren Knowles, an FBI informant who traveled to Washington, D.C., with the Kansas City chapter of the Proud Boys. Knowles said he had been given permission to act illegally and was seen entering the Capitol and filming at the Capitol Visitor Center.
Undercover Metropolitan Police Department agents Ricardo Leyva and William Callahan monitor the Jan. 6 crowd in the West Plaza of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.Photo by William Pope, via U.S. District Court
Knowles was named as a co-conspirator in the charges against Proud Boys member Ryan Ashlock. Mr. Knowles was not charged with the Jan. 6 crime. Ashlock pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of entering or leaving restricted buildings or grounds and was sentenced to 70 days in jail.
According to disclosures made in the Justice Department's case against Pope on Jan. 6, prosecutors said Knowles deleted a video from his cell phone that he appeared to have filmed as he entered the Capitol on Jan. 6. said. Many of the defendants on January 6th were charged with removing photos from the pope. Mobile phone or Facebook account.
Leaked FBI documents from Kansas City field office posted online January 6th Defendant Stephen Horn The paper indicates that the informant was advised on Jan. 6 for illegally entering the Capitol. “They entered the Capitol to assist law enforcement and de-escalate tensions by removing protesters and rioters from the Capitol,” the source said.
Defense attorneys at the Proud Boys' Jan. 6 trial have made numerous claims that dozens of FBI informants were embedded with or were following a large contingent of Proud Boys at the Capitol. This was argued in the submitted document.
Pope identified several current and retired FBI agents in the crowd on January 6th. Former Special Agent John Guandolo Several FBI colleagues watched and celebrated as a crowd of protesters ran up the east steps toward the Columbus Door shortly after 2 p.m.
An FBI agent who was reportedly off-duty on January 6th was seen on a Capitol security video conference with members of the FBI SWAT team who had just assembled on the Eastern Front in a tactical vehicle. . SWAT members then entered the Capitol.
Pope greeted the new OIG report with skepticism.
“This IG report, which claims there were only 26 informants and no undercover agents, makes partial concessions, even though it has already identified FBI agents in the Capitol crowd. “This appears to be an attempt to defuse future investigations by disclosing this information,” Pope wrote. Post to X. “Not enough! We need a complete autopsy of J6!”
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