The F.B.I. had as many as eight informants inside the far-right Proud Boys in the months surrounding the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, recent court papers indicate, raising questions about how much federal investigators were able to learn from them about the violent mob attack both before and after it took place.
The existence of the informants came to light over the past few days in a flurry of veiled court filings by defense lawyers for five members of the Proud Boys who are set to go on trial next month on seditious conspiracy charges connected to the Capitol attack.
In the papers, some of which were heavily redacted, the lawyers claimed that some of the information the confidential sources had provided to the government was favorable to their efforts to defend their clients against sedition charges and was improperly withheld by prosecutors until several days ago.
So if there was a planned conspiracy to attack the capital, then the FBI obviously knew about it and did nothing to stop it. Didn't even warn local authorities to give them a chance to stop it. What sort of FBI would we have if they were more interested in promoting crime than stopping it?
Otherwise there was no conspiracy planned and everything here in this trial that has been pushed as a seditious conspiracy is going to fall flat.. or at least should fall flat. Every single bit of information provided to the prosecution that pushes the idea of a planned conspiracy is an indictment on the lack of effort on the part of the FBI to actually stop it.
So either our FBI are willing to promote the idea and allow the capital to be attacked for political reasons... or they are willing to lie in open court. Take your pick.
