For years, ever since the January 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capital, a protest intended to raise questions about the legitimacy of the Joe Biden presidential race win, a protest that turned violent for a percentage of the protesters and included a police officer shooting and killing an unarmed Ashli Babbitt, there have been questions about what the FBI did to instigate trouble.
After all, that was the FBI that had falsely created a “Russiagate” investigation of President Donald Trump on no more than the desire of failed Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, whose scheme to link Trump to Moscow has been explained to Barack Obama.
Now a report in the Blaze reveals the bureau had 274 plainclothes agents embedded in those crowds.
“Disclosure by the FBI to Congress answers a long-simmering question but does not reveal what the agents did that day,” the report explained.
“A senior congressional source said the number is not necessarily a surprise, since the FBI often embeds countersurveillance personnel at large events. But given the FBI’s until-now steadfast refusal to disclose the level of its presence at the Capitol, the figure might still be viewed with skepticism in some quarters.”
The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General previously has claimed the FBI had no “undercover personnel” in the crowds that day when they were protesting the election. That election was the one impacted by at least two undue influences.
One was Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to interfere by handing out $400 million plus to local elections officials who often used the cash handouts to recruit voters in Democrat districts. The second was the FBI’s decision to interfere by telling media corporations to suppress information about Biden family scandals documented in a laptop computer abandoned by Hunter Biden at a repair shop. The FBI knew, at the time, the scandals were true, and a subsequent polling discovered that had that knowledge been reported routinely, enough voters would have withheld their support from Biden to cause him to lose the election.
It was in 2024 that the OIG said, “We found no evidence in the materials we reviewed or the testimony we received showing or suggesting that the FBI had undercover employees in the various protest crowds, or at the Capitol, on January 6.”
The report noted that same report conceded there were 26 FBI “confidential human sources” in the crowd that day, including several who participated in illegal actions by entering the Capitol building after police closed it down.
There was a Democrat-biased committee assembled by ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi several years ago assigned to “investigate” the events that day. Its members orchestrated evidence and testimony in order to place blame on President Donald Trump.
One of the factors involved was that Pelosi refused to seat GOP nominees for the committee, instead insisting on picking only her own candidates.
Now there’s a new committee, led by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga.
He said, “With that many paid informants being in the crowd, we want to know how many were in the crowd, how many were in the building, but I also want to know, were they paid to inform or instigate?”
Previously court testimony already had listed nearly 50 FBI agents and others from the Joint Terrorism Task Force, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, U.S. Army counterintelligence and others who were on hand.
The report noted, “Undercover Metropolitan Police Department officers have acknowledged inciting the crowds by helping protesters climb over barriers, encouraging them to continue on to the Capitol, and applauding those committing vandalism.”
A report at the Gateway Pundit pointed out former FBI Director Chris Wray “lied and lectured House Republicans for accusing the FBI of planting informants/operatives/agents inside the massive crowd of Trump supporters on January 6, 2021.”
The report said Wray testified to Congress in 2023 he “does not believe” undercover FBI agents were on hand.
It came during a confrontation with Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.
FBI Director Wray just told me he “does not believe” there were any undercover FBI agents in or around the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
This claim has been already debunked—including by the former U.S. Capitol Police Chief.
Wray will be held accountable for this lie. pic.twitter.com/jJ4RV3PINE
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) July 12, 2023
Biggs said at the time Wray would be “held accountable,” a phrase that has taken on new meaning with this week’s indictment of ex-FBI chief James Comey for obstruction and lying to Congress.
The publication said it previously had identified “20 different confirmed incidents and operations involving federal, state, and local government operatives who infiltrated the massive Trump crowds…”
