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[ Fred Lucas is chief news correspondent and manager of the Investigative Reporting Project for The Daily Signal. ] Two dozen FBI confidential sources were part of the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and four of those informants illegally entered the building, according to a new report by the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General.

Another 13 of the 26 confi dential human sources were in restricted areas around the Capitol that day as lawmakers prepared to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election, the report by the DOJ’s internal watchdog found.

“None of the CHSs [confidential human sources] who entered the Capitol or a restricted area has been prosecuted to date,” the report from Inspector General Michael Horowitz says. “The WFO [the FBI’s Washington Field Office] did not know that a total of 26 CHSs would be in DC for the events of January 6 because only four field offices had informed the WFO or FBI Headquarters that CHSs under the relevant field office’s jurisdiction—5 CHSs in total—would be traveling to DC on January 6.”

The Daily Signal depends on the support of readers like you. Donate now The electoral certification of Joe Biden’s win over incumbent Donald Trump in the presidential race was delayed by the Jan. 6 protest when a mob breached the Capitol.

As a result, the Justice Department has prosecuted nearly 1,500 defendants, almost all of whom were charged either with illegally entering the Capitol or entering a restricted area around the Capitol.

The Justice Department has said it charged over 500 with assault, resisting arrest, or impeding police officers.

“We determined that of the 26 CHSs [confidential human sources] who were in DC on Jan. 6 in connection with the events of January 6, four entered the Capitol during the riot; an additional 13 entered the restricted area around the Capitol, which was a security perimeter established in preparation for the January 6 Electoral Certification; and nine neither entered a restricted area nor entered the Capitol or otherwise engaged in illegal activity,” the DOJ inspector general’s report says.

The IG report comes one day after FBI Director Christopher Wray announced he will resign before President- elect Trump takes office Jan. 20.