How the FBI went astray

 Brittany Sheehan:

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From the labeling of Orthodox Catholic Americans as extremists, investigations into "anti-abortion extremists" as significant national security threats, the raid of Mar-a-Lago, the relentless January 6 witch-hunting, and the onslaught of rhetoric about white supremacy, the FBI appears to be politically motivated agency.

Kyle Seraphin, FBI agent turned whistleblower, contends that the FBI's transformation was set in motion after 9/11, when the agency was granted sweeping reforms and expanded surveillance powers, which he believes laid the foundation for the politicization that followed.

Seraphin told Fox News Digital:

They use national security words to go after domestic individuals, and they have national security tools to look through your email to grab access to your comms, your phone calls, your text messages, your emails, and so on. They have the ability to look into your bank account and check out your financial records. And should they find evidence of a crime that is not related to what they're searching for, the threat that they're actually looking for?

Do we want people to get away with crime? No, but we want the government to be accountable to the freaking Bill of Rights.

Seraphin reveals that the operational culture of incentive-driven investigations and rewards for meeting metrics set for themselves bolster the perception of political bias within the FBI, saying:

What people are seeing is the natural outgrowth of letting FBI agents, or FBI senior management, forecast what they think the crime is going to be in the country, being incentivized to be correct because they're going to be paid a monetary bonus at the end of it if they're right, and then they go out and find that crime.

And so it looks very politicized. But I think that's actually just a mistake of the correlation. In reality, what's going on is the FBI is serving the interests of the senior management, which is that they want to get paid, and the easiest way to get paid is to go round up MAGA people, which they fall under this category of … anti-government, anti-authority, violent extremist.

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Kash Patel has a lot of work to do to get the FBI focused on the crimes it should be dealing with.  The agency has drifted off during the Biden years.   In a democracy, having opposing political views should not be deemed as a criminal offense.  Doing so is closer to a totalitarian country than a democracy.

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