DEVELOPING: What You Need to Know About the FBI Jan 6 Proud Boys Informant Leak – IOTW Report

DEVELOPING: What You Need to Know About the FBI Jan 6 Proud Boys Informant Leak

Revolver:
Gateway Pundit recently published a leaked government document containing sensitive  information in relation to an FBI confidential human source who had infiltrated the Proud Boys and who was present for the entire January 6 “riot,” all the while communicating contemporaneously with his FBI handlers.

Read the whole Gateway Pundit piece here.

This is a developing story and Revolver will do an extensive follow-up in the coming weeks.

For now, here are a couple things to note:

While Revolver has not been able to verify the Gateway Pundit report in its entirety, we have been able to confirm the authenticity of the government documents.

Furthermore, we can add the following scoop: The Proud Boys Confidential Human Source (informant) referred to in the government documents leaked on Gateway Pundit is the very same Proud Boys informant referred to in a New York Times piece published September of last year.

The leaked documents corroborate the New York Times’ coverage that the informant “maintained the group did not plan in advance to enter the Capitol and disrupt the election.”

The documents also confirm the New York Times’ grudging acknowledgement that “federal law enforcement had a far greater visibility into the assault on the Capitol, even as it was taking place, than was previously known.” The Times piece acknowledges the existence of at least one more Proud Boys informant on the ground on January 6th.

Despite testimony from the FBI’s own confidential informant that there was no prior plan to attack the Capitol, many Proud Boys, including then-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Joe Biggs (both with a history of informing to the FBI themselves), have been charged with Seditious Conspiracy.

The only remotely possible innocent excuse for this discrepancy on the government’s part is that the particular informant in question was not part of Proud Boys leadership, and would not have been privy to the leadership chats in which the alleged conspiracy took place.

If it turned out that the FBI had informants in the Proud Boys leadership chats, that would be absolutely devastating to the Federal government— as one would have to conclude either that there was no conspiracy in the first place, or that there was a conspiracy and the government did nothing to stop it. more

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