Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz's Jan. 6 intelligence report "does not get to the bottom" of what role FBI informants played that day, Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., told Newsmax on Thursday.
"They [the FBI] claim they had no employees – OK, they had no agents, but they said that three of them were actually paid informants," Harris told "The Chris Salcedo Show." "So yeah, they weren't getting their healthcare benefits from the FBI, but they were being paid by the FBI. And then, of course, the other confidential informants they had.
"So, we're not at the bottom of this yet."
While the report claimed that 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. Harris said while the FBI did not have official employees on the scene, they had plenty of paid assets.
The report also does not get into if there were people from any other intelligence agency on the ground, Harris noted.
"For instance, how about Homeland Security?" Harris asked. "How many confidential informants did they have on the Capitol grounds?
"We can go through each of the federal agencies, now that we know that they were there, and find out how many there were from each agency."
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