(Congressional Agenda) – Rep. Clay Higgins, a Louisiana Republican, tried to pose a question to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday concerning a pair of vehicles he referred to as “ghost buses” that showed up in the D.C. area during the early hours of Jan. 6, 2021. However, he was shut down suddenly and out of nowhere after claiming the two vehicles were filled with “FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters, deployed into our Capitol on Jan. 6.”
According to Lorri Wickenhauser of The Western Journal, the congressman asked Wray this question during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing held on Wednesday as he attempted to gain more information about just how involved the FBI was in the incursion at the Capitol building.
Higgins kicked off the exchange with Wray by providing a recap of another conversation he had with him just last year.
“I asked you, ‘Did you have confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters positioned inside the Capitol on Jan. 6 prior to the doors being opened?’ You responded … ‘I have to be very careful of what I say,'” he commented during the hearing.
“A year has passed,” Higgins asserted. “We the people still do not have a definitive answer from you or anyone else in the Biden administration regarding the FBI presence and participation in the months leading up to the November [2020] election and in the weeks and days prior to Jan. 6 and on Jan. 6 here in D.C. We can’t get a straight answer.”
“Higgins cited a former FBI assistant director, Steven D’Antuono, who testified recently to the House Judiciary Committee that he knew FBI informants attended the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6 as lawmakers met to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election,” Wickenhauser wrote in her report.
“Do you confirm that the FBI had confidential human sources at the Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6 here in D.C., sir?” he asked yet again. Not surprisingly, Wray did not provide any confirmation.
“Congressman, as we’ve discussed before, I’m not going to get into where we have or have not used confidential human sources,” Wray remarked. I kind of feel like not answering the question is, in fact, an answer to the question in the affirmative.
The lawmaker went on to provide a quote by an informant with the FBI who stated, under oath, that he had “marched to the U.S. Capitol with fellow Proud Boys members on Jan. 6.”
“He said he was communicating with his FBI handler while people were entering the U.S. Capitol,” Higgins continued. “Can you confirm that the FBI had that sort of engagement with your own agents embedded within the crowd on Jan. 6?”
Wray replied, “If you are asking whether the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources and/or agents, the answer is emphatically not.”
At that point in the conversation, Higgins decided to head down a different path.
“You know what a ghost vehicle is, director? You’re the director of the FBI, you certainly should. You know what a ghost bus is?”
“A ghost bus?” Wray repeated. “I’m not sure I’ve used that term before.”
“Pretty common in law enforcement,” Higgins fired back. “It’s a vehicle that’s used for secret purposes. It’s painted over.”
He then turned and pointed toward a large photo that was displayed behind him.
“These two buses in the middle here, they were the first to arrive at Union Station on Jan. 6 [at 5 a.m.] I have all this evidence. I’m showing you the tip of this iceberg. These two buses were painted completely white,” he declared.
And that’s when Democratic Congressman Glenn Ivey of Maryland decided to butt in and point out to GOP Chairman Mark Green that Higgins had gone over his time limit.
“This is a very significant hearing, Mr. Chairman, and these buses are nefarious in nature and were filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters, deployed into our Capitol on Jan. 6,” Higgins added.
Although his time had expired, Higgins did manage to toss out one last jab at Wray, saying, “Your day is coming.”
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