(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said an FBI whistleblower informed him that the federal agency transferred Jan. 6 investigations to branch offices to “overstate” the “domestic terrorism” threat.
The whistleblower said that the FBI’s Washington Field Office ignored investigative policies when it shifted the inquiries into Capitol riot suspects from the national to the local level, Breitbart reported.
Jordan, the ranking Republican member on the House Judiciary Committee, outlined the whistleblower’s complaints in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
“The manipulative casefile practice creates false and misleading crime statistics,” the whistleblower said. “Instead of hundreds of investigations stemming from a single, black swan incident at the Capitol, FBI and DOJ officials point to significant increases in domestic violent extremism and terrorism around the United States.”
The whistleblower argued that the Washington Field Office should handle the investigations because the Capitol riot occurred under its jurisdiction.
Although the Washington Office has given local field offices instructions about conducting investigations into the Jan. 6 riot, the WFO has mostly coordinated and conducted the investigations by itself.
Jordan said the FBI’s decision to categorize the domestic terrorism threats as local while operating a national investigation reveals its desire to perpetuate a Biden administration talking point about white supremacy and MAGA extremism.
“Such an artificial case categorization scheme allows FBI leadership to misleadingly point to ‘significant’ increases in DVE [domestic violent extremism] threats nationwide,” he wrote.
The FBI whistleblower also noted that the FBI has shelved other high-priority crimes, like child sex trafficking, to focus on punishing dissidents.
“The whistleblower recalled, for example, being ‘told that child sexual abuse material investigations were no longer an FBI priority and should be referred to local law enforcement agencies,'” Jordan wrote.
Jordan said the investigative priorities reflect the “FBI leadership’s political agenda.”
