Two Republican Senate Judiciary leaders this week sent a letter to the Justice Department's Inspector General about whether untasked Confidential Human Sources (CHS) were present at the January 6 riot in 2021.

The letter, which is a follow-up to one they sent in December, comes after Justice Department (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz told Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson earlier this month that no sources were assigned to the riot, but that he could not verify whether some sources traveled there on their own accord.

The senators were particularly interested in whether the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (and the Drug Enforcement Administration) had either tasked or untasked CHS near the Capitol that day.

The senators claimed that the information Horowitz provided was insufficient, and did not address whether the DOJ had other employees or contractors wearing civilian clothing in the Washington, D.C., area or around Capitol Hill on the day of the riot. 

“We also reiterate other requests from our December 16, 2024, letter that are still outstanding,” the senators wrote in the Monday letter. “For example, in our letter we asked whether your office obtained, during the course of its investigation into this matter, all communications, including text messages, between and among all DOJ component agency handlers and the CHSs/undercover agents.

"Your April 7, 2025, response confirmed that your office ‘did not request all of the text messages for all of the 26 CHSs and their handlers," they continued. "Your April 7, 2025, response also noted that your office obtained classified communications; however, it failed to answer whether it obtained all classified communications."

The letter did not include a deadline for a response.

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