Overview

• FBI officials and Director Kash Patel said agents entered after the riot was declared to assist with crowd control, and Patel accused Christopher Wray of not being forthright with Congress about their presence.
• The after-action material, which Patel’s team located, has been delivered to House committees examining the FBI’s role and broader security failures surrounding the Capitol attack.
• The 50-page document cites anonymous agent feedback describing unsafe deployments without proper protective gear or clear identification, unclear mission guidance, and concerns about political bias in leadership.
• Reporting notes the 274 figure may include personnel responding to pipe bombs near the DNC and RNC, underscoring a distinction between plainclothes deployments and undercover operations that remains unresolved publicly.
• President Trump demanded the identities of the agents and alleged they acted as agitators, even as the inspector general’s report acknowledged 26 confidential sources but found no evidence of undercover employees or authorization to incite or break the law.