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EXCLUSIVE: The FBI responded on Saturday to a report that 274 civil office agents were in the United States.
While the agents were available, they were sent after the riots began to try to control the rebel crowd, authorities told Fox News Digital. That is not the appropriate role of FBI agents, and Wray did not show up on what happened when he testified numerous times in Capitol Hill, said director Kash Patel.
“The agents were sent to a crowd control mission after the Metro Police declared the riots, something that goes against the FBI standards,” Patel told Fox News Digital. “This was the failure of a corrupt leadership that lied to Congress and the American people about what really happened.”
He added: “Thanks to the agents that are presented, we are now discovering the truth. We are totally committed to transparency, and justice and responsibility continue with this FBI.”
There are no indications that no FBI agent was involved in any event related to Trump's speech in the morning of January 6 at the Ellipse, said an FBI official to Fox News Digital, and added that Wray should have revealed that the agents were there when Congress leaders asked him.
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The FBI responded on Saturday after President Donald Trump said that former FBI director Christopher Wray “has some important explanations to make” after a report that said that 274 CENGE agents were in the disturbances on January 6, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu agency through Getty Images)
President Donald Trump, citing a report that the agents were in the crowd that did not make clear his mission, he said previously that Wray, “has some important explanations to do.”
“It has just been revealed that the FBI had secretly placed, against all rules, regulations, protocols and standards, 274 FBI agents to the crowd just before and during the deception of January 6,” Trump wrote in a real social position on Saturday afternoon after a fire report, revealing the number of agents who were there.
Trump added: “This is different from what director Christopher Wray declared, again and again! It is, as it is now, the FBI agents were in and in the protest of January 6, probably acting as agitators and insurrectionists, but certainly not as” police officers. “”
The president said he wanted to know the identity of each officer and what they were doing in the United States Capitol.
“Many great American patriots were forced to pay a very large price only for the love of their country,” he said, referring to Trump's supporters who faced positions for their participation on January 6.
Trump forgave or commuted the sentences of each person accused for his participation on January 6 after assuming the position this year.
The Inspector General of the DOJ does not deny that the FBI informants were between Jan. 6 crowd
The then director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, told the Judicial Committee of the Chamber on November 15, 2023: “If you ask if the violence in the Capitol was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources or agents, the answer is no.” (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
He concluded: “I owe this investigation of 'dirty police and crooked politicians' for them!
Citing a superior source of the Congress, the Blaze report said that the number of agents was not “necessarily a surprise” because the FBI often “embeds the counterattack staff in large events.”
Wray told a camera committee on November 15, 2023: “If you ask if the violence in the Capitol was part of any operation orchestrated by FBI sources or agents, the answer is not”, but I would not reveal whether any agent or sources were embedded within the crowd.
The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, said in a statement that the agents were sent to the Capitol on January 6 for the control of the crowd after it was declared riots against the agency's policy. (Brandon Bell/Getty images)
The 274 agents also include those who responded to the pipe bombs placed near the National Democratic Committee and the headquarters of the Republican National Committee the night before January 6, according to Politicus.
Trump nominated Wray as director of the FBI in 2017 after he fired former FBI director James Comey, who has just been accused by a grand jury this week for allegedly making false statements to Congress.
The FBI agents are told throughout the country to renounce, retire or be dismissed
A report published last December by the Inspector General of the Department of Justice Michael E. Horowitz said: “We did not find evidence in the materials we reviewed or the testimony we received showing or suggesting that the FBI had undercover employees in the various crowds of protest, or in the Capitol, on January 6”, although he were 26 paid informants, but only three of them were assigned by the FBI.
The report also said that the FBI staff were sent to the Capitol at the request of the Overly Police of the Capitol to help with the control of the crowd.
Horowitz said that none of the informants were allowed to incite the crowd, break the law or enter the United States Capitol.
Protesters and Capitol Police of the United States fight for a barricade in the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
In his reports, Blaze said that there may have been confusion regarding the “Cañenas” and “undercover”, which means that both the inspector general and the FBI could be telling the truth.
Many of the agents were not happy to have been sent to the Capitol to control crowds, another official told Fox News Digital. It was an unplanned chaotic scene that contradicted the original plan of the agency not to get involved in the event. The official said the agents are not trained to control the crowd.
The first agents arrived at the Capitol around 2:30 pm; There is no evidence that there were none before a riot was declared, and the agents continued to arrive after that, the official added.
Trump supporters collide with the police and security forces in the United States Capitol in Washington DC, on January 6, 2021. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP through Getty Images)
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Criticize He had testified before the Congress before the one published by the report of the Inspector General in December, but Patel called Wray for diverting and giving a “DC response” when legislators press it.
“Why he took a long time and questioning in Congress so that the director gets that point is what I am trying to eliminate from the FBI,” Patel said. “If Congress asks you a question under oath, whether or not there were sources in [or] Around January 6 in El Capitol, you, as director of the FBI, need to know that and not divert and give a DC answer. You have to be prepared for that. “
Brooke Singman of Fox News contributed to this report.
