FBI Director Kash Patel has confirmed that FBI Agents were in the crowd on Jan. 6th and th former FBI Director Christopher Wray lied about it to congress.
Patel saying “Corrupt leadership” sent agents in to perform what they called “crowd control” duties, which is against FBI standards.
Wray is under fire for allegedly lying to Congress under oath, after a recently released FBI report revealed that 274 agents – in every day clothes – from the Washington Field Office were deployed into the Jan. 6 crowds around the Capitol.
Something Wray repeatedly denied in sworn testimony to congress.
Wray is being blamed for endangering agents and fueling suspicions of a federal cover-up in what many on the right view as a politicized “insurrection” hoax.
During a July 2023 House Judiciary Committee hearing, Wray told Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) he
“does not believe” any undercover FBI agents were in or around the Capitol that day, dismissing claims of FBI instigation as “ludicrous.”
However, the recent report revealed that those 274 agents were embedded in the crowd without proper identification or protocols, arriving as early as 2:30 p.m.
Patel called it a “failure of corrupt leadership that lied to Congress,” noting the deployment violated bureau standards for First Amendment events.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is calling on every single FBI agent that was at the Capitol on Jan. 6th to be named and investigated.
Wray has been accused of lying on more than one occasion resulting in multiple criminal referrals.**
In August the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project pressed the DOJ to investigate Wray for false statements related to two scandals.
In September 2020 testimony, Wray claimed the FBI had “not seen historically any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election,” even though there were internal briefings on a scheme involving 20,000 fake Chinese driver’s licenses intercepted for potential mail-in ballot fraud.
Declassified documents later showed Wray was routinely updated on the threat, yet he minimized it in 2023 hearings, insisting any issues were “localized.”
Oversight Project President Mike Howell labeled this “willfully misleading”
Wray testified in May 2023 that a notorious Richmond field office memo labeling traditional Catholics as potential domestic extremists was a “single product” he “immediately” retracted upon learning of it.
However, evidence was found of a second memo that was to be sent out nationwide as a “Strategic Perspective Executive Analytic Report,”
The referral claims Wray “failed to reveal the scope” saying it was an isolated incident when it was actually systemic bias against conservative religious groups.
