We have not seen evidence of that at this stage.

Certainly.

In testimony to the U.

S Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, FBI Director Chris Wray debunked conspiracy theories promoted by right wing supporters of former President Donald Trump, telling lawmakers that there was no evidence that leftist extremists disguised themselves as Trump supporters to storm the U.

S Capitol.

We have not to date seeing any evidence of anarchist violent extremists or people subscribing to Antifa in connection with the sixth.

That doesn't mean we're not looking and we'll continue to look.

But at the moment we have not seen that.

Ray also said the FBI views the actions of the rioters on January 6th as domestic terrorism and vowed to hold them accountable.

That attack that siege was criminal behavior, plain and simple.

It's behavior that we, the FBI view as domestic terrorism.

Tuesday was raised first testimony in Congress since the January 6th attack that left five people dead, including Capitol Police officer Brian Sick.

Nick Ray said his death was still under investigation and would not divulge any information about it, but you have determined the cause of that.

I didn't say that We're not at a point where we can disclose or confirm the cause of death, Ray said.

The Justice Department has charged more than 300 people with crimes related to the siege, ranging from conspiracy to attacking police and obstructing Congress, and said a large portion of them belong to far right militia movements or were motivated by racial ideologies.

We've got a number who self identify with the proud boys or the oath keepers things like that.

We also have a couple of instances where we've already identified individuals involved in the criminal behavior who we would put in the racially motivated, violent extremists who advocate for what you would call for white supremacy.

Senators also asked why raise F B I had not done more to protect the capital ahead of the attack.

Why didn't the FBI sound the alarm?

Ray said.

The FBI released an unverified intelligence report from its Norfolk, Virginia, office about violent extremist a day before the attack and shared it with other law enforcement agencies three different ways, but acknowledged he personally did not see the report until a few days later.