Nearly 50 FBI, Homeland, Army Intelligence, JTTF Agents Worked on Jan. 6: Court Filing

Nearly 50 FBI special agents and members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF)—including U.S. Army counterintelligence, Homeland Security, and Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) personnel—were on duty Jan. 6, 2021, and later provided affidavits in federal Jan. 6 criminal cases, a new court filing says. A motion by defendant William Pope of Topeka, Kansas, suggested that many of those agents were on U.S. Capitol grounds during the protests and breach that took place on that day. Mr. Pope wrote that the presence of so many federal agents should have resulted in a more aggressive security posture by police that would have prevented violence and the need for criminal cases later filed against nearly 1,400 people....