BYRON YORK: Now we know how many secret sources the FBI had on Jan. 6, but what did they do?
There are other things we don’t know as well. The report covers the FBI, which is under the purview of the Justice Department inspector general. But it does not cover the activities of the Capitol Police or the Washington Metropolitan Police Department, which are not part of the Justice Department. Did they have confidential sources or undercover agents? We also don’t know, as law professor Jonathan Turley has pointed out, whether the presence of the secret FBI sources was “revealed to the defense in the hundreds of prosecutions.”
Friday morning, reporter and DOJ critic Julie Kelly posted, “It struck me that not a single text between an FBI handler and CHS is included in the Horowitz report. No comms whatsoever. How is that an investigative work product?” Kelly also pointed out that Inspector General Horowitz could only review what the FBI gave him. Whether you think that is acceptable or not depends on your degree of trust in the FBI, which is quite low among Republicans these days.
So, there is a lot more to know about the FBI and its secret sources on Jan. 6. Yes, it’s good to know a specific number. But that’s not the whole story.
Hopefully, more details will emerge next year:
Kash Patel: once they admit there was undercover informants at the capital, their own narrative is defeated because it takes six months to place an undercover informant in with the proud boys. pic.twitter.com/6uZMGLDV1r
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) December 13, 2024