Representative Clay Higgins (R-LA), who sits on the Congressional Subcommittee for Homeland Security, says the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) embedded itself into online veteran communities months ahead of the January 6, 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol. The explosive details came out during an appearance on the Louisiana-based Implicit Bias podcast.
JAN 6 WAS PRE-PLANNED.
“The FBI started embedding themselves in those groups — by the time you were four, five, six months into 2020, the FBI was monitoring and embedded into hundreds of online discussion groups,” Higgins asserted. According to Congressman, the evidence of the FBI’s pre-riot operations has been hidden from the public by court orders — though some Members of Congress have been able to view the details.
He continued: “The original seeds of riotous or illegal or occupation-type behavior amongst these groups were planted by the FBI agents embedded in those groups.”
FBI SHOWED “NEFARIOUS INTENT.”
In another segment, Rep. Higgins says he believes the FBI’s actions constitute illegal entrapment — arguing the agents embedded among online groups in the lead-up to the Capitol riots had “nefarious intent.”
He contends that because the agency appears to have set out to instigate violence, the federal government’s January 6 investigations are “the fruit of that poisonous tree.”
AGENTS WERE IN THE CAPITOL.
Higgins goes on to reveal that federal law enforcement also had undercover agents placed inside the Capitol, disguised as Trump supporters. According to the Louisiana Republican, these agents directed the January 6 protestors once the U.S. Capitol Police had allowed them access to the building’s interior.
The Congressman said it is unlikely average Americans would be able to navigate the building easily: “For a group of Americans to just come in a random door and be able to get specifically to the House floor or somebody’s office… no way. They had to be guided.”
‘GHOST BUSES’.
The Congressman also addressed the lingering questions regarding the presence of several unmarked buses that were seen transporting individuals — alleged to have been government-backed agents provocateurs — to the protest. According to witnesses, these busses lacked identifying markings and placards that would have allowed them access to government parking facilities.
“What was revealed to me through a whistleblower was that two buses… had been digitally documented, and we had access to that initial digital evidence,” Higgins said before continuing: “It showed two buses that were brought into the bus parking basement of [Union Station].”
The Congressman said the evidence showed the two buses in question were the first to arrive at the parking facility and “had been painted over white” to hide any identifying details, including the bus company’s telephone number. He noted that the vehicles are legally required to display identifying information.
Higgins went on to state that evidence suggests there were at least 30 to 40 occupants on each of the buses. “They were all dressed as Trump supporters. They were all military-age young men… [and] were all geared similarly in that they were wearing tactical gear,” the Congressman said.
WHO OWNED THE BUSES?
The Congressman said his office could identify a segment of the buses’ ID numbers and a telephone number using forensic analysis.”We got a hit on the bus… we were able to identify the owner that belonged to that telephone number that we positively identified,” Higgins said, revealing the buses had, at least at one point, been owned by a charter service based in New York.
According to the Congressman, however, the buses were subsequently abandoned at Union Station after the riots and have since disappeared.
When asked why federal law enforcement has attempted to hide evidence surrounding the January 6 riots — including the origin of the two ghost buses at Union Station — Higgins bluntly said, “It’s because it won’t be a good reflection on their involvement.”
You can listen to the full episode, here.
