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EXCLUSIVE: Senate Republicans seek answers on whether confidential human sources from Justice Department agencies other than the FBI were used on January 6, 2021, at the same time that Inspector General Michael Horowitz It also questioned whether confidential and unclassified communications with intelligence sources were thoroughly investigated, warning: Without that consideration, his findings may have “major blind spots.”
Horowitz said last week that more than 20 confidential FBI sources were among the crowd outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but only three were assigned by the bureau to attend the event. A long-awaited report has been released stating that Horowitz said none of his sources received authority or direction from the FBI to “violate any law” or “encourage others to commit illegal activities.”
But now Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are asking Horowitz for more information, in a letter obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital. It wrote that it was “unknown” whether Horowitz’s office had investigated. the use of confidential human resources by other members of the Justice Department during the Capitol riot;
The Justice Department IG revealed in January that 26 FBI informants were present. 6
Scenes at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
“While this IG report was a step in the right direction, Senator Johnson and I still have questions that the Department of Justice needs to answer,” Grassley told FOX News Digital. “The American public must know whether officials from component agencies of the Department of Justice, in addition to the FBI, were present on January 6, what their roles were, and whether the Department of Justice knew about their presence. You have the right to know the whole story.”
Grassley told FOX News Digital that Horowitz and his team “must redouble their efforts to review all relevant information and provide a full answer to our investigation.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley in the U.S. Capitol after a Senate luncheon on September 24, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
Johnson told Fox News Digital that the report released last week “provides only a small portion of the information regarding the presence and activities of confidential human sources and covert federal agents in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021.” “Maybe he just did it,” he said.
“We call for full transparency about the work of the Office of Inspector General so that Congress and the public understand exactly and completely what was actually reviewed,” Johnson said.
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In their letter to Horowitz, Mr. Grassley and Mr. Johnson noted that the Office of the Inspector General received more than 500,000 documents from the Justice Department and its members as part of the investigation.
“According to the report, your office has access to CHS reports, thousands of pieces of information provided to the FBI, investigative and intelligence records from the FBI case management system, emails, instant messages, telephone records, meeting and “We obtained contemporaneous records of telephone calls, timelines of events leading up to January 6, training materials and policy guides, and preparation materials for press conferences and Congressional testimony,” they wrote.
Mr. Grassley and Mr. Johnson told Horowitz that it was “critically important” that his office “accurately explain what records it seeks and receives from all Department of Justice components.” Ta.
Mr. Grassley and Mr. Johnson are investigating whether Mr. Horowitz secretly tasked, or was not tasked with, other Justice Department agencies in the Washington, D.C. area or at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. We are seeking an answer as to whether we have obtained any evidence as to whether this was not the case.
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They also ask whether all communications between Department of Justice component agency personnel and confidential human sources or undercover agents in the Washington, D.C., area have been obtained, as well as classified and unclassified information used by the FBI. It also asks whether he received any non-email communication platforms.
Mr. Grassley and Mr. Johnson are also demanding that Horowitz share with them all FD-1023 forms, confidential human source report documents, used in the investigation.
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz speaks during a Senate Judiciary hearing on September 15. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Regarding the initial report, Horowitz said, “None of these FBI CHSs were authorized by the FBI to violate any laws, such as entering the Capitol or restricted areas on January 6th, nor did the FBI It was determined that no CHS directed the intrusion of other CHSs to encourage the infiltration of other CHSs on January 6th. ”
The report found that the FBI played a minor supporting role in the January 6, 2021 response, but primarily because the event was reported by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This is because it was deemed not to have the highest security level.
But Horowitz said the FBI has taken significant and appropriate steps to prepare for the role.
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According to the report, there were a total of 26 confidential sources in the crowd that day, but only three of them were assigned by the Bureau to be present at the scene.
One of the three confidential intelligence sources ordered by the FBI to attend the rally entered the Capitol, and two others entered restricted areas around the Capitol.
If a confidential source is directed to attend a specific event, the FBI will pay them for their time.
