By Jo Nova
The rot goes right to the top
In terms of The Blob, the deepest darkest forces of power, the ones that scare even The Bankers, are surely the spies with guns, especially if they are unaccountable, politically biased spies with guns.
For four years since the January 6 Capitol Hill riots, the FBI has refused to say how many agents it had in the crowd, even to Congress, or even to the US President. Now we find, after the denials, there were 274 plain clothes agents there on the day. Donald Trump says “Wow: A radical Left Democrat Scam.”
It puts a whole new meaning to the term “insurrection”. Hundreds of paid agents, armed, and pretending to be protesting the same government that paid them to be there?
Let’s not forget that the main outcome of the Capitol Hill riots was to draw attention away from a critical Senate debates about irregularities with the 2020 election. (Many Republican senators who has promised to object to the certification of Joe Biden withdrew their objections after the riot). It would also be a useful (if awful) tool to imprison nearly 1,000 protestors and thus terrorize and deter people on one side of politics from protesting.
And then there were people who yelled and incited others like Ray Epps, — “We need to go IN to the Capitol” — were never arrested, and never jailed. And we still don’t know why.
FBI Bombshell: 274 agents sent to Capitol for J6, many later complained they were political ‘pawns’
By and , JustTheNews
The FBI secretly deployed more than 250 plainclothes agents to the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, an operation so disorganized it unleashed searing frustrations among many of the FBI’s rank-and-file that the bureau had lost its core competencies to “wokeness” and allowed its employees to become “pawns in a political war,” according to an after-action report kept from the public for more than four years.
Not surprisingly, doing something so politically biased, so unAmerican, was bound to test the more patriotic FBI staff, who protested in anonymous complaints to the “after action” team. That 50 page report has just been turned over to the House Judiciary Committee:
Scores of FBI agents and personnel – many from the bureau’s premier Washington field office (WFO) – sent anonymous complaints to the after-action team detailing how agents were sent into an unsafe scenario without proper safety equipment or the ability to identify themselves readily as armed officers to other police agencies, the report obtained by Just the News shows.
“The FBI should make clear to its personnel and the public that, despite its obvious political bias, it ultimately still takes its mission and priorities seriously,” one employee wrote in a stinging review. “It should equally and aggressively investigate criminal activity regardless of the offenders’ perceived race, political affiliations, or motivations; and it should equally and aggressively protect all Americans regardless of perceived race, political affiliations, or motivations.”
That agent urged FBI leaders “to identify viable exit options for FBI personnel who no longer feel it is legally or morally acceptable to support a federal law enforcement and intelligence agency motivated by political bias.”
These agents were deployed in plain clothes and with guns, yet they had no way to identify themselves to the police and no safety gear to protect themselves. What were they doing there, and why was this a secret for so long?
And the bigger question is just how close the most powerful democracy on Earth is to being a sham in the control of an unaccountable shadow government? Purely hypothetically, if the FBI chiefs had compromat which gave them control over one presidential candidate (like say, his son’s lap top) — they might feel inclined to boost his chances of getting elected, and to cover up any illegal boosting they might have done. The question is not whether this scenario is possible, because it self-evidently is possible, but to ask if it happened, “What would stop that?” The media? The Watchdogs?
Like — PBS News December 2024? “No undercover agents on the scene” says report from the Justice Department, knocking down yet another fringe conspiracy which turned out to be true.
The US Justice Department was the watchdog which took three years to not-find 274 agents. What kind of justice is that? The Blob kind…
h/t David E
UPDATE: Link to the FBI report fixed.
Very grateful to our host for this excellent report, it’s barely getting noticed here in the USA.
650
Paul – I agree with William Capron but add that our female journalists down here have more guts and integrity than a lot of the male counterparts, so it’s great that you keep following Jo, as she is at the best.
670
Janet Albrechtsen, Gemma TOognini, Judith Sloan & Mariranda Devine spring to mind as Good Female Journalists, along with Rita Panahi – Sky News & Heraldsun
360
Add Maryanne Demasi to that list. But she doesn’t get exposure in the lame stream media here. Ex ABC , who is most notable for her investigation into cholesterol and statins. Find her these days on Substack, where a lot of better information is these days.
120
It is hard to write the following in clear, objective terms because some readers will regard it as sexist. Here goes.
Men and women, overall, have different life objectives (think childbirth) and so have different slants on the same news. This includes composing and broadcasting news. I see no reason why women and men cannot have different competence, but I suggest that viewers/readers should expect different slants, different emphasis. Whether you regard news as good or bad because male/female reporter is up to you, but expect differences. Can these differences be significant?
Scenario: Our military calls for escalation of a conflict. It is possible, IMHO, that female reporters would assess harm to children more strongly than males and so be less inclined to expand warfare.
We see effects in recent governments globally with their greater % of female ministers, such as the spread of woke which had more impetus from women than men. I am not judging this, just sayin’. Geoff S
112
What is seen and heard in any news item isn’t determined by individual reporters. Their employers have agendas, and what gets broadcast is decided by editors who have the final say. These editors, in turn, work under strict instructions from those in control above them.
60
Control being the operative word.
00
The criminality of the left knows no bounds! Their quest for power and their quest to destroy everything that has made the Western World and its way of life, desirable, is nothing short of corruption!
10
False. 274 agents were deployed after the riots started.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbis-patel-clarifies-role-hundreds-agents-jan-6-says-wray-lied-congress
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/27/trump-january-6-fbi-00583383
01
pfft politico and fox. MSM hacks. I believe “justthenews” accountability writers.
“JusttheNews.com is owned and operated by Bentley Media Group LLC, a company created and owned by investigative journalist John Solomon.”
John Solomon: He has been accused of magnifying small scandals, creating fake controversy,[6][7][8] and advancing conspiracy theories.[1][3][9] During the first Donald Trump presidency, he advanced Trump-friendly stories including questioning reporting that women who had accused Trump of sexual harassment had also sought payments from partisan political donors[10] and questioning the legitimacy of criminal charges against Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.[11]
etc etc
01
Discredit the story on the basis of facts, rather than on character.
Character can come into it when there are opposing versions and you have to pick the more credible source. But what version of Just The News’ story differs from the DOJ or FBI reports?
That is true, isn’t it?
BTW, I don’t think you really want to get into a source character debate given the FBI’s performances on truth since 2015.
20
The tin foil hats were right again, funny about that.
620
Exactly. There was so much circumstantial evidence from people involved that indicated infiltration by fifth columnists in that act of dissention. So many expressing concern and good intent were vilified by a vicious and politically driven media. Thanks Jo for revealing the facts that there was substance to FBI involvement.
450
I’ve always said the purpose of the ‘riot’ was to derail the vote.
90
I have to get my USA news from my favorite Aussie. Thank you, Jo
520
The new rogues gallery of the Presidents showing the Autopen, instead of Biden’s photograph, is a great metaphor for the stolen election and shows what a joke that election was. A better metaphor would have been a copy of Miranda’s ‘Laptop from Hell.’
412
Nothing in the Wall Street Journal. Clearly editors have decided that telling the truth is not in the public interest. How many of those 274 armed FBI agents went to jail, if only for the crime of entering the Capitol building?
And did Nancy Pelosi know? Did the Jan 6th committee know? Is that why the Autopen pardoned them? Was the Autopen complicit in the crime, accessory after the fact? Why did the Jan 6 committee destroy all the evidence presented? Are they all criminals now? Why else would they need pardons?
640
Did Nancy Pelosi know? She is famous for her political theater.
She was offered security help from Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland to secure the Capital during the original demonstration but didn’t respond for hours. Even Trump offered to send federal troops for security but the Chairman of the JCS, Gen. Mark Milley said he didn’t know whose side they would be on.
It’s getting hard not to think that the people we elect are not really the people in charge.
511
Or this was a conspiracy involving all of the players above.
220
I think you are closest to the pin TdeF. No wonder Trump is so determined this time around. He had no hope against the Blob, many of whom seems to have been on his staff or appointed by him.
70
As has been said before, the last 4 years were a learning experience for Donald teaching him to have no mercy on the Far Left Blob.
20
2020’s game for all the family:
Spot The Narc! or, Where’s Spooky?
When slogans such as ™️Freedom And Truth™️ are bandied about, those cynical (or aware or old) enough know the big FAT opposite is true. The capitol’s real name is Hollywood D.C.
Rated ADULT: Enjot the show but never believe it.
210
We call DC Mordor on the Potomac.
The left’s “March through the Institutions” was all but complete from all 3 letter agencies to the military leadership, judges, entire DOJ, DOE etc, right through to State an local leadership.
30
The report (page 46) shows 274 agents responded to various matters. It doesn’t seem to confirm the agents were involved or assisted in the unrest or entering the building, and probably were there as a response.
Was the previous denial of agents being there a categorical denial of attendance , or a denial of involvement?
Denying they attended on the day is obviously a lie. But other reports say the denial that agents were there related to involvement in the unrest. I cant find the FBI’s actual statement. Just media Paraphrasing.
Report listing the 274 agents, with a description of their purposes. (Top of Page 46)
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2025-09/FBI-HJC119-J6IG-000001-000050.pdf
75
“… and probably were there as a response.”
Armed? Without official ID? Unprotected? And their presence denied for 4 years?
Nah.
430
Well, the report that you accept as evidence that there were 274 agents there says it includes agents “responding” to the various goings on.
Anyway, my query was whether there was a specific denial of agents being present at all on the day, or if the denial was simply that there were no agents involved in the crowd’s activities.
The news reports varied on that specific aspect.
However, the DOJ’s report from Dec 2024 stated:
So I have my answer.
The claim is categorical that there were no agents at the Capitol that day. Not a lesser claim that they weren’t part of the crowd activities. Which is clearly false regardless of the stated reason for their presence. (Unless there’s some semantic between “undercover” and plain clothes)
The DOJ report that made the claim.
https://oig.justice.gov/news/doj-oig-releases-report-fbis-handling-its-confidential-human-sources-and-intelligence
90
Strop, thank you for digging into that, here in USA, I’m not seeing coverage except Brietbart.
30
Strop. I admire your trusting the very organisation that colluded in the Russia hoax and that denied the authenticity of the laptop. I am afraid the DOJ, including the FBI, have betrayed the people’s trust many times too much to be believed this time around. The Attorney General said there was no proof of election fraud after a review of a few days. Well that was one lie among many others. It seems the whole stinking pile needs sacking and to start from scratch again.
70
I don’t trust them one bit.
But I like to be sure about calling someone a liar by knowing exactly what their denial was. Not some journalist’s interpretation of what they said. I trust the media just as little.
00
Mr. Lawrie: Strop cited the source, but he foresaw, and cut off, the attempt to weasel out of this report. At this point, we have three versions: FBI director Wray’s first lie (no agents); after years of “investigation”, FBI watchdog finds twenty-six agents (tried to thin it to 3 who did nothing); and now version 3. After some delay, more detail trickles out for #3, FBI was ordered in for crowd control after “riot” started and Capitol Police overwhelmed. Not trained for that, FBI agents complained, covered up this whole time!! We knew Nancy refused crowd-control help, then she brings in shock troops from the loyal Mr. Wray, why??
As we see another “right-wing conspiracy theory” confirmed as true, we all have to see through fog that has been blown up our media skirts for 5+ years. I thought Strop did well to go to pin this down, without trusting them.
50
Where are the videos and who actually incited the actions of breaking into the building?
170
As I recall E.M.Smith was there and was enticed to enter the building by someone whom he thought suspicious and did not enter.
As he recalled the door were open, not broken at all.
360
Yes, I was there. Yes I was “encouraged” to enter (~”We have the door open on the east end, that’s where the action is!” or something like that) by a guy who looked a LOT like the photos I’ve seen of Ray Epps later; right height / weight / build too. My answer was ~”I think that’s not a good idea”. He then walked past me and repeated the same spiel to the next guy. So I stayed on the approved road pavement. Later, a guy who looked like a pro-instigator (bull horn on a strap) approached and began talking with his “handler” who came out of the crown on the “wrong” side of the barricades. They talked about being on the capital steps and how his girl friend started getting nervous so they left as the police arrived. There’s more, but not for a posted comment… Also, 275 FBI AGENTSmeans hundreds more “informants”, Local Police undercovers, Three Letter Agency undercovers, Secret Service undercovers, etc. etc. I’d be surprised if the total number was under 2000.
220
You wrote some pretty detailed stuff about that day E.M.Smith. i haven’t forgotten it and passed on the gist of it to a few people.
20
FBI Had 275 Agents At J6 Riot, AOC Somehow Had Foreknowledge Of Capitol Breach | Tim Pool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6WNNrS1hR8&t=7s
Go to 4:59
You will see a masked agent/mil type guy with a chest rig radio pulling class from a broken window who apparently encouraged people to enter.
There is further explanation as vid continues.
211
El Gato Malo has a pretty incriminating video (about halfway down the article) of one of the guys who led the charge into the Capitol by breaking windows and pulling them out of their frames. Interestingly, this guy never made it on to the ‘Insurrection’ watch lists that were circulated, and to the best of Gato’s knowledge was never identified or charged. It also shows him trying to incite others to follow his example, and when they refuse and question the legality of what he is doing, he gets aggressive and violent.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/good-for-geese-good-for-ganders
Like Ray Epps (and the guy who planted the pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC buildings that was never identified) this guy glows like a fed even if there is no definitive evidence that he is one.
310
Ah, the vanguard of the agents provocateurs. Who really were the ones who broke the windows?
140
In addition, the police officer who shot [snip] an unarmed protester, Ashli Babbitt, still hasn’t been prosecuted.
460
If the races of both of them were swapped, there would have been immediate prosecutions.
360
Mr. Maddison: IMO the victim’s pro-Trump leaning trumps race, so the white cop walks.
20
Handy “ambulance”, no crime scene, rapid “cremation”…
No investigation.
Great script. Great theatre.
True evidence?
Nah.
70
An estimated 2000-2500 were involved in the demonstration so 274 agents was over 11% of the total numbers.
350
But how many FBI agents entered the Capitol building? On the express invitation of the Capital Police on behalf of the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi and later called a riot by the same Nancy Pelosi?
This is Pelosi’s Reichstag fire. And she refused the help of the National Guard who were ready and on hand. Or would that have risked the National Guard arresting hundreds of armed FBI agents and exposing the massive involvement of government agents?
And did these armed FBI agents act as Agents Provocateur, obviously and illegally far beyond their presumed role as observers.
And why did they not carry identification as government agents? After all they were armed official agents of the Government and entitled and obliged to able to identify themselves if challenged. America was not at war, or was it?
Was it to prevent a security problem from entirely unarmed protestors or to create the problem and boost the apparent number of demonstrators?
To what extent was the alleged riot in fact a subversive false flag action of the incoming Biden government to cover up the fact of an illegal election?
Were any agents charged as rioters? Why not?
271 armed people is not a group of passive observers. It is a group of armed and unbadged insurgents and infiltrators at battalion strength under a false flag.
Nancy Pelosi, the head of the FBI, the Jan 6th committee are now guilty of armed insurrection, hiding and destroying evidence against explicit orders not to do so and the knowingly false imprisonment of a thousand people for years. They should at the very least suffer the same fate. And a pardon by person or persons unknown and clearly aware of the level of malfeasance is invalid.
This was the Democrats Reichstag fire, organized from the top down. The true American Fascists have been exposed. And a lot of fair minded Democrats will be revolted by this.
620
As the events unfolded live, I was quite bewildered by the expression on her face as the crowd gathered outside. I vividly remember a look of deep apprehension, and I couldn’t understand why she appeared so fearful — there seemed to be no reason for it. Later, of course, I realized that she was aware of a lot more than she let on.
70
Now, how many of those agents were encouraging illegal activity?
230
The source is described as an after action report, that to me sounds kind of fishy to me.
60
In case you are wondering how they identified all the patriots to jail them, in most cases they likely captured their phone IMSI numbers with a fake cell tower which captures each phone’s unique IMSI number even if no calls are made.
A commercial device to do this is the StingRay from Harris Communications, available to Government’s only.
Most totalitarian governments use similar devices for person tracking and identification. No doubt the Australian Government does as well.
And turning your phone off won’t work either because many modern phones have an Ultra-Wideband (UWB) chip which is still active when the phone is turned off. I assume the Government has devices to capture those IDs as well.
Hypothetically, you would have to wrap the phone in aluminium foil (Faraday cage) to prevent tracking. Just sayin’.
I wrote about some of these technologies at https://www.siliconchip.com.au/Issue/2024/August/Tracking+and+Locating+Devices
340
The EFF has an article about cell site simulators. Note that the constitutional protections mentioned are US ones. Australia of course has no such protections as we learned during the covid lockups.
161
No one ever mentions this.
On May 29, 2020, protests erupted outside the White House in response to the murder of George Floyd, leading to violent confrontations between protesters and law enforcement. The Secret Service temporarily placed President Trump in a bunker for safety as the situation escalated, with protesters throwing projectiles and breaching barricades.
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/500299-protestors-knock-down-white-house-securitys-barricade-as-tensions-mount-over/
Over 60 Secret Service officers were injured during the protests near the White House on May 29, 2020. Many of these injuries were caused by projectiles thrown by demonstrators, and 11 officers were treated at local hospitals for non-life-threatening injuries.
Only MAGA does ‘insurrection’.
Anti-Trump violent attacks are ‘protests’.
Simple.
390
I wonder if Antifa protestors that attempted to storm the White House on May 29 were hunted for years and arrested.
Raided by an FBI SWAT team in their mommy’s basement and hauled off in shackles.
Held without trial in solitary confinement.
🙂
I amuse myself sometimes.
320
Trump has to keep hammering these secret 274 agent numbers up to the midterm elections.
I’ll be very interested what Kash Patel has to say and what he will do about it and when he’ll tell the full story to Trump, the MSM and the US voters
And this time Nancy Pelosi must tell the US voters the unvarnished truth.
171
I doubt she is capable of telling the truth.
And if she ever does, I’m sure the American people would like to know how she is one of America’s most successful stock traders who consistently outperforms the big investment funds. What is her secret to success?
300
Her stock market secret could be blatant co——on.
30
The truth would put her in prision.
10
Nah
Most Americans are very much over January 6th. They don’t give a crap. They haven’t given a crap since 2021 (and even then, it was barely a top 10 issue). Democrats have spent the past 4 years trying to get people worked up about it, and it has been an electoral disaster for them. Republicans would be wise not to repeat the Democrats mistakes. They should stick to the issues voters care about (which are also the issues they have double-digit polling advantages): the economy, immigration and crime.
101
Doesn’t “crime” cover the happenings Jo is describing?
50
Nah, its called revenge
00
Why not call it “revealing the truth”?
The older I get, the more I see the once dominant, cherished regard for truth being attacked. Geoff S
60
Every single Trump reporter cares, and if the true democratic crimes are revealed, 50 percent of democrats will care. Ignoring STATE orcherstrated crimes that jailed 1000 plus innocent Amerucans is not rational counsel.
30
The link to the 50 page report just released is now “about:blank#blocked”.
50
Still available on SCRIBD:
https://www.scribd.com/document/923546225/FBI-HJC119-J6IG-000001-000050
60
Apologies, I fixed the link now. https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2025-09/FBI-HJC119-J6IG-000001-000050.pdf
70
This news fits all the long known facts – Nancy’s Reichstag file indeed.
As is so often the case, Australian Labor copies/learns from/collaborates with the US Democrats – Grampian Nazis, come on down.
111
It’s not just that they were armed, but they were using hidden carry. And disguised as part of the crowd without ID. This sort of thing in wartime would have you executed.
So crowd 0 guns
Unidentified FBI in diguise with guns 274.
What was the purpose of inserting a battalion of covert armed activists? To control the crowd with weapons? Or to pretend to be armed insurgents in an armed insurrection?
Hitler did exactly this with a raid on a Polish radio station to start WWII.
” Nazi Germany staged a false flag attack on a German radio station in Gleiwitz, Poland on August 31, 1939. This staged attack, which involved SS operatives dressed as Polish soldiers and the murder of a pro-Polish civilian, was used as a pretext and propaganda tool to justify Germany’s invasion of Poland the following day, marking the start of World War II. ”
Who ordered this battalion to stage an armed attack on the Congress? That is treason. That General Milley was involved in restraining the National Guard as suggested above is also very worrying. It looks like a conspiracy at the very top. He could have at least sent in armed transvestites.
270
And those unexplained pipe bombs. Not something families would bring to a protest, unless you were AntiFA. And smoke generators. How active were the FBI agents? Passive observers, in which case where are their reports? Active participants and even committing crimes against people and property? What were the rules of engagement, or were there none?
It’s all just too reminiscent of what the Fascists, brown shirts and black shirts did to create unrest and mayhem in the population and overreaction to restore ‘law and order’. Government agents fomenting trouble under a false flag. Why on earth did they not carry identification? Was that legal? And who needs nearly 300 armed ‘observers’ in disguise blending in? That all smacks of evil intent and then the jailing of a thousand people for three years each, for what government agents did without punishment or identification or rules and either participated or allowed to happen?
160
274 armed civilians would be a threat to law and order on their own, especially if they entered the Capitol building as presumed unarmed public guests.
So again, what was the expected public service function of so many secretly armed ‘law and order’ people in disguise without ID ?
That would have been enough for a military coup against the entire congress, not the 1,000 unarmed member of the public who were jailed for three years for just being there.
100
I think this all makes us realise how close to a totalitarian takeover the only remaining free country, and the most powerful, came to destruction under the O’Biden Maladministration.
Although, that would have triggered a Second American Revolution, enabled by the “reset button” of the US Constitution, the Second Amendment, and the American people would have taken their country back.
131
Reading the Feedback for Future document gives somewhat different insight than the common conspiracy theory outlook.
The document appears credible although I could not locate it on an FBI site. There is a lot of comparison with the response to 2020 riots in DC. The major difference was the difference in follow up to intelligence gathered in Jan 6 compared with the earlier DC riots where officers were injured. Also comment about the organisation not being apolitical. Glaringly different response and totally inconsistent.
I expect it would be deemed reasonable in the USA to have undercover agents in crowds to detect and follow up on bad actors. So the crime was not saying agents were present when later asked in senate hearings..
This comment from the FfF gives some insight into the differing responses:
The actions on January 6, 2021 were absolutely despicable and unacceptable in a civilized society. What is even more unacceptable was the hypocrisy displayed by the FBI and its leadership in their attempt to go after those involved in the Capitol Riots, while we as agents, watched cities burn across America during the summer of 2020. The conspiracy to commit crimes at the Capitol on January 6th, were also committed by bad actors during the summer riots of 2020 leading up to the election on November 3, 2020. Agents stood by on the ground in Washington, D.C. and observed stores being looted, burned, and ripped of anything of value.
A couple of questions arise:
Is it reasonable for FBI to have undercover agents in crowds that have potential to act badly?
Should the response to invading the seat of government building be harsher than pilfering then burning private property and injuring police?
Should FBI representatives publicly declare that they had undercover agents in the crowd when asked in Senate enquiries?
I doubt it will ever come out if FBI agents were involved in promoting the riots.
150
At the time Twitter lit up with individual reports from J6 attendees as well as videos. They all depicted a version totally in contrast to what was shown on the mainstream media. One of those videos filmed bus loads of very suspicious individuals being off loaded into the throng. These were probably those FBI agents.
171
Now we know that the FBI director Chris Wray lied bout the presence of FBI operatives in the crowd.
But what were they there to do? What were their instructions? Were they under a command?
Was Ray Epps one of them? He clearly was inciting people to go into the Capitol.
70
It is reported way down even on Brietbart.
30 armed FBI agents would need explanation.
Nearly 300 is insane and needs a full explanation. How can they restore law and order if they are disguised without ID? Or was law and order not the objective?
120
Was it new FBI Director Kash Patel who released the 274 agent report?
I have been viewing him on YouTube. He is saying what I consider to be the “right words” in places like US Senate and House questioning. However, even in the past few days, he is under scathing attack by several Democrat reps, particularly some women looking like they have just discovered their husband’s mistress.
The quality of political debate is falling fast here in Oz and in the US.
Some citizens would be starting to fear civil insurrection soon. Geoff S
30
Yes Kash Patel released the report.
20
Thanks, David A. Geoff S
00
Given this is now out in the open, any chance patriot Ashli Babbitt’s family would get even a fraction of the payout the family of violent criminal and drug addict George Floyd got?????
10