New Jan. 6 Footage Finally Sees Daylight
Judicial Watch announced Monday that the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department released more than 1,000 hours of body-worn camera footage from January 6, 2021, spread across 1,630 videos. The release came after a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed in June 2024, which is another reminder that when the government says “transparency,” it often means “check back after we drag this through court.” The footage is now drawing fresh attention because one clip appears to include police radio traffic discussing a large FBI presence near the Capitol that day.
The Line That Has People Rewinding The Tape
January 6 defendant and investigative journalist Tommy Tatum flagged a bodycam clip identified in the source material as X6039BF3H, with the key audio reportedly starting around the 12:30 mark and occurring around 5:14 p.m. In the clip, an officer appears to say something along the lines of, “Do you have 350 FBI agents there right at this moment?” or “You got 350 FBI agents there ready to deploy.” The background noise makes the full exchange hard to hear, so caution is fair, but the number is what has people paying attention. If police on the ground were discussing hundreds of FBI personnel being ready to deploy, that raises obvious questions about who was there, what roles they had, and why the public had to wait years to hear this audio.
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Chris Wray’s 2023 Testimony Looks Different Now
This new audio lands on top of past testimony from then-FBI Director Christopher Wray, who was pressed by Rep. Andy Biggs in July 2023 about undercover FBI agents in or around the Capitol on January 6. Wray said he was “not sure” there were undercover agents on scene and added that he did “not believe” there were undercover agents there. Biggs was not buying it and publicly said Wray would be held accountable, arguing the claim had already been contradicted. For years, Americans were told to stop asking questions about federal assets in the crowd, as if curiosity itself was a felony. Now, newly released police audio is giving those questions a fresh coat of gasoline.
FBI Director Wray just told me he "does not believe" there were any undercover FBI agents in or around the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
This claim has been already debunked—including by the former U.S. Capitol Police Chief.
Wray will be held accountable for this lie. pic.twitter.com/jJ4RV3PINE
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) July 12, 2023
The FBI Numbers Keep Changing
The larger dispute is not just about one noisy bodycam clip. In September 2025, the FBI acknowledged it had 274 plainclothes agents in the January 6 crowds, according to reporting cited in the source material. That number was far higher than many Americans had previously been led to believe. A senior congressional source reportedly said such personnel can be used for countersurveillance at large events, which may be true, but it does not answer the trust problem. The Department of Justice Inspector General had previously said it found no evidence that FBI undercover employees were in the protest crowds in certain reviewed materials, so the public is now left sorting through careful definitions, agency language, and numbers that seem to shift like a politician’s principles during primary season.
The FBI had as many as eight informants inside the Proud Boys in the months around the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, recent court papers indicate, raising questions about how much federal investigators were able to learn from them before and after it took place. https://t.co/vfMPExBNW3
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 14, 2022
SHOCK: The DoJ now admits that another 40 undercover agents were with the Proud Boys on J6 – from HSI – Homeland Security Investigations. The vast majority of the group was paid by the government as either W2 employees or CHS. pic.twitter.com/tCKZubpJmq
— @amuse (@amuse) April 6, 2023
BREAKING: Another doozy of a motion filed today by a Proud Boy defense lawyer related to informants, undercover agents
Number of DC Metro undercovers keeps growing: pic.twitter.com/3vOrIUZNPT
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 10, 2023
Undercover @DCPoliceDept bicycle driver stands right beside rolled up “Restricted Area” green fencing on west side of @uscapitol Jan 6
He speaks to three other undercovers (blue jacket, orange hat, and camera wearer) before 3x other cops walk up to west steps, north end pic.twitter.com/J9xkG9XNZo
— NOVA Campaigns (@NoVA_Campaigns) March 25, 2023
Why This Matters Beyond One Clip
The question is not whether law enforcement had a reason to prepare for a major event in Washington, DC. Of course they did. The question is whether federal agencies gave Congress and the American people a straight answer about their presence, their roles, and their use of informants, assets, plainclothes agents, or undercover personnel. Those labels matter in Washington because one word can become a magic escape hatch. If the new bodycam audio is accurate, and if officers were really talking about 350 FBI agents ready to deploy, Congress should demand the full records, not another fog machine briefing from the bureaucracy.
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