Ian Patrick, FISM News
Investigations into the possible politicization of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) as a whole took a new turn on Friday as Congressional Republicans dropped a whistleblower report exceeding 1,000 pages on the matter.
The report, penned by Republicans of the House Committee on the Judiciary, gives account of multiple whistleblower testimonies and other research that they say points to “problems … that undermine the FBI’s fundamental law-enforcement mission.”
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the stewardship of Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, is broken,” the report begins. “The problem lies not with the majority of front-line agents who serve our country, but with the FBI’s politicized bureaucracy.”
“Quite simply, the problem—the rot within the FBI—festers in and proceeds from Washington,” the report says.
Whistleblowers discussing the FBI described the bureau using words like “rotted at its core” and maintaining “rampant corruption, manipulation, and abuse.” This so-called “rot” is spread throughout a multi-pronged effort, presented in the report as “what is known so far about the extent of problems festering within the FBI’s Washington bureaucracy.”
For instance, the FBI is allegedly inflating statistics about domestic violent extremism in the U.S. following the chaos on January 6th, 2021.
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