More Whistleblowers Reveal ‘out of Control’ FBI Including Fake Cases, Even False Affidavits – Opinion

We’ve reported on how whistleblowers have come forward reporting on the politicization of the FBI, including in regard to the Hunter Biden case, Trump matters, and domestic terrorism cases.

But now, even more whistleblowers are coming forth, revealing that the Bureau’s management is “out of control” in offices across the country.

Whistleblowers are complaining about a culture of “corruption, cover-ups and retaliation” against agents who are trying to expose it in offices in Miami, Salt Lake City, Buffalo, and Newark.

The allegations included claims that the supervisors made false affidavits and made up terrorism cases for falsely inflating their performance statistics.

One of the whistleblowers — who said that superiors, including FBI Director Chris Wray, ignored her complaints about sexual harassment — also said that the “bureau suffers from a “mob-like mentality.”

“The FBI is completely out of control and its culture and structure needs to change. Not only is the political bias completely out of control and disgustingly obvious, the FBI knows they will not be held accountable for their illegal behavior and misconduct,” she said in a letter to Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican on the Judiciary Committee.

One of the other whistleblowers who worked in Buffalo said because the FBI leadership focused on the volume of cases, some supervisors falsely inflated numbers–like for terrorism cases–to help their performance reviews.

“You have to have so many terrorism cases per year in your office, or else you fail,” he said. “So they would come to us and say things like ‘Open up a case. I don’t care if it’s got merit or not. You can just open it. We only have nine, and we need 10 for me to pass.’”

Kurt Siuzdak, who represents some of the FBI whistleblowers has detailed more.

“Every Thanksgiving and Christmas, there’s a number of field offices, and the SAC picks somebody for everybody to follow because it helps them with their metrics,” Mr. Siuzdak said. “So they pick somebody to scrutinize, often without merit from wherever, and that’s the bad guy you need to follow and put your assets on.”

Mr. Siuzdak said different field offices have different names for these holiday operations, such as “Turkey Day Terrorist” or “Thanksgiving Day Terrorist.”

That’s crazy, a waste of time and money, and so wrong. And it’s worse.

Siuzdak claimed that Siuzdak coerced some clients to sign false affidavits. This could, of course, be considered criminal if the client was making false representations to a judge or attesting.

If they force or coerce false affidavits, this is an indication of serious management problems. This is how common?

It also raises a big glaring question, given the unprecedented FBI raid on President Donald Trump that they refuse to give the reason for, and perhaps explains why they don’t want the affidavit unsealed. Does the judge have a valid reason for the reasons they provided? Do they claim that Trump cooperated with the government? They made up nonsense in order to get into the building and take whatever they like.

We already know the warrant was incredibly overbroad, not just allowing them to grab any document that was made during Trump’s presidency, but even any documents stored near the documents they wanted. On top of that, we then found out that the White House lied when they said they didn’t have any prior knowledge of the raid. The Biden White House, which worked directly with National Archives and the Justice Department to initiate the criminal investigation into the mishandling of documents, was also involved from the beginning.

Republicans will be able to handle a lot if they win the House back. We must return it if we intend to repair any of the problems.