On Friday, the Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee released 1000 page a report detailing the claims made by myriad whistleblowers at the Federal Bureau of Investigation about the abuse of power and politicization of the nation’s foremost law enforcement authority.
They called it
"the first comprehensive accounting of the FBI's problems to date, which
undermine the FBI's fundamental law-enforcement mission."
The following
are the key
details of the report.
The report states that Attorney
General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray are willing
participants in the Biden Administration’s weaponization and politicization of
law enforcement
The whistleblowers describe the FBI’s
D.C. leadership as “rotted at its core,” with a “systemic culture of
unaccountability,” and full of “rampant corruption, manipulation, and abuse”
and that "the problem lies not with the majority of front-line agents
who serve our country, but with the FBI's politicized bureaucracy."
The whistleblowers allege that “the
FBI prioritizes investigations and uses differing tactics based on political
considerations—using aggressive tactics against political opponents of the
Biden Administration while going softer on, or outright ignoring, allegations
against the Administration’s political allies.”
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The reports reveal that investigations
into the Trump campaign and its associates were based on information from
left-wing organizations. However, the nature of the sources was diluted in a
memo seeking probes and the probe was approved by the FBI leadership.
The report slams the FBI for abusing
its authority under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to spy on US
citizens associated with Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
The report also cites the DOJ and FBI
conducting an unprecedented raid on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence as
an instance of abuse of power and political bias.
There is mention of the FBI seizing
the personal phone of Pro-Trump GOP Congressman Scott Perry of
Pennsylvania.
Whistleblowers
also allege that the FBI’s “political meddling” “is dragging the criminal side of
the Bureau down” as resources are “pulled away” from real law enforcement
duties.
Whistleblowers
alleged that FBI officials purposefully portrayed information related to Hunter
Biden’s financial and foreign business activities as disinformation.
The report reveals the FBI's
resistance towards probes that are meant to initiate remedial actions.
Agents provided an unsolicited and
unnecessary briefing to GOP
Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, who were investigating Biden’s
foreign business deals. Perhaps the goal was to misdirect the probe and render
it futile. The report also reveals that details about that briefing were later leaked to the news media in
an apparent effort to
discredit the senators’ investigation.
The whistleblowers also
claim the FBI is “artificially
inflating statistics about domestic violent
extremism” by pressuring agents to report irrelevant incidents as violent
extremism and by categorizing Jan. 6th-related investigations as separate
cases, not as related to one single incident.
The whistleblowers cite examples of
the FBI abusing its counterterrorism authority to investigate
parents who spoke out at school board meetings.
The reports state that the DOJ and
FBI used counterterrorism resources to investigate parents protesting
against a far-left school curriculum for
their young children.
The report also reveals the FBI did
little to prevent attacks on pro-life
pregnancy centers and other facilities while prosecuting
pro-life protesters.
There is mention of Meta CEO Mark
Zuckerberg, conceding that an FBI warning led
to suppressing and censoring articles relating to Hunter’s infamous laptop from
hell.
The report also makes a broader point
of the FBI’s collaboration with social media platforms “to censor Americans’
political speech.”
The report adds that “there is little
indication the FBI has changed—or is willing to change—course” despite their abuse
of power and politicization being extensively reported.
Whistleblowers also allege
discrimination within the FBI towards those who “dissent from its woke, leftist
agenda” and the suspension of the security clearances of these staff and
questioned their “allegiance to the United States.”
There are troubling revelations
that the bureau is seeking to “purge” FBI employees holding conservative
views and that retaliatory
actions were taken by at least one whistleblower.
The whistleblowers claimed that the
FBI is taking steps toward firing employees who engaged in protected First
Amendment activity on Jan. 6, 2021, according to the report.
There are other revelations that the
FBI seems less focused on serious crime.
One of the whistleblowers was told
that “child sexual abuse material investigations were no longer an FBI priority
and should be referred to local law enforcement agencies.”
How did the
FBI react?
The FBI dismissed the report in the
following statement released on Friday night:
"The FBI has testified to
Congress and responded to letters from legislators on numerous occasions to
provide an accurate accounting of how we do our work. The men and women of the
FBI devote themselves to protecting the American people from terrorism, violent
crime, cyber threats, and other dangers.
“We follow the facts without regard
for politics. While outside opinions and criticism often come with
the job, we will continue to follow the facts wherever they lead, do things by
the book, and speak through our work"
So what do we make of all this?
In a democracy, the agencies such as the
FBI have a crucial role to play.
The FBI’s mission is to protect citizens
and uphold the Constitution of the United States, in other words, they must serve
citizens by being vigilant watchdogs.
It is essential that the FBI remains
objective and apolitical to ensure that the law is enforced based on the nature
of the crime and unquestionably not the influence, affluence, party
affiliation, and ideology of the actor.
Alas, these watchdogs have
relinquished their objectivity and vigilance and have willingly become lapdogs
of the deep state and the D.C. establishment. Hence they bark and even bite
those who present a threat to the status quo in D.C. while they servilely wag
their tails before the powerful.
Legal egalitarianism is a fundamental
tenet of any functioning democracy. When that essential principle
begins to falter and the law is selectively applied, democracy begins to dissolve
It is essential, that the Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee
meticulously investigate the FBI and initiate remedial action by purging out
rogue politized agents.
It will not be easy.
The politicization of the FBI didn’t
occur in a day, the grab was strategic and gradual such that the roots run very
deep. There may have been major changes that have made the organization
inherently biased. These changes won't be documented anywhere but are implicitly
known. Perhaps recruitment programs ensure that individuals of a certain
political proclivity make it to the top.
The FBI could retaliate by digging up
personal dirt on the Republicans investigating them. The media will amplify
these allegations and even fabricate them. The allegations could even be of a
serious nature and devoid of any credible basis, but it won't matter, there
will be demands for resignation and the probes will be discredited. It could be
similar o what happened during Brett Kavanaugh’s
confirmation.
The GOP will have to be focused,
determined, fearless and above all impervious to bogus allegations and media
smear campaigns.
All of this is much easier said than
done.
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