Sen. Ted Cruz Grills FBI At Jan. 6 Hearing: “Who Is Ray Epps?”

During Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Hearing regarding potential FBI informants taking part in the January 6th Capitol event, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) pressed the agency over its likely involvement.

Questioning Jill Sanborn, the Executive Assistant Director of the FBI’s National Security Branch, Cruz asked multiple times if any agents or informants participated in the events of January 6th.

Sanborn refused to answer the question on multiple occasions.

The high-level FBI employee also failed to say if any agents encouraged or incited crimes of violence on that day.

Upon being asked, “Who is Ray Epps?” Sanborn admitted, “I am aware of the individual. I don’t have the specific background of him.”

Epps is an individual who was caught on camera ordering multiple people to advance on the Capitol on January 6th, yet remains untouched by the dragnet attempting to lock up everyone involved in that day.

“Was Ray Epps a fed?” Cruz asked Sanborn, who repeatedly responded, “I cannot answer that question.”

The Texas Senator added, “A lot of Americans are concerned that the federal government deliberately encouraged illegal and violent conduct on January, 6th.”

Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark) grilled DOJ Assistant AG Matthew Olsen during the hearing, asking him if the Justice Department or FBI had any “plainclothes” officers taking place in the January 6th debacle.

“Senator, I’m not aware of whether or not there were plainclothes officers among the crowd at the Capitol on January 6th,” Olsen responded.

Conservative writer Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire noted the obvious by telling his Twitter followers that if there were no informants or agents involved in the events of January 6th, they would simply answer, “No.”

“‘No comment’ is confirmation that they did exactly that,” he explained.

Learn more about the mysterious Ray Epps by reading research done by Revolver’s Darren Beattie in the following link.

The live link to the full hearing can be seen below: