F.B.I. Didn’t Instruct Informants to Encourage Violence at Capitol, Report Says

The New York Times ^ | Dec. 12, 2024, 1:34 p.m. ET | Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The review acknowledged that several informants were in Washington on Jan. 6, but said that only a handful were collecting information for the F.B.I. that day, contrary to conspiracy theories.

More than two dozen F.B.I. informants were in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, but, contrary to widespread conspiracy theories, bureau officials did not instruct them to encourage anyone to break the law as a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol that day, according to a report by a Justice Department watchdog released on Thursday.

After a four-year investigation, the inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, determined that F.B.I. leaders acted appropriately by dispatching some of the informants to monitor subjects related to the Capitol attack, and that the bureau shared the limited intelligence it had with other law enforcement agencies.

But the inspector general also criticized the bureau’s leaders for failing to recognize the potential dangers posed by the rioters — and for failing to follow through on its promise to canvass its field offices for intelligence on potential threats after the 2020 election.

Three of the informants had been sent to Washington on Jan. 6 “tasked by F.B.I. field offices to report on specific domestic terrorism case subjects,” the report found. One of them actually entered the Capitol during the riot, and the other two breached the “restricted area” around the building, investigators found.

But their reports were of limited of use and “no more specific” than other sources of information.

More than 20 other informants who had a history of working with the F.B.I. were in Washington that day and attended events related to Jan. 6, but went to them on their own volition, not at the bureau’s request, the report found.

The report found no evidence that any undercover F.B.I. agents were present in the crowd that gathered to disrupt the certification of President Biden’s electoral...

[1Old Pro]

F.B.I. Didn’t Instruct Informants to Encourage Violence

Not in writing anyway.

[Sirius Lee]

Bet Epps is CIA.

[llevrok]

F.B.I. Didn’t Instruct Informants to Encourage Violence at Capitol, Report Says

But I bet they did not discourage them either

[FlingWingFlyer]

BS.

[struggle]

There’s video of them doing it

[Revel]

Horowitz is another hack. He always has been. He puts just enough in his reports to make it look like he was trying to be fair. But he always comes to the conclusion that there was no actionable criminal conduct. He is a white washer.

[rlmorel]

Okay. So we NOW, four years later, have confirmation that Feds were involved in the crowds on January 6th, 2021. But they were just there to watch, or so we are told.

Confirm or Deny my ass.

[fuzzylogic]

He’s up there with Epstein and Diddy.

The way the system, including the media, went out of their way to help this guy....all while throwing everyone else they could in prison.

[philman_36]

Does the Times expect them to incriminate themselves or their handlers?
Foolish writers/government sycophants.

[Jan_Sobieski]

F.B.I. Didn’t Instruct Informants to Encourage Violence at Capitol, Report Says

Then why did all the agents/informants have ear pieces, combat gear, and breached the fence and barricades first?

[Biblebelter]

Spotted iceberg.

Can only see tip.

[Seaplaner]

Clintonian parsing?

[Seruzawa]

Well, at least we now know what the NYT/CIA wants us to think. What does the Daily Mail/MI6 say?

[alternatives?]

Who built the gallows? Wouldn’t that be encouraging violence?

[Organic Panic]

“So Mr. Witness. You’re going to go to Capitol Hill and THIS is what you’re going to say. Stray one single word from this script and we bury you, your family, and your dog under the jail. And best make it believable.”

SURE. We can trust the FBI. They would NEVER lie to congress or the American people.

[Organic Panic]

This is the Eric Holder style of investigation.

“I will not comment on ongoing investigations.”

“I have investigated myself and found no wrong doing.”

“I already addressed that and will not comment on old news.”

[Starboard]

Anything from the NYT deserves a clown on it. Nothing but propaganda.

[nitzy]

This is how this goes...

1.) There were no federal assets at the J6 rally.
2.) We don’t know if there were any federal assets at the J6 rally.
3.) There were federal assets at the J6 rally but they didn’t tell anyone to go in. <= We are here
4.) They did tell them to go in and here is why that was a good thing.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I just want the POS who shot Ashley Bobbit put before a firing squad.

[grumpygresh]

We did a full investigation of ourselves and we are all innocent.