Online sleuths say they’ve ID’ed more than 100 people on the FBI “most wanted” list of Capitol attackers. But the delay in arrests even has some ex-agents concerned.
“Additionally, the FBI is and will always be independent. While criticism often comes with the job, we will continue to follow the facts wherever they lead, do things by the book, and speak through our work.”“It’s a mammoth undertaking,” said David Shapiro, a former FBI agent who now serves as Distinguished Lecturer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He pointed to the extraordinary volume of evidence from the attack.
Mike German, a former FBI agent, noted that many of the early arrests were for less-serious offenses like trespassing on Capitol grounds. The trend, combined with reports that suggested the FBI had missed signs of the impending attack, suggested to German that investigators “didn't have a coherent view of the larger conspiracy in the beginning,” he told The Daily Beast.
“I know there were questions from leadership of field offices that were far away [from D.C.], which maybe had only one or two cases,” he said, describing field office leaders as asking questions like “‘This is a misdemeanor charge, why are we pursuing this?’ ‘The guy only went into the Capitol.’ ‘How come we didn’t do this sort of thing with the antifa 2020 protesters?’”
“This insurrectionist rhetoric hasn't slowed down,” German, the former agent said. “So as we have more elections coming up, the more these individuals feel that they're immune from prosecution, the more aggressive they'll act.”
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