根据周四发布的一份报告，一项独立的监督调查发现，没有证据表明联邦特工参与煽动了1月6日对美国国会大厦的袭击，削弱了多年来由传播的毫无根据的说法极右翼政治人物他们声称美国联邦调查局在袭击中扮演了重要角色。
人们期待已久的司法部监察长迈克尔·霍罗威兹的报告没有发现美国联邦调查局卧底雇员出现在成千上万名特朗普支持者中的证据冲进大楼，甚至是当天在华盛顿特区周围参加抗议活动的特朗普支持者人群中。
虽然该报告证实华盛顿特区有26名线人，他们在美国联邦调查局被称为“机密人力资源”或CHS，但霍洛维茨没有发现任何证据表明任何人被指示加入对国会大厦的袭击，或以其他方式鼓励亲特朗普的暴徒的非法活动。
此外，调查小组的报告发现，三名秘密线人被美国联邦调查局的外地办事处专门指派报告特定国内恐怖主义案件中的嫌疑人，这些嫌疑人被认为参加了1月6日的活动，其中一人在骚乱期间进入了国会大厦。
调查发现，另外23人在华盛顿，但没有发现有任何美国联邦调查局现场办公室指示他们去那里，在这23人中，3人进入了国会大厦，11人进入了大楼周围的禁区。
该报告发现，迄今为止，进入国会大厦的四名告密者都没有被哥伦比亚特区的美国检察官办公室起诉。
在一份回应报告调查结果的声明中，美国司法部长办公室表示，他们通常“不会起诉那些在2021年1月6日唯一犯罪的人，他们的唯一罪行是进入国会大厦周围的限制区域，这导致办公室拒绝起诉数百名个人;我们以这种方式对待社区卫生服务。”
尽管美国联邦调查局在过去四年中面临着严重的审查，原因是他们是否没有为国会的选举认证以及特朗普的支持者袭击国会大厦的可能性做好准备，但霍洛维茨的报告确定，该局“在1月6日之前采取了重大而适当的措施”，作为当天支持角色的一部分。
报告还发现，美国联邦调查局在袭击前没有适当调查所有外地办事处，以获取潜在活动的情报。
美国联邦调查局副局长保罗·阿巴特(Paul Abbate)将1月1日之前缺乏调查描述为“错过的基本步骤”，并告诉监察长办公室，他原本预计会对消息来源进行正式调查。
监察长发现，虽然美国联邦调查局没有故意误导国会缺乏游说外地办事处，但他们的评估并不准确。
2023年6月，参议院民主党人发布了一份报告这直接指责美国联邦调查局未能“敲响警钟，共享关键情报信息，这些信息本可以帮助执法部门更好地为1月6日的事件做准备。”
该报告详细介绍了1月6日之前的一系列提示和其他在线流量，议员们表示，美国联邦调查局知道这些信息，这些信息清楚地表明，特朗普的支持者正在计划暴力，以阻止拜登总统2020年的胜利获得认证。
IG在周四发布的新报告中表示，在1月6日之前，美国联邦调查局没有向其他执法机构提供任何“潜在的关键情报”。
几乎所有50个州的1500多人已被起诉与1月6日对美国国会大厦的袭击有关，罪行从非法侵入国会大厦到袭击联邦官员和煽动阴谋。
过去三年的法庭诉讼，包括对极右翼骄傲男孩集团成员的煽动性阴谋审判，揭示了一些美国联邦调查局线人，他们在2021年1月6日监控或在特朗普支持者的人群中。右翼媒体和一些极右翼政治人物抓住了机密人力资源的存在，推动阴谋论，即美国联邦调查局或“深层国家”参与煽动人群实施暴力——这一说法甚至连1月6日被告的许多律师都否认是错误的。
“我们的审查确定，这些美国联邦调查局社区卫生服务中心没有一个得到美国联邦调查局的授权，在1月6日进入国会大厦或禁区或以其他方式违反法律，也没有任何社区卫生服务中心受到美国联邦调查局的指示，鼓励其他人在1月6日实施非法行为，”霍洛维茨在宣布他的报告的一份声明中说。
Probe finds no evidence feds were involved in inciting Jan. 6 attack
An independent watchdog probe uncovered no evidence that federal agents were involved in inciting the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, according to a report released Thursday, undercutting years of baseless claims spread byfar-right political figureswho have alleged the FBI played a significant role in the attack.
The long-awaited report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz found no evidence that FBI undercover employees were present among the thousands of Trump supporters whostormed the building, or even among the crowds of Trump's supporters who attended protests around Washington, D.C. that day.
While the report confirmed there were 26 informants in Washington, D.C., who were dubbed within the FBI as "confidential human sources" or CHSs, Horowitz uncovered no evidence suggesting that any were instructed to join the assault on the Capitol or otherwise encourage illegal activity by members of the pro-Trump mob.
Moreover, the IG's report found that three of the confidential informants were specifically tasked by FBI field offices with reporting on suspects in specific domestic terrorism cases who were believed to be attending events on Jan. 6, and one of those entered the Capitol during the riot itself.
Twenty-three others were in Washington but were not found to have been instructed to be there by any FBI field offices, and of those 23, three entered the Capitol while 11 entered the restricted areas around the building, the probe found.
The report found that none of the four informants who entered the Capitol have been prosecuted to date by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.
In a statement responding to the report's findings, the U.S. Attorney's Office said they have generally "not charged those individuals whose only crime on January 6, 2021 was to enter the restricted grounds surrounding the Capitol, which has resulted in the Office declining to charge hundreds of individuals; and we have treated the CHSs consistent with this approach."
While the FBI has faced serious scrutiny over the past four years over whether they failed to properly prepare for Congress' election certification and the possibility of an attack on the Capitol by Trump's supporters, Horowitz's report determined that the bureau "took significant and appropriate steps in advance of January 6" as part of its supporting role that day.
The report also found that the FBI did not properly canvass all the field offices for intelligence on potential activity prior to the attack.
FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate described the lack of a canvass prior to Jan. as a "basic step that was missed," and told the inspector general's office that he would have expected a formal canvassing of sources to have occurred.
The inspector general found that while the FBI did not intentionally mislead Congress about the lack of canvassing field offices, they were not accurate in their assessment.
In June of 2023, Senate Democratsreleased a reportthat directly faulted the FBI for failing to "sound the alarm and share critical intelligence information that could have helped law enforcement better prepare for the events of January 6th."
The report detailed a series of tips and other online traffic in advance of Jan. 6 that the lawmakers said the FBI was aware of that gave clear indications Trump's supporters were planning for violence to prevent the certification of President Biden's 2020 victory.
In the leadup to Jan. 6, the FBI did not have any "potentially critical intelligence" in their possession that wasn't provided to other law enforcement entities, the IG said in the new report released Thursday.
More than 1,500 people across nearly all 50 stateshave been chargedin connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, with crimes ranging from illegal trespassing on Capitol grounds, to assaults on federal officers and seditious conspiracy.
Court proceedings over the past three years, including in the seditious conspiracy trial against members of the far-right Proud Boys group, have shed light on some FBI informants who were either monitoring or among those in the crowd of Trump's supporters on Jan. 6, 2021. Right wing media and some far-right political figures have seized on the presence of confidential human sources to push the conspiracy theory that the FBI or 'deep state' was involved in fomenting the crowd to violence -- claims that even many attorneys for Jan. 6 defendants have rejected as false.
"Our review determined that none of these FBI CHSs was authorized by the FBI to enter the Capitol or a restricted area or to otherwise break the law on January 6, nor was any CHS directed by the FBI to encourage others to commit illegal acts on January 6," Horowitz said in a statement announcing his report.
