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...

[Kazan]

The conclusion assumes Epps and others weren't working with the FBI.

It's no coincidence this report came out before the Trump administration begins.

[takebackaustin]

Unfortunately IGs seem to see their role as protecting the organization, which means defending its funding and reputation, which is pointedly not the same as its oath, legality, professionalism, honor, impartiality, political neutrality etc.

Need ruthless headhunters

[SMARTY]

“...Didn’t Instruct Informants to Encourage Violence at Capitol...”

LIES and more LIES!!!

[Gaffer]

I don’t believe this for one effing minute.

[antceecee]

NY Times is an integral part of Pelosi ‘s wrap up smear.

[Kudsman]

The gaslighting never ends.

[Kudsman]

The wrong Horowitz did the report. Should have been David instead of this useless hack!