There Were So Many Paid FBI Agents/Informants/Provocateurs at the January 6th Fedsurrection that the FBI "Lost Track" of Them All and Had to Perform an Audit to Figure Out How Many Paid Ringers It Had at the Staged Event

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The FBI had so many paid informants at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that it lost track of the number and had to perform a later audit to determine exactly how many "Confidential Human Sources" run by different FBI field offices were present that day, a former assistant director of the bureau has told lawmakers.

At least one informant was communicating with his FBI handler as he entered the Capitol, according to Steven D'Antuono, formerly in charge of the bureau's Washington field office.

D'Antuono has testified behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee that his office was aware before the riot that some of their informants would attend a "Stop the Steal" rally thrown by former President Donald Trump, but he only learned after the fact that informants run by other field offices also were present, along with others who had participated of their own accord.

The Washington field office had to ask FBI headquarters "to do a poll or put out something to people saying w[ere] any CHSs involved," he said, so they could get a handle on the scale of the FBI's spying operations at the Capitol that day.

"We started getting responses back" from FBI headquarters, added D'Antuono, which helped identify which field offices had planted confidential informants in the crowd.

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In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) described D'Antuono's testimony as "extremely concerning."

It suggests that "the FBI cannot adequately track the activities and operations of its informants, and that it lost control of its CHSs present at the Capitol on January 6," he wrote.

"These revelations reinforce existing concerns, identified by Special Counsel [John] Durham, about the FBI's use of, and payment to, CHSs who have fabricated evidence and misrepresented information.

"The Justice Department Inspector General also identified critical problems in the FBI's CHS program," Jordan added, "including the FBI's failure to fully vet CHSs and the FBI's willingness to ignore red flags that would call into question an informant's reliability."

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Rep. @RepThomasMassie questions Merrick Garland on Ray Epps: "You indicted him on a misdemeanors and meanwhile you're sending grandmas to prison. You're putting people away for 20 years for merely filming. Some weren't even there but you got the guy on video saying go into the Capitol, he's at the sight of first breach, and it's an indictment on a misdemeanor."

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Rep. Thomas Massie: "How many agents or assets of the government were present on January 5th and January 6th? Can you answer that now?"

AG Garland: "I don't know the answer to that question."

Rep. Thomas Massie: "I think you may have just perjured yourself. You indicted Ray Epps on a misdemeanor. Meanwhile you're sending grandmas to prison."

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