The FBI’s String of Embarrassing Failures With Left-Wing Sources

The FBI The bureau has had a string of embarrassing mistakes in recent years due to its reliance on left-wing sources to conduct investigative actions. Republicans argue that the bureau is deeply politicized.

Last week’s saga, in which FBI headquarters was forced to disavow a local FBI field office’s intelligence memo that Attempted to link “radical-traditionalist Catholics” With domestic terrorism, this was the latest example that the bureau relied upon questionable sources to pursue Investigative cases that are politically sensitive and high-profile.

A significant portion of the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation was also based on British ex-spys. Christopher Steele’s discredited dossierAttorney General Merrick Garland A spurred by the need to issue a controversial school boards protest memo Whistleblowers claimed that the National School Boards Association had wrongly referred to agents in the bureau, based on a now-withdrawn letter. Attempted to dismiss or downplay evidence Hunter Biden In the run-up to 2020, and many other things.

“Radical Traditionalist Catholics”

FBI headquarters distanced itself from a local field office’s intelligence report that warned about the alleged connection between “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists” “radical-traditionalist Catholics.”

An FBI intelligence product released on Jan. 23 by the bureau’s field office in Richmond, Virginia, claimed the office “assesses the increasingly observed interest of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) in radical-traditionalist Catholic (RTC) ideology almost certainly presents opportunities for threat mitigation through the exploration of new avenues for tripwires and source development.”

According to the FBI, the Washington Examiner Thursday, April 13: “This particular field office product … does not meet the exacting standards of the FBI. Upon learning of the document, FBI Headquarters quickly began taking action to remove the document from FBI systems and conduct a review of the basis for the document.”

The FBI had repeatedly cited the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center by the local FBI field office, including an Article On “Radical Traditional Catholicism.” The field office also pointed out Articles Left-wing writers at Salon, Includes “White Nationalists Get Religion” “Traditional Catholics and White Nationalist ‘Groypers’ Forge a New Far-Right Youth Movement.” FBI Richmond also cited an Atlantic Article Written by a left-wing author “How Extremist Gun Culture is Trying to Co-Opt the Rosary.”

A coalition of 20 Republican attorneys general led by Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares quickly sent a letter to Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, telling them that “anti-Catholic bigotry appears to be festering in the FBI, and The bureau regards Catholics as terrorists due to their religious beliefs.”

The FBI headquarters sent the email disavowal to the Washington Examiner The Republican-led congressional hearing began shortly after the start of the Thursday session. Select Subcommittee of the Federal Government Weaponization. Ex-FBI agents testified that the bureau was now In recent years, the issue has been steadily politicized.

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The Dossier

The FBI used Steele’s discredited dossier to obtain four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants and renewals targeting Trump campaign associate Carter Page, and fired FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe pushed to include the dossier’s baseless collusion allegations in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian election meddling.

During all this, the FBI concealed the extent of Steele’s anti-Trump biases from the FISA Court.

DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz wrote in 2019, “The FBI was aware of the potential for political bias in the Steele election reporting from the outset of obtaining it.”

Bruce Ohr was an ex-DOJ official who served as a conduit for Steele and FBI after the former MI6 agents had been removed as a confidential human source. He told the bureau that he did so by November 2016. Steele was “desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the U.S. president.” DOJ surveillance noted that Steele described Trump in a 2017 interview to the FBI as “his” “main opponent” This was confirmed by an FBI analyst. “clear bias.”

FBI analyst Brian Auten, who interviewed Steele’s main source, Russian lawyer Igor Danchenko, in early 2017 and was there when the Justice Department Set up a partial immunity arrangement Danchenko, along with Danchenko were among the FBI employees that interviewed Steele in Rome at the beginning of October 2016 when the FBI wanted more information about the dossier. Auten disclosed last year that Steele was the victim of a sex attack. FBI offered Steele $1 million in incentives if he could support the allegations of collusion contained in his dossier. Auten claimed that the ex-MI6 agent couldn’t confirm any dossier claims and would be prosecuted if necessary.

The FBI used the dossier to defend Steele, and Danchenko was made, which was previously a FBI agent. His possible connections to Russian intelligence were investigatedThe, a confidential paid human source starting in 2017 and ending in 2020.

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School Board Protests

A since-withdrawn NSBA letter in 2021 spurred Garland to direct the FBI and the DOJ’s National Security Division to help police alleged threats against school board members, with Republicans arguing The Biden White House collided with the Biden White House to produce the letter. and the national school boards group which was later disbanded.

Garland revealed The White House and DOJ communicated in 2021 about the September 2021 NSBA letters just before he published his October 2021 letter. MemoNSBA letter urging DOJ to examine the PATRIOT Act deployment “in regards to domestic terrorism” Protesting parents are not allowed to protest. Garland’s memo said it would “discourage these threats, identify them when they occur, and prosecute them when appropriate.”

An email exchange between an NSBA board member and the NSBA’s treasurer claimed that their letter was written in response to “a request by” Miguel Cardona is Secretary of Education.

Internal Emails Some NSBA board members opposed to the letter being sent to President Joe Biden and the school boards group. Withdrew The letter was rescinded and they apologized. Dozens of chapters left the NSBA in 2021 in protest of the seemingly politicized actions of the group’s leadership.

Garland Doubled down on his memo during congressional testimony in 2021, arguing that NSBA’s follow-up apology “does not change the association’s concern about violence and threats of violence.”

An email provided by an FBI whistleblower indicated the FBI was using some counterterrorism tools to carry out Garland’s directive, showing The Counterterrorism Division created a “threat tag” FBI officials can use.

The FBI and the DOJ’s National Security Division downplayed their roles in carrying out Garland’s order In 2022.

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The Laptop

The New York Post In October 2020, it was reported that emails sent from the laptop contained evidence of Hunter Biden’s shady business dealings. China and Ukraine. The publication tried to post the articles to its Twitter account but the social media company told it that this was against their policy against sharing “hacked” materials.

Former Twitter deputy general counsel Jim Baker, who had previously been the FBI’s general counsel under Comey and played a key role in the Trump-Russia investigation, defended his and Twitter’s actions Related to the Hunter Biden laptop-censorship scandal last week No “unlawful collusion” Between Twitter and the FBI, or the Biden campaign.

Baker appeared to favor censoring laptop stories in October 2020, according to Twitter colleagues. “it’s reasonable for us to assume that” Materials for laptops “may have been” hacked “and that caution is warranted.”

Yoel Rot, the former Twitter executive, described meetings he held with the FBI in December 2020. He claimed that these meetings were part of the preparation for the 2020 election. “the federal law enforcement agencies communicated that they expected ‘hack-and-leak operations’ by state actors might occur in the period shortly before the 2020 presidential election, likely in October.”

Roth claimed that he also learned from those “meetings” About “rumors” This is a “hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden.” Roth, however, stated that the rumor did not originate with him last week. Another yet unnamed tech company attended one of the meetings.

Wray was informed last year by Senator Chuck Grassley (R–IA), that whistleblowers presented convincing evidence. “a deeply rooted political infection” that “has spread to investigative activity into former President Trump and Hunter Biden.”

Whistleblowers reported Timothy Thibault as the former FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Office. “ordered closed” An “avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting” In October 2020, even “all of the reporting was either verified or verifiable via criminal search warrants.” Wray said he found these whistleblower allegations “deeply troubling” Answered August-related questions.

Konstantinos “Gus” Dimitrelos, an expert in cyber forensics and a former Secret Service agent, examined the Hunter Biden laptop to determine if it was suitable for use. Washington Examiner Last year, concluded with “100%” Confidence that “the hard drive is authentic.”