WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials.

"Ninety to ninety-five percent of these are one-off cases," said a former senior law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. "Then you have five percent, maybe, of these militia groups that were more closely organized. But there was no grand scheme with Roger Stone and Alex Jones and all of these people to storm the Capitol and take hostages."

INVICTVS138 wrote: Fri Aug 20, 2021 1:30 pm I agree that they won’t mess around next time. Hitler learned his lessons from the Beer Hall Putsch. I hope the FBI & Justice dept is investigating these militias advocating the violent overthrow of the legitimate government & cosplayers (boog bois, proud bois, and oath creepers.) I feel like they are blowing it.

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Then you have five percent, maybe, of these militia groups that were more closely organized.

FBI investigators did find that cells of protesters, including followers of the far-right Oath Keepers and Proud Boys groups, had aimed to break into the Capitol. But they found no evidence that the groups had serious plans about what to do if they made it inside, the sources said.

Prosecutors have filed conspiracy charges against 40 of those defendants, alleging that they engaged in some degree of planning before the attack.

But so far prosecutors have steered clear of more serious, politically-loaded charges that the sources said had been initially discussed by prosecutors, such as seditious conspiracy or racketeering.