A new House Republican report said whistleblower testimony reveals the FBI is categorizing cases stemming from the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, in such a way as to mislead about and artificially inflate the rise in domestic terrorism in the United States.
The GOP report said that “whistleblowers assert that the FBI pressured agents to reclassify cases as domestic violent extremism (DVE), and even manufactured DVE cases where they may not otherwise exist, while manipulating its case categorization system to feign a national problem.” The whistleblower claims were made public in an 80-page report released Thursday by the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH).
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Jordan’s report said whistleblowers contended that the FBI’s Washington Field Office was categorizing Capitol riot cases to make the rise in DVE cases look more like a national problem rather than a significant amount of it stemming from one violent riot in the nation’s capital over two years ago.
“According to whistleblower information, the FBI has manipulated the manner in which it categorized January 6-related investigations to create a misleading narrative that domestic terrorism is organically surging around the country,” the GOP report said. “Ordinarily, the FBI characterizes and labels cases according to the originating field office, with leads ‘cut’...
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