Top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan accused the FBI on Monday of "cooking the books," citing a new whistleblower who came forward alleging that the bureau has been deliberately manipulating the way case files are logged to create a "false and misleading" narrative about the prevalence of domestic violent extremism in the United States.
In an appearance on "Tucker Carlson Tonight," ranking member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, revealed the contents of a letter he sent to FBI Director Christopher Wray in which he detailed evidence from an unnamed whistleblower. The mystery whistleblower accused the FBI of breaking its own procedures and miscategorizing case files to create an illusion of a new violent extremism crisis rapidly emerging across the U.S. – as suggested by President Biden in his public address earlier this month.
According to the whistleblower, most of these cases labeled as extremism by the FBI are isolated to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and are not representative of a national rise in domestic violent extremism.
"The manipulative case file practice creates false and misleading crime statistics," Jordan's letter reads. "Instead of hundreds of investigations stemming from a single black swan incident at the Capitol on Jan. 6, the FBI and DOJ officials point to significant increases in domestic terrorism around the United States…"
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