Overview

• FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital that hundreds of bureau personnel were sent into a crowd-control mission only after Metropolitan Police declared a riot on January 6, which he said violated FBI standards but did not amount to instigation.
• Patel accused former Director Christopher Wray of misleading Congress about the bureau’s presence that day and said an internal push for transparency is underway, with an FBI official adding there is no evidence agents were tied to the Ellipse events before the breach.
• President Donald Trump posted that 274 agents were secretly embedded before and during the protest as agitators, a claim Patel publicly contradicted by specifying the personnel entered after the situation escalated.
• A 2024 Justice Department inspector general report documented 26 confidential human sources present on January 6 and found no evidence of undercover employees provoking violence, with subsequent reporting suggesting the 274 figure may include assignments such as countersurveillance or responses to pipe bombs.
• House Republicans have launched a new subcommittee to examine informant roles and other operational decisions on January 6, with allies signaling they want Wray questioned again about what he knew and when.