Two high ranking Republican senators have written to Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz seeking clarification as to which other federal agencies, apart from the FBI, were on the ground during the January 6, 2021, riots on Capitol Hill.
Last week, Horowitz released his much anticipated Jan. 6 intelligence report. While the findings claimed there were no FBI employees in the crowd Jan. 6, the report did note there were 26 confidential human sources and four of them went into the U.S. Capitol.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., have asked Horowitz to "more precisely explain what records it sought and received from all DOJ component agencies." Grassley and Johnson are seeking information on whether the DOJ had any other informants, who are not specifically federal employees, dispersed among the crowd on Jan 6. Newsmax has not seen the full letter co-authored by the senators.
"This IG report was a step in the right direction, but Senator Johnson and I still have questions the Justice Department needs to account for," Grassley told Fox News Digital on Saturday. "The American people deserve a full picture of whether Justice Department sources from its component agencies, in addition to the FBI, were present on January 6, what their role was, and whether DOJ had knowledge of their attendance."
The pair are seeking answers on if Horowitz obtained evidence on whether other DOJ component agencies, such as the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, had tasked or untasked undercover confidential human sources either in the Capitol building or in the Washington, D.C. area on Jan. 6, 2021. If a confidential human source is directed to be at a specific event they are paid by the FBI for their time.
"I urge the Inspector General’s office to be fully transparent about their work to ensure that Congress and the public have an accurate and complete understanding about what it actually reviewed," Johnson added.