The Rogue FBI By Charles Taylor (Florida)
The evidence continues to grow showing that the FBI has become a KGB style police force, acting to serve the interests of the Democrat regime, while persecuting conservative opponents. That is now not just Trump MAGA types, but Christians, and anyone opposing abortion and the trans agenda, in their gunsights. Specifically, the Durham report into the conduct of the FBI regarding its politicised investigation of Donald Trump, the so-called Russiagate inquiry, showed that the FBI had become corrupted. "Durham's lengthy and "sobering" report concluded the FBI had no proper basis to launch the controversial 2016 election inquiry, which soon transformed into special counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling investigation. The report also revealed the lack of clear evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, pointed to the Russian links behind British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s dossier, and concluded that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign played an outsize role in pushing such collusion claims to the media and the FBI."
“The extent of the FBI’s bias and reckless disregard for the truth, which Special Counsel Durham laid out in painstaking detail, is nothing short of scandalous,” (Rep) Jim Jordan wrote to Attorney General Garland. “The FBI has tried to dismiss the report’s findings by claiming to have ‘already implemented dozens of corrective actions’ to prevent similar misconduct in the future. The FBI’s window dressing is not enough.”
“[A] top Republican is pressing Attorney General Merrick Garland on the FBI’s role in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into former President Donald Trump in the wake of special counsel John Durham’s report.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, pressed Garland in a letter on Friday about Durham’s findings related to the faulty origin of the Trump-Russia investigation and the “failings” of the FBI. The GOP chairman placed Smith’s investigation related to the Mar-a-Lago classified documents incident and the Capitol riot in the context of Durham’s report, arguing that “due to the FBI’s documented political bias, the Justice Department must ensure any ongoing investigations are not poisoned by this same politicization.”
“The Special Counsel’s report serves as a stark reminder of the need for more accountability and reforms within the FBI,” Jordan said of Durham. “Accordingly, as Congress conducts oversight to inform these legislative reforms, we write to ensure the Justice Department acts to preserve the integrity and impartiality of ongoing investigations from the FBI’s politicized bureaucracy.”
Durham is slated to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on June 21. The special counsel will also speak behind closed doors with the House Intelligence Committee, led by Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), the day prior.
Jordan argued to Garland that Durham’s report “details how the FBI abused its law-enforcement authorities to achieve a political end — that is, hamstring the campaign and presidency of President Trump” as he pushed Garland on the FBI’s involvement in Smith’s sprawling investigation into the former president. Smith was appointed by Garland last year.
Smith’s special counsel investigation into Trump and his alleged mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago is reportedly “wrapping up” as the Justice Department moves toward a possible indictment of the former president.
The GOP chairman told Garland to provide his committee with information about Smith’s use of the FBI, including whether any FBI employees who have worked on Smith’s investigation have previously worked on other investigations tied to Trump. Jordan also told the attorney general to reveal the number of FBI employees assigned to the special counsel investigation, including the number of employees from FBI Headquarters and the Washington Field Office working on it.
Jordan also asked Garland to “explain whether Special Counsel Smith’s investigation relies on any information or material gathered exclusively by the FBI prior to the Special Counsel’s appointment.” He asked for all of these answers by June 15.
A decadeslong DOJ veteran prosecutor, Smith had most recently been a prosecutor at The Hague, where he investigated war crimes in Kosovo.
Smith served under Attorney General Eric Holder, leading the DOJ's Public Integrity Unit from 2010 to 2015. Smith led a team of 30 prosecutors in conducting public corruption cases throughout the United States, including a mixed track record of going after high-profile politicians. He also inserted the DOJ into what would become the Lois Lerner IRS scandal targeting conservative nonprofit groups during the Obama years, which Trump has criticized him for since he became special counsel.
President Joe Biden is also being investigated by another Garland-appointed special counsel, Robert Hur. Biden’s personal attorneys said they first discovered classified documents in early November 2022 at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, located in the nation’s capital. Biden’s lawyers then found more classified documents at his Wilmington home in Delaware, and the Department of Justice found more when it conducted its own search.
Trump shared a May letter from his lawyers to Garland on Truth Social with the attorneys contending that “unlike President Biden, his son Hunter, and the Biden family, President Trump is being treated unfairly” as they asked for “a meeting at your earliest convenience to discuss the ongoing injustice that is being perpetrated by your Special Counsel.”
Hunter Biden’s lawyers met with DOJ officials representing the tax division and the U.S. attorney in Delaware in late April.
“Public trust in the FBI is low,” Jordan told Garland. “Recent examples of political bias in FBI and Department of Justice operations show that the so-called ‘corrective measures’ the FBI instituted after Crossfire Hurricane have done nothing to address, let alone cure, the institutional rot that pervades the FBI.”
Jordan also asked Garland to arrange a briefing by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco with the committee about matters related to Durham’s report, including on any “remedial measures” the Justice Department “has implemented to address the misconduct described in the report.”
Durham's lengthy and "sobering" report concluded the FBI had no proper basis to launch the controversial 2016 election inquiry, which soon transformed into special counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling investigation. The report also revealed the lack of clear evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, pointed to the Russian links behind British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s dossier, and concluded that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign played an outsize role in pushing such collusion claims to the media and the FBI.
“The extent of the FBI’s bias and reckless disregard for the truth, which Special Counsel Durham laid out in painstaking detail, is nothing short of scandalous,” Jordan wrote to Garland. “The FBI has tried to dismiss the report’s findings by claiming to have ‘already implemented dozens of corrective actions’ to prevent similar misconduct in the future. The FBI’s window dressing is not enough.”
The DOJ declined to comment.”
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