At least 40 undercover local and federal law enforcement assets
secretly infiltrated the election protest on January 6, court documents from the Justice Department’s case against Capitol defendant Dominic Pezzola reveal.
Pezzola, a member of the Proud Boys, is currently incarcerated and is facing “seditious conspiracy” charges over his role in the January 6 protest.
Pezolla’s attorney Roger Roots on Wednesday filed a motion detailing the covert presence of numerous law enforcement assets or agents who were reportedly tasked with “conducting surveillance among” protestors, now turned-January 6 criminal defendants
According to the court documents, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), DC Metropolitan Police department (MPD), and the “principal investigative arm” of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), were “running” at least 40 undercover agents, informants, or confidential human sources during the riot.
The motion states that along with eight FBI confidential human sources, MPD deployed at least 13 plainclothes agents. HSI utilized 19 confidential human sources
Video footage and private texts have reportedly shown MPD’s undercover assets instigating the crowd to storm the Capitol building.
“’At least 40 undercover FBI informants’ participated in J6 with Proud Boys but only 5 Proud Boys are being prosecuted?” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted in reaction to the motion.
“The FBI is not supposed to encourage or help people break the law, they should stop people from breaking the law”
The Georgia Republican then called upon Congress to take action against corrupt elements within the FBI.
“Congress must defund the corruption from the FBI. The weaponization of government can be stopped through the budget and appropriations,” she said.
Original article: https://valiantnews.com/2023/04/at-least-40-undercover-feds-infiltrated-capitol-protest-january-6-defense-attorney-reveals/
