Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund said in an interview Friday that the FBI never informed him that hundreds of its agents had been deployed inside the crowds during the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.<\/p>\n
Sund\u2019s remarks to host John Fawcett of \u201cThe Great America Show\u201d came on the heels of a Thursday revelation that the FBI, then under Christopher Wray, had 274 plainclothes agents inside the massive Trump crowds on January 6, 2021 \u2014 hundreds more than previously reported.<\/p>\n
A senior congressional source said the number of FBI personnel at the Capitol on Jan. 6 is not necessarily surprising, noting that the bureau routinely embeds countersurveillance staff at large public events. Still, the source acknowledged that, given the FBI\u2019s longstanding refusal to detail the scope of its presence that day, the figure is likely to draw skepticism in some quarters, The Blaze\u00a0reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n The disclosure follows earlier claims by the Justice Department\u2019s Office of Inspector General that the FBI had no undercover personnel embedded in the Jan. 6 crowds. It also\u00a0follows a false claim<\/a>\u00a0by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that neither then-President Trump nor anyone else requested National Guard support.<\/p>\n \u201cWe found no evidence in the materials we reviewed or the testimony we received showing or suggesting that the FBI had undercover employees in the various protest crowds, or at the Capitol, on January 6,\u201d the DOJ OIG said in an 88-page report released in December 2024.<\/p>\n Wray\u00a0testified before Congress\u00a0in July 2023 that he \u201cdoes not believe\u201d undercover FBI agents were present at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not sure there were undercover agents on scene,\u201d Wray responded to a question from a GOP lawmaker. \u201cAs I sit here right now, I do not believe there were undercover agents on.\u201d<\/p>\n Sund said that on January 5, one day before the Capitol protests, he met with representatives from major federal agencies and specifically asked whether any liaison would be assigned from agencies planning to have personnel on the ground. According to Sund, no agency disclosed such plans.<\/p>\n \u201cIf they were saying that they were going to have that group in the crowd already, most likely what they\u2019d do is they\u2019d put a liaison up in my command center,\u201d Sund told Fawcett. \u201cI mean, if you\u2019re going to have that type of assets and resources deployed onto someone\u2019s jurisdiction, you\u2019re going to put somebody in their command center. That\u2019s key.<\/p>\n WATCH:<\/p>\n