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The revelation also clashes with previous claims made by the Justice Department’s own Office of Inspector General. In an 88-page report released in December 2024, the DOJ OIG declared, “We found no evidence in the materials we reviewed or the testimony we received showing or suggesting that the FBI had undercover employees in the various protest crowds, or at the Capitol, on January 6.”
Yet Sund’s account directly contradicts those claims.
Wray’s Testimony Doesn’t Add Up
FBI Director Christopher Wray himself appeared unsure when grilled by Congress in July 2023. Asked whether undercover FBI agents were present on Jan. 6, Wray responded, “I’m not sure there were undercover agents on scene. As I sit here right now, I do not believe there were undercover agents on.”
That statement, coupled with the Inspector General’s report, now appears completely at odds with this week’s disclosures.
Sund Says He Was Kept in the Dark
According to Sund, the secrecy went so far that even as the chief law enforcement officer on the ground, he was never told about federal operatives in the crowd. He recalled meeting on January 5 with representatives from major federal agencies and directly asking whether any liaisons would be assigned if those agencies had people deployed during the protests.
“If they were saying that they were going to have that group in the crowd already, most likely what they’d do is they’d put a liaison up in my command center,” Sund told Fawcett. “I mean, if you’re going to have that type of assets and resources deployed onto someone’s jurisdiction, you’re going to put somebody in their command center. That’s key.”
But no such disclosure was ever made.
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Bureaucracy Over Safety
Sund also highlighted the bizarre layers of bureaucracy that slowed everything down on that fateful day. “The only problem with the Capitol is the bureaucracy. Even though, as the Chief of Police, there was a chief law enforcement officer for the House and a chief law enforcement officer for the Senate that sat over top of me. That created the big bureaucracy that I ran into. You’d like to think the chief could call the shots, especially with my experience? Not the case on January 6th,” he explained.
“It’s like no other jurisdiction in the world. They really need to fix that,” he added.
Warnings Ignored
This isn’t the first time Sund has raised concerns about vital intelligence being withheld. In February 2021 testimony before the Senate Rules and Homeland Security committees, he revealed that he never received an FBI report issued on January 5 warning of possible violence the next day.
Although the U.S. Capitol Police did receive the report, it never reached Sund’s office. Instead, a Capitol Police officer assigned to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force handed it off to the department’s Intelligence Division — where it stayed buried.
The Bigger Picture
Taken together, Sund’s account raises disturbing questions. Why did the FBI embed nearly 300 plainclothes agents without notifying the man tasked with defending the Capitol? Why did reports warning of violence fail to reach the chief’s desk? And why do Wray’s statements and the DOJ Inspector General’s report conflict so dramatically with this new information?
For many Americans, these contradictions point to a troubling pattern — one where transparency takes a back seat to political narrative.
