2026年6月4日 / 美国东部时间下午6:18 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
一名曾在19岁时因参与国会山骚乱认罪、后来将当日事件称为“耻辱”的男子，目前在美国国防部担任敏感岗位职务，一名国防部官员向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻证实了这一消息。
该官员表示，伊莱亚斯·里维拉（Elias Irizarry）担任负责美军特种作战和低强度冲突政策办公室的助理部长德里克·安德森（Derrick Anderson）的特别助理，该部门负责监督特种作战和非常规作战能力。根据该职位要求，里维拉拥有绝密安全许可。
他自去年年初起便已在国防部任职。
五角大楼代理新闻发言人乔尔·巴尔德斯（Joel Valdez）证实里维拉在国防部工作，并在X平台上写道：“伊莱亚斯·里维拉先生是一名合格且富有爱国精神的年轻专业人士，我们为他能作为政治任命人员在战争部工作感到自豪。”
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系里维拉的律师置评。
《华盛顿邮报》率先报道了里维拉在五角大楼任职的消息。
2021年1月初，联邦检察官称，时年19岁、就读于南卡罗来纳州 Citadel 军事学院的里维拉与一名朋友和一位网友前往华盛顿，参加了1月6日特朗普总统的“停止偷窃”集会，并向国会大厦行进。
![2021年1月6日的伊莱亚斯·里维拉照片，出自司法部文件。美国司法部]
检察官称，他随后从一扇破碎的窗户爬进国会大厦，在建筑内停留了27分钟，手持金属杆进入了一间会议室和国会圆形大厅。他的律师表示，他进入大楼是为了寻找那位网友。
里维拉承认一项罪名：进入并逗留受限建筑或场地。他被判处14天监禁。去年特朗普第二任期首日，他赦免了里维拉以及几乎所有其他与国会山骚乱相关的人员。
根据庭审记录，在2023年的量刑听证会上，里维拉表达了强烈的悔意，向应对骚乱的警察道歉，并告诉法官，他的行为“给我自己、我的家人乃至我的国家带来了巨大的耻辱”。里维拉表示，他在离开国会山并观看暴力视频后，立刻意识到1月6日的事件是错误的。
“我感到羞耻，因为我永远都是这一耻辱的一部分，”他发誓要“在余生中每天尽最大努力赎罪”。
他的联邦公设辩护人还写道，里维拉与他代理的许多其他国会山骚乱被告“不一样”，称他是一名“聪明的年轻人”，并非选举否认者或阴谋论者，其“悔恨和愧疚之情显而易见”。
美国地区法官坦尼娅·查特坎（Tanya Chutkan）将里维拉的量刑称为“我在所有国会山骚乱案件中遇到的最棘手案件之一”，并提及他的年龄和“相当值得称道”的背景。她还表示，如果里维拉选择重新申请被开除的 Citadel 军事学院，她愿意为他写推荐信。
“每个人都会犯错；有些错误比其他的更严重，而你的错误相当严重，”查特坎在量刑听证会上说道。“生活就是这样，它会带我们走上奇怪的道路。你正处于人生如此早期的阶段，你不知道前方有什么样的道路在等着你。我猜你会成就一番非凡的人生；我希望你能做到。”
Pentagon hires man who pleaded guilty in Jan. 6 riot for sensitive civilian job in special operations policy office
June 4, 2026 / 6:18 PM EDT / CBS News
A man who pleaded guilty to participating in the Jan. 6 riot as a 19-year-old — and later described the events of that day as a “disgrace” — works in a sensitive job in the Defense Department, a defense official confirmed to CBS News.
Elias Irizarry serves as a special assistant to Assistant Secretary of Defense Derrick Anderson, who leads the military’s Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict policy office, a division that oversees special operations and irregular warfare capabilities, the official said. As part of that role, Irizarry has a top-secret security clearance.
He has worked as an employee at the Defense Department since early last year.
Acting Pentagon press secretary Joel Valdez confirmed that Irizarry works for the department, writing on X: “Mr. Elias Irizarry is a qualified, patriotic young professional, and we are proud to have him as a political appointee at the Department of War.”
CBS News has reached out to Irizarry’s attorney for comment.
The Washington Post was first to report on Irizarry’s job at the Pentagon.
In early January 2021, federal prosecutors said Irizarry — then a student at the Citadel Military College of South Carolina — traveled to Washington with a friend and an internet acquaintance, attended President Trump’s “stop the steal” rally on Jan. 6 and marched to the Capitol.
An image of Elias Irizarry on Jan. 6, 2021, that appears in a Justice Department filing. U.S. Justice Department
He then climbed into the Capitol through a shattered window and spent 27 minutes inside the building, walking into a conference room and the Capitol rotunda while carrying a metal pole, prosecutors said. His lawyer said he entered the building to look for his acquaintance.
Irizarry pleaded guilty to one count of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds. He was sentenced to 14 days of incarceration. Mr. Trump pardoned him and almost everybody else linked to the Capitol riot on the first day of his second term last year.
During his 2023 sentencing hearing, Irizarry expressed strong remorse, apologizing to police officers who responded to the riot and telling a judge his actions “brought great shame upon myself, my family and even my country,” according to a hearing transcript. Irizarry said he recognized the events of Jan. 6 were wrong as soon as he left and watched videos of the violence.
“I am ashamed because I will always be a part of this disgrace,” he said, vowing to “work as hard as possible every day for the rest of my life to redeem myself.”
His federal public defender also wrote that Irizarry was “just different” from many of the other Capitol riot defendants he represented, describing him as a “bright young man” who was not an election denier or a conspiracy theorist, and whose “regret and remorse stands out.”
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan described Irizarry’s sentencing as “one of the most difficult I have had of the January 6th cases,” citing his age and his “quite commendable” background. She also offered to write him a recommendation letter if he chose to reapply to the Citadel, which discharged him.
“Everybody makes mistakes; some are more serious than others, and yours was a big one,” Chutkan said during a sentencing hearing. “Life is like that, it takes us on strange journeys. You are at such an early stage in yours, you don’t know what road lies ahead for you. I suspect you are going to make something very remarkable of your life; I hope you do.”
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