If a 'sizable percentage' of FBI employees were 'sympathetic' to the Jan. 6 rioters, what does that mean for our national security? (via MaddowBlog)
A week after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a person warned a senior FBI official that a “sizable percentage of the employee population” of the agency “felt sympathetic to the group that stormed the Capitol,” according to an email made public Thursday. The sender, whose name is redacted, told then-FBI Associate Deputy Director Paul Abbate that those FBI employees believed the riot was “no different than the [Black Lives Matter] protests of last summer,” the email shows.
It’s an open question as to who sent the warning. The person was apparently familiar with FBI operations, and was in communications with many FBI agents, though he or she may not have been an FBI employee. “These are not one-off events — they are representative of a larger group within the organization,” the message’s author alleged.
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