American Stasi
The FBI admitted on Friday to The New York Times that they had informants and operatives inside groups attending the January 6 rallies in Washington DC.
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The FBI finally admitted they infiltrated the Jan. 6 rallies with informants. In fact, one of the first “protesters” inside the US Capitol was an FBI informant.
We all already knew this was happening as TGP reported back in June.
Darren Beattie from Revolver News who led the reporting on the FBI operatives on Jan. 6 responded to the FBI admission on Saturday.
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Via Alan Feuer and Adam Goldman at The New York Times.
In this FBI confession, the agency admits to one informant with the in the Jan. 6 “assault on democracy.”
We ALL KNOW there were several FBI operatives who infiltrated the crowd and were leading the assault on the US Capitol.
As scores of Proud Boys made their way, chanting and shouting, toward the Capitol on Jan. 6, one member of the far-right group was busy texting a real-time account of the march.
The recipient was his FBI handler.
In the middle of an unfolding melee that shook a pillar of American democracy — the peaceful transfer of power — the bureau had an informant in the crowd, providing an inside glimpse of the action, according to confidential records obtained by The New York Times. In the informant’s version of events, the Proud Boys, famous for their street fights, were largely following a pro-Trump mob consumed by a herd mentality rather than carrying out any type of preplanned attack.
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After meeting his fellow Proud Boys at the Washington Monument that morning, the informant described his path to the Capitol grounds, where he saw barriers knocked down and Trump supporters streaming into the building, the records show. At one point, his handler appeared not to grasp that the building had been breached, the records show, and asked the informant to keep him in the loop — especially if there was any violence.
The use of informants always presents law enforcement officials with difficult judgments about the credibility and completeness of the information they provide. In this case, the records obtained by The Times do not directly address whether the informant was in a good position to know about plans developed for Jan. 6 by the leadership of the Proud Boys, why he was cooperating, whether he could have missed indications of a plot or whether he could have deliberately misled the government.
But the records, and information from two people familiar with the matter, suggest that federal law enforcement had a far greater visibility into the assault on the Capitol, even as it was taking place, than was previously known.
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Read the rest here.
Via The War Room:
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The Gateway Pundit has reported on this extensively since the Jan. 6 riots.
Now we know the FBI was involved.
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And dozens of Trump supporters are still in prison or being charged for the setup.
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