FBI still pursuing participants in the January 6th invasion of the US Capitol

If you enjoy browsing behind the scenes of the headlines, the US Department of Justice has posted a list of all the criminal charges brought to date “related to crimes committed at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C, on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021.”

Each case in the list includes the name of the person being charged, a listing of charges, links to the key court documents including criminal complaints and indictments, location where they were arrested, along with the status of the case. This makes it easy to browse through and see what catches your eye.

And the investigation continues.

The FBI has also posted video and photographs of other people who took part in the January 6 insurrection, and is soliciting information about any of the individuals.

The FBI is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying individuals who made unlawful entry into the U.S. Capitol building and committed various other alleged criminal violations, such as destruction of property, assaulting law enforcement personnel, targeting members of the media for assault, and other unlawful conduct, on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

We have deployed our full investigative resources and are working closely with our federal, state, and local partners to aggressively pursue those involved in these criminal activities.

If you have witnessed unlawful violent action—or have any information about the cases below—we urge you to contact us.

You can call ?1-800-CALL-FBI (1-?800-225-5324) to verbally report tips and/or information related to this investigation, or submit at tip online at tips.fbi.gov.

Meanwhile, on Monday, a long column in the Lawfare Blog reviewed the background and politics of the House Select Committee that will be investigating the events of January 6th (“The Jan. 6 Select Committee Isn’t Just a Formality“).

…[T]here’s a lot left to investigate. To what extent were Trump and those around him aware of the danger of a riot in advance? What communications might the White House have had with various agencies before Jan. 6, and how might those have affected how those agencies handled–or didn’t handle–the crisis? What institutional flaws might have contributed to the failure of the Capitol Police and intelligence agencies to identify the soon-to-be rioters as a threat and prepare accordingly? What was the security response to the riot like on the House side of the Capitol building—a question the Senate report does not address, in part because of a lack of full cooperation from the office of the House sergeant-at-arms?

The select committee has a real opportunity to push for answers to these questions. But it will have to be willing to push for them and not fold when it encounters resistance.

After this column was published, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy named five Republican members to serve on the committee.

The select committee has until the end of the Congress (at the end of 2022) to complete its work.


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4 thoughts on “FBI still pursuing participants in the January 6th invasion of the US Capitol

  1. WhatMeWorry

    Wonder what happened to our infamous little local UH student/Proud Boy who was in the Capitol on 1/6??

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  2. Stanford Masui

    Ian: There is no doubt that Trump wanted to forment enough mayhem and damage to justify martial law or some form of military intervention, as some of the “crazies” (description by a White House staffer) around him were urging. As Gen. Milley said, it was a “Reichstag moment”, (the burning of the German parliament building by the Nazi’s), whereby Hitler exploited the issue to rise to power on a law and order platform. The insurrectionist should be prosecuted to the fullest extent and the leaders of the riot should be charged with sedition, which so far has not been done.

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