FBI Bombshell: 274 agents sent to Capitol for J6, many later complained they were political ‘pawns’

justthenews.com ^ | 9/26/25 | John Solomon and Steven Richards

[Midwesterner53]

The FBI secretly deployed more than 250 plainclothes agents to the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, an operation so disorganized it unleashed searing frustrations among many of the FBI's rank-and-file that the bureau had lost its core competencies to "wokeness" and allowed its employees to become “pawns in a political war,” according to an after-action report kept from the public for more than four years.

Scores of FBI agents and personnel – many from the bureau’s premier Washington field office (WFO) – sent anonymous complaints to the after-action team detailing how agents were sent into an unsafe scenario without proper safety equipment or the ability to identify themselves readily as armed officers to other police agencies, the report obtained by Just the News shows.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; War
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[dragnet2]

Pawns?

Bull shit!

[delchiante]

Coup co-conspirator ‘pawns’..

[drypowder]

They complained anonymously? They should’ve refused to participate!

[Verginius Rufus]

Why would Michael Byrd need to worry? A jury of DC residents would never find him guilty.

[Ann Archy]

Sad, but true.

[Robert357]

more than 250 plainclothes agents to the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot,

There should be a paper trail of time slips that indicates who they were. Interviewing them or better yet finding the paper and electronic marching orders and special instructions given to them would probably go a long way to restoring public faith (and over site) to the FBI