Former FBI agent blows the whistle on abuse

 Townhall:

Last September, 30 former FBI agents, including a retired deputy assistant director, head of counterterrorism, and five SWAT team members, stood up to defend Stephen Friend, a suspended FBI agent who blew the whistle on the agency’s political game.
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The former FBI agent said that what he saw in the agency during the January 6 investigations was “disturbing,” adding that he has “lived a few years over the last few months.”
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Friend “soon uncovered efforts by the FBI and Department of Justice to manipulate statistics and exaggerate the nationwide threat of domestic terrorism. [He] spotlighted how the politicized FBI was cooking the books to support an ongoing narrative from the Joe Biden administration to label Donald Trump voters as violent extremists,” the former agent’s tell-all book reads.

He allegedly witnessed extreme practices to harass conservative Americans, realizing the FBI was turning its investigative process into a punishment.

Following Friend’s public concerns about how the agency handled the January 6 incident, the 12-year FBI veteran was suspended without pay.

Last year, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) sent a scathing letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray to step in and intervene with Friend’s suspension, accusing the FBI of retaliating against a protected whistleblower.

However, Friend’s suspension was never lifted.
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Friend was not the only one who noticed something amiss at the FBI.  The media had many stories of the FBI appearing to target people who were opposed to the Biden administration.

See, also:

STEVE FRIEND: The FBI And The Democrats Are Two Sides Of The Same Coin

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 The crux of my whistleblower disclosure to FBI executives and Congress is two-fold. First, the FBI is not following established case management rules for Jan. 6 investigations. Regardless of the motives behind the rule departure, I contend the divergence constitutes a due process violation that infringes on citizens’ rights and may prove problematic in righteous prosecutions. Second, the FBI is using aggressive arrest tactics to apprehend Jan. 6 subjects who have pledged to cooperate with authorities. This show of force with SWAT teams and large-scale arrest operations for misdemeanor offenses or cooperative subjects is placing FBI personnel and the public at unnecessary risk.

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