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The GOP report said that “whistleblowers assert that the FBI pressured agents to reclassify cases as domestic violent extremism , and even manufactured DVE cases where they may not otherwise exist, while manipulating its case categorization system to feign a national problem.” The whistleblower claims were made public in an 80-page report released Thursday by the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, chaired by Rep.
“By opening a separate case for each individual as opposed to one case with however many subjects are involved, they’ve turned one case into a thousand cases,” Friend continued.
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security revealed in October that a “significant” part of the massive rise in domestic terrorism investigations between 2020 and 2021 was related to the DOJ’s investigation into the Capitol riot. Matt Olsen, the assistant attorney general in charge of DOJ’s National Security Division, similarly told the House Judiciary Committee in July that “the number of FBI investigations of suspected domestic violent extremism has more than doubled since the spring of 2020.”
The new GOP report said FBI supervisory intelligence analyst George Hill told the committee that “the pressure on FBI agents to meet metrics also contributed to the manipulation of DVE data” and that Timothy Thibault, the former FBI assistant special agent in charge of the Washington Field Office who left the bureau in late August, and the FBI’s former Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division Jill Sanborn both “pressured agents to move cases into the DVE category to hit self-created...
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