FBI's statement responding to DOJ whistleblower doesn't help their case: 'The Five'
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The FBI has responded to a Justice Department whistleblower coming forward, who claimed the agency created a "threat tag’ to potentially track perceptively unruly or critical parents at school board meetings — and the bureau did not help its case, the panel on "The Five" discussed.
On Tuesday an FBI spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation that "a tag is merely a statistical tool to track information for review and reporting," and that the "creation of a threat tag in no way changes the long-standing requirements for opening an investigation, nor does it represent a shift in how the FBI prioritizes threats."
"The FBI has used tags to track everything from drug trafficking to human trafficking," the response concluded.
On "The Five", host Greg Gutfeld suggested the FBI's statement made critics' point.
"That really cleared things up: ‘We only use this [tag system] on drug traffickers and human slave drivers’ — and parents," he said, criticizing the statement from the bureau, which is currently led by Christopher Wray, a former Bush DOJ official who also served as then-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's attorney during the 2013 George Washington "BridgeGate" scandal.
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