From Reuters:
Exclusive-FBI Finds Scant Evidence U.S. Capitol Attack Was Coordinated-Sources
By Reuters Wire Service Content • Aug. 20, 2021, at 6:06 a.m.
By Mark Hosenball and Sarah N. Lynch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials.
Though federal officials have arrested more than 570 alleged participants, the FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump, according to the sources, who have been either directly involved in or briefed regularly on the wide-ranging investigations.
“Ninety to ninety-five percent of these are one-off cases,” said a former senior law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. “Then you have five percent, maybe, of these militia groups that were more closely organized. But there was no grand scheme with Roger Stone and Alex Jones and all of these people to storm the Capitol and take hostages.”
FBI investigators did find that cells of protesters, including followers of the far-right Oath Keepers and Proud Boys groups, had aimed to break into the Capitol. But they found no evidence that the groups had serious plans about what to do if they made it inside, the sources said.
… The FBI’s assessment could prove relevant for a congressional investigation that also aims to determine how that day’s events were organized and by whom.
Senior lawmakers have been briefed in detail on the results of the FBI’s investigation so far and find them credible, a Democratic congressional source said.
It’s almost as if, after a 2020 in which the Right behaved remarkably lawfully while the Left rioted hundreds of times, Trump pushed his luck one time too many. So some excitable idiots farcically shoved their way into the Capitol, which the Democrats and media immediately seized upon to restrict civil liberties in much the same way that Hitler seized upon the similar Reichstag fire to accelerate his agenda.
