Sen. Lee: IG’s FBI Report Shows Republicans ‘Weren’t So Crazy’

Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report last week on the FBI’s involvement at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, confirmed that Republicans “weren’t so crazy after all” about asking about agents’ presence, Sen. Mike Lee said Sunday. 

“The inspector general report confirms what a lot of us wondered for a long time … about which to what extent there may have been government assets on the ground involved in what happened on Jan. 6, 2021,” the Utah Republican said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “They dissed our questions. They refused to answer them. They neglected them and then a lot of people, including the Huffington Post, including Liz Cheney, called those of us who were asking the questions nut cases, that we were crazy for even asking them.”

The report determined that there had been 26 FBI informants in the crowd on Jan. 6, but only three were assigned to be present. 

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