Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz revealed that more than two dozen confidential human sources were present in the crowd during the January 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol.
“Today’s report also details our findings regarding FBI CHSs who were in Washington, D.C., on January 6,” an announcement for the report states. “Our review determined that none of these FBI CHSs was authorized by the FBI to enter the Capitol or a restricted area or to otherwise break the law on January 6, nor was any CHS directed by the FBI to encourage others to commit illegal acts on January 6.”
Three of the 26 CHS were instructed to “report on specific domestic terrorism case subjects who were possibly attending the events of January 6.” One of the informants entered the Capitol, while the other two entered a restricted area surrounding the Capitol.
Twenty-three other CHSs attended the protest on their own initiative and “were not tasked by FBI field offices to attend the events,” the IG’s office said. “Of these 23 CHSs, three CHSs entered the Capitol during the riot and an additional 11 entered the restricted area around the Capitol.”
According to the report, there were no undercover FBI employees present at the protest.
“No Undercover FBI Employees at Protests or at the Capitol on January 6. 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 inspector general’s office asserted.
President-elect Donald Trump declared that he will pardon the nearly 1,500 people charged in connection to January 6.
“We’re going to look at everything. We’re going to look at individual cases, yeah. I’m going to be acting very quickly… First day,” he said. “These people have been there for how long? It’s three, four years. You know, by the way, they’ve been in there for years, and they’re in a filthy, disgusting place that shouldn’t even be allowed to be open.”
