Authored by Samantha Flom and Steve Lance via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
There’s a growing divide between the rank-and-file officers of the FBI and upper management, according to FBI agent-turned-whistleblower Steve Friend, and it’s those at the top who are pushing a political agenda.
“I spent close to nine years in the FBI, spent a good chunk of my time just keeping my head down and working the cases in front of me,” Friend noted in a March 14 interview with NTD News, The Epoch Times’ sister outlet.
“There are a lot of agents that sort of share that sentiment and just want to drive the mission forward. Unfortunately, there’s a big disconnect between the rank-and-file and the management class, and as you climb that ladder, it’s tending to become more and more political.”
The evidence, Friend said, could be seen in the bureau’s disparate treatment of pro-life activists—like Mark Houck, whose home was raided by the FBI over an altercation outside of a Planned Parenthood—and pro-abortion activists, like those who protested outside of Supreme Court justices’ homes and were never investigated.
“I think there’s an argument to be made that the FBI has now just become a weaponized apparatchik of the presidential administration,” he added, holding that public trust in the agency has diminished largely as a result of the perception of political bias.
Blowing the Whistle
Friend—now a senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America—previously worked as a special agent in the FBI’s Jacksonville, Florida, office, but was suspended from the agency after he came forward last September with concerns about how the bureau was handling child sexual abuse cases and allegations that cases were being inappropriately assigned.
Friend had also objected to the FBI’s use of SWAT teams to arrest individuals suspected of committing misdemeanors during the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.
According to a March 6 letter (pdf) written by whistleblower organization Empower Oversight, Friend was informed in December by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) that, “after careful consideration,” the OIG had decided against opening an investigation into his allegations.
However, on March 16, DOJ Assistant Inspector General Sean O’Neill responded that DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz “still intends to schedule an interview with Mr. Friend regarding his disclosures.”
Views on Jan. 6
Prior to his suspension, Friend was involved in investigations relating to the Jan. 6 Capitol breach—an incident he said could only be fully understood through “radical transparency.”
“I’m hoping that this slow drip of surveillance footage is just eventually abandoned, and we just get the whole amount of it,” he said, alluding to the recent exposés aired by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson.
“There’s no reason why it should be leaked out slowly because that just gives cannon fodder to both sides to accuse the other of cherry-picking their information.”
As for his views on the events of that day, Friend said he thought the incident involved a “mixed bag” of people who did some “deplorable and abhorrent” things and should be held accountable and those who were just there to exercise their First Amendment rights.
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Just by watching what is going on in the the news it is obvious the entire federal government is a democrat organization. thanks a whole bunch to Obama, did the same to the military. The country has been overthrown without a shot or even changing the words of the (now meaningless )constitution.
Agree………….careful here………..some dweeb is gonna reply repubs are badder………..lots of deflection here.
What repubs? Like, five of ’em? RINOs = Democrats = uniparty. You really are a halfwit (being generous).
And the CONstitution’s been a bust ever since 1787.
“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.”
― Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2095916-no-treason-the-constitution-of-no-authority
“And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us, but which (it is claimed) has nevertheless bound three generations of men, consisting of many millions, and which (it is claimed) will be binding upon all the millions that are to come; but which nobody ever signed, sealed, delivered, witnessed, or acknowledged; and which few persons, compared with the whole number that are claimed to be bound by it, have ever read, or even seen, or ever will read, or see.”
― Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
Yes all institutions that are not explicitly anti-leftist are converged. Which is to say all of fedgov. And fedgov is really just the clearing house for the State violence-backed manufactured fiscal reality proles like me sometimes call “The Economy.”
Every man get’s his turn at the alter of reckoning if he hasn’t already. Until the Fiat Dollar God eats her tail to a nub, the show will go on because the road to current year was paved by a million men laying his brick for his buck.
Fundamental transformation was the plan all along.
This is not news. They don’t make whistleblowers like they used to.
If you’ve time, watch the last ten to fifteen minutes of this.
It’s always been a corrupt steaming pile of shit ever since it was run by hoover
Yeah, but J. Edna Hoover looked smashing in his black cocktail dress and strappy pumps. Now most government officials follow in his footsteps. Hard to wrap ones mind around tough guys in drag.
As far as I can tell they’ve always considered themselves the Presidential Home Guard.
“You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.” – Obi Wan Kenobe
I disagree on one point. The FBI has not suddenly become aligned with the current administration. How they treated candidate and then President Trump indicates they’re always aligned against conservative America and Biden’s rabid leftist administration has aligned with the FBI; not the other way around. The swamp is very real in the government. It’s been a seething monster for decades and only allowed itself to be seen in the light of day when it went overboard trying to destroy Trump because he was shining the light on them. Having been in government, I can tell you that keeping one’s head down and doing the work only works for so long. People I know couldn’t stomach it any longer and had to leave.
Whose official job is it to vet POTUS candidates for legal and moral propriety?
THE FUCKING F B I !
Do we SEE the problem NOW?!?
The FBI was created with a mandate to fight interstate crimes.
Criminals allegedly would flee the jurisdictions where they committed crimes to jurisdictions where they didn’t.
The establishment of thecFBI. supposedly closed the loophole.
[Please note: Many of the 1930s “bank robbers” and “mobsters” (like capone) were likely early dot gov psyops ran in order to justify creation of FBI among other objectives.]
As in all other dot gov golems FBI has enjoyed growth under misson creep.
Vetting presidents sounds a lot like mission creep.
The only people I saw doing this were sociopathic law enforcement and undercover thugs. Everyone not in these two groups, not so much!
The FBI? Political?
You don’t say…
The FBI is what happens when you give a bunch of Karen lawyers guns and batches. They don’t NEED no stinking batches!
the organization needs beheading of the ‘management class’. there is the real enemy. this includes the DOJ and ALL that is under its umbrella
Too many of the rank and file agents are too concerned about their pension and will continue to say “Don’t blame me, I’m just doin’ my job.”
Furthering the myth that there is actually good FBI, somewhere.
Or that the Federal Bureau of Obfuscation in “NOW” weaponized . . . as opposed to when, exactly? When were the FIB’s good ol’ days?
Abolish the state:
Here is a typical Trojan Horse story.
“Former FBI agent whistleblower…blah blah blah blah”
Guy comes straight from the mouth of the beast claiming he doesn’t agree with the beast and that he “just wants the public to know the truth”
For some reason, the beast doesn’t silence the rebel.
“You can trust me, I was inside” he says.
Then a bunch of hopeful dupes run around screaming, “we were right” after listening to the message; meanwhile Trojan Boy is gathering up names and numbers for future messing with.
The bunch of hopefuls start wondering why their bank accounts are missing money, the house payment was late and why the appointment with the oncologist appointment keeps getting canceled.
It’s a 3 dollar duck, fer’ shure’ . Prolly’ one of scrutinizer’s pound town buddies.
Irish Democracy.