Journalist John Solomon is outlining new details from FBI documents recently provided to Congress, which he says reveal the bureau’s awareness of potential election-related unrest prior to January 6, 2021, along with strategies that were later implemented.

According to Solomon, the documents were uncovered by Kash Patel and submitted to lawmakers at the request of House investigators examining the events surrounding January 6.

“Yeah, they did. They had a tabletop exercise that they ran in Boston in August of 2020. Five months before January 6, occurred,” Solomon said.

“The memos which Kash Patel just turned over to Congress. He just found them, recently turned them over to Congress at the request of Chairman Barry Loudermilk, who's in charge of the j6 investigation now in the House.”

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Solomon said the documents indicate the FBI had advance knowledge of the potential for unrest tied to the 2020 election outcome.

“Show that the FBI knew there was a strong possibility of a hanging election or a contested election,” he said, adding, “that both sides appeared to be agitated and likely would could likely carry out that agitation to the point of violence.”

He described specific strategies outlined in the memos that were intended to address possible unrest.

“And they even devised very specific strategies,” Solomon said. “One of them is to embed informants inside the groups where the most likely political violence or political agitation might occur.”

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Solomon said that approach was later used.

“That is something that the FBI did,” he said.

“We had two dozen informants on the ground on the morning of January 6.”

He also pointed to a second tactic described in the documents.

“The second thing they recommended was mass prosecutions, even for the most minor of crimes,” Solomon said, adding, “exactly what the FBI did after January 6.”

Solomon argued that the strategy outlined in the memos was developed months in advance of the events at the U.S. Capitol.

“Now there are two big things about that strategy,” he said.

“It's pretty clear. The strategy was hatched months before, and that's what they carried out.”

He contrasted the approach with how other instances of unrest were handled.

“It's not the strategy they use for the political violence at BLM and the far left conducted all throughout the summer and fall of 2020,” Solomon said.

“So a very clear double standard.”

Solomon also discussed intelligence gathered through informants.

“The second thing is, they did embed informants and a lot of groups, including left and right groups, Antifa and right wing groups,” he said.

“And they got lots of intelligence suggesting a bad episode would occur.”

He said those warnings were not effectively communicated to authorities in Washington, D.C.

“We now know from Chairman Barry Loudermilk that while those warnings were very strong from the informants,” Solomon said, “the preparations of the warnings from the FBI to the brethren in the capital, in Washington, DC, did not exist.”

He continued, “They didn't pass on the warnings from the informants.”

Solomon described the situation as involving multiple failures.

“So two failed examples of the Chris Ray era, of the FBI,” he said, “knowing something was going to happen, implementing a strategy that hurt conservatives but not liberals, and not warning the people who could actually prevent the violence from occurring.”

He added that the documents are now available for public review.

“That is the legacy of the Chris Ray FBI,” Solomon said.

“It's what we now have out and open. These documents are now out there for everybody to see.”

Solomon concluded by noting the significance of the release.

“Pretty stunning, though maybe not so stunning, given what we've learned about the FBI,” he said.

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