The FBI and the Jan. 6 investigation

 Washington Examiner:

Federal authorities won't explain why three men who participated in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, have mysteriously disappeared from the FBI's Capitol Violence Most Wanted list.

One unidentified man wore an earpiece during the riot and was filmed carrying what appeared to be a concealed handgun on his left hip. The man was pictured on the FBI's most wanted list for over five months until he was removed without explanation on the same day the New York Times reported an FBI informant was at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

A second unidentified man was filmed beating police officers with a baton during the riot. The FBI said the man was wanted for assaulting a federal law enforcement officer, but the agency removed the man from its most wanted list without explanation in late February, just weeks after his debut.

The third man, Ray Epps of Arizona, was filmed in the hours leading up to the riot urging Trump supporters to enter the Capitol to stop the certification of President Joe Biden's election victory.

Epps has not been arrested or charged for his actions. His unexplained removal from the FBI's most wanted list on July 1 has fueled speculation from a member of the House Judiciary Committee that Epps may have agitated people to storm the Capitol at the behest of the FBI.

Video footage shows Epps, a former president of the Arizona Oath Keepers militia group, urging a crowd of Trump supporters on the evening of Jan. 5, 2021, to "go into the Capitol" the next day, provoking allegations from the crowd that he was working for the federal authorities.

On Jan. 6, 2021, as former President Donald Trump spoke to supporters outside the White House, Epps went to work corralling people toward the Capitol. He was also part of the first group of rioters to break through a police barrier on Capitol grounds.

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There is more.

So far, I have not found any explanation for this FBI conduct in the media I have reviewed about Jan. 6.  Perhaps others have made a more exhaustive search and found something but so far there is little in the way of explanation for this treatment. 

This story in The Examiner lists others apparently involved in the riot who have not been charged.

See, also:

Majority of Republicans believe FBI is acting as Biden’s ‘personal Gestapo,’ poll finds

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