Some within the FBI may have felt 'sympathetic' to the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters, an FBI employee said in an email.
"There is, at best, a sizable percentage of the employee population that felt sympathetic to the group that stormed the Capitol" and it was no different for the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, the person wrote in an"Several also lamented that the only reason this violent activity is getting more attention is because of ‘political correctness," the emailer wrote to Abbate.
and the "insurgent mob whose purpose was to prevent the execution of democratic processes at the behest of a sitting president."The emailer wrote that they recovered the information from first- and second-hand conversations with FBI employees.It is labeled as an "external" email, which may suggest the emailer was no longer an active FBI agent. The emailer described their "first unit," indicating that they have a history within the FBI.The FBI at large sees the Jan.
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