The U.S. attorney behind numerous prosecutions against those involved in the protest on January 6, 2021, announced that he will step down from his position.
Matthew Graves will resign on January 16.
A press release says that Graves “led the largest investigation the Department of Justice (‘DOJ’) has ever conducted to address the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.”
“Serving as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia has been the honor of a lifetime,” Graves said in a statement. “I am deeply thankful to Congresswoman Holmes Norton for recommending me; to President Biden for nominating me; and to Attorney General Garland for placing his trust in me.”
President-elect Donald Trump declared that he will move to 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.”
More than two dozen confidential human sources were present in the crowd during the January 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol.
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.
