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The incoming Vice President is downplaying the findings of a report that blows up a popular right-wing conspiracy theory, according to a former federal prosecutor.
Ex-prosecutor Joyce Vance took to her Substack to talk about the release of a report by the DOJ Inspector General about how the FBI conducted its work in the run-up to January 6. Joyce Vance says the report “was undertaken to address questions about ‘how the breach had occurred and what was known by federal law enforcement in advance of January 6 about the possibility of a violent protest that day,” but that “there has always been a sideshow to that serious question.”
“Conspiracy theorists and Trump supporters have suggested that one or more FBI agents planted in the crowd instigated the insurrection. They maintained this despite the evidence to the contrary that surfaced during the January 6 committee hearings and the trials of the Proud Boys and the Oathkeepers,” she wrote.
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That’s where Vice President-elect J.D. Vance comes in. Joyce Vance said he “decided to perpetuate the conspiracy theory after the IG report was released.”
“For those keeping score at home, this was labeled a dangerous conspiracy theory months ago,” J.D. Vance said in response to the report’s finding that there were 26 FBI “confidential human sources” present at the Capitol on January 6.
“A CHS is not an FBI employee. The designation refers to an individual ‘who is believed to be providing useful and credible information to the FBI and whose identity, information, or relationship with the FBI warrants confidential handling,'” Joyce Vance said Friday. “Of the 26, four entered the Capitol building itself, and 13 made it into restricted areas. On this flimsy basis, Vance scoffed at people who had labeled the conspiracy theory a conspiracy theory.”
Joyce Vance continues:
“Here’s the problem: The IG report makes it clear that the conspiracy theory is wrong. Yes, the FBI failed to canvass field offices for information ahead of January 6 like it should have, like it does in foreign terrorism cases. But it did not direct or entrap Trump supporters into participating in January 6,” she wrote. “People who are occasional tipsters to the FBI—the people who were in the crowd—aren’t organizing and directing FBI policy. There were no FBI agents working in an undercover capacity present that day. It’s disturbing that the incoming vice president would suggest otherwise, that there was some sort of plot.”
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