The whistleblowers that testified to the House provided interesting information about the FBI. If their testimonies are accurate, our government may be more politicized than we had initially thought.
From Just the News. The FBI has politicized cases regarding Jan. 6 defendants and pro-lifers while retaliating against internal whistleblowers, some of those whistleblowers testified last month to the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, according to portions of transcripts reviewed by Just the News.
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Retired FBI supervisory intelligence analyst George Hill, who retired last year from the bureau’s Boston field office, testified that the Washington Field Office pressured other field offices to investigate citizens for activities protected by the First Amendment.
Hill’s own Boston Field Office, he said, pushed back against pressure from Washington to open cases on, first, seven individuals who came up in a sweep of bank records served up by the Bank of America, and then a larger group of 140 Americans guilty of nothing more than riding buses to D.C. to attend former President Trump’s Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6, 2021. …
Former FBI special agent Steve Friend, a former SWAT team member, testified to the panel that after raising concerns about using a SWAT team to arrest a subject of the Jan. 6 investigation, he was ordered off the job for a day.
Friend explained that the Jan. 6 subject was cooperating with the FBI and willing to surrender voluntarily, so he was concerned that the bureau wasn’t using the least intrusive methods possible to arrest them. …
Friend previously told Just the News of his concern about the bureau’s politicization of the Jan. 6 investigations, alleging the FBI is violating the Sixth and Eighth Amendment rights of Jan. 6 defendants and inflating national statistics for domestic extremism by disaggregating Jan. 6 cases and parceling them out to field offices instead of keeping them in Washington.
FBI whistleblower Garret O’Boyle testified that he was suspended by the bureau in retaliation for making protected disclosures to Congress. …
O’Boyle testified that following the Supreme Court’s decision to return abortion to the states in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the FBI prioritized possible threats against the justices from pro-lifers, focusing on “pro-life adherence.”
“Why are you focusing on pro-life people?” O’Boyle recalled wondering. “It’s prochoice people who are the ones protesting or otherwise threatening violence in front of Supreme Court Justices’ houses.”
The FBI wanted agents to look into pregnancy centers, he recalled. …
He was asked to talk to his pro-life informant “about the threats to the Supreme Court,” he testified. “I was like, why would this person know about those threats? He’s pro-life. Like, he’s not the one going and threatening the Supreme Court Justices.” …
House Judiciary Democrats on Friday criticized the whistleblowers in a 316-page report, claiming they had limited firsthand knowledge of what they testified to and “did not present actual evidence of any wrongdoing at the Department of Justice or the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” …
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