Emails Show FBI Agents Sympathized With Capitol Rioters

A flurry of documents were recently released by the FBI, and one of the emails that is now public shows that a "sizable percentage" of FBI agents that have been tasked with probing the Capitol riots were actually sympathetic to their cause, and many viewed it as no different than the Black Lives Matter protests the summer before the riot. This is beyond unacceptable, as these rioters exhibited clear anti-government views, and have been charged accordingly. That kind of mentality cannot exist inside a federal agency, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Recently the FBI released a flurry of new documents out there for the public to just kind of take a look at, and one of the documents happens to be an email, an email sent from someone outside the agency to the agency's number two FBI agent. And in this email, this outsider, whose name of course was redacted, warned the FBI that you've got a lot of, uh, sympathizers in your agency who believe that the capital rioters on January 6th did nothing wrong. In fact, many of them see those capital rioters from January 6th, no different than the Black Lives Matter protesters from the summer of 2020. In fact, at one point in the letter it says, I literally had to explain to an agent from a blue state office the difference between opportunists burning and looting during protests that stemmed from legitimate grievance to police brutality versus an insurgent mob whose purpose was to prevent the execution of a democratic process at the behest of a sitting president. One is a smattering of criminals, the other is an organized group of domestic terrorists. But according to this individual who we don't know, I'm assuming it's somebody connected to the agency in some way, or at least somebody, you know, possibly some kind of inspector general's office, something like that. That's what I think is going on here with this individual. Also told the number two at the FBI that you have a quote, sizable percentage of agents who believe the capital rioters did nothing wrong.

I, I hate to borrow a phrase from Donald Trump, but I'm gonna, because maybe it's time to drain the swamp, right? I mean, that's what Trump told us all the time. Let's get these deep state people outta here. Okay, Well, I would say this is pretty deep state. When you have people in positions of authority who hold deep anti-government viewpoints, wouldn't that be a deep state like you're employed by the very group that you're railing against, that you think is evil? So you would be able to destroy it from the inside if you so chose, If you had the numbers as it stands right now, you don't.

But things change. Things definitely change over time. These individuals in the FBI who sympathize with the capital rioters, they need to be purged. This report also, by the way, not necessarily report, but these internal emails also really, uh, uh, debunk those Republican talking points that the capital riot was in fact started by FBI plants in the audience there. So we've killed a right winging talking point. We've found out the FBI is filled with sympathizers to the capital rioters. So is any of this shocking? Well, according to, uh, Heidi Bere, uh, uh, Barrett, excuse me, the co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, she said, quote, The situation has been serious enough that the FBI for almost 20 years has been warning of insider threats from cops. And the thing is, nobody's done anything about it.