WASHINGTON D.C. (KEYT) – A recently released whistleblower report alleges that the Trump Administration directed employees at the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Field Office in Los Angeles to open investigations into legally protected protest activities last year.
According to a whistleblower disclosure by former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Jill Fields, the President of the United States personally directed the law enforcement agency to open investigations and arrest protesters in California, a violation of the U.S. Constitution and agency policies.
Early last year, the whistleblower shared, employees were reassigned from investigating violent and transnational crimes, "To support the immigration push, the Los Angeles Field Office established a dedicated immigration squad focused solely on immigration matters. The squad consisted of approximately ten agents, many of whom were reassigned from the cartels squad, while others were drawn from volunteers or personnel directed to participate. Los Angeles is a major transshipment hub for drug trafficking and Ms. Fields questioned the directive's operational logic, as agents were pulled off active cartel cases".
This reassignment of critical law enforcement operations to politically directed ones also included directives to avoid preservation of internal documentation of the changes.
"During meetings on this [immigration reassignment] initiative, Ms. Fields experienced supervisors
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