A Little Truth Finally Outs

I suppose we knew this all along, but it's nice to see it finally come out.

The FBI finally acknowledged to Congress that 274 plainclothes agents were embedded in the January 6 crowds in Washington.

As the years have scrolled by since that momentous day, we've learned that Buffalo Shaman here was actually allowed in by the police, with whom he spoke on several occasions during the adventure; he was nonviolent and allowed to enter without force. I learned from a friend on hand that day that the Park Police were understaffed if anything; we've learned that the National Guard was requested but denied by Congress; we've learned a great many similar things. There was some rioting on the one side of the building, but a lot of the people were let in: there is video of police opening the barricades and the doors. 

We had already received an admission from the FBI that dozens or hundreds of their informants were present in the crowd. Now we know it actually had agents* in plainclothes in large numbers in the crowd. "The news comes in the wake of claims by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General that the FBI had no undercover personnel in the Jan. 6 crowds."

That changes the flavor of the whole thing, doesn't it? Not an insurrection any more: an information operation designed to leverage popular anger and protest at legitimate election tomfoolery in several states, and turn it into a cause for the Federales to consolidate power. As late as the 2024 election season the DOJ was still lying to us all about this in official reports. I recall that they walled off the Congress and deployed the National Guard afterwards for months. 

* The FBI and the CIA use the term "agent" very differently. An "agent" for the CIA is not a CIA officer, but a foreign national they've recruited to execute their plans within the host country. This term is almost wholly misused by Hollywood accounts of what the Agency does, where a 'secret agent' is supposed to be the James Bond type of CIA officer: these are in fact called "operations officers." An "agent" for the FBI is an officer and employee; an 'agent' in the CIA's sense is called a "confidential informant" by the FBI. Thus, the admission here is that the FBI had actual secret police agents throughout the crowd on 6 January 2001.