Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., told Newsmax on Monday that House Republicans in the new Congress will continue to seek answers regarding any role the FBI might have played in the events of Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol.

A report by Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz released last month revealed the FBI had 26 confidential human sources from various field offices in Washington, D.C., that day. He wrote that three of the confidential human sources were tasked by FBI field offices before Jan. 6 “to report on domestic terrorism subjects who were possibly attending the event.”

“It doesn’t surprise me that they had some there because you would expect some of those to be there,” Loudermilk told “Rob Schmitt Tonight.” The Georgia Republican is chair of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, which was tasked in the last Congress with investigating the breakdowns and the politicization of the events that day.

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