After years of FBI Directors dissembling before Congress and refusing to acknowledge that they had agents at the Capitol on January 6th, Kash Patel released bombshell documents not only revealing the number of agents but also reporting that, in after-action reports, many of them were quite angry that they had been set up to be pawns in a political game to destroy conservatives.
Breaking: FBI Bombshell: 274 agents sent to Capitol for J6, many later complained they were political ‘pawns’ https://t.co/DJdZr2yjOa
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) September 26, 2025
They complained bitterly about the Washington Field Office's politicization and the prosecutors who chose to prosecute or not based on their woke, liberal politics.
It's an interesting window into the behind-the-scenes drama that the politicized FBI has been hiding for years, although it comes as no surprise to those who have been following the decline of the agency since Obama became president.
The FBI secretly deployed more than 250 plainclothes agents to the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, an operation so disorganized it unleashed searing frustrations among many of the FBI's rank-and-file that the bureau had lost its core competencies to "wokeness" and allowed its employees to become “pawns in a political war,” according to an after-action report kept from the public for more than four years.
Scores of FBI agents and personnel – many from the bureau’s premier Washington field office (WFO) – sent anonymous complaints to the after-action team detailing how agents were sent into an unsafe scenario without proper safety equipment or the ability to identify themselves readily as armed officers to other police agencies, the report obtained by Just the News shows.
The most persistent complaint was that the bureau during the James Comey and Chris Wray era had become infected with political biases and liberal ideology that treated the protesters from the summer 2020 Black Lives Matter riots far differently than those arrested in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 episode.
“The FBI should make clear to its personnel and the public that, despite its obvious political bias, it ultimately still takes its mission and priorities seriously,” one employee wrote in a stinging review. “It should equally and aggressively investigate criminal activity regardless of the offenders' perceived race, political affiliations, or motivations; and it should equally and aggressively protect all Americans regardless of perceived race, political affiliations, or motivations.”
That agent urged FBI leaders “to identify viable exit options for FBI personnel who no longer feel it is legally or morally acceptable to support a federal law enforcement and intelligence agency motivated by political bias.”
As Gomer Pyle would say, "surprise, surprise, surprise!"
Agents were sent to the Capitol without identifying documents, despite being armed, putting them at great risk.
It doesn't appear from the released documents that any of the agents were there to incite or encourage lawbreaking, but as many of the agents pointed out, they had zero training or experience in crowd or riot control, and were just tossed there at the direction of the top brass without any instructions regarding what to do or why they were there.
Many of the agents’ feedback focused on the Washington Field Office and its culture. “WFO is a hopelessly broken office that's more concerned about wearing masks and recruiting preferred racial/sexual groups than catching actual bad guys,” one worker wrote.
Added another: “I wish you all would pay more attention to our safety than what type of masks we wear. If you are going to deploy us to a riot situation, then give us the proper damn safety equipment--helmet, face shield, protective clothing--and training!”
The after-action responses – 50 pages in all – were located by current FBI Director Kash Patel’s team and recently turned over to the House Judiciary Committee and its special subcommittee investigating security failures and weaponization of law enforcement during the Jan. 6 riot.
274 undercover agents embedded in riot , with no safety plans
The document has proven a bombshell to lawmakers, revealing for the first time that the FBI had a total of 274 agents deployed to the Capitol in plainclothes and with guns but no clear safety gear of way to be recognized by other law enforcement agencies working in the chaos of the riot.
You can read the after-action report below:
Wray, Patel’s predecessor, steadfastly refused to tell Congress how many if any agents went to the Capitol that day. And a prior DOJ Inspector General Report did not divulge the number, referring only to a SWAT team the bureau sent into the Capitol and having more than two dozen informants in the crowd.
The existence of mass FBI agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6 could also be a problem in many of the cases that were subsequently brought in court. If agents were witnesses at the Capitol and did not disclose it in the subsequent affidavits during prosecutions it could create grounds for defendants to appeal.
It's obvious why top FBI officials refused to tell Congress about these agents' presence. Not only would it look awful that the FBI had hundreds of agents there, but even worse, that many of those agents felt betrayed by their bosses and believed that they were being used as pawns in a political witch hunt.
That would harsh the Narrative™, you know, because it is exactly what Republicans have been saying for years.
The after-action reports are a rich vein of material for those of us who have been arguing that the Democrats and the media have been massaging the truth to create a false impression of the events on January 6th and the subsequent prosecutions and persecutions since. More than 13% of all FBI resources were devoted to going after January 6th rioters--5-6000 agents, for years. Many of the people they went after had committed misdemeanors, which is hardly the FBI's wheelhouse.
But frontline agents repeatedly raised issues of liberal bias and wokeness in their after-action assessments. The words “politics” or “bias” were mentioned more than a dozen times in responses, and similar sentiments scores of times in the 50 pages.
“Our response to the Capitol Riot reeks of political bias,” one wrote.
Another added: “I wonder if our biases affected our preparedness.”
A third suggested the agents and analysts had become engrossed in the main business of Washington – politics – rather than crime fighting and blamed the bureau’s leadership for the slide.
“We have been used as pawns in a political war, and FBI leadership fell into the trap and has allowed it to happen,” that employee wrote. “We are supposed to call balls and strikes, regardless of political pressure, now we can’t even be trusted to be on the field,” another agent commented.”
Those are quotes from what agents TOLD THEIR BOSSES in after-action reports. These aren't people bitching after they were let go, but agents who had careers to put at risk, yet they still loudly complained. It's one thing to whistleblow to Congress after your career is toast, and quite another to complain directly to your boss while you still are trying to keep it.
Don't be surprised if the Pravda Media soft-pedals the releases. They contradict the established Narrative™, so they will go into the dustbin of history if they have anything to say about it.
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