Overview

• An internal after-action report located by Director Kash Patel’s team and sent to House Judiciary lists 274 FBI agents who responded in and around the Capitol on January 6, including to pipe-bomb calls and a suspected explosives threat.
• Rank-and-file feedback in more than 50 pages describes unclear orders, inadequate protective gear, and difficulty identifying themselves to other police, with multiple comments alleging the bureau had been politicized.
• Republican chairs Jim Jordan and Barry Loudermilk say the disclosure raises questions for oversight, including whether courts and prosecutors were informed about the on‑scene FBI presence and whether any agents later worked related cases.
• The disclosure intensifies a definitional dispute with a December 2024 DOJ inspector general report that found no undercover FBI employees in the protest crowds and documented 26 confidential human sources, four of whom entered the Capitol without authorization to break the law.
• A Lead Stories review notes the after-action document does not use the words “plainclothes” or “undercover” and characterizes the 274 as responders, while prior leadership under Christopher Wray had not publicly disclosed the overall agent count.