Where Were the 274 FBI Agents on January 6?

Bureau's "After Action Report" Reveals a Weaponized, Dysfunctional FBI

Above: Kneel Team Six

First things first, the FBI did not have 274 plainclothes agents embedded in the crowd on January 6, 2021, as some conservative outlets reported. In fact, the words “plainclothes” and “undercover” do not appear in the much discussed FBI “After Action” report.

Beyond that, there is little solace defenders of Jim Comey-Christopher Wray’s FBI can take away from this report. It reveals a Bureau whose actions that day so reeked of politics and dysfunction that several agents risked their careers to call out the FBI brass.

According to the radio logs, the agents were dispatched to the Capitol in clusters beginning at 2:25 p.m. This was just about the time the protestors who had heard President Trump’s speech on the Ellipse were arriving at the Capitol. Ashli Babbitt, for instance, entered the building through a broken window at 2:23 p.m. She had 20 minutes left to live.

Within seven minutes of Ashli’s being shot to death, at least 20 FBI “operators” had entered the Capitol “to assist downed officer.” This appears to be the result of a miscommunication. The only person “downed” in that time sequence was Babbitt.

In the hours that followed other operators arrived, some at the Capitol and others at the Hart Building and the Longworth Building. No one seems to know why they were there. At 3:36 p.m. the log reads, “15 WF operators in Capitol Rotunda; linked up with USSS, ‘no specific tasking.’”

One FBI agent commented after the fact, “As in June [2020 riot], agents were once again deployed onto the streets (specifically around the Capitol) and simply told to stand behind the MPD [Metropolitan Police Department.}

Above: Yuppie Team Six

This comment helps answer the question why the public did not even know the FBI was there. If, say, just 100 of the agents made their way into and around the Capitol, they showed up in none of the videos wearing their trademark FBI vests or windbreakers. The House J6 Committee report speaks at length about the actions of the Metropolitan Police and the Capitol Police, but not a word about FBI presence at the Capitol.

Beyond criticizing the dysfunction of the response, many of the FBI agents spoke to a much deeper problem. Said one, “What was even more unacceptable [than the J6 riot] was the hypocrisy displayed by the FBI and its leadership in their attempt to go after those involved in the Capitol riots, while we as agents, watched cities burn across America during the summer of 2020.”

Said another, “We were once an apolitical organization, but I no longer see us as such looking from the ground up….We are supposed to call balls and strikes regardless of the political pressure, now we can’t even be trusted to be on the field.”

Said a third, “For starters how about equal reaction to equal riots—The summer riots were far worse than on 1/6.”

One agent capsulized the larger problem concisely: “In 2020 WFO [the Washington Field Office] assumed a mission for which its personnel were untrained and underequipped: to protect and defend a plaza dedicated to a group of domestic terrorists (left-leaning and with a history of violence and criminal activity during its first amendment activities), then took a knee on command.”

The agent continues, “In January 2021 WFO immediately and aggressively began targeting anyone accused by the public of having been in the geographical vicinity of similar crimes committed by another group of “domestic terrorists” (right leaning and with no history of violence or criminal activity during its activities).

In sum, “This ongoing, obvious, unapologetic and, for all intents and purposes, legally sanctioned bias has thoroughly demoralized the FBI’s personnel and the American public.”

Perhaps even more concise is this tweet on Saturday from ex-FBI whistleblower Phil Kennedy, “J6 was the largest entrapment case in human history. It was orchestrated by Nancy Pelosi and her demonic handlers.”

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