An FBI Whistleblower is alleging that the FBI is trying to hide how many man-hours they used on the Jan 6th investigation.
According to the whistleblower, agents were told to claim they are now working on international terrorism and other investigations instead of investigations into January 6th.
The Washington Times reported:
An FBI whistleblower has accused bureau officials of cooking the books to conceal the number of man-hours devoted to the Jan. 6 investigation and inflate time spent on other cases.
According to the anonymous FBI whistleblower, the subterfuge is intended to bolster the bureau’s budget requests to Congress when House Republicans control the purse strings next year.
According to a whistleblower disclosure submitted to Congress, a top official in the FBI’s counterterrorism unit at the Washington headquarters pressured the bureau’s field offices to stop agents from clocking hours when they are working on investigations related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
The supervisors in the field offices were told the agents should instead claim they were working on international terrorism and other investigations when recording hours in the FBI’s time and attendance system, known as WebTA.
Former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin explained more.
Seraphin said the FBI could lose $300 million in funding for not hitting their man-hour staffing/quotas for international counterterrorism.
He said a senior agent said agents were combing through cases trying to connect “white supremacists” to members of ISIS so they can reclassify the hours used on those cases as international terror hours.
The FBI stands to lose up to $300M in Intl Counterterror funds for failing to hit man hour/staffing quotas. These are briefed to Congress and tied to FY year to year budgets. A senior Agent shared a plan to “comb through cases” to connect “white supremacists” to ISIS via…
— Kyle Seraphin (@KyleSeraphin) December 16, 2022
There are a number of Unit Chiefs under this ITOS Section. Presumably the others did similar briefings to the the personnel in their programs. This is how it goes.
— Kyle Seraphin (@KyleSeraphin) December 16, 2022
Time for the GOP to investigate this.
