by The DrillDown Staff at The DrillDown
You know, there’s a lot of bad FBI press out there at the moment —and here’s some more…
According to FBI whistleblowers, the bureau is pressuring agents to reclassify existing cases as “domestic terrorism,” despite a total lack of evidence, in an effort to make the “threat” seem much larger than it is. Late last year, The Drill Down reported on “threat tags” that were created by the FBI to track instances of school board harassment.
I guess they figure they made the tags, they might as well use them.
Ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) wrote a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray asking about the reclassifications, saying “the FBI…padding its domestic violent extremist data cheapens actual examples of violent extremism.”
“From recent protected disclosures, we have learned that FBI officials are pressuring agents to reclassify cases as ‘domestic violent extremism’ even if the cases do not meet the criteria for such a classification,” writes Jordan. “Given the narrative pushed by the Biden administration that domestic violent extremism is the ‘greatest threat’ facing our country, revelation that the FBI may be artificially padding domestic terrorism data is scandalous.”
Jordan continues…
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