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Three former FBI officials are speaking out about the politicization and corruption occurring inside the bureau.
This includes whistleblowers Garret O’Boyle, Steve Friend, and Marcus Allen.
All three FBI officials were suspended for expressing their concerns.
The FBI is accused of manipulating data on domestic violent extremism to align with the political narratives of the Biden administration.
The whistleblowers are providing specific accounts of abuse as well as the retaliation they’ve faced after speaking out.
BREAKING: The FBI manipulated data on domestic violent extremism to align with the political narratives of the Biden administration.
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According to notes from the interview, the former agents specifically expressed concerns with instructions from FBI leadership that they focus on pursuing ‘domestic violent extremism’ probes and disregard standard investigative procedures in January 6 cases.
In addition, the former officials told the committee that they were instructed to pursue Jan. 6 investigations over child sex crime cases, because they were ‘no longer a priority.’
Specifically, the former agents accuse the FBI of inflating statistics on ‘domestic violent extremism’ to fit the Biden administration’s political narrative that extremism is on the rise nationwide.
‘The manipulative casefile practice creates false and misleading crime statistics, constituting false official federal statements,’ Friend wrote in an affidavit.
‘Instead of hundreds of investigations stemming from an isolated incident at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, FBI and DOJ officials point to significant increases in domestic violent extremism and terrorism around the United States.’
