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.”
The FBI and the DOJ are corrupt, I believe it.
Yeah, like when Turmp tried to get the DOJ to investigate anyone that hurt his feelings. Fat baby.
If looking into feeeelings are so unimportant, why does anyone give two cents about the “feelings” of people who hallucinate themselves as something other than the biological entity that they were born as? Time has proven that every criticism that President Trump had about the federal bureaucracy was accurate, starting with the politicized DOJ and intelligence agencies who spent 4 years trying to bring him down. He wouldn’t play their kind of ball, “Go along to get along, regardless of the best interests of the country or whatever was the right thing to do!”
Always trust a report from a guy that allowed sexual assaults to happen to his players while he was their coach.
Who?
Gym Jordan. :-p
I must have missed that. Care to be more specific? If it was that important, why hasn’t it been all over the news?
It’s up to the people to remind the government who they actually work for
Excuse me, but was Republican leaning James Comey who re-opened an investigation of Hillary Clinton’s stupid emails ten days before heir Trump was elected!
Who are these “whistleblowers”? No doubt, paid Republican operatives.
Oh please!!!
Dude, Gym Jordan is heading up this investigation. It is a pile of poop.
They are men and women with guts and morals, something that seems lacking today within the top echelons of the federal bureaucracy and the Democrat Party.
J Edgar Hoover should be rolling over in his grave to see just how corrupt the FBI has become! They have way too much power in my opinion!! No wonder the trust of We the People is gone!!
J. Edgar Hoover was a shameless autocrat who often abused his power for his own ends. He maintained dossiers on every Washington politician in order to control them and once investigated MLK. His entire career was an unending grab for more and more power. When the CIA was created, he argued with Harry Truman that he should be its director as well as the director of the FBI. Truman refused saying, “We don’t need our own KGB!”
Blacks and Hispanics have said for decades that the DOJ and FBI were not following the spirit of the law. However, when people of color complained no on paid attention. Now that the FBI and DOJ are slapping Trump and the Proud Boys up side their heads, the FBI and DOJ are rotten to the core?
Racial bias in the FBI for many years was because of J. Edgar Hoover, not the average field agent.
The majority of front line agents are only following orders – Yavol mein kamph!
Glad to see someone at the swamp is at least stating the obvious that patriotic Americans already knew. Now lets see who has the will to do something about it before they become the next victim of a false investigation. The FBI is only good for trying to ruin good people’s lives with their show of force and guns out to make another headline.
A friend of mine who worked in the Secret Service once said the FBI is all about getting headlines first and truth second or third.
The ATF is worse. The two agencies together are responsible for the travesties of the Branch-Davidian murders and the Ruby Ridge debacle. Taken together, over 80 innocent people were killed including nine children. After “Waco,” there was a hearing in a Texas state district court about the incident. A Texas Ranger testified that the deadly fire which killed all of the innocents was started by “military-grade incendiary ammunition” which could only have come from the National Guard tank the FBI brought onto the scene. The government, i.e. the FBI, claimed the Branch-Davidians started the fire themselves. They egregiously lied. I’ll believe a Texas Ranger over an executive of the FBI any day!
Yes our Doj and parent companies are way beyond corrupt. I HAVE A CRAP TON OF EVISENCE THAT GOES AS FAR BACK AS 2017.. I cannot get anyone to hear me out… they tries to ruin my life because of it…