In the latest episode of “FBI Leadership Theater,” Director Kash Patel has stepped onto the stage to drop a mic—figuratively, but you get the image. Patel asserts that 274 plainclothes agents were deployed to the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021—exclusively after “the riot” had been officially declared—and claims that Christopher Wray lied to Congress when he denied that any FBI sources or agents were embedded among the crowd.

Let’s pause and digest that. The head of the FBI, under a prior administration, disavows his own public testimony. Meanwhile, the current “leader” of that agency cavalierly informs us that the standard protocols—never ever put agents into crowd control missions—were tossed aside by political machinations.

It is a simple enough plotline: Wray, the continuity candidate, testifies to Congress that no agents were operating within the riot crowd. Later, Patel clarifies: yes, they were there, they were doing crowd control (against FBI policy), and Wray’s testimony was a cheat code for plausible deniability.

What does it say about the two-party “establishment” that it allowed Wray’s regime to stand, lie, and supplant facts until someone with political cover stepped in to reverse it? It says that........

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