Posted on 02/12/2023 11:36:37 AM PST by george76
The House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government held its first hearing Thursday, featuring tips from dozens of former FBI agents and the testimony of two former agents who have come forward to expose politicization within the agency.
The two former agents, Thomas Baker and Nicole Parker, spoke on their experiences while working at the FBI. Parker said that she is enduring the stress of “putting a target” on her back and testifying to speak on behalf of “numerous current and former bureau employees who feel similarly that they do not have a voice.”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan opened the hearing with an overview of FBI whistleblowers, amounting to “dozens and dozens” of individuals.
“In my time in Congress, I have never seen anything like this,” Jordan said. “It’s not Jim Jordan saying this, not Republicans, not conservatives, good FBI agents who are willing to come forward and give us the truth.”
Jordan sampled a handful of these tips, spanning back to Nov. 18, 2021, when an FBI whistleblower alerted House Judiciary Republicans that the FBI had create a threat tag for parents expressing concern at school board meetings, and ranging to Nov. 4, 2022, when a whistleblower revealed the FBI accepts private user information from Facebook without user consent, according to a House Judiciary report.
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Johnson said at the hearing that he expects many of the whistleblowers will sit for transcribed interviews or testify during future open hearings.
“Every day, I woke up and I embraced being an FBI special agent until things changed,” said former FBI Agent Nicole Parker during the hearing.
Over her twelve years with the agency, Parker said its trajectory “transformed” and principles “shifted dramatically.”
“The FBI became politically weaponized starting from the top in Washington and trickling down to the field offices,” Parker said.
“It’s as if there became two FBIs,” she continued. “Americans see this, and it is destroying the bureau’s credibility, and therefore the hardworking and highly ethical agents who still do the heavy lifting and pursue noble cases.”
Thomas Baker, former FBI Agent of 33 years, said the public loss of faith in the agency “breaks [his] heart.” He said the shift in culture was “deliberate” and set in place by former FBI director Robert Mueller.
“The FBI director set out deliberately to change the culture of the FBI from a law enforcement agency to an intelligence driven agency,” he said.
“The FBI, by urging Twitter to censor speech, which it could not itself do, was engaging in a perversion – a perversion of the First Amendment,” Baker later continued. “For most of FBI history, agents were trained as part of the FBI’s mission was to be a guarantor of the Bill of Rights. That has been turned on its head.”
Yawn.
I can see minorities living on the White RATS’ plantation. I’m just having problems with FBI agents living there too.
I want to be very clear. There are no good FBI agents. These whistleblowers are only coming forth after the fact to save their own pathetic asses. They have been complicit in their silence for years.
The reason is very simple. When I worked for a government funded outfit, I was never going to jeopardize the amazing pay and benefits by rattling the cage. 99% of FBI agents probably in the same boat. Don’t want to give up the amazing income.
What you *will* see is no one being punished at the FBI.
How do you know this? Seriously, don’t you think you should back up such a claim, particularly if true?
Agree. The House GOP can cut FBI funding and shut down the government if Dems block it. Will they do that? Of course not.
How many have been arrested and charged?
Zero!
One possible outcome is that 1) the GOP will be unwilling or unable to truly limit the power of FBI and Intel deep-state power and at the same time 2) conservatives and traditionalists who are blowing whistles will of course leave or be pushed out, and these agencies are therefore being self-cleansed of any opposing thought.
Which means in the future, we could easily see them turn into an American NKVD.
I’m 58 years old and I can’t think of one single solitary thing this outfit has ever done that was not terrible.
That, is a good one.
What good is a disclosure of FBI wrongdoing when there is no attempt made to correct it. A positive aspect is that there are still many honorable agents who do not agree with what is going on. The big question is if anyone higher up will be held accountable or will the whole affair be swept under the rug? Will the 2020 election be scrutinized properly? And what about the Trump/Russia collusion affair? and what about the many mislaid confidential documents by Joe? Will the guilty be held accountable?
I’m sure you recall that The FBI made Efrem Zimbalist Jr a star.
I know this from watching decades of abuse from the FBI and many other federal agencies. I know this from not hearing from whistleblowers for decades. Part of it is rhetoric on my part to convince others that are weak on small government conservatism, but I truly believe that the vast majority of all government employees work not for the American citizen, but for their own agendas.
Law enforcement is local responsibility. Much of what the FBI does is not even law enforcement. They consider themselves a part of the intelligence community. It is not the responsibility of government to spy on citizens. The entire FBI needs to be shuttered and all employees of the FBI should be banned from future government employment.
Thx. That helps me understand.
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