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“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.