What Were Those 274 FBI Agents Doing at The Capitol on Jan. 6?

It has been blazingly obvious that the Jan. 6 “insurrection,” which the left has used for over four years now to try to portray Trump as a dangerous would-be dictator and his supporters as violent fascists, was a set-up ever since the videos began circulating of police holding open the Capitol doors as the supposed “insurrectionists” strolled leisurely in. Now, however, it is even clearer that the whole Jan. 6 “insurrection” was an attempt to frame Trump for allegedly trying to overthrow the government, which, if it had worked, would have kept him from running for president again: it has now come to light that 274 undercover FBI agents were in the crowd on that day.

What they were doing there is not really in any serious doubt, but that doesn’t mean that they’ve admitted it. In fact, according to a Friday report in The Blaze, the spin has already begun: “a senior congressional source said the number is not necessarily a surprise, since the FBI often embeds countersurveillance personnel at large events.” Yeah, sure, that’s it. They were just there for crowd control. They were on the side of the angels.

Few, if any, patriotic American would have doubted that in the first place, except for the fact that the leftist establishment has been lying about all this for years, and is still lying about it now. The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General claimed as late as Dec. 2024 that everything was on the up and up regarding feds acting as agents provocateurs on Jan. 6: “We found no evidence in the materials we reviewed or the testimony we received showing or suggesting that the FBI had undercover employees in the various protest crowds, or at the Capitol, on January 6.”

The Blaze explains that depending how one reads ‘undercover’ agents versus ‘plainclothes agents,’ both statements could be true.” So the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General is either lying to us or intentionally misleading us. How reassuring! “The same report,” The Blaze continues, “disclosed that 26 FBI confidential human sources were in the Jan. 6 crowds, four of whom entered the Capitol.” So four (at least) were “insurrectionists.” Were they acting on FBI orders? The feds deny it. But there are just so many lingering questions.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) asked a pointed question: “But with that many paid informants being in the crowd, we want to know how many were in the crowd, how many were in the building, but I also want to know, were they paid to inform or instigate?” And now the FBI has revealed that it had 274 people there, making the Inspector General’s report look outrageously disingenuous.

So in an effort to get to the bottom of this. I wrote to an FBI agent: Lindsay Capodilupo, who was identified during the darkest days of the Biden regime as the FBI’s “Election Crimes Coordinator.” What a title! In light of the fake Jan. 6 insurrection, it must be asked: was she coordinating election crimes, or trying to stop them?

I figured I’d ask her directly. As it happens, I have met Lindsay Capodilupo, as she was one of the agents who questioned me after Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists attempted to murder Pamela Geller and me and whoever else they could kill at our free speech event in Garland, Texas, in May 2015, while an FBI informant egged the terrorists on, telling them to “tear up Texas.” So on Friday morning, I sent her an email:

Dear Ms. Capodilupo

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Greetings. You may remember me, as we had some interaction some years ago. You even came to my office in 2015 to gather information about the Garland, Texas jihad terror attack. I wrote you in 2022 about your job as the FBI’s “Election Crimes Coordinator.” You didn’t answer my inquiries then; I hope you will do so now, in the interest of the transparency in government that I’m sure you support.

1. Are you still with the FBI? I was unable to find out for sure.
2. Are you still the “Election Crimes Coordinator”? If so, what are your duties?
3. Were you one of the undercover FBI agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021?
4. If the answer to #3 is yes, did you engage in activities that would have resulted in your being charged with “insurrection” against the U.S. government had you not been an undercover FBI agent?
5. Do you believe that “misinformation,” which the FBI during your tenure as “Election Crimes Coordinator” categorized as an “election crime,” should be outlawed?
6. If the answer to #5 is yes, who should be the judge of what constitutes “misinformation” and what does not? This question is especially important in light of the fact that several highly touted instances of alleged “misinformation” turned out to be true, while other incidents presented as fact turned out to be fiction, such as the Jan. 6 “insurrection.”

Many thanks in advance for your answers; please send them by 2 p.m. today, as I’m working on a deadline.

Kindest regards and thanks for your patriotic service to the United States of America, if your service can indeed be characterized as patriotic.

Robert Spencer

You’re not likely to be surprised to learn that Ms. Capodilupo did not deign to respond. And that, really, is more of an eloquent response than she could have formulated in words. She was essentially telling me that my inquiries were unimportant and that I wasn’t worth her time. This is how the left has behaved for years about Jan. 6 and its other efforts to frame Trump and destroy the lives of patriots.

It’s time to end all the speculation and guesswork once and for all. The Trump Justice Department should open all of its Jan. 6 files, and let the American people know once and for all who oversaw the frame-up, and who was involved. Oh, and if it hasn’t already, fire this elitist “Election Crimes Coordinator.”