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FBI Whistleblower: The Direction of the Bureau ‘Troubles a Vast Majority of the Agents’
American Greatness ^ | 11 May, 2022 | Debra Heine

Posted on 05/12/2022 4:21:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber

A whistleblower from the Federal Bureau of Investigation told Project Veritas founder and President James O’Keefe in a recorded interview posted late Wednesday that the FBI’s “direction” in recent months “troubles a vast majority of the agents.”

SNIP

The whistleblower said the documents were given to him by a sympathetic colleague who also believed there was a “political vendetta” against O’Keefe’s organization.

O’Keefe has contended that he and his journalists were targeted because of their investigative journalism.

The special agent told O’Keefe that investigations into news organizations are “not common,” and the few that are investigated are almost always tied to “threat countries.”

The documents show that the Bureau labeled Project Veritas as “news media” in its investigation, even though the government said in a court filing that Project Veritas does not engage in journalism. The government’s filing specifically stated, “Project Veritas is not engaged in journalism within any traditional or accepted definition of that word,” because its reporting is “non-consensual.”

Under this non-media classification, government lawyers argued that the actions taken by the feds “to surveil, raid and seize materials from Project Veritas journalists were appropriate.”

The whistleblower said it was “alerting” that the FBI categorized the investigation into Project Veritas internally as a Special Investigative Matter (“SIM”), which is an investigation into a public figure, political official (involving corruption or a threat to national security), a religious or political organization, someone in academia, or the news media. All SIMs have to be signed off on by an supervisor and legal counsel, he explained.

The investigation was also classified under Threat Band I, which is usually reserved for “threat issues that are likely to cause the greatest damage to national interests or public safety in the coming year,” the agent said.

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2020election; bidensfault; communism; doj; election2016; election2020; fbi; obamasfault
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1 posted on 05/12/2022 4:21:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Just wait until the Disinformation Governance Board gets involved.


2 posted on 05/12/2022 4:21:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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3 posted on 05/12/2022 4:21:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Then say something publicly, tweet it out, or better yet resign in mass, but no just keep the job and collect the bennies.


4 posted on 05/12/2022 4:23:37 AM PDT by The Louiswu (We couldn't 'afford' $4 billion for Trump's wall at the southern border?)
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To: MtnClimber

Yeah. 99% of the agents are troubled by the direction of the bad 1%. Uh huh.


5 posted on 05/12/2022 4:23:44 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's hard to "Believe all women" when judges say "I don't know what a woman is".)
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To: MtnClimber

This leak sounds like it came from the Disinformation Board.

Agents our troubled over the direction of the bureau in the past few months and they dont investigate news organizations?

C’mon man


6 posted on 05/12/2022 4:27:12 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: MtnClimber

“The FBI also used its Cellular Analysis Survey Team (CAST) tools, which includes cellular geolocation tracking of phone devices, to secretly surveil Project Veritas journalists, according to the whistleblower and as revealed on the leaked document.”

Cellular geolocation must be accurate for investigations. (2000 mules)


7 posted on 05/12/2022 4:28:46 AM PDT by DEPcom (Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules)
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To: MtnClimber

Sounds like a Sean Hannity plant found a microphone...


8 posted on 05/12/2022 4:30:32 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: The Louiswu

I just saw that Strzok’s wife is working for the SEC, who is interested in Musk all of a sudden. I swear, Strzok is an arrogant pimple on a pig’s ass, and believed he was headed for the number 1 position.


9 posted on 05/12/2022 4:31:03 AM PDT by healy61
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To: T-Bird45

Still waiting for the red white and blue rank and file to do something


10 posted on 05/12/2022 4:31:33 AM PDT by inchworm (al )
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To: MtnClimber

Note to said agents: You swore an oath. Keep it or quit.


11 posted on 05/12/2022 4:32:43 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: MtnClimber

Investigative journalism has to be consensual?!

The whole point of it is that it’s non-consensual.


12 posted on 05/12/2022 4:34:26 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: MtnClimber

LOL. Were they troubled the last several years. Things didn’t just start a few months ago.


13 posted on 05/12/2022 4:38:23 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Yeah. 99% of the agents are troubled by the direction of the bad 1%.”

More like the 1% worrying the 99% giving them a bad name.


14 posted on 05/12/2022 4:38:41 AM PDT by Tupelo (Don't underestimate The Republican Party's ability to f*ck things up)
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To: ClearCase_guy

its probably true. think about how many good police officers you know who aren’t beating people down because they piss the cop off. Then think of how the media treats the stories of the less than 1% of the cops who have power issues. The media blows up the negative stories because they are dramatic and get them viewers AND NEVER ONCE tell the story from a statistical perspective. Have you ever heard the media say, “This incident is sad and likely devastating to all who are involved, but national statistics show that there are 3 million stops every day and this sort of abusive interaction happens 1 time every two months. In other words, this happens 1 time in 180 million stops. You have a better chance of getting struck by lightning.” This would drastically alter the perspective of the general public and there would be vastly fewer anti-police actions taken because people would have a real idea of what is going on out there. (my numbers are made up. I don’t know what the actual statistics are.)


15 posted on 05/12/2022 4:41:32 AM PDT by NicoDon
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To: MtnClimber

when the PERPS claim “we are victims”
it is a scam.
THE FIB was the leader of the TREASON,
and protecting the raping of BABIES and America.

THE FIB did NOTHING except more of the same,
TO THIS DAY.


16 posted on 05/12/2022 4:41:56 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Yeah. 99% of the agents are troubled by the direction of the bad 1%. Uh huh.”

People here have flipped that around into saying that the 1% of good agents are stigmatized by the 99% of bad agents.


17 posted on 05/12/2022 4:54:03 AM PDT by BobL (Putin isn't sending gays into our schools to groom my children, but anti-Putin people are)
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To: MtnClimber

I don’t believe the vast majority of FBI agents are troubled by the direction the FBI has been heading in the “recent months.”

The FBI is corrupt and clearly has been corrupt for a few decades and for anyone to only be concerned about the recent months, it must be fake news.


18 posted on 05/12/2022 4:54:31 AM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: BobL

“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”

John Stuart Mill


19 posted on 05/12/2022 5:04:52 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: jacknhoo
The FBI is corrupt and clearly has been corrupt for a few decades..

It clearly has been corrupted, and even if there are people there who don't agree with the direction of the agency, they are going to be afraid to speak out. There's a reason why the person on this video is an unidentified whistleblower. There's no way the corrupt leadership of the FBI is going to let themselves be questioned by anyone within the ranks of the FBI.

20 posted on 05/12/2022 5:06:09 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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