...maybe you can answer this question without punking out
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Answering the question - "So why the hell didn't they prevent Jan 6th?" [ Here the term "they" means the informants. ]
That is a
great question. From the Department of Justice guidelines on FBI undercover operations:
Being undercover sometimes involves a situation that falls in the "
sensitive circumstances" category according to the government guidelines. Obviously their "participation in the activities of a group under investigation as part of a Domestic Security Investigation" applies along with the "significant risk of violence or physical injury to individuals or a significant risk of financial loss" category. Both of these categories adequately characterized the circumstances of any undercover agents involved.
- So by definition, any undercover agents involved in the insurrection violence were under the
sensitive circumstances category of the DOJ guidelines.
According to section H: "Participation in otherwise illegal activity"
(d) " If consultation is impossible, and the undercover employee concludes that there is an immediate and grave threat to life, physical safety, or property, the undercover employee may participate in the otherwise illegal activity, so long as he does not take part in and makes every effort to prevent any act of violence."
- So,
if consultation is impossible, and as long as an undercover agent does not take part in, and makes every effort to prevent any act of violence, he/she may participate in illegal activity.
In the case of the Proud Boys FBI informant, consultation
was available and he even
texted his handler as the attack took place. In the case of the Oath Keepers, a recording of a meeting with Stewart Rhodes by one of its own members was given to the FBI in
November 2020 with an apprehension that the Oath Keepers were “
going to war with the United States government". Here the FBI did not contact this member until he was interviewed in
March 2021.
In addition, the "FBI received at least 20 independent pieces of intelligence between November 9 and January 6, from sources including sister agencies, social media platforms, and public officials". According to the link sited above, "“a sizeable percentage of the employee population…felt sympathetic to the group that stormed the Capitol.”
This is why the hell the FBI didn't prevent the insurrection on January 6th.
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