But the federal investigation has been strained, spread thin and strapped for resources as a sometimes less-than-agile federal bureaucracy adapts to the overwhelming scope of the caseload.
While the FBI arrested more than 700 defendants in the first year of the investigation, it arrested about 200 in the second.
Online sleuths have done their best to bust those myths, too.
“That was it.”The Sedition Hunters website features images of people online sleuths say took part in the Jan. 6 attack, including many (in blue) who have been identified.
Some charging documents in Jan. 6 cases make the role that online sleuths played clear.