Thursday, Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee called for a former high-ranking FBI official to testify before Congress to address allegations made by a whistleblower that agents were pressured by the Biden administration to inflate the number of violent domestic extremism incidents (DVE).
One of the senior officials identified by the whistleblower as exerting pressure on agents was Jill Sanborn, a former Assistant Director of the FBI Counterterrorism Division and Executive Assistant Director of the National Security Branch; consequently, a letter from representatives was written to her.
House committee “investigating several charges regarding the politicization of the FBI,” according to officials, will speak with a former FBI official.
House Republicans Jim Jordan (OH) and Mike Johnson (TX) said that “whistleblower revelations made by several FBI personnel from different field offices show that FBI agents are exaggerating the number of incidences of DVEs to impress their managers” (LA).
While Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has called violent domestic extremism the “greatest menace” to the United States, whistleblowers have raised concerns about the agency’s corruption, and weaponization since before the Biden administration took office in 2021.
Members of Congress cited an instance in which FBI management “encouraged and incentivized” employees to reclassify cases with “little, circumstantial evidence to warrant the reclassification” because the FBI was having trouble locating sufficient evidence.
The FBI’s then-Assistant director of the Counterterrorism Division and the field office’s assistant special agent in charge of counterterrorism allegedly pushed agents to reclassify cases as DVEs so that they could meet self-created performance standards, according to Republican officials who spoke to Sanborn. This informant has identified you as a high-ranking official who exerted influence over agents to alter their DVE case investigations.
The House Republicans said that Sandborn worked for the government agency from January 2020 until April 2021.
The Washington Times claims that current and past high-ranking FBI officials “had already decided that White supremacy is a problem” and have begun reclassifying cases to conform to that narrative.
In the words of one whistleblower quoted in The Washington Times: “We are sort of the lapdogs as the real agents executing these sorts of investigations, trying to find a criminal to suit otherwise First Amendment-protected acts.” It’s safe to assume that those who fly a Gadsden flag, carry weapons, and act aggressively at school board meetings are domestic terrorists.
The FBI spokesperson who was asked by The Washington Times about whether or not Ms. Sanborn had agreed to testify declined to comment.
This comes after years of allegations that the CIA was used as a weapon against the American people by the Biden administration, which has now been confirmed.
The latest alleged revelations by whistleblowers, such as the raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, the targeting of pro-life activists for standing up for unborn children, and the hiring of Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg to suppress Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 Presidential Election, have only added fuel to the fire of public and private citizens calling for the dismantling of the bureau.
When questioned by Republicans in the House last month, FBI representatives insisted that the agency only probes “violence and criminal activity that constitutes a federal offense or poses a threat to national security.”
The FBI has made it clear that it does not look into political or religious topics. The mission of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is to protect constitutional liberties and uphold the rule of law. It is not necessary to choose between the two.
Sanborn will be questioned by the House Judiciary Committee on December 2.