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

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-12 21:02:42 | Updated at 2024-12-23 12:53:30 1 week ago
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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

Posted on 12/12/2024 12:50:24 PM PST by 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...


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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Not sure if ray Epps involvement has been officially explained.


2 posted on 12/12/2024 12:52:23 PM PST by 1Old Pro


To: 1Old Pro

That’s their official story, and they are sticking with it!


3 posted on 12/12/2024 12:53:16 PM PST by TheConservator (To bar Trump from the presidency, libtards are happy to trash 235 years of the rule of law)


To: E. Pluribus Unum

“…according to a report by a Justice Department watchdog released on Thursday.”

That dog don’t hunt.


4 posted on 12/12/2024 12:53:26 PM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, it is near the end of the day.)


To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why would a normal person believe anything this government tells them?


5 posted on 12/12/2024 12:53:32 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )


To: E. Pluribus Unum

Oh, well that settles it then. LOL

Clowns.


6 posted on 12/12/2024 12:54:34 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)


To: E. Pluribus Unum

Parse it the De3mocrat way a little.

They told their agents provocateurs not their officially so designated informants.

7 posted on 12/12/2024 12:54:37 PM PST by Salman (In Hell it is a punishable offense not to call it Heaven.)


To: E. Pluribus Unum

Of course, the FBI “informants” were acting as perfect gentlemen and had absolutely nothing to do the horrendous episode that the dastardly republican gangsters put on!!!!!

Oh, how horrible!!!!

(puke)


8 posted on 12/12/2024 12:55:38 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)


To: E. Pluribus Unum

Of course, the FBI “informants” were acting as perfect gentlemen and had absolutely nothing to do the horrendous episode that the dastardly republican gangsters put on!!!!!

Oh, how horrible!!!!

(puke)


9 posted on 12/12/2024 12:55:38 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)


To: E. Pluribus Unum

Gubmit reviewers? Hah, not even close to trusting them.
NYT? Give me a break, these losers are the bottom dregs of journalism.
FBI? Don’t even think about believing any words from that collecition of clowns. (Apologies to the true agents (not DemocRAts). You poor folks have to work for those marshmallow major pseudo leaders.)


10 posted on 12/12/2024 12:57:05 PM PST by Da Coyote (H)


To: E. Pluribus Unum

So, “the FBI” didn’t tell them to encourage violence.

But the relevant question is: Did they encourage violence and/or any law breaking?


11 posted on 12/12/2024 12:58:13 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)


To: E. Pluribus Unum


12 posted on 12/12/2024 1:00:29 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)


To: Mariner

The capitol police started it by firing tear gas behind the peaceful protesters and forcing them forward towards the capitol. Once there more capitol police opened the electromagnetically sealed doors and let them in. So the FBI CIs didn’t? Great… who cares? they were provoked…. Lol.


13 posted on 12/12/2024 1:02:12 PM PST by MrRelevant

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