Jill Sanborn, FBI Executive Assistant Director, National Security Branch, was grilled by Sen. Ted Cruz about whether FBI agents or informants participated or fomented the events of January 6, 2021.
Sanborn had appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday.
Sen. Cruz asked Sanborn, "how many FBI agents or confidential informants actively participated in the events of January 6th?"
She said ““I can’t go into the specifics of sources and methods.”
Cruz pressed her again, “did any FBI agents or confidential informants actively participate in the events of Jan. 6, yes or no?”
Sanborn again said, “I can’t answer that.”
Cruz then asked her, “did any FBI agents or confidential informants commit crimes of violence on Jan. 6?”
Sanborn again said, “I can’t answer that.”
Cruz then asked her “did any FBI agents or FBI informants actively encourage and incite crimes of violence on Jan. 6?” Cruz asked.
And once again Sanborn said “I can’t answer that.”
Cruz then asked her about Ray Epps, a suspect captured on tape encouraging people to enter the Capitol who disappeared without explanation from the FBI’s Capitol Violence Most Wanted List last summer.
Cruz cited a video showing Epps encouraging people to enter the Capitol.
Sanborn once again would not answer questions about Epps only admitting that she was familiar with who he was talking about.
Short time later Sen. Tom Cotton began asking Assistant General for National Security Matthew Olsen about Epps’s mysterious disappearance.
Cotton said:
“He was on the FBI’s Capitol Riot Most Wanted page just days after Jan. 6. In fact, he was one of the first 16 suspects added to that Most Wanted page on your website. It does not appear he was arrested or charged with any offense. In July, without explanation, he was removed from the FBI’s Most Wanted page. Mr. Olsen, who is Ray Epps and why was he removed?”
Olsen refused to answer, turning it over back to Sanborn who refused to answer the question Sen. Cruz posed to her about Epps.
Sen. Cruz appeared with Hannity last night where he pointed out that "...both the Department of Justice and the FBI have an arrogance that they are not accountable to anyone, they can stonewall, so it should be very easy for the FBI to say, ‘No, no federal agents participated in violent crimes'...There needs to be transparency, and the Biden administration needs to fess up.”