FBI Suspends Whistleblower Who Claimed Bureau Is Mishandling Jan. 6 Investigations: GOP
House Republicans said Tuesday that the FBI suspended a whistleblower who pushed back against the bureau’s handling of Jan. 6 Capitol breach investigations.
“The FBI SUSPENDED a whistleblower for refusing to carry out the Bureau’s politicized investigations,” House Judiciary Republicans wrote on Twitter. It did not provide more details, including the identity of the alleged whistleblower or why the person was suspended.
The Twitter post also included portions of a recent letter sent by Republicans to FBI Director Christopher Wray, which contained allegations from the whistleblower in question. That person claimed that the FBI altered its rules to create the illusion that domestic violent extremism (DVE) appears more often than it really does.
“The FBI’s case categorization creates the illusion that threats from DVE are present in jurisdictions across the nation, when in reality they all stem from the same related investigation concerning the actions at the Capitol on January 6,” a letter sent by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to FBI Director Christopher Wray read, which was also cited by House Judiciary Republicans in the Twitter post.
Describing the FBI processes as an “artificial case categorization scheme,” Jordan wrote that it allows FBI leaders to “misleadingly point to ‘significant’ increases in DVE threats nationwide.”
A spokesperson for the FBI declined to comment on the GOP’s allegations when contacted by The Epoch Times on Wednesday. The Epoch Times asked the FBI to confirm whether there is a whistleblower who accused the bureau of mishandling Jan. 6 investigations, if that person was suspended by the FBI, or the reasons why.
What the Whistleblower Alleged
“This scheme allows you to continue to support on paper your assertion that ‘[t]he FBI is a field-based law enforcement organization, and the vast majority of our investigations should continue to be worked by our field offices,’ while actually
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