FBI whistleblower Steve Friend shared revelations of the agency's alleged conduct on Saturday's "Unfiltered with Dan Bongino" after what he said was his experience.

Friend had been working as a field agent in Florida when he said he noticed "rules were not being followed as they are laid out in our guidance for carrying out investigations" for tracking down January 6 participants.

He said he made a protective disclosure to his supervisor in August 2021 to raise those concerns ahead of arrest-and-search operations on certain subjects.

When asked his thoughts on whether the D.C. central office handing down directives wasmotivated by politics or some investigative need for this case, Friend said he asked supervisors who said that when they inquired about it, they were told it was to get a "buy-in" from the field.

He said that is not a term he was familiar with.

"I can only speculate about motivations," he said.

Host Dan Bongino noted "Unfiltered" reached out to the FBI with a reply that the agency had no statement on the matter at this time.

Friend said he knew the end result of that is a "flattening of a high number of cases of rioting and potential domestic terrorist investigations from one incident and on January 6, 2021, in one location."

"Those were spread around the country and gave deceptive statistical figures on an appearance that domestic terrorism was, in fact, a widespread national issue as opposed to a one-off incident," he said.

Friend added that a number of...

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