Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives released a staggering 1,000-page report outlining whistleblower allegations of misconduct and politicization by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The report claimed, “The Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the stewardship of Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, is broken. The problem lies not with the majority of front-line agents who serve our country, but with the FBI’s politicized bureaucracy.”
Through various whistleblowers who have outlined several instances in which the FBI has allegedly abused its authority, including spying on President Trump’s political campaign and even altering and mischaracterizing evidence to federal courts, the report’s authors claimed to have reached “one startling conclusion.”
“The FBI and its parent agency, the Justice Department, have become political institutions,” the report suggested.
Whistleblowers have claimed that the FBI’s hierarchy is “rotted at its core,” maintaining a “systemic culture of unaccountability,” and is full of “rampant corruption, manipulation, and abuse.”
Rep. Jim Jordan, ranking Republican on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and lead signatory of the report has been working alongside his Senate colleague Chuck Grassley for the better part of the last year to expose what they consider is the corruption and political bias of these agencies.
While the specific allegations within the report have been discussed for the last year, the document represents the first comprehensive accounting of these issues.
Among the topics covered in the report were the artificial inflation of so-called domestic violent extremism statistics, the abuse of investigative authority to harass parents who engage with their local school boards, the purge of ideologically conservative employees and agents, and the drainage of resources from criminal investigations to engage in political campaign meddling.
“The FBI has the power, quite literally, to ruin a person’s life — to invade their residence, to take their property, and even to deprive them of their liberty,” the report read.
The authors claimed, “Americans deserve to have confidence that the enormous power and reach of federal law enforcement will be used fairly and free of any indication of politicization.”
To encourage more whistleblowers, one full page of the report was dedicated to informing FBI and DOJ employees of their “right to speak with Congress.”
“Every federal employee of the Department of Justice and FBI has an unfettered right to communicate with Congress, without the approval, consent, or awareness of the Department or the FBI. Federal law protects these disclosures,” the page read.
As Republicans stand likely to regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives, the 1,000-plus page report will serve as a road map for future congressional investigations and inquiries into the DOJ and FBI.
Jordan said as much in the letters he recently sent to the heads of those agencies, as reported by The Dallas Express.
Anticipating future investigations, the report read, “There is likely much more to be uncovered in the months ahead.”
