{"id":1931582,"date":"2023-05-16T04:56:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T08:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-whistleblowers-to-testify-how-bureau-allegedly-abused-power-in-j6-capitol-riot-investigations\/"},"modified":"2023-05-16T09:02:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T13:02:15","slug":"fbi-whistleblowers-to-testify-how-bureau-allegedly-abused-power-in-j6-capitol-riot-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-whistleblowers-to-testify-how-bureau-allegedly-abused-power-in-j6-capitol-riot-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI whistleblowers to testify on alleged power abuse in J6 Capitol Riot investigations."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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-whistleblowers-to-testify-how-bureau-allegedly-abused-power-in-j6-capitol-riot-investigations%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=1931582&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--><h2>House Republicans Summon FBI Whistleblowers to Testify on Alleged Abuses of Power<\/h2>\n<p>House Republicans are investigating the alleged weaponization of the federal government and have summoned three FBI whistleblowers to testify about the bureau\u2019s \u201cabuses of power\u201d in front of the subcommittee on Thursday. According to a Daily Mail exclusive, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) scheduled former FBI special agents Garret O\u2019Boyle and Steve Friend, as well as former FBI State Operations Specialist Marcus Allen, to speak in front of the House Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<h3>Whistleblowers Reveal Alleged Targeting of American Conservatives and Prioritization of January 6 Investigations<\/h3>\n<p>The whistleblower\u2019s testimonies will include how the bureau allegedly targeted American conservatives, directed agents to inflate so-called domestic violent extremism statistics to fit a political narrative for the Biden administration, and prioritized January 6 investigations over child sex crimes. \u201cThe <a title=\"Whistleblower: FBI Is Dropping Child Sexual Abuse Investigations To Pursue J6 Witch Hunt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whistleblower-fbi-is-dropping-child-sexual-abuse-investigations-to-pursue-j6-witch-hunt\/\">manipulative casefile practice creates false<\/a> and misleading crime statistics, <a title=\"FBI Special Agent Allegedly Suspended for Refusing to Use \u201cExcessive Force\u201d Against Jan 6 Accusees\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-special-agent-allegedly-suspended-for-refusing-to-use-excessive-force-against-jan-6-accusees\/\">constituting false official federal statements<\/a>,\u201d Friend wrote in an affidavit reported by The Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prosecutors have now charged more than 1,000 out of the approximately 2,000 people at the U.S. Capitol more than two years after the riot.<\/li>\n<li>Friend, who has since become a senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America, described to The Daily Wire what many Americans fear may become a longstanding abuse of power taken from governments worldwide, where the system creates a problem only to provide a solution and expand its authority against the citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Whistleblower Describes FBI\u2019s \u201cAtypical\u201d Method for Handling January 6 Investigation<\/h3>\n<p>According to Friend, a case like January 6 typically classifies as a \u201cone-time case\u201d with several subjects in the Washington Field Office. From there, those agents could ask agents from other field offices nationwide to engage in a process called \u201ccutting the lead,\u201d which includes collecting evidence, surveillance, or even arresting suspects in some instances. Instead, Friend said the Washington Field Office elected to use an \u201catypical\u201d method within the rules to open up a separate case for every subject instead of just the one-time case.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWe have taken one case \u2014 in one location, on one day for four hours, spread it around the country \u2014 and we\u2019ve now made it look like there\u2019s a rise in domestic terrorism which they\u2019re categorizing as \u2018violent anti-government and ethnic extremism,&#8217;\u201d Friend said, adding the bureau listed the two categories in its top four priorities. \u201cAnd that\u2019s important, that narrative that you\u2019ve heard from the Attorney General, the president, director of the FBI, and every talking head that there\u2019s the greatest threat to America and the homeland right now as it\u2019s rising domestic terrorism, but all the numbers that are backing that up, are stemming from January 6.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Friend said he voiced his concerns about the investigations and tried to push back, but officials told him he was acting \u201cinsubordinate.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>President of Empower Oversight to Testify with New Evidence<\/h3>\n<p>Lawmakers have also summoned President of Empower Oversight Tristan Leavitt to testify, who is expected present undisclosed new evidence to the subcommittee. FBI officials have repeatedly denied accusations the <a title=\"FBI whistleblowers to testify on alleged power abuse in J6 Capitol Riot investigations.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-whistleblowers-to-testify-how-bureau-allegedly-abused-power-in-j6-capitol-riot-investigations\/\">bureau makes politically motivated decisions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FBI is dedicated to protecting the American people from terrorism, violent crime, cyber threats, and other dangers,\u201d the bureau said in a statement to The Daily Wire. \u201cPut quite simply: we follow the facts without regard for politics. While outside opinions and criticism often come with the job, we will continue to follow the facts wherever they lead, do things by the book, and speak through our work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans investigating the alleged weaponization of the federal government summoned three FBI whistleblowers to testify about the bureau\u2019s \u201cabuses of power\u201d in front of the subcommittee on Thursday. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) scheduled former FBI special agents Garret O\u2019Boyle and Steve Friend, as well as former FBI State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1931583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FBI whistleblowers to testify on alleged power abuse in J6 Capitol Riot investigations.","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6599,4038,4172,5591,8327,5084,3618,5308,14982],"class_list":["post-1931582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-abuse","tag-alleged","tag-capitol","tag-fbi","tag-investigations","tag-power","tag-riot","tag-testify","tag-whistleblowers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FBI whistleblowers to testify on alleged power abuse in J6 Capitol Riot investigations.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931582","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\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}