{"id":1742399,"date":"2022-11-17T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1742399"},"modified":"2022-11-17T11:33:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T16:33:11","slug":"fbi-director-wray-wont-say-if-he-had-informants-dressed-as-trump-supporters-at-the-capitol-on-january-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-director-wray-wont-say-if-he-had-informants-dressed-as-trump-supporters-at-the-capitol-on-january-6th\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Director Wray Won\u2019t Say If He Had Informants Dressed as Trump Supporters at the Capitol on January 6th"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffbi-director-wray-wont-say-if-he-had-informants-dressed-as-trump-supporters-at-the-capitol-on-january-6th%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1742399&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.17-12.13-thepoliticalinsider-6376255149098.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>FBI Director Christopher Wray said he had to \u201cbe very careful\u201d about answering questions about whether the bureau had informants dressed as Trump supporters in the crowd at the Capitol on January 6th.<\/p>\n<p>Wray\u2019s comments came during a hearing held before the House Homeland Security Committee on November 15th.<\/p>\n<p>And it comes just days after the New York Times revealed through court documents that the FBI had <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/court-docs-fbi-had-eight-informants-in-proud-boys-prior-to-january-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as many as eight informants<\/a> embedded with the \u201cProud Boys\u201d group in the months leading up to the riot at the Capitol in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Clay Higgins (R-LA) asked during the hearing, \u201cDid the FBI have confidential human sources embedded within the January 6 protests on January 6, 2021?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I\u2019m sure you can appreciate, I have to be very careful about what I can say about when \u2026\u201d Wray replied before the two engaged in crosstalk.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than answering the question, Wray balked at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2022\/11\/15\/fbi_director_wray_the_suggestion_that_fbi_sources_or_employees_instigated_january_6_riot_is_categorically_false.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">any possible implication<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut to the extent there is the suggestion that the FBI\u2019s confidential human sources or FBI employees in some way instigated or orchestrated Jan 6th, that\u2019s categorically false,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">REP. HIGGINS: \u201cDid you have confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters inside The Capitol on January 6th prior to the doors being opened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FBI DIR. WRAY: \u201cI have to be very careful about what I can say.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/COGkWCPCpY\">pic.twitter.com\/COGkWCPCpY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1592578427625750529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Sign up to receive the latest<\/strong> political news, insight, and commentary delivered directly to your inbox.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/court-docs-fbi-had-eight-informants-in-proud-boys-prior-to-january-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Court Docs: FBI Had EIGHT Informants in Proud Boys Prior to January 6<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>FBI Director Can\u2019t Say if he Had Informants Dressed as Trump Supporters INSIDE the Capitol on January 6th<\/h3>\n<p>As remarkable as that was, the exchange between Representative Higgins and FBI Director Christopher Wray grows ever more curious, leading to more questions than answers.<\/p>\n<p>Higgins buttoned up his questioning a bit, getting more specific by asking, \u201cDid you have confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters inside the Capitol on January 6, prior to the doors being opened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is a very direct question about informants being <em>inside<\/em> the Capitol first, dressed up as Trump supporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, I have to be very careful \u2026,\u201d Wray replied before getting cut off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should be a no!\u201d a perplexed Higgins shot back. \u201cCan you not tell the American people \u2018no, we did not have confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters positioned inside the Capitol on January 6\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should not read anything into my decision not to share information on confidential human sources,\u201d Wray concluded.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/julie_kelly2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@julie_kelly2<\/a> Joins <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IngrahamAngle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IngrahamAngle<\/a> To Discuss FBI Director Christopher Wray\u2019s Evasive Testimony In Response To New Revelations That Several Informants Reported To The FBI Leading Up To January 6th <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bzUZTzfszG\">pic.twitter.com\/bzUZTzfszG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Columbia Bugle \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ColumbiaBugle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ColumbiaBugle\/status\/1592727311702712320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/top-fbi-official-refuses-to-answer-ted-cruz-when-asked-if-agents-took-part-in-january-6-riot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Top FBI Official Refuses To Answer Ted Cruz When Asked If Agents Took Part In January 6 Riot<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Report: There Were Informants at the Riot<\/h3>\n<p>Wray\u2019s evasive testimony, while trying to protect the tactics and techniques used by the FBI and possible informants on January 6th, is bewildering.<\/p>\n<p>Reports have already surfaced that eight informants had been embedded within the \u201cProud Boys\u201d in the months leading up to the Capitol protest.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times has also revealed that the FBI had a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/08\/us\/politics\/oath-keepers-trial-january-6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">well-placed informant<\/a>\u00a0within the Oath Keepers, another group that allegedly took part in the January 6 riot.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The FBI had as many as eight informants inside the Proud Boys in the months around the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, recent court papers indicate, raising questions about how much federal investigators were able to learn from them before and after it took place. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vfMPExBNW3\">https:\/\/t.co\/vfMPExBNW3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1592268660831408133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Still, Wray insists nothing should be read into his inability to answer the questions, and any suggestion that his evasiveness means they were there and may have instigated any activity that day is \u201ccategorically false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is as of now no evidence that the FBI or other law enforcement helped riled up the crowd in any way. But avoiding direct questions as to what their informants may or may not have been doing that day reflects poorly on Wray and helps add fuel to the conspiracy fire.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A NYT reporter privately admitted there were a \u201cton of FBI informants\u201d present at the Capitol on January 6. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oaFONsdhSN\">pic.twitter.com\/oaFONsdhSN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1501744496102494211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The FBI Director seems stuck between a rock and a hard place.<\/p>\n<p>Insist there were no informants and be questioned about the bureau\u2019s inability to spot the danger ahead of time, or admit there <em>were<\/em> informants and the bureau still failed to stop the riot, or worse, allowed it to happen even with that knowledge.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Now is the time to support and share the sources you trust.<\/strong><br \/>The Political Insider ranks #3 on <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.feedspot.com\/political_blogs\/\">Feedspot\u2019s<\/a> \u201c100 Best Political Blogs and Websites.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director Christopher Wray said he had to \u201cbe very careful\u201d about answering questions about whether the bureau had informants dressed as Trump supporters in the crowd at the Capitol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1742402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1742402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}