Posted on 02/12/2023 11:36:37 AM PST by george76
The House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government held its first hearing Thursday, featuring tips from dozens of former FBI agents and the testimony of two former agents who have come forward to expose politicization within the agency.
The two former agents, Thomas Baker and Nicole Parker, spoke on their experiences while working at the FBI. Parker said that she is enduring the stress of “putting a target” on her back and testifying to speak on behalf of “numerous current and former bureau employees who feel similarly that they do not have a voice.”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan opened the hearing with an overview of FBI whistleblowers, amounting to “dozens and dozens” of individuals.
“In my time in Congress, I have never seen anything like this,” Jordan said. “It’s not Jim Jordan saying this, not Republicans, not conservatives, good FBI agents who are willing to come forward and give us the truth.”
Jordan sampled a handful of these tips, spanning back to Nov. 18, 2021, when an FBI whistleblower alerted House Judiciary Republicans that the FBI had create a threat tag for parents expressing concern at school board meetings, and ranging to Nov. 4, 2022, when a whistleblower revealed the FBI accepts private user information from Facebook without user consent, according to a House Judiciary report.
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Johnson said at the hearing that he expects many of the whistleblowers will sit for transcribed interviews or testify during future open hearings.
“Every day, I woke up and I embraced being an FBI special agent until things changed,” said former FBI Agent Nicole Parker during the hearing.
Over her twelve years with the agency, Parker said its trajectory “transformed” and principles “shifted dramatically.”
“The FBI became politically weaponized starting from the top in Washington and trickling down to the field offices,” Parker said.
“It’s as if there became two FBIs,” she continued. “Americans see this, and it is destroying the bureau’s credibility, and therefore the hardworking and highly ethical agents who still do the heavy lifting and pursue noble cases.”
Thomas Baker, former FBI Agent of 33 years, said the public loss of faith in the agency “breaks [his] heart.” He said the shift in culture was “deliberate” and set in place by former FBI director Robert Mueller.
“The FBI director set out deliberately to change the culture of the FBI from a law enforcement agency to an intelligence driven agency,” he said.
“The FBI, by urging Twitter to censor speech, which it could not itself do, was engaging in a perversion – a perversion of the First Amendment,” Baker later continued. “For most of FBI history, agents were trained as part of the FBI’s mission was to be a guarantor of the Bill of Rights. That has been turned on its head.”
I disagree. At least some FBI agents have done great things fighting sex trafficking of minors DESPITE the ruling Democrat party’s fondness for molesting children.
Hollywood does glorify this rotten group but that’s about it.
They’re all right-wing extremists./sarc
“...good FBI agents...”
Yeah.
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“The entire FBI needs to be shuttered and all employees of the FBI should be banned from future government employment.”
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You realize, do you not?, that you just damned the FBI by faint praise.
Dr. Bret Weinstein has made the same point. (If people who resist unethical orders leave or get pushed out, the only ones left are those who would obey unethical orders.)
A slight correction makes this better:
I truly believe that the vast majority of all government employees work not for the American citizen, but for their own agencies.
The only time I actually caused an outburst of apoplectic anger from a supervisor is when , in response to his question, ‘Just who do you think you work for?’ I told him we all ultimately work for the taxpayers who pay our salaries. The rage was really palpable. When he calmed down a bit he shouted”You GD well better know you work for who signs your annual appraisal, smart ass”
Case in point, immigration and control of our border has a decades long history of abject failure. This has allowed sex and drug trafficking. The FBI cleans up part of that mess. Someone needs to clean up part of that mess. It might as well be local law enforcement where we have a better chance at controlling corruption and uncontrolled abuse of power..
When have you heard anyone at the FBI ever complain about the government caused invasion at our southern border? You haven’t and there is a reason. They fully know if the root of the problem was fixed, they would go from being so-called heroes to not being needed.
Fixing government requires some very basic things. Each government agency, board, and commission needs its function evaluated against the powers enumerated in the constitution. If such a power does not exist, then that entity is eliminated. Then the remaining parts of government need to meet their missions as prescribed by law, and only that. For the life of me I cannot find anywhere in the US Constitution that gives Congress the power to establish the FBI. Perhaps that’s the reason why our nation existed so long before there was the FBI and has declined so much since the formation of the FBI. Note: it’s not solely the FBI’s fault for America’s decline. It is all the massive expansion of government since the early 20th century and the acceleration in growth. It is a progressive, big government mindset.
I want to be very clear. There are no good FBI agents. These whistleblowers are only coming forth after the fact to save their own pathetic asses. They have been complicit in their silence for years.
Save their asses from what? No one is going to be prosecuted except maybe the whistleblowers themselves.
The Stasi.
I agree but current jurisprudence has interpreted the General Welfare Clause, the Commerce Clause and the 14th Amendment to cover virtually any activity or condition in existence. For instance, the Environmental Protection Agency and its enabling act are permitted under the General Welfare Clause.
Why didn’t they come out while Comey was doing this nonsense?
(Folks who want to still have a job after the purge.)
GMTA
You understand what happens to useful idiots... Now let’s hope enough people in the FBI also realize that - and that we’re running out of time.
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