Overview

• FBI Director Kash Patel said plainclothes personnel were deployed only after Metropolitan Police declared a riot and were tasked with crowd control, which he called contrary to FBI standards.
• Patel’s account rejects President Donald Trump’s claim, based on a Blaze report, that hundreds of agents were embedded before and during the events as agitators.
• A December 2024 Justice Department inspector general report documented 26 confidential human sources present on January 6 and found no evidence of undercover employees directed to provoke violence.
• An FBI official told Fox News Digital there is no indication agents were involved in events connected to Trump’s Ellipse speech, with first arrivals near 2:30 p.m., and some personnel counted in reports likely tied to pipe-bomb response or other duties.
• Patel accused former Director Christopher Wray of withholding key facts from Congress, and a GOP-led House subcommittee formed this month is probing the number and roles of informants and other personnel on January 6.