{"id":2674,"date":"2023-04-10T09:05:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T14:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2023-04-10T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T14:16:07","slug":"at-least-40-undercover-feds-infiltrated-january-6-defense-attorney-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=2674","title":{"rendered":"\u2018At Least 40\u2019 Undercover Feds Infiltrated January 6, Defense Attorney Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: revert;\">At least 40 undercover local and federal law enforcement assets <\/span><p>secretly infiltrated the election protest on January 6, court documents  from the Justice Department\u2019s case against Capitol defendant Dominic  Pezzola reveal.<\/p> <p>Pezzola, a member of the Proud Boys, is currently incarcerated and is  facing \u201cseditious conspiracy\u201d charges over his role in the January 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/valiantnews.com\/tag\/january-6\/\">protest.<\/a><\/p> <p>Pezolla\u2019s attorney Roger Roots on Wednesday filed a motion detailing  the covert presence of numerous law enforcement assets or agents who  were reportedly tasked with \u201cconducting surveillance among\u201d protestors,  now turned-January 6 criminal defendants<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the court documents, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), DC Metropolitan Police department (MPD), and the \u201cprincipal investigative arm\u201d of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), were \u201crunning\u201d at least 40 undercover agents, informants, or confidential human sources during the riot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The motion states that along with eight FBI confidential human sources, MPD deployed at least 13 plainclothes agents. HSI utilized 19 confidential human sources<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Video footage and private texts have reportedly shown MPD\u2019s undercover assets instigating the crowd to storm the Capitol building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2019At least 40 undercover FBI informants\u2019 participated in J6 with Proud Boys but only 5 Proud Boys are being prosecuted?\u201d Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted in reaction to the motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe FBI is not supposed to encourage or help people break the law, they should stop people from breaking the law\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Georgia Republican then called upon Congress to take action against corrupt elements within the FBI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCongress must defund the corruption from the FBI. The weaponization of government can be stopped through the budget and appropriations,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original article: <a href=\"https:\/\/valiantnews.com\/2023\/04\/at-least-40-undercover-feds-infiltrated-capitol-protest-january-6-defense-attorney-reveals\/\">https:\/\/valiantnews.com\/2023\/04\/at-least-40-undercover-feds-infiltrated-capitol-protest-january-6-defense-attorney-reveals\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 40 undercover local and federal law enforcement assets secretly infiltrated the election protest on January 6, court documents from the Justice Department\u2019s case against Capitol defendant Dominic Pezzola reveal. Pezzola, a member of the Proud Boys, is currently incarcerated and is facing \u201cseditious conspiracy\u201d charges over his role in the January 6 protest. Pezolla\u2019s attorney Roger Roots on Wednesday filed a motion detailing the covert presence of numerous law enforcement assets or agents who were reportedly tasked with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}