The review by the Justice Department inspector general’s office knocks down a fringe conspiracy theory advanced by some Republicans in Congress that the FBI played a role in instigating the events ...

Hundreds of people stormed the U.S. Capitol building in Washington during the certification of the electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021 ... related to the riot, according to a new report.

The report reveals that three informants were explicitly tasked with traveling to Washington, D.C., in the days leading up to January 6, 2021.

Cancel anytime. A watchdog report says no undercover FBI employees were present during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, and none of the bureau’s informants was authorized to participate.

D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, ahead of the Capitol breach, but none were authorized by their handlers to illegally enter the Capitol building or join the riot that day, the inspector general's report ...

Inspector General Michael Horowitz examined whether the FBI appropriately handled and assessed its confidential human sources and intelligence ahead of Jan. 6.

“That is certainly my hope,” Horowitz replied. The report, which was ordered shortly after the Jan. 6 riot, is expected to cover a broad range of issues, including former President Trump’s efforts to ...

The watchdog report showed that there were no undercover FBI employees at the riot, but there were FBI ... U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021. Supporters of President-elect ...

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was “not surprised at all” by the findings of a watchdog report ... or at the Capitol, on January 6.” The report did find that some of the FBI ...

The FBI should have gathered and disseminated more intelligence about extremists ahead of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, a government watchdog report said Thursday. The report from the Justice ...