{"id":1656050,"date":"2022-09-24T08:08:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T12:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1656050"},"modified":"2022-09-24T08:08:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T12:08:49","slug":"fbi-whistleblower-nobody-i-know-signed-up-to-investigate-parents-who-vented-at-schoolboard-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-whistleblower-nobody-i-know-signed-up-to-investigate-parents-who-vented-at-schoolboard-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Whistleblower: Nobody I Know Signed Up To Investigate Parents Who Vented at Schoolboard Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffbi-whistleblower-nobody-i-know-signed-up-to-investigate-parents-who-vented-at-schoolboard-meetings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1656050&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An FBI whistleblower who was recently suspended said in an interview this week that he became a whistleblower last November because of Attorney General Merrick Garland\u2019s email ordering the FBI to use Patriot Act counterterrorism tools to target parents at school board meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Special Agent Kyle Seraphin, who was indefinitely suspended on June 1 after nearly six years with the Bureau, said that he was so disturbed by the directive, he went to his congresswoman\u2019s office in New Mexico, and made a \u201cprotected disclosure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/16\/fbi-created-threat-tags-over-alleged-harassment-of-educators-whistleblower\/\">Garland announced<\/a> the creation of the tag \u201cEDUOFFICIALS\u201d to track school board meeting related threats in an email sent to Justice Department employees in October of 2021.<br \/>Investigations were opened on parents based on anonymous tips, and agents had to surveil and interview ordinary moms and dads who got caught up in the dragnet.<\/p>\n<p>In a two-part interview with conservative radio host Dan Bongino, Seraphin said that most of his colleagues didn\u2019t appreciate the political nature of these cases, and just did \u201ccursory investigations\u201d before shutting them down.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, he said, there are many parents out there who have no idea the Bureau has case files them and that agents have combed through their financial information just because they may have said something deemed inappropriate at a school board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Seraphin told Bongino that the Bureau was putting resources towards something that should have been a state and local issue, and that he knew it was happening because of political pressure from the left-wing National School Boards Association (NSBA).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s when you become part of political hatchet jobs, and I didn\u2019t sign up for that, and nobody I know signed up for that either,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s not what people want to get involved in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Bongino said he was \u201cstunned\u201d more FBI employees weren\u2019t standing up, the whistleblower said, \u201cit\u2019s more than people think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seraphin, who has worked in multiple field offices in the counterterrorism division, said there are about 40 whistleblowers who have now spoken to Republican members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>He told told Bongino that a lot of guys have left the FBI because they refused to be a part of this abusive system. But many others \u201chave kids and a mortgage,\u201d and are willing to hang on for 20 years so they can retire with the Bureau\u2019s generous pension.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of guys who say, \u2018I don\u2019t agree with what\u2019s going on here, but I\u2019ve got three years to retire\u2019\u2014it\u2019s heartbreaking,\u201d he said, adding that he believes this is a universal problem throughout government, but is particularly dangerous in the FBI because of the power it wields. But when \u201cthese leads come in\u201d about parents complaining at school board meetings, \u201cnobody is excited,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Seraphin stressed that discontent within the ranks is widespread throughout the Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>He said the first thing FBI agents do when they sit down together is \u201cbitch about the management, complain about the structure, and complain about how it\u2019s not how it used to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThis is not what they signed up with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The whistleblower said he told his congresswoman that the FBI\u2019s school board meeting investigations \u201clook really wrong to me and we shouldn\u2019t be engaged in that with government resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat could be me,\u201d he told Bongino, referring to enraged parents at school board meetings. \u201cI\u2019ve got kids. I\u2019m a parent. I could get hot at a school board meeting over stuff they have no business telling schoolchildren.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seraphin explained that it\u2019s a misnomer to think of the FBI as the nation\u2019s premier law enforcement agency because most of what they do is intelligence gathering.<\/p>\n<p>He said an innocent person could be surveilled for years simply because they had a connection online to a suspected terrorist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an intelligence investigation. It has nothing to do with crime. There\u2019s no allegation that there was a crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Criminality is what law enforcement is looking for. We\u2019re looking for information in this case. It has nothing to do with whether you have done anything wrong, or if there\u2019s even an allegation that you did anything wrong.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s terrifying,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the reasons I asked to get out of there. Because I didn\u2019t want to be involved in that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seraphin said that even though he\u2019s been suspended without pay, has \u201cno rights and responsibilities,\u201d and is not allowed to represent himself as an FBI agent, he is also not allowed to get another job without asking his supervisors for permission. His only other option is to resign, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The whistleblower said he also got on the wrong side of the federal government when he asked for a religious exemption on the COVID vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said I\u2019m not going to get it. Still haven\u2019t got it. I refuse,\u201d Seraphin told the host. He explained that he had COVID in October of 2020, and thus has natural immunity.<\/p>\n<p>He said that when the mandate was announced, he knew he needed a way to share information with other vaccine resisters within the Bureau, and with the help of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (FLEOA), he was able to round up 300 FBI employees who talk to each other on apps about what is happening at their field offices.<\/p>\n<p>Seraphin said that about 3,000 FBI employees in all have refused to get the shots.<\/p>\n<p>He told Bongino that he and his wife attended the pro-life march in Washington DC in 2020, and heard President Trump speak.<\/p>\n<p>Seraphin also said he had friends who had planned to go to Trump\u2019s \u201cStop the Steal\u201d rally on January 6: \u201cCurrent agents, guys that were carrying the badge and the gun, were going to go to the rally, and just for logistical reasons didn\u2019t make it,\u201d he explained.\u00a0 \u201cThey were able to retire safely probably because of that mishap. Because otherwise, they would have been under investigation as far as I can tell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two other friends, he said, were not so lucky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know two guys that have been suspended without pay, and had their security clearance revoked for showing up to listen to the president of the United States speak,\u201d he said. \u201cThe allegation is absurd\u2013that they were engaging in the obstruction of a federal proceeding, or they had stopped a police officer in the performance of his duties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seraphin said the agents told him they didn\u2019t even see any police officers, and that they left \u201cas soon as the tear gas came out,\u201d and they saw \u201cvans of antifa guys coming out, guys in black clothes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are good people,\u201d the whistleblower insisted. \u201cThe FBI knows who they are and what they did to them, and to a number of others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/now\/fbi-strips-employees-security-clearances-181641694.html\">sent a letter<\/a> to FBI director Christopher Wray in May of 2022 to complain that the FBI has been stripping employees of security clearances for attending Trump\u2019s rally on January 6 while they were on official leave, and even though they \u201cdid not enter the U.S. Capitol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile FBI employees may not participate in partisan political campaigns, [they] do not give up their rights to engage in political speech activity,\u201d wrote Jordan. \u201cWe have serious concerns that the FBI appears to be retaliating against employees for engaging in political speech disfavored by FBI leadership,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan wrote that several whistleblowers had spoken to Republicans on the committee, and that the Department of Justice inspector general had opened an investigation into potential violations of civil-service laws.\u00a0 The primary whistleblower for that complaint was\u00a0 described as a 20-year veteran of the FBI and U.S. military.<\/p>\n<p>Seraphin said that he has friends who retired over the J6 investigations and gave up their pensions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FBI bought in 100 percent to the hype\u201d he lamented. \u201cThey say it is the biggest investigation they have ever done\u2013bigger than 9\/11\u2013to me that\u2019s incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>They took supervisors who had done national security work, moved them to a specific building off site, and opened up approximately three squads. Agents shipped in from all over the country.\u00a0 A queue of tens of thousands of leads that had to be processed, and every one of them has to be looked at because any one of them could be the thing that breaks this case, whatever this case is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seraphin\u00a0said most of the agents investigating the tips that came in to the FBI were \u201cvoluntolds,\u201d agents who \u201cvolunteered\u201d to join the J6 investigations after being told to go.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the leads the FBI received were from liberals snitching on neighbors for simple being Trump supporters, even if they didn\u2019t go to the rally, the whistleblower said.<\/p>\n<p>Seraphin cited as a typical lead: \u201cI haven\u2019t seen him in ten years, but he kind of looks like picture number 75, go get him!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you sent that to me, I would throw that in the trash. That\u2019s garbage. That\u2019s not a lead,\u201d he told Bongino. \u201cThat\u2019s a crazy person to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the whistleblower said \u201chalf-baked\u201d tips like that are routinely being tracked down by the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, he pointed out, the Bureau doesn\u2019t get involved investigating misdemeanor offenses.<\/p>\n<p>He also revealed that he has read \u201ccounterterrorism affidavits that have outright lies in them,\u201d and that are \u201cfactually inaccurate.\u201d He said he was reporting these things to Congress because \u201ceveryone should know this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou shouldn\u2019t be able to put false information into a warrant and take somebody down for that,\u201d the G-man said.<\/p>\n<p>Seraphin noted that when he contacted the offices of two unidentified congressmen with this information, their chiefs of staff advised him against becoming a whistleblower and said that he should assume that people will come after him and his his family.<\/p>\n<p>He told Bongino that his FBI friends have called him and jokingly asked if he sleeps with his weapon, and jokingly advised him to \u201cwatch out for the Clinton death squads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seraphin said the contrast between how the Bureau handled the J6 riot and the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 \u201cis obvious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the BLM riots, the whistleblower said he was in a \u201csurveillance role\u201d rather than an investigative role, and was with the uniformed Secret Service the day after BLM and antifa rioters set fire to St. John\u2019s Church.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was there when there were stacks of bricks on the ground all lined up, and they were covered with granola bars, which was bizarre,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFriends of mine had been getting in fights all night long,\u201d he added. \u201cThey had put different SWAT teams on the line. But federal SWAT teams are not good at crowd control. They don\u2019t have that training. They don\u2019t have the equipment.\u201d He later told Bongino that he had friends who had gotten hurt by the violent, brick-throwing mob while defending the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid we investigate those people? Did we haul them down by the dozens and throw them in the D.C. jail system?\u201d he asked. \u201cAbsolutely not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seraphin said he also did a \u201ctwo week stint\u201d in Portland towards the tail end of their 100-day siege of the court house in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw street battles in parks between the Portland Police Bureau and these goons that were just running around,\u201d he recalled. \u201cThey looked like LARPing knights,\u201d the g-man added, referring to the antifa street agitators.\u00a0 \u201cI was just cracking up about it. If it wasn\u2019t so sad and bizarre what was going on, it was hilarious to watch. I\u2019d hear guys yell, \u2018retreat!\u2019 at the top of their lungs, and they\u2019d all run off into a neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seraphin said that the Portland cops on the line were \u201cmonsters\u201d who were \u201cabsolutely just jacked studs.\u201d He said just 12 of them could easily break a \u201cphalanx of 60 of these goofballs running around in cartoon costumes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bongino asked if there was ever any effort to do surveillance on the antifa organizers to see who was funding them.<\/p>\n<p>Seraphin noted that he saw a federal target get arrested, interviewed, and let go the same night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow did we just let that happen? We knew there was a state charge. Can\u2019t we just hold him?\u201d he asked. \u201cThere was no appetite to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Five antifa goons on bikes chased an agent of 25 years, a former Marine, through the streets of Portland while he was driving a Nisson Armada, and there were no arrests. \u201cYou can\u2019t make this up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Seraphin told the host that all FBI agents are trained to know that if their superiors ask them to do something \u201cthat\u2019s illegal, immoral, or unethical, \u2018following orders\u2019 is not an excuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery single FBI agent has to go to the Holocaust Museum for a full day when they are at the academy,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd they have a special program for law enforcement officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s looking through the lens of how did this atrocity take place. And the only way it takes place is that minor government officials are on board and local law enforcement and state law enforcement and federal law enforcement have to say yes. Because if anybody refuses to get with the program, it doesn\u2019t happen. And the answer, \u2018I\u2019m just following orders\u2019 \u2026 doesn\u2019t fly. We know that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seraphin said this is why the FBI can\u2019t force him to get vaccinated if he doesn\u2019t want to if it goes against his moral principles. \u201cI\u2019m not doing it,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Law enforcement shouldn\u2019t be in the political arena. I think we can all agree on that. And we don\u2019t go after our former leaders, and we don\u2019t go after opposition leaders. That\u2019s Banana Republic stuff. It gets me heated to a level that I can\u2019t stand.<\/p>\n<p>We have an absolute responsibility to refuse to do things that are wrong. We can\u2019t do it and have the America that we had growing up, and I don\u2019t want to be part of it, so\u2014<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seraphin told Bongino that FBI employees are becoming increasingly aware that the only way to stop the abuses at the Bureau is to talk to Republican members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a path,\u201d the whistleblower said, for people to go to members of Congress and \u201cexpose\u201d the FBI\u2019s malfeasance. \u201cI think that it has to be done,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have no other option at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An FBI whistleblower who was recently suspended said in an interview this week that he became a whistleblower last November because of Attorney General Merrick Garland\u2019s email ordering the FBI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1656053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1656050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1656053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}