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(NewsNation) — A caller study from the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General recovered that the FBI failed to instrumentality a basal measurement successful preparing for the Capitol riot connected Jan. 6, 2021, and that nary FBI agents were progressive successful the attack.
The 88-page study concluded that nary national agents were progressive successful supporting the onslaught connected the Capitol and that nary undercover agents were contiguous successful the crowd.
The study recovered that though the FBI lone played a supporting relation to different instrumentality enforcement agencies, it did instrumentality immoderate steps to place home coercion subjects who planned to question to Washington, D.C., up of the ballot to certify the 2020 predetermination results.
However, the study noted that the FBI failed to canvass tract offices up of the day to place quality astir imaginable threats. FBI sources told the OIG that it is communal signifier for the FBI to bash truthful up of a ample event, specified arsenic a statesmanlike inauguration oregon the Super Bowl.
The study noted that performing a canvass would person created a much thorough knowing of the menace scenery up of the Jan. 6 riots.
A fig of confidential FBI sources were contiguous during the riots, the study found, immoderate of whom did participate the Capitol.
The OIG besides recovered that determination was nary captious accusation successful the FBI's possession that was not fixed to different instrumentality enforcement stakeholders up of the riots.
