Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report last week on the FBI's involvement at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, confirmed that Republicans "weren't so crazy after all" about asking about agents' presence, Sen. Mike Lee said Sunday.
"The inspector general report confirms what a lot of us wondered for a long time ... about which to what extent there may have been government assets on the ground involved in what happened on Jan. 6, 2021," the Utah Republican said on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures." "They dissed our questions. They refused to answer them. They neglected them and then a lot of people, including the Huffington Post, including Liz Cheney, called those of us who were asking the questions nut cases, that we were crazy for even asking them."
The report determined that there had been 26 FBI informants in the crowd on Jan. 6, but only three were assigned to be present.
"We had perfectly legitimate reasons to ask the questions," said Lee.
Cheney, then a GOP representative on the Jan. 6 committee, taunted Lee on Twitter, said that a "nutball conspiracy theorist" appeared to be posting from his account after he posted that he wanted to know more about who was present in the crowd and if anyone was from the FBI.
There has been talk of President Joe Biden pardoning Cheney, but Lee said he doesn't know if that is warranted.
"What I do know is this: It's very strange that she would call people who were raising these questions nut jobs, nut cases, whatever it is she wanted to say when she herself is a member of this Jan. 6 investigative committee and had access to a lot of information," said Lee.
"This begs the question, Did she know, in fact, that what Mr. Horowitz put out recently in the inspector general report, did she know this already? If so, why was she up there calling into question the sanity of anyone if even raising the question?"
Lee also discussed a reconciliation bill he is planning to be passed before April 30, including the border, energy, and defense.
The measure doesn't include an extension of tax cuts, and he said that's because there is a "fair amount of tactical work" that must be done first.
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