A new report reveals that trust in the FBI is rapidly plummeting in the eyes of some local law enforcement agencies, which are now reducing the rate at which they share information.
- The report was created by retired and active FBI agents and analysts, along with local law enforcement partners, and submitted to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability for review.
- The report shows that “some” local agencies have stopped sharing “actionable, substantive information” with the FBI due to the agency’s partisan bias against right-wingers, dissidents, conservatives, and other first-amendment protected groups.
- Critics of the FBI in the report point to objective disparities in how the agency handled the January 6th “Stop the Steal” protest and Trump’s Mar-a-Lago search versus how they handled fiery riots during the 2020 Summer of Racial Reckoning and the ongoing pro-Palestinian protesters.
Zooming in: The report highlighted an apparent left-wing, progressive political agenda festering within the country’s “top law enforcement agency.”
- Officers reported that newer FBI agents were widely antagonistic against conservatives or Christians, including an unnamed FBI National Academy instructor.
- Local agencies describe their relationship with the FBI as a one-way street, with the agency largely unresponsive to partnership-building attempts.
- While the report showcases leftist bias embedded within the FBI, Congressional committees will likely scrutinise its findings and their potential impact on FBI operations.
Why it matters: If true, mistrust and reduced cooperation between local law enforcement and the FBI could potentially weaken the government’s efforts to target and attack political enemies of the neoliberal regime.
In the headlines: The FBI has become increasingly scrutinised in recent years, largely due to scandals and their efforts to reinforce a Biden administration narrative that so-called “White supremacy” is the greatest threat to the nation.
- In June, 45-year-old FBI Agent Christopher Michael Bauer was convicted of multiple child rapes after a week-long trial in Alabama. Reports state that Bauer, an agent out of the FBI’s New Orleans field office, began raping a girl for years, starting when she was just five.
- In April, the FBI arrested a mentally ill teenager after five different federal informants and two FBI employees groomed him to commit violent acts in the name of the Western intelligence proxy, “ISIS-K.”
- In November, a White, working-class Catholic family was put into financial ruin after their young son became entrapped in an elaborate honeypot scheme targeting White nationalists, Christians, and right-wingers in online chatrooms.
The article originally appeared on the Justice Report and is republished by The Noticer with permission.
