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FBI Responds to Republican Report Alleging Politicization at Agency

House Republicans released a new report on Friday detailing whistleblower allegations of FBI misconduct and politicization at the highest levels of the Department of Justice.

“The Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the stewardship of Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, is broken,” the GOP report states. “The problem lies not with the majority of front-line agents who serve our country, but with the FBI’s politicized bureaucracy.”

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee say this report is “the first comprehensive accounting of the FBI’s problems to date, which undermine the FBI’s fundamental law-enforcement mission.”

The report features testimony from whistleblowers who describe FBI leadership in Washington, D.C., as “rotted at its core.” They allege a “systemic culture of unaccountability” and say the bureau is beset by “rampant corruption, manipulation, and abuse.”

The FBI responded to the report in a statement 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. Put quite simply: 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,” the statement read.

Read the Republican report:

Broadly, the report alleges systemic political bias against conservatives.

Some allegations were previously disclosed, such as accusations that the FBI is artificially inflating statistics about domestic violent extremism to fit the White House narrative on supposed dangers to democracy, or that counterterrorism authorities were instructed to investigate parents who spoke out at school board meetings.

Other allegations suggest that the FBI is actively seeking to “purge” employees with conservative views and those who dissent from “woke” diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

Additionally, whistleblowers say “political meddling” by the FBI “is dragging the criminal side [of the Bureau] down” as resources are “pulled away” from investigating crimes. One whistleblower alleged he was “told that child sexual abuse material investigations were no longer an FBI priority and should be referred to local law enforcement agencies.”

House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has spoken about several of these allegations for months. He and Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have sent letters to the Justice Department and FBI leadership demanding answers on the whistleblower allegations they have received, and those letters are contained within the report.

“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 report says.

“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.”

READ 17 COMMENTS
  • John says:

    They are part of the Democrat demonic New World Order party of fascist demons anti-American constitutional hating evil entities that will never admit who they are and what they’re doing to America and all its citizens until they start getting murdered at people’s doors when they’re violating our constitutional rights , illegally harassing threatening to kill anybody who stands up against the treasonous tyrannical communist Democrat communist government , this is the New World Order Nazis that make German SS Nazis look like Boy Scouts because they used years and years of our money to devise forced compliance methods , methods of torture and death, ceiling everything that’s ours welt children homes jobs and the ability to survive that’s how demonic they are Plus funding weapons and techniques to completely destroy constrict and control Humanity stealing free people’s wealth and resources and oppressing them into you government slavery, these are the Antichrist government the pure evil demonic agencies that will bring down this country unless it is fought face to face with the demons themselves, they have not answered for a single murder , crime, conspiracy, treasonous election takeover, and even global bio weapons attacks upon American people and people abroad they are hierarchy and Untouchables in the world of demons that lead their party like “George the Antichrist Soros” being one of the biggest Antichrist funding democrat backing demons working in our own country to help fund and initiate a communist oppressive woke dope satanic demonic Democrat agenda

  • Brian Laughlin says:

    Re the reply by the FBI, how many times do I have to watch this rogue agency break the law then stonewall Congressional oversight ?
    Enough Is Enough !
    People need to be prosecuted !
    Any FBI employees with Integrity need to step forward !
    The next administration will do you right !

  • Louis Galmarini says:

    Until we TOTALLY ELIMINATE this current ILLEGITIMATE ‘Administration’, and replace ALL policies w/ credible, accountable, and measurable standards, ALL of this will continue until America is completely destroyed, (which is the ultimate goal of the global elites).

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