The FBI had nearly 300 “plainclothes agents” present at the Capitol Hill riots that took place on January 6, sources said. The claim has once again brought the investigation agency into the spotlight, as they have repeatedly denied their presence at the 2021 unrest.
Last year, the US Department of Justice Office of Inspector General said the Bureau had no undercover agents placed in the crowd. Still, it acknowledged that over “26 FBI confidential informants were present.”
At the time, the DOJ inspector General said that four informants who had entered Capitol Hill to report on “domestic terrorism” were later called for a briefing by the department.
Meanwhile, the revelation has once again stirred a fresh controversy in the United States over whether “undercover employees” and “plainclothes agents” could be treated differently by the bureau.
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Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has vowed to investigate and threatened action against what he said are “dirty cops and crooked politicians” to bring them to justice.
Trump said these plainclothes agents could be the “agitators and insurrectionists” during the January 6 events.
Trump, in his Truth Social post, wrote, “I want to know who every one of these so-called ‘Agents’ is and what they were up to on that now ‘Historic’ Day.
Many Great American Patriots were made to pay a very big price only for the love of their Country. I owe this investigation of ‘Dirty Cops and Crooked Politicians’ to them! Christopher Wray, the then Director of the FBI, has some major explaining to do.”
The January 6 events prompted a massive FBI investigation, as well as a far-reaching probe into the alleged conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.
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