Oath Keepers

The footnote said defense attorneys “combed through a mountain of discovery,” including FBI form 302 summaries of interviews conducted by FBI agents.

In addition to the information about law-enforcement assets on the ground at the Capitol, the footnote says, the Oath Keepers “were being monitored and recorded prior to J6.”

Poring over evidence turned over in discovery by prosecutors in two major Oath Keepers cases has “not found one iota of proof” that defendants “had any plan, intention, design, or scheme to specifically enter the Capitol Building on J6,” the motion said….

“Fact check: Claims of FBI role in Jan. 6 Capitol attack are false,” by McKenzie Sadeghi, USA Today, June 25, 2021:

…In the months following the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol by rioters seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, conservative media personalities have attempted to downplay the insurrection and shift blame….

Now, claims that undercover FBI agents were behind the Capitol insurrection are circulating on social media.

“Evidence surfaces that the FBI planned and executed January 6 Capitol riot,” the Tatum Report wrote in a June 17 Instagram post….

But that theory relies on a false assumption: that anyone identified as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in charging documents is a government agent. 

In fact, legal experts say that term cannot be used to describe FBI agents or undercover government operatives.