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Key lawmaker worried FBI whistleblowers facing retaliation as evidence of politicization mounts
MxM News ^ | Updated: September 23, 2022 - 11:05pm | John Solomon

Posted on 09/24/2022 5:25:19 AM PDT by mabarker1

An FBI whistleblower who alleges the bureau has been diverting resources to create a false political narrative that America has a violent domestic extremism problem has been suspended, raising concerns about retaliation for cooperating with Congress Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee and its likely chairman if the GOP wins the House in November, confirmed to Just the News that Steve Friend, a whistleblower whose identity was outed on TV recently, is facing some form of disciplinary action.

"We now understand based on what we've learned that he's been suspended, which appears to be some kind of retaliation," Jordan told the John Solomon Reports podcast. "I don't know, maybe there's some other reason for that. But, obviously, the law says that whistleblowers, agents coming forward as whistleblowers, are protected by the law. There's not supposed to be retaliation.

"I'm sure the Bureau has some reason they're saying that this took place. But we'll have to wait and see."

Fox News and The New York Post reported earlier this week that FBI Special Agent Steve Friend, a SWAT team member, had filed a whistleblower complaint with the Justice Department inspector general alleging improper politicization of cases and manipulation of crime statistics.

Friend's complaint alleges the bureau has been "cooking the books to exaggerate the threat of domestic terrorism and ­using an 'overzealous' Jan. 6 investigation to harass conservative Americans and violate their constitutional rights," the Post reported.

Jordan gave a broad description of the allegations 14 separate FBI whistleblowers have brought to his office, saying the concerns range from improperly targeting parents as domestic terrorists to politicizing investigative decisions.

(Excerpt) Read more at mxmnews.page.link ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: arrestwray; criminalregime; fbi; friend; retaliation; stevefriend; whistleblower
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This is just mind boggling that after the Greatest Generation saved the World from the Nazi's and Imperial Japanese in WWII that now the leftist demonratcommieblmantifaterrorscumfeminazipedophilegoatrapers in America are using THE SAME PLAYBOOK!!! The fbi may as well just go ahead with it and rename themselves to Stazi 2.0.

And half of the people in America are either too blind or stupid to realize that !!! (It pains Me to have a stepdaughter that is one of those. Yesterday she was blabbing about "we've got Orange Man now" referring to that B!tc}{ AG leeches whatever the name is and the stupid crap charges!) II had to double up on My BP Meds yesterday.

1 posted on 09/24/2022 5:25:19 AM PDT by mabarker1
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To: Chode; SkyDancer; Salamander; carriage_hill; Lockbox; MtnClimber; nascarnation; Squantos; ...

Ping


2 posted on 09/24/2022 5:26:07 AM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
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Link to an app, rather than a web page?


3 posted on 09/24/2022 5:27:32 AM PDT by jdege
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The fbi may as well just go ahead with it and rename themselves to Stazi 2.0.

KGB.

4 posted on 09/24/2022 5:30:19 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: mabarker1

The republic is dead, Jordan.

Where have you been?!


5 posted on 09/24/2022 5:35:20 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: mabarker1
First order of business when Republicans take over the congress: DEFUND THE FBI.
6 posted on 09/24/2022 5:41:00 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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And half of the people in America are either too blind or stupid to realize that !!!

that is the cause ... not the effect ...
7 posted on 09/24/2022 5:42:58 AM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: mewzilla

Yup. We are not voting our way out of this mess. The republic is dead and we are in a revolution right now. The form of government we end up with next is probably going to be pretty darn ugly.


8 posted on 09/24/2022 5:48:12 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: SmokingJoe

Knowing that the Republican takeover could decrease funding in areas considered critical, the Democrats passed bills creating massive slush pots from which money can be drawn where and when as needed.

Until the war kills them off, there can be no respite in the leftist sponsored tyranny


9 posted on 09/24/2022 5:48:50 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: SmokingJoe

Followed closely by defund the DNC, by defunding the DOE.


10 posted on 09/24/2022 5:51:20 AM PDT by Fireone (When they pry them from my cold, dead, unvaccinated hands.)
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To: bankwalker

Steve Friend was a low level agent. His charges against the higher-ups might make him a martyr but he’ll be out of work just like Lt. Col. Schelenberger.


11 posted on 09/24/2022 5:52:39 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: mabarker1

The Nazification of Germany didn’t happen overnight, and blaming everything on the Jews, Gypsies and gays was their scapegoats. Today it’s white Christian people who are straight. Yes, the Democrat Party has become the Nazi Party of the 21st Century as history repeats itself. And, the Democrats seek world domination just like Hitler did


12 posted on 09/24/2022 5:57:04 AM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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Here is the actual link to the story. The link you posted was to an app.
13 posted on 09/24/2022 6:02:37 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: mabarker1

The Greatest Generation was the the Generation of the Revolution.

Many of those WWII guys voted for the FDR and LBJ to put us in the position we are now.


14 posted on 09/24/2022 6:03:01 AM PDT by Fai Mao (Stop feeding the beast, and steal its food!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Well, we might vote our way out if this mess.

There’s still a chance for that.

If Deep State decides to settle for a loot-and-run on the public treasure then get the heck outta Dodge.

But if it refuses to leave...


15 posted on 09/24/2022 6:05:41 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: ClearCase_guy

Even if Deep State decides to bug out, you can bet the plan is to leave Trump, or whomever we vote in, with a ship of state that is a foundering, smoking hulk.

Then they might lie in wait, blame Trump when he can’t right the ship fast enough for the impatient, and try to convince us that theirs is the only way forward.

We’d better be prepared for that, too.

If we get the republic back, we’ll need to be patient and stick together.

Period.


16 posted on 09/24/2022 6:11:37 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: mewzilla

Voting, riiiight.


17 posted on 09/24/2022 6:12:00 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT)
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To: mabarker1

Reminds me of the recently released book, The Thin Blue Lie by Greg Dillon.

Dillon was an FBI agent stationed in Connecticut, on their federal fugitive task force. He became aware that the affidavits he was writing out were being re-written by someone else, and including false information into the affidavit when theyre supposed to be 100% accurate and truthful. He checked with other agents to see if the same was happening to their affidavits too. It was.

He made official complaints, going through proper channels about it only to find himself punished by his supervisors in a variety of ways, transfered to an office that was considered “Siberia”, having his task force shrunk down until there was only him on it and then the task force would be shut down, being passed over for promotions that would be given to other practically brand new agents who served less time in the FBI and less experienced in the job than him, etc.

He sued and won a multi million dollar judgement against the FBI. After his court win, he still continued working for the FBI. But found himself still getting the “whistle-blower treatment” by his superiors. So he sued again and won again.

Apparently the FBI hasn’t learned its lesson and continues their revenge behavior against whistleblowers.


18 posted on 09/24/2022 6:12:12 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: Fai Mao

There was always the possibility that we could vote the republic into extinction.

But Deep State didn’t wait for that.

It stole the election.

And in the process gave the country one mother of a wake-up call.

If we get our republic back, I think this will a lesson well-learned.

We’ll be much wiser for it.


19 posted on 09/24/2022 6:14:28 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: mewzilla

Wiser is good, but wisdom is valueless without action

Conservatives lack the will to act with the force required to destroy the leftists. So long as they exist, there will be no lasting change

What will provoke the action required to prevail?


20 posted on 09/24/2022 6:19:07 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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