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BREAKING: FBI Lost Count of How Many Informants They Had During Jan. 6


If it wasn’t clear already that Jan. 6 was set up and encouraged by the feds, here is more damning evidence.

The FBI had so many informants during the Jan. 6 protests at the capitol that they had to perform audits afterward to determine the number.

Why would the FBI have so many informants during a supposedly unplanned event?

More from the New York Post:

The FBI had so many paid informants at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that it lost track of the number and had to perform a later audit to determine exactly how many “Confidential Human Sources” run by different FBI field offices were present that day, a former assistant director of the bureau has told lawmakers.

At least one informant was communicating with his FBI handler as he entered the Capitol, according to Steven D’Antuono, formerly in charge of the bureau’s Washington field office.

D’Antuono has testified behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee that his office was aware before the riot that some of their informants would attend a “Stop the Steal” rally thrown by former President Donald Trump, but he only learned after the fact that informants run by other field offices also were present, along with others who had participated of their own accord.

The Washington field office had to ask FBI headquarters “to do a poll or put out something to people saying w[ere] any CHSs involved,” he said, so they could get a handle on the scale of the FBI’s spying operations at the Capitol that day.

“We started getting responses back” from FBI headquarters, added D’Antuono, which helped identify which field offices had planted confidential informants in the crowd.

The informants were there to encourage people to commit criminal offenses.

More from the Washington Times:

The Ohio Republican noted that the Justice Department inspector general also identified critical problems in the FBI’s CHS program.

This included the FBI’s failure to thoroughly “vet CHSs and the FBI’s willingness to ignore red flags that would call into question an informant’s reliability.”

The Washington Times learned in July that a whistleblower FBI agent told the House Judiciary Committee that Deputy Director Paul Abbate opposed any public acknowledgment of at least 25 FBI confidential human sources or informants involved in the riots.

According to the whistleblower disclosure sent to the panel, Mr. Abbate notified one or more of his subordinates that confidential human sources should not be named, in part because some informants were too problematic or embarrassing to have their existence made known to the public.

Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican and a member of the Judiciary Committee, told The Washington Times that the FBI should have known that things were going to escalate at the planned Jan. 6 demonstrations.

“They just knew or should have known that what was going on, and one or more of those people in order to keep their cover, could well have been part of the reason that this got so far out of hand,” Mr. Issa said.

“Because the FBI won’t admit that they had 20,30 or 40 individuals on their payroll and or informants, they also certainly won’t admit how many came into the Capitol, or how many who participated in some way in promoting this illegal activity.”

The amount of evidence does not matter.

The FBI and other government institutions will not be held accountable.

President Trump and his supporters will always be vilified for what happened on Jan. 6.



 

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