A Justice Department watchdog found that there were no undercover FBI employees at the US Capitol during the January 6, 2021, riot. However, there were 26 FBI informants, 23 of whom did not have permission to be there.
The DOJ inspector general said Thursday that while no undercover agents were at the rally, 26 confidential human sources – or paid FBI informants – were in Washington that day. Not one was authorized to break the law themselves or encourage others to do so. Yet, as many as 17 did break the law.
The inspector general also found that the FBI did not canvass all its field offices for intelligence from informants who could have helped the US Capitol Police and other law enforcement agencies better prepare for protests that day. And after the riot, the report says, the FBI inaccurately told Congress that it had directed the field offices to canvass their informants for information about threats in connection with the January 6.
The FBI lied, but it was allegedly unintentional.
That inaccuracy was unintentional, the inspector general found. […]
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