The intelligence community is investigating any links between lawmakers and protesters who invaded the Capitol on January 6, a US official told CNN.
The investigation so far has found that some alleged protesters had associations with lawmakers or had direct contact with them before January 6, but there is no evidence that lawmakers were involved in the riot or personally helped any of the protesters, the official said.
Authorities have been investigating the pro-Trump protesters who invaded the Capitol on January 6 for months and managed to arrest hundreds of people involved in the rebellion that resulted in the deaths of five people.
Authorities are still arresting those who invaded the Capitol, but will start to focus on those who planned the attack, who financed them and what connection, if any, lawmakers had.
Rep. Steve Cohen
Stephen (Steve) Ira CohenMissouri man indicted for allegedly threatening two congressmen Tim Ryan: prosecutors reviewing video of Capitol tours given by lawmakers before the House of Shock subcommittee discusses a black American repair project MORE (D-Tenn.) He accused Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) of taking a “big” tour of the Capitol for people a few days before the attack, but no concrete evidence was released that his tour was linked to the revolt.
Authorities are now analyzing the tour video to see if there was any connection between the tours and the protesters. If connections are found between protesters and lawmakers, authorities can obtain a warrant to view communications, CNN reported.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse The FBI director pledges to provide information to the Senate after questioning Democratic candidate Biden about the post-Trump trade agenda. Tucker Carlson criticizes CNN, claims to be “more destructive” than QAnon MORE (DR.I.) told CNN that he asked the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate the connections as well, as he believes it will be easier to get the information, as congressmen can paralyze the FBI’s work by protecting speech or debate of the Constitution for lawmakers.
Republican lawmakers who supported former President Trump
Donald Trump Trump appointed by the State Department arrested in connection with the Capitol intelligence community investigating links between lawmakers, Capitol protesters Michelle Obama criticizes ‘party actions’ to ‘restrict access to the polls’ MOREThe allegations of the electoral conspiracy theory were criticized, with Democratic lawmakers believing that they had some involvement or helped to incite the riot that occurred.
There has been no evidence so far that a lawmaker has had any involvement in the riot and officials are not looking at any lawmakers at the moment, the official told CNN.