Three Years Out: Two Sedition Hunters Help FBI Identify Jan. 6, 2021 Rioters

The investigation into the Capitol attack, the largest FBI investigation in American history, is still ongoing three years later.  

In a new update just before the third anniversary that was issued Friday, the Department of Justice said an estimated 1,300 people have been arrested and charged for their alleged involvement in the attack.  

But as the work deepens with more videos emerging and identity of the person who placed pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican national headquarters before the riots still a mystery, the FBI’s resources are strained. The agency has turned for help to a group of citizen investigators known as sedition hunters.