BREAKING: GOP Drops Bombshell 1000 Page Report On FBI
Corruption
by Kari Donovan November 4, 2022
‘POLITICIZATION’ OF THE FBI: REPORT’S ‘KEY’ TAKEAWAYS
1) The FBI leadership abusing its law-enforcement authority for political
reasons.
2) The FBI artificially inflating and manipulating domestic violent
extremism statistics for political purposes.
3) The FBI downplaying and reducing the spread of the serious allegations of
wrongdoing leveled against Hunter Biden.
4) The Justice Department and FBI using counterterrorism resources to target
parents resisting a far-left educational curriculum.
5) The FBI abusing its foreign surveillance authorities.
6) The Justice Department and FBI conducting an unprecedented raid on a
former president’s home.
7) The FBI stalking a Republican Congressman on a family vacation to seize
his personal cell phone.
8) The Justice Department and the FBI continuing to allow attacks on
pro-life facilities and churches to go unabated, while pushing an anti-life
agenda.
9) The FBI conducting an ‘intelligence’ assessment of a conservative charity
under the guise of investigating unrelated alleged crimes.
10) The FBI purging employees who refuse to align themselves with the
leadership’s political ideology.
11) The FBI helping Big Tech to censor Americans’ political speech.
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FBI WHISTLEBLOWERS: WHAT THEIR DISCLOSURES INDICATE ABOUT
THE POLITICIZATION OF THE FBI AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
Republican Staff Report
Committee on the Judiciary
U.S. House of Representatives
November 4, 2022
Executive Summary
The
Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the stewardship of Director Christopher
Wrayand
Attorney General Merrick Garland, is broken. The problem lies not with the
majority of front-line
agents who serve our country, but with the FBI’s politicized bureaucracy. The
problem lies,
for example, with the FBI hierarchy that spied on President Trump’s campaign
and ridiculed conservative
Americans. The problem lies with FBI bureaucrats who altered and mischaracterized
evidence to federal courts, circumvented safeguards, and exploited weaknesses in
policies governing investigations and informants to target politically
disfavored subjects and to
protect favored ones. The problem lies with the FBI structure that centralizes
high-profile cases
in D.C., in the hands of politicized actors with politicized incentives. Quite
simply, the problem—the
rot within the FBI—festers in and proceeds from Washington.
Over
the last year, a multitude of whistleblowers have approached Judiciary
Committee Republicans
with allegations of political bias by the FBI’s senior leadership and misuses
of the agency’s
federal law-enforcement powers. These whistleblowers have risked their careers
out of fidelity
to principle and a commitment to restoring public trust in the FBI. This report
begins to tell
their stories. Even at this early stage, one startling conclusion is clear: the
FBI and its parent agency,
the Justice Department, have become political institutions.
This
report details the problems, as recounted in whistleblower disclosures and
other forms,
that undermine the FBI’s fundamental law-enforcement mission. Whistleblowers
describe the
FBI’s Washington hierarchy as “rotted
at its core,” maintaining a “systemic culture of unaccountability,” and full of “rampant
corruption, manipulation, and abuse.” Whistleblowers
describe how the FBI has abused its law-enforcement authorities for political purposes,
and how actions by FBI leadership show a political bias against conservatives.
For example:
• The FBI is artificially inflating
statistics about domestic violent extremism in the nation. Whistleblowers have described how FBI leadership is
pressuring line agents to reclassify
cases as domestic violent extremism even if the matter does not meet the criteria.
They also explained how the FBI is misrepresenting the scale of domestic
violent extremism
nationwide by categorizing January 6th-related investigations as organic cases stemming
from local field offices, instead of all related to one single incident. In
both ways,
the FBI is fueling the Biden Administration’s narrative that domestic violent extremism
is the biggest threat to our nation.
• The FBI is abusing its
counterterrorism authorities to investigate parents who spoke at school board meetings. Whistleblowers disclosed how, shortly after the National School
Boards Association urged President Biden to use the Patriot Act against
American parents,
the FBI Counterterrorism Division set up a special “threat tag” to track school board-related
cases. Whistleblowers provided evidence of how the FBI opened investigations
into one mom for allegedly telling a local school board “we are coming for you” and a dad simply because he “rails
against the government” and “has a lot of guns.”
• The FBI has abused its foreign
intelligence authorities to spy on American citizens, including people associated with
the campaign of President Trump in 2016. These facts
have been documented in Inspector General reports and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court opinions, but there is little indication the FBI has changed—or is willing
to change—course.
• The FBI is clearing the Bureau of
employees who dissent from its woke, leftist agenda. The FBI is actively seeking to “purge” FBI employees holding
conservative views—or,
in President Biden’s view, those who are a “threat to American democracy”1— because they hold conservative views.
The FBI has even taken retaliatory actions
against at least one whistleblower who has spoken out.
• Whistleblowers have explained how
the FBI’s “political meddling” “is dragging the criminal side [of the Bureau] down”
as resources are “pulled away” from real lawenforcement duties. As a prime example, one whistleblower described how he was “told that
child sexual abuse material investigations were no longer an FBI priority and
should be
referred to local law enforcement agencies” so that he could work a Washington directed politically
charged case instead. Such a mis-prioritization is not only a dereliction of
duty, but it is a grave disservice to the victims of crimes that do not advance the FBI’s political agenda.
The
examples outlined in this report concern FBI abuses and misconduct primarily,
due to
the experiences of the whistleblowers and the conduct to which they are
exposed. But because the
FBI is a component of the Justice Department, it is virtually impossible to
examine the FBI’s actions
without also examining those of the Justice Department. For example, in
creating a threat tag
to track investigations into concerned parents, the FBI was executing on a
directive from Attorney
General Garland and the Justice Department. In addition, the recent examples of misconduct
must properly be examined in the context of years of serious abuses from the
FBI and
Justice Department. As such, where necessary for context and explanation, this
report includes
a discussion of misconduct and abuses apparent in the Justice Department in
addition to the
FBI.
The
FBI has a troubling history of using its authorities to advance political
goals. Under J.
Edgar Hoover, the Bureau surveilled Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., engaging in “an
intense campaign”
to discredit the civil rights leader.2
Following the September 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks,
then-FBI Director Robert Mueller sought to change the FBI’s “culture” to
produce a “centraliz[ed]”
and “intelligence driven” organization.3
With its new centralized structure, FBI leadership
began running investigations out of headquarters rather than the originating
field offices—something
that had been standard practice for nearly a century.4 Mueller started the trend of filling leadership positions
with Washington bureaucrats “who lacked the institutional knowledge
of career agents.”5 From
information provided by whistleblowers, these cultural and structural
problems continue to this day.
Director
Wray began at the FBI in the wake of James Comey’s disastrous tenure, when the
Bureau’s Washington leadership used the power of federal law enforcement to
attack President
Donald Trump and his campaign. Wray had an opportunity to clean up the
leadership culture
at the FBI, to end the politicization, and to restore trust and integrity in
the FBI’s mission. By
any objective measure, Wray has failed.
Americans
deserve to have confidence that the enormous power and reach of federal law enforcement
will be used fairly and free of any indication of politicization. The FBI has
the power,
quite literally, to ruin a person’s life—to invade their residence, to take
their property, and
even to deprive them of their liberty. The potential abuse of this power, or
even the appearance
of abuse, erodes the fundamental principle of equality under the law and
confidence in
the rule of law. The FBI’s tremendous power is precisely why the people’s
elected representatives
in Congress must conduct vigorous oversight, particularly in light of
allegations of
abuse and misconduct made to date. This issue transcends partisan politics, and
the information
contained in this report should concern all policymakers.
This
report presents what is known so far about the extent of problems festering
within the
FBI’s Washington bureaucracy. There is likely much more to be uncovered in the
months ahead.
But from what is known, it is clear the FBI needs repair. Too many
whistleblowers have said
that they are “saddened” by what they see happening at the Bureau. Too much is
at stake to sacrifice
the trust and accountability in our federal law-enforcement apparatus. The
necessary first
step in fixing the FBI’s broken culture and out-of-control hierarchy is to
identify and understand
the problem. This report begins to do just that.
