We Now Know Top FBI Agent Complaint After Jan. 6 - It's Clear the Good Ones Knew Something Was Very Wrong, Too: Report
The left’s preferred narrative surrounding January 6, 2021, has taken a devastating hit. Newly surfaced revelations confirm that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had 274 undercover agents embedded in the crowd that day. Even more explosive, some of those very agents are now speaking out about how the Bureau was weaponized against conservatives.
According to a Thursday report from Just The News, these agents’ chief grievance was that the FBI under former directors James Comey and Chris Wray transformed into a political instrument for the left. As the outlet summarized, agents complained the Bureau had “become infected with political biases and liberal ideology.” For many conservatives, this merely validates what has long been suspected: the FBI treated far-left rioters in the summer of 2020 with kid gloves while pursuing Trump supporters with a heavy hand on Jan. 6.
One agent even urged leadership to allow an “off ramp” for personnel unwilling to participate in what he called a circus, stating the FBI needed “to identify viable exit options for FBI personnel who no longer feel it is legally or morally acceptable to support a federal law enforcement and intelligence agency motivated by political bias.”
Others singled out the Washington Field Office as ground zero for woke ideology. “WFO is a hopelessly broken office that’s more concerned about wearing masks and recruiting preferred racial/sexual groups than catching actual bad guys,” one agent wrote.
Their reports repeatedly underscored the same theme: politics had compromised the mission. “Our response to the Capitol Riot reeks of political bias,” an agent warned. Another summed it up bluntly: “We have been used as pawns in a political war, and FBI leadership fell into the trap and has allowed it to happen. We are supposed to call balls and strikes, regardless of political pressure, now we can’t even be trusted to be on the field.”
Yet in public testimony, Wray brushed aside the concerns. “The idea that I’m biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me, given my own personal background,” he told Congress in 2023. That same year, he mocked whistleblowers’ concerns, telling a podcast: “I have found almost invariably, the people screaming the loudest about the politicization of the FBI are themselves the most political … they often don’t know the facts or are choosing to ignore them.”
The full report can be read here.
Taken together, the evidence leaves little doubt: the FBI was not simply a neutral observer on Jan. 6—it was a participant. Add in the fact that President Donald Trump requested the National Guard to secure the area but was denied, and the entire operation looks increasingly like a setup to vilify Trump and his supporters.
Trump had long sounded the alarm about the FBI’s partisan turn, and once again, he has been vindicated. The question now: can newly appointed FBI Director Kash Patel root out the rot, restore accountability, and rebuild public trust? Many honest men and women inside the Bureau are still fighting for its integrity—but whether that’s enough remains to be seen.