Although Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz determined the FBI did not deploy undercover agents at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, he did reveal the agency had 26 confidential human sources from various field offices in Washington, D.C., that day.
Horowitz's assessment was disclosed in a report released Thursday on the FBI's handling of confidential human sources and intelligence gathering in the lead-up to Congress' certification of Joe Biden's victory over Donald Trump.
Horowitz wrote that three of the 26 confidential human sources were tasked by FBI field offices before Jan. 6 "to report on domestic terrorism subjects who were possibly attending the event."