The FBI deployed nearly 300 plainclothes agents to the US Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, in an effort that became so chaotic it caused an internal schism within the agency that led many rank-and-file at the bureau that core competencies had been lost to “wokeness,” and that employees had become “pawns in a political war,” according to an after-action reporthidden from the public for over four years until it was obtained by Just the News.
Anonymous complaints were sent to the after-action team by scores of FBI agents and other personnel – many from the bureau’s premier Washington field office (WFO) – detailing how agents were sent into a dangerous situation without proper safety equipment or even the ability to identify themselves as armed officers to other police agencies.
Most common among the complaints was that under former directors Chris Wray and just-indicted James Comey, the bureau had become infected with political bias and liberal ideology that treated the Trump-supporting Jan. 6 protesters much differently from Black Lives Matter rioters from the summer of 2020.
The FBI secretly deployed 274 plainclothes agents into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot crowds, a fact hidden for over four and a half years until current Director Kash Patel’s team turned over a 50-page after-action report to Congress. Agents lacked proper safety gear and clear identification, risking misidentification by other law enforcement. One agent wrote, “I wish you all would pay more attention to our safety than what type of masks we wear.”
Rank-and-file agents slammed the bureau’s leadership, claiming political bias infected operations under James Comey and Chris Wray. “Our response to the Capitol Riot reeks of political bias,” one agent stated. Another wrote, “We have been used as pawns in a political war.”
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This post has gone viral, but it isn’t true. That’s not what the report shows.
It identifies that 274 agents were deployed that day in response to all the events. It does not say how many were wearing plainclothes or if any were among the crowds before the rioting.