Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., told Newsmax on Monday that House Republicans in the new Congress will continue to seek answers regarding any role the FBI might have played in the events of Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol.
A report by Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz released last month revealed the FBI had 26 confidential human sources from various field offices in Washington, D.C., that day. He wrote that three of the confidential human sources were tasked by FBI field offices before Jan. 6 "to report on domestic terrorism subjects who were possibly attending the event."
"It doesn't surprise me that they had some there because you would expect some of those to be there," Loudermilk told "Rob Schmitt Tonight." The Georgia Republican is chair of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, which was tasked in the last Congress with investigating the breakdowns and the politicization of the events that day.
"Now, these confidential sources are spies that are embedded deeply within these organizations that were planning and carried out the riot and those that did commit violence here at the Capitol," he said.
"My question to the Department of Justice: If you had [26] confidential informants here that day, how did you not know something was going to happen? And if you did know what was going to happen, when did you get the intelligence and what did you do with it?
"Because we need to know where the failure was," Loudermilk continued. "If you knew something was going to happen, did you provide that to the Capitol Police? Did the Capitol Police provide that to the police chief, who did not know?"
On Dec. 17, Loudermilk's subcommittee released an interim staff report that outlined criminal recommendations against former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who was vice chair of the Democrat-controlled House select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6. His subcommittee and a House Judiciary subcommittee last week also released a report regarding pipe bombs found near the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national committees in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 within minutes of Congress' vote to certify the 2020 election.
"It just kind of falls in line with the things that we've learned about the Department of Defense, who purposefully held back the National Guard from deploying to the Capitol, even after the order was given: that the Department of Defense ignored the orders of [then] President [Donald] Trump, who gave them on Jan. 3 to prepare the National Guard for deployment, and the leadership in the Department of Defense just shrugged it off as, 'Oh, he's not really serious about this," he said.
"So there are just so many different areas of failure and then cover-up that we have to continue to dig into this."
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