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Government Corruption

FBI lost count of how many paid informants were at Capitol on Jan. 6, and later performed audit to figure out exact number: ex-official

2024-05-15

[NYP] 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.

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Posted by:Besoeker

#1 The new AG can stop all the ongoing investigations and then there will be no reason why we can’t get all the info that we want. The can’t comment on ongoing investigations scam will be over.

Posted by: Super Hose 2024-05-15 17:19

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