Wed Nov 16, 2022 – 9:39 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — At least eight FBI informants were operating within the so-called “Proud Boys” in the months surrounding January 6, 2021, according to court documents reviewed by The New York Times. The January 6 riot has been used as a political cudgel by the left to brand Trump-supporters as “insurrectionists.”
Legal filings reportedly revealed that at least eight FBI “confidential sources” infiltrated the “Proud Boys” militia group and fed information to the FBI in the months around the riot at the U.S. Capitol, The New York Times reported Monday. Last year, the paper had reported that at least two FBI informants embedded within the group had been present at the Capitol on the day of the riot.
The FBI had as many as eight informants inside the Proud Boys in the months around the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, recent court papers indicate, raising questions about how much federal investigators were able to learn from them before and after it took place. https://t.co/vfMPExBNW3
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 14, 2022
According to the report, the documents revealing the existence of FBI informants were submitted by lawyers representing
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