WASHINGTON (Reuters)-The chief of staff of the US National Intelligence Director said on Wednesday that the US intelligence community is investigating whether the FBI was involved in planning the attack of January 6, 2021 to the capitol by President Donald Trump.
“We are investigating this now,” said Joseph Kent, chief of staff of the National Intelligence Director, Tulsi Gabbard, during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about his nomination to head the US National Center for Counterterrorism.
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He has not gone into detail about which of the 18 US intelligence agencies is conducting the investigation. Gabbard supervises FBI’s intelligence functions.
A supervision report from the US Department of Justice released in December unmasked allegations of supporters of the far-right conspiracy theory who falsely claimed that FBI agents were secretly involved in the attack on the capitol.
The report found that there were 26 FBI informants in Washington on the day of the attack. But according to the report, the FBI did not authorize any of them to enter the capitol or to engage in violence.
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Kent’s comments were made in response to questions by Democratic Senator Mark Kelly about Trump’s supporters attack trying to prevent Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential elections.
Trump falsely claimed that he lost the dispute due to a widespread electoral fraud. In January this year, he forgave more than 1,500 people accused for the attack of a multitude of his supporters who invaded the Capitol in an unsuccessful effort to reverse his electoral defeat.
Kelly asked Kent, former official Green Beret and Cia and Faithful to Trump, which evidence he had to support a publication in what is now the social media platform that the FBI and US spy agencies were involved in planning the attack on Congress.
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“We have already identified that there were several confidential human informants managed by the FBI and other law application agencies were present in the crowd that day, directing, removing barriers, these kinds of things,” said Kelly. “This was widely investigated. We continued to investigate this intelligence.”
He claimed that the FBI and security agents that he did not identify “tried to suppress the fact” that there were informants among the thousands of protesters.
The information that warned about the violence indicated that there was “some degree of infiltration of intelligence” in the groups that invaded the capitol, he said.
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Kent said “probably” was the Washington field office of the FBI that was involved and that it was “being analyzed” by the intelligence community.
Required to comment, a spokesman for Gabbard’s office referred to her announcement on Tuesday that a new task force she formed is “executing” Trump’s decrees to rebuild confidence in the intelligence community.
