A high-ranking Justice Department official who once helped lead the investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack is now spearheading an effort to identify and scrutinize the very prosecutors and FBI agents who worked on those cases.
President Trump has granted pardons, commutations, or case dismissals for every person charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.
Shane Lamond, a former intelligence officer with the Metropolitan Police in Washington, D.C. was convicted on Monday for providing sensitive information to a leader of the Proud Boys.
The FBI had no undercover agents among the crowd that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, nor did it instruct any of its informants to participate in the riot or break the law, according to a report released Thursday by the Justice Department’s inspector general.
The Justice Department sent a clear signal Wednesday to defendants charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol: Accepting a pardon from former President Donald Trump would amount to an acknowledgment of their guilt.
Donald Trump’s return to power is expected to halt the prosecution of many who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is “likely the largest single day mass assault of law enforcement officers in our nation’s history,” said Matthew Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
A quarter of Americans have fallen for the baseless conspiracy theory that the FBI “probably” or “definitely” orchestrated the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
