FBI whistleblowers accused bureau management in different field offices of corruption, cover-ups and retaliation against rank-and-file agents who attempted to expose it, The Washington Times has learned.
Current and former FBI leaders at the bureau’s offices in Miami, Salt Lake City, Buffalo, New York, and Newark, New Jersey, are facing whistleblower complaints that the supervisors:
• Forced or coerced agents to sign false affidavits.
• Fabricated terrorism cases to pump up performance statistics.
• Sexually harassed and stalked a female agent.
• Engaged in sexual acts with a subordinate in a government vehicle and crashed the vehicle.
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One of the whistleblowers, an FBI agent who claimed superiors, including FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, ignored her accusations of sexual harassment said the bureau suffers from a “mob-like mentality.”
“The FBI is completely out of control and its culture and structure needs to change. Not only is the political bias completely out of control and disgustingly obvious, the FBI knows they will not be held accountable for their illegal behavior and misconduct,” she said in a letter to Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican on the Judiciary Committee.
The FBI did not respond to a request for comment.
The Times reviewed some of the complaints and learned details about other complaints from the whistleblowers or their attorney.
The complaints...
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