FBI Director Says ‘Definitive Answer’ Coming on Key Jan. 6 Question

The FBI director was asked about confidential sources that may have been present during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.

FBI Director Kash Patel testifies before the Senate Committee on Appropriations and a related subcommittee about the FBI's proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2026, on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 8, 2025. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana

FBI Director Kash Patel said Wednesday that his agency will attempt to produce an answer on whether there were FBI agents or sources in the crowd at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, during the counting of the electoral votes for the 2020 U.S. election.

“People have had questions about January 6th and whether or not there were FBI sources—not agents, sources—on the ground during January 6,” Patel told Fox News on Wednesday. “And I told you I would get you the definitive answer to that. And we have, and we are in the process again of working with our partners to divulge that information, and it is coming.”