J6 FBI Paid Confidential Human Sources or Agent Provocateurs? And How Many Exactly?

Many here on Ricochet have questioned, and still question, what really happened on January 6^th, 2021, when people both stormed the Capitol building and were ushered into it by Capitol Police. Given the earlier FBI-created plot to kidnap Michigan governor, Gretchen Whitmer to entrap wary and less-than-enthusiastic participants, many were also curious if there were agent provocateurs in the crowd that "stormed" the Capitol. To this day, the FBI has refused to answer that question while never emphatically denying it. Well, today we’re getting more of a hint of an answer to the question of FBI-paid “confidential human sources” or agent provocateurs on-site at the Capitol complex on January 6^th. “Confidential human sources” could be a deliberate euphemism for “paid agent provocateurs,” because the question remains whether they were brought in to gin up the crowd and actively engage in vandalism to force their way into the Capitol.

In testimony today before the House Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz stated that he has been gathering information for a report and may about to release more precise information on whether the FBI paid individuals to wreak havoc on January 6^th, so Democrats and the incoming Biden-Harris administration and the media could immediately lay the blame on the purported insurrection at Donald Trump.

Of course, the media spotlight has really never been turned to the destruction of evidence by the J6 Committee, a committee that violated the rules of the House in its formation, or the destruction of January 6^th emails and texts by the Secret Service. How and why was all this communication destroyed? One would think that a real insurrection would have necessitated the preservation of such critical departmental communication to bolster the claim that what happened at the Capitol was indeed an attempt to overthrow the government. But no…this critical information has been destroyed.

A New York Times <cough, choke> "documentary" video was even touted here on Ricochet by an important Ricochet personality, as the definitive explanation of what actually happened at the Capitol. The documentary included highlighted footage of one Ray Epps encouraging the crowd to go into the Capitol building. What wasn't shown in the video was the crowd shouting back at Epps that he was a Fed plant.

From Fox News moments ago (emphasis mine):

DOJ inspector general does not deny FBI informants were among Jan 6 crowd

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz did not 'recall the number' of confidential human sources reimbursed for travel on Jan 6, 2021.

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Wednesday did not deny that federal government confidential human sources were in the crowd during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

Horowitz was testifying on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The Department of Justice watchdog testified alongside an FBI whistleblower and the president of Empower Oversight, Tristan Leavitt.

The hearing was set to focus on how the FBI has used its security clearance adjudication process to allegedly purge its ranks of conservatives and whistleblowers, and allegedly punish those with views contrary to that of FBI leadership.

Horowitz, though, testified that he had "not made such a finding."

However, Horowitz’s office is currently working on a review of the Justice Department’s actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

Horowitz was forced to answer questions about that review from Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who questioned whether federal assets and confidential human sources were present on Jan. 6 at the Capitol.

Horowitz explained his review was put on pause due to ongoing criminal investigations into individuals who participated in the riot but re-initiated his investigation last year.

"Do you have evidence of the number of confidential human sources that were operating on the Capitol grounds on January 6th?" Massie asked.

"Our report will include the information in that regard," Horowitz replied.

When pressed on "how many" confidential human sources were present, and on whether there were "more than 100," Horowitz did not disclose the information.

"I’m not in a position to say that, both because it is in draft form, and we have not gone through the classification review," Horowitz said. "And so I need to be careful."

Yes, Inspector Horowitz, be careful. Posting evidence that embarrasses the Justice Department and the FBI should not be done in a cavalier fashion. And isn’t it curious that Representative Massie asks if there were more than 100 paid FBI informants present that day? Is Massie getting information from an FBI whistleblower or whistleblowers? Was it more than 100 paid "informants"? Smart lawyers are taught to only ask questions they already know the answers to.

Did any of the “confidential human sources” engage in vandalism? Were the confidential human sources specifically there to incite a riot? If Horowitz viewed the receipts for travel for the paid “confidential human sources” but can’t recall the number of “confidential human sources,” surely the receipts are documents that can be retrieved and then reviewed by members of the committee even in a confidential SCIF? Yes, of course they can, and stop calling me Shirley. Perhaps those serving time or otherwise penalized for parading in the Capitol have a right to know if there were paid FBI "confidential human sources" who engaged in unlawful acts but were shielded from prosecution by the DOJ because that would mean that justice in America is truly blind and meted out equally. Don't hold your breath. Will the FBI or the DOJ make the receipts available? Their record on cooperating with Congressional committees isn’t exactly stellar and their record of deliberate obfuscation and outright deception to benefit the Biden family specifically and Democrats in general is well documented.

More from Fox News:

Horowitz, though, said he hoped the report would be made public in "the next couple of months," but likely after Election Day.

"I doubt it would be done in time for the election," Horowitz said.

When asked if it could be completed before the inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025, Horowitz replied: "That is certainly my hope and my sure hope."

Photo above - Crowd outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021. (Wikimedia Commons)