Whistleblowers: FBI Officials Are ‘Pressuring’ Agents to ‘Artificially Pad’ Domestic Violence Extremist Data

FBI whistleblowers have disclosed to Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee that FBI officials have been “pressuring” agents to “artificially pad” domestic violence extremist (DVE) data, and have even dispensed “awards and promotions” to those who met the Bureau’s DVE investigation quotas.

In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, the ranking Republican on the committee, said: “From recent protected disclosures, we have learned that FBI officials are pressuring agents to reclassify cases as ‘domestic violent extremism’ even if the cases do not meet the criteria for such a classification.” He continued: “Given the narrative pushed by the Biden administration that domestic violent extremism is the ‘greatest threat’ facing our country, revelation that the FBI may be artificially padding domestic terrorism data is scandalous.”

The whistleblowers also allege, according to Jordan, that the Biden FBI has been conducting a “purge” of FBI employees who hold conservative views.

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The FBI defines a domestic violent extremist (DVE) as “an individual based and operating primarily within the United States or its territories without direction or inspiration from a foreign terrorist group or other foreign power who seeks to further political or social goals wholly or in part through unlawful acts of force or violence.”

The Bureau under Biden has made investigating domestic terrorism a top priority, doubling the number of DVE investigations by June of 2021. Since Biden took office, his administration has taken aggressive steps to punish his political enemies, whether they be Trump supporters who protested at the Capitol on January 6, or parents protesting mask mandates, critical race theory, or LGBTQ curricula at school boards.

“One whistleblower said agents are “encouraged and incentivized to reclassify cases as DVE cases even though there is minimal, circumstantial evidence to support the reclassification,” Jordan wrote in the letter, which was cc’d to Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), the current Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice.

Another whistleblower—who led at least one high profile domestic terrorism investigation—stated that a field office Counterterrorism Assistant Special Agent in Charge and the FBI’s Director of the Counterterrorism Division have pressured agents to move cases into the DVE category to hit self-created performance metrics. According to whistleblowers, the FBI uses these metrics to dispense awards and promotions. Every whistleblower has called it an environment of “pressure” within the FBI.

These whistleblower allegations that the FBI is padding its domestic violent extremist data cheapens actual examples of violent extremism. This information also reinforces our concerns—about which we have written to you several times—regarding the FBI’s politicization under your leadership. As we have detailed, multiple whistleblowers have disclosed how the Biden FBI is conducting a “purge” of FBI employees holding conservative views. You have ignored these concerns. It appears instead that the FBI is more focused on classifying investigations to meet a woke left-wing agenda.”

Jordan requested that Wray provide the following documents and information:

1. All documents and communications referring or relating to eGuardians, preliminary
investigations, and full investigations classified as domestic violent extremism, including
by type of case, for the period of January 1, 2020, to the present;
2. All documents and communications between or among employees of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, the Department of Justice, and the Executive Office of the President
referring or relating to classifying or reclassifying domestic violent extremism cases, for
the period of January 1, 2020, to the present;
3. The total number of preliminary investigations and full investigations of domestic violent
extremism, including by type of case, for the period of January 1, 2020, to the present;
and
4. The total number of Confidential Human Sources that contributed to any reports of
domestic violent extremism cases, for the period of January 1, 2020, to the present.

If people on federal juries stop finding any DOJ/FBI prosecuted guilty based on reasonable doubt of anything the DOJ/FBI presents it will get real interesting real quick.

I couldn’t find anyone guilty sitting on a jury if a federal agency is involved, there would be a reasonable doubt and I am not going to send someone to prison when it’s clear that the federal government encourages: lying, the manufacturing of evidence, hides exculpatory evidence and justice is the last thing they are seeking in a trial.

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