Remember when Democrats and the media claimed January 6 was an "insurrection" that nobody could have predicted?
That story is falling apart in spectacular fashion.
And an FBI informant dropped one bombshell about January 6 that changed everything.
FBI Informants Warned of Armed Attack Weeks Before January 6
Georgia Congressman Barry Loudermilk dropped a bombshell about the January 6 Capitol riot that should have every American demanding answers.
The FBI had about two dozen confidential informants embedded in radical groups who repeatedly warned agents that armed violence at the Capitol was coming.¹
Not vague threats. Specific intelligence about groups planning armed attacks on the Capitol, on lawmakers, and on law enforcement.¹
"I was surprised that we found this significant intelligence that was derived from these people embedded in these organizations," Loudermilk told Just the News. "There is no way that at least the Washington Field Office or the FBI headquarters was not aware that there were elements of people coming to Washington, DC with the intent of attacking the Capitol of the United States."¹
Multiple informants from different field offices across the country were reporting the same thing – plans for armed conflict at the Capitol.¹
The intelligence came weeks and even days before January 6. Many of those informants traveled to Washington that day to keep assisting the FBI.¹
FBI Leadership Buried the Intelligence That Could Have Prevented Violence
Here's where this story goes from incompetence to something far more disturbing.
Loudermilk credited FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi for giving him access to the actual intelligence reports.¹
Previous investigations knew informants existed. But Loudermilk is the first member of Congress to actually read what those informants told their FBI handlers.
What he found shocked him.
"The reports coming from these confidential human sources, not just one, but multiple sources from multiple organizations across multiple field offices across the nation, were reporting the same thing," he explained.¹
They weren't just warning about violence. The informants were telling the FBI "it was going to be a whole lot worse than what actually it turned out to be."¹
So what did the FBI do with this intelligence?
Buried it.
"We're really having a hard time finding really any tangible reports that were sent to the Capitol Police or other agencies," Loudermilk revealed.¹
Think about that. The FBI had specific warnings from two dozen sources about armed attacks. They knew groups were bringing weapons. They knew the threat level.
And they didn't tell Capitol Police.
Informants Even Warned About Antifa Presence in the Crowd
Loudermilk revealed something else the FBI kept hidden for nearly four years.
FBI informants specifically warned that Antifa would be embedded within the crowds on January 6.¹
"The answer is yes, there was concerns that Antifa would be embedded within the crowds there," Loudermilk confirmed. "There were several references, again, not just isolated to one, but several different field offices, different organizations that were reporting that they had heard that Antifa would be embedded within the crowd."¹
President Trump recently designated Antifa as a domestic terror organization.
Now we know FBI informants were warning about their presence at the Capitol before the riot even happened.
FBI officials confirmed to Just the News that their informants did warn of armed conflict and Antifa presence, and that efforts are underway to declassify the reports.¹
The implications of what Loudermilk discovered are staggering.
Capitol Police Chief Steve Sund requested National Guard support days before January 6. He was turned down.
"The National Guard should have been at the Capitol the first time Chief of Police, Steven Sund requested it, just based on that information," Loudermilk stated.¹
If the FBI had shared the intelligence they possessed, everything would have been different.
The security posture at the Capitol would have been dramatically increased. More barriers. More officers. Possibly the National Guard.
Loudermilk went even further.
"One of my concerns about this is if they would have passed along this level of intelligence, if they would have shared that level of intelligence, would it had changed the security posture to the extent where President Trump would not have come out and given his speech at the ellipse," he said.¹
The FBI had intelligence serious enough that Trump's speech might have been cancelled for security reasons.
Instead, they kept it to themselves.
Why This FBI Failure Looks More Like a Deliberate Cover-Up
Past intelligence failures followed a familiar pattern.
The 9/11 Commission called it a "failure of imagination" – agencies had pieces of intelligence but didn't connect them.
A 2023 Senate report found FBI and Department of Homeland Security received "massive amounts of intelligence" before January 6 but "downplayed the threat level."²
But what Loudermilk uncovered is different.
This wasn't scattered intelligence that needed to be pieced together. Two dozen informants from multiple field offices were all reporting the same specific threats about armed violence.
The FBI didn't fail to connect dots. They chose not to share the complete picture with the people who needed it.
Capitol Police intelligence analysts were left in the dark. They prepared for January 6 based on the assumption it would look like previous peaceful Trump rallies.¹
That's not an intelligence failure. That's a deliberate choice to withhold actionable intelligence.
Loudermilk now has a crucial question that FBI leadership needs to answer: "What did they know? When did they know it, and what did they do with the information?"¹
The Georgia Congressman was careful to note that the informants themselves were doing their jobs.
"They are all reporting the same thing, and it's just not prior to January 6. Some of them are reporting during January 6 and post reporting," he said. "And so that's what I found enlightening. They continue to report what was going on which increases their credibility, in my opinion, that they were trying to do the right thing."¹
The informants tried to warn the FBI. The FBI had the intelligence. FBI leadership made the decision not to share it.
This opens enormous questions about accountability. If FBI leadership deliberately withheld intelligence that could have prevented violence, they're potentially liable for everything that happened that day.
Officers were injured. People died. The Capitol was breached.
All while the FBI sat on intelligence that could have stopped it.
Kash Patel and Pam Bondi giving Congress access to these long-hidden documents represents the first real accountability the FBI has faced over January 6.
Americans deserve to know why the FBI buried warnings that could have prevented one of the darkest days in recent American history.
¹ John Solomon, "J6 Shocker: FBI informants warned of armed violence, Antifa presence before riot, lawmaker reveals," Just the News, November 7, 2025.
² Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, "Peters Report Finds Significant Intelligence Failures by FBI and DHS in Lead-Up to January 6th Capitol Attack," June 27, 2023.
