Opinion
By Max Corwin, Conservative Fix
10/06/25
Investigative journalist says there’s zero evidence 274 FBI agents were helping police on January 6.
The official narrative surrounding the FBI’s involvement in the events of January 6, 2021, just took another major hit. Veteran journalist Steve Baker one of the most experienced reporters covering the Capitol riot says claims that hundreds of plainclothes FBI agents were deployed that day for “crowd control” are pure nonsense.
“This is BS. This is not true,” Baker told Morning Wire during an interview Sunday. “If we had seen them at any point during that day, we would have made note of it. It just never happened.”
According to the FBI’s own director, Kash Patel, 274 plainclothes FBI agents were supposedly ordered into the crowd that day to help control the chaos. The admission came nearly five years after January 6 a stunningly late disclosure. Patel has since blamed “corrupt leadership” for allegedly throwing those agents into an “impossible situation.”
But Baker, who’s spent more time inside the official Capitol CCTV viewing room than any other reporter, says Patel’s explanation doesn’t match the evidence not even close.
Baker and fellow reporter Joe Hanneman, both of The Blaze, have spent thousands of hours reviewing security footage, testimony, and court records related to January 6. Their research has made them two of the most credible and detail-oriented journalists on the subject.
Link to full article: https://conservativefix.com/p/fbi-plainclothes-j6-claims-exposed
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