(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In an interview with comedian Russell Brand aired Friday, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said he was told by the former Capitol Police chief that the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest crowd was “filled with federal agents”—but Fox refused to air this revelation.
Carlson told Brand that when he originally witnessed the violence on Jan. 6, it never crossed his mind that there were federal provocateurs among the protestors.
“I never thought there was a false flag or anything like that. And then I interviewed the chief of the Capitol Police, Steven Sund, in an interview that was never aired on Fox, by the way,” Carlson said, adding that he plans on interviewing Sund again.
“He said, ‘Oh yeah, the crowd was filled with federal agents.’ He would know, of course, because he was in charge of security on site.”
Carlson said he plans on interviewing Sund, who is now retired, again.
Carlson’s information is the latest evidence of J6 federal provocation.
In May, the House Weaponization Subcommittee disclosed an FBI whistleblower’s claim that the bureau’s DC office tried to sequester information about potential J6 from other FBI offices.
The whistleblower, retired FBI agent George Hill, said the bureau’s Boston field office requested the J6 footage from DC. However, the DC field office denied this request, according to Hill.
“The [Washington field office] said, ‘We can’t show you those videos unless you can tell us the exact time and place those individuals were in the Capitol’, to which [Boston agent] responded back: ‘Why can’t you just give us access to the 11,000 hours of video?’”
According to Hill, the DC office then responded, “Because there may be undercover officers or confidential human sources on those videos, whose identity we’d need to protect.”
Additionally, during the Proud Boys sedition trial earlier this year, the Justice Department disclosed that at least 10 to 12 undercover DC Metropolitan Police Department officers also participated in Jan. 6.
A defense attorney from the same trial also alleged that there were 19 DHS informants in the J6 crowd. According to that attorney, “there are reasons to suspect the true number [of informants] is higher.”
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.
