Rep. Jim Jordan: Demands Answers from FBI

Another round of whistleblowers have come forward to expose more ongoing corruption and turmoil within the FBI. A letter headed up by Rep. Jim Jordan (OH) and sent to FBI Director Christopher Wray says that the FBI is pushing investigations into child sex abuse aside so they can instead focus on January 6 probes, according to whistleblower accounts.

The letter also states that “FBI officials . . . were pressuring agents to reclassify cases as “domestic violent extremism” (DVEs) even if the cases do not meet the criteria for such a classification. Rep. Jordan joined Sekulow today to discuss the revelations:

They’re trying to make it look like there’s an extremist behind every door to satisfy this narrative of Joe Biden where he called half the country fascist, half the country extremist. Understand the pattern here. . . . We’ve had now over 14 FBI agents come to our office as whistleblowers. They come to us because I think they know they can trust us, and they know how bad it is. They’re willing to come to us even in the minority just because it is so ridiculous what’s going on there.

This news follows a similar situation that we told you about in July that also involved whistleblowers within the FBI. Our report states:

According to Rep. Jim Jordan (OH) multiple “brave whistleblowers” from within the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have contacted him to report internal corruption and pressure to reclassify existing and new FBI cases as domestic terrorism. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee just sent a letter to FBI Director Chris Wray and to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland revealing that according to whistleblower reports, "FBI officials are pressuring agents to reclassify cases as ‘domestic violent extremism’ even if the cases do not meet the criteria for such a classification." Rep. Jordan called this revelation "scandalous" based on the Biden Administration's insistence that "domestic violent extremism is the ‘greatest threat’ facing our country."

The FBI exists to take on the worst of the worst, but we have yet to see that happen under Joe Biden. Rep. Jordan said today that their corruption is all part of one thing:

The first whistleblower that came to us a few weeks ago on the issue of “domestic violence extremism” cases said that they were juicing the numbers . . . they were pressuring agents to categorize all cases as “domestic violence extremism,” and now we find out they’re cooking the books. So juicing the numbers, cooking the books . . . all again to fit this political narrative . . . and as the whistleblower told us – at the expense of protecting kids.

As politics have seeped in, Rep. Jordan is hopeful we can get the FBI back on track:

I hope we can. The good news is there’s lots of these agents . . . I’ve never seen this . . . where we’ve had now, like I said, over 14 come to us… bunch of whistleblowers that went to Senator Grassley, they’re coming to Congressman Comer on the Oversight Committee . . . they’re coming to Senator Johnson . . . because it’s so egregious, so political now that they feel compelled. This is not the FBI they signed up for.

Rep. Jordan also weighed in on the arrest of pro-life Catholic activist Mark Houck, who was at his home with his wife and children on Friday when FBI agents surrounded his home, guns drawn, and arrested him on charges that were already thrown out in court last October. My dad, ACLJ Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow, had an important question for Rep. Jordan: “Where is Chris Wray on the over 100 instances of violence by groups like Jane’s Revenge on pro-life crisis pregnancy centers and pro-life groups?” Rep. Jordan says Wray and the FBI have done “squat.”

In fact, Senator Josh Hawley has written a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding answers from the Department of Justice and the FBI regarding Houck’s arrest. Senator Hawley’s letter reads, in part:

Not only did your office turn a local dispute into a national case, but the FBI reportedly executed the search warrant in as extreme a manner as one can imagine. Reports state that the FBI sent as many as 20 to 25 agents to conduct the arrest. And the FBI allegedly arrested Houck at gunpoint early in the morning in front of his seven children. To say the least, using this kind of force to make an arrest for a single charge of simple assault is unprecedented.

The FBI is pawning off real, serious crime to local police departments that are already overwhelmed and highly criticized by the Left. It’s about time they left pro-life dads alone and focused on the real criminals.

Today’s full Sekulow broadcast also includes a discussion with ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy Ric Grenell regarding comments President Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan made during an interview on CBS “Face the Nation” on Sunday.

Watch the full broadcast below: