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The FBI: 219 Scandals, Controversies, & Acts of Corruption

# Summary Date Source
1 Attorney General Bonaparte creates the Bureau of Investigation by memo while Congress is out of session, two months after it barred borrowing Secret Service agents 07/26/1908 FBI, 'A Brief History'
2 Bureau agents, police and 20,000 American Protective League volunteers sweep New York for draft 'slackers,' stopping 300,000 men 09/03/1918 The New York Review of Books
3 Bureau and Immigration agents round up some 10,000 people in 33 cities in Hoover-planned Palmer Raids, including many citizens 01/02/1920 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
4 Three weeks after Palmer Raids, Hoover presses Immigration Bureau to deny bail so arrested aliens cannot consult lawyers 01/22/1920 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
5 Twelve prominent lawyers, including Frankfurter and Pound, publish report charging Bureau of Investigation with warrantless mass arrests, incommunicado detention and beatings 05/01/1920 National Popular Government League, 'Report upon the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice'
6 Assistant Labor Secretary Louis Post voids over 1,500 Palmer Raid deportation cases for lack of due process, leaving 556 deportations 05/07/1920 History.com
7 Hoover-directed campaign coordinating seven federal agencies helps secure black nationalist Marcus Garvey's 1922 mail-fraud indictment over Black Star Line stock 02/01/1922 PBS American Experience
8 Montana grand jury indicts Sen. Burton Wheeler while he leads the Senate probe of Daugherty and Bureau chief Burns 04/08/1924 TIME
9 Attorney General Stone forces out Bureau director William Burns over Teapot Dome and confines Bureau to investigating violations of law 05/13/1924 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
10 Bureau agents led by Melvin Purvis fire on car at Little Bohemia Lodge, killing CCC worker Eugene Boiseneau and wounding two innocent men 04/22/1934 PBS American Experience
11 Roosevelt orally asks Hoover for 'a broad picture' of subversive activities; Hoover builds secret domestic-intelligence program with no statute 08/24/1936 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
12 Roosevelt secretly overrides Attorney General Jackson's ban on FBI wiretapping within ten weeks, authorizing taps on suspected subversives 05/21/1940 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
13 Roosevelt's secretary sends Hoover hundreds of telegrams from citizens opposing FDR's defense policy, with senders' names and addresses 05/21/1940 Church Committee, Final Report Book II
14 Attorney General Jackson and American Legion approve FBI plan to recruit Legion members as unpaid confidential sources reporting on neighbors until 1954 11/01/1940 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
15 Hoover reorganizes 'Official and Confidential' files, 17,000 pages of derogatory material, under his sole control 01/01/1941 FBI (fbi.gov)
16 Hoover stage-manages coverage of eight captured Nazi saboteurs, concealing that Dasch had phoned the FBI to surrender 06/27/1942 Smithsonian Magazine
17 Biddle orders the Custodial Detention List abolished; Hoover renames it the Security Index and hides it from field offices 07/16/1943 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
18 Hoover has police flag federal employees arrested as 'sex deviates', building files later used to purge gay government workers 05/01/1950 Associated Press (via CBS News)
19 FBI and Justice Department secretly ignore the Emergency Detention Act, keeping the Security Index and hiding it from Congress 09/23/1950 Church Committee, Final Report Book II
20 Second Circuit throws out Judith Coplon's espionage conviction over warrantless arrest and hidden wiretap records 12/05/1950 United States v. Coplon, 185 F.2d 629 (2d Cir. 1950)
21 D.C. Circuit orders hearing on Coplon's claim FBI wiretapped her lawyer calls; government never retries her 06/01/1951 Coplon v. United States, 191 F.2d 749 (D.C. Cir. 1951)
22 Hoover approves COINTELPRO, the first formal FBI program to covertly disrupt the Communist Party USA, starting 15 years of secret actions 08/01/1956 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
23 Forced by the Apalachin mob summit raid, Hoover reverses decades of denying a national Mafia and orders a Top Hoodlum Program 11/14/1957 Smithsonian Magazine
24 FBI Klan informant Gary Thomas Rowe joins the beating of Freedom Riders in Birmingham after warning the bureau 05/14/1961 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
25 FBI launches COINTELPRO against the Socialist Workers Party while conceding it never engaged in violence 10/12/1961 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
26 FBI wiretaps New York Times correspondent Hanson Baldwin and a secretary without the attorney general's written approval 07/28/1962 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
27 Robert Kennedy approves FBI wiretaps on Martin Luther King Jr.; the bureau stretches them to hotel rooms and a friend's home 10/01/1963 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
28 Dallas FBI agent James Hosty destroys Oswald's threatening note after Oswald's death, reportedly on his chief's orders 11/24/1963 TIME
29 FBI spied on Barry Goldwater campaign at Pres. Johnson's direction 01/01/1964 The Wall Street Journal
30 FBI plants its first microphone on Martin Luther King Jr., part of 16 hotel bugs meant to 'completely discredit' him 01/05/1964 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
31 FBI threatened Martin Luther King Jr., telling him to kill himself 06/13/1964 FBI Investigations
32 At White House request, Hoover sends a 30-agent squad to the Democratic convention to wiretap King and bug SNCC-CORE 08/22/1964 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
33 Hoover launches COINTELPRO-White Hate, directing 17 field offices to 'expose, disrupt, and otherwise neutralize' Klan groups and others 09/02/1964 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
34 Hoover publicly calls Martin Luther King Jr. the 'most notorious liar' in the country, weeks before his Nobel Peace Prize 11/18/1964 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
35 FBI informant Gary Thomas Rowe rides with the Klansmen who kill Viola Liuzzo, told by his handler to go along 03/25/1965 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
36 Hoover deputy Cartha DeLoach moves to 'neutralize' Sen. Long's FBI wiretapping inquiry, drafting Long's exonerating statement 01/01/1966 Church Committee, Final Report Book II
37 FBI concedes at least 238 warrantless 'black bag' break-ins against 14 domestic groups, hidden from every attorney general 07/19/1966 Church Committee, Final Report Book II
38 Hoover launches COINTELPRO-Black Nationalist, ordering 23 field offices to 'expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize' targets 08/25/1967 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
39 FBI expands COINTELPRO-Black Nationalist to 41 field offices to 'prevent the rise of a messiah', naming King among candidates 03/04/1968 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
40 FBI launches COINTELPRO-New Left against antiwar and student activists after the Columbia uprising 05/09/1968 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
41 Hoover approves plan to brief House members that King was a scoundrel and block a King holiday bill 03/18/1969 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
42 At Kissinger's request for Nixon, Hoover's FBI wiretaps 17 officials and journalists to find a New York Times leak 05/09/1969 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
43 Under COINTELPRO, FBI and a paid informant are involved in 1969 raid that killed Black Panther leader Fred Hampton 12/04/1969 History
44 FBI's Los Angeles office plants a false rumor that Jean Seberg's unborn child was fathered by a Black Panther 04/27/1970 The New York Times
45 FBI creates the Key Black Extremist program, putting about 90 black activists on the Security Index and obtaining IRS returns on 72 12/23/1970 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
46 FBI never managed to solve a burglary into its own offices 03/08/1971 The Intercept
47 After Congress repeals the Emergency Detention Act, the FBI keeps its Security Index alive as the Administrative Index 09/25/1971 Church Committee, Final Report Book II
48 On Hoover's instructions, secretary Helen Gandy destroys his personal files after his death while 30 drawers are moved out 05/02/1972 TIME
49 Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray resigns after it emerges he burned files from Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt's safe 04/27/1973 Associated Press (via CBS News)
50 Levi tells Church Committee the FBI also ran 37 actions against Puerto Rican independence groups and 'Operation Hoodwink' 05/23/1975 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
51 FBI violates international treaty law by threatening a developmentally disabled woman into signing three false affidavits 02/03/1976 Trial Transcripts
52 Church Committee finds COINTELPRO ran 2,370 covert actions from 1956 to 1971, including anonymous letters accusing targets of infidelity 04/23/1976 Church Committee, Final Report Book III
53 Church Committee finds FBI built over 500,000 domestic intelligence files and ran 500,000-plus 'subversive' investigations without a single prosecution 04/26/1976 Church Committee, Final Report Book II
54 Church Committee finds the FBI ran eight mail-opening programs without outside authorization, with legal considerations 'simply not raised' 04/26/1976 Church Committee, Final Report Book II
55 Former FBI No. 2 W. Mark Felt and Edward Miller are convicted over illegal break-ins; Reagan pardons both 11/06/1980 The Christian Science Monitor
56 Richard W. Miller becomes the first FBI agent convicted of espionage, sentenced to two life terms plus 50 years 06/19/1986 UPI
57 Justice Department concludes the FBI discriminated against black agent Donald Rochon through racial harassment and retaliated when he complained 01/01/1987 U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Rochon v. Gonzales (2006)
58 FBI's 'Library Awareness Program' is exposed asking New York librarians to monitor what patrons read, prompting a House inquiry 08/18/1988 The Christian Science Monitor
59 Judge Lucius Bunton rules the FBI discriminated against more than 300 Hispanic agents, a first judicial finding of systemic discrimination 09/01/1988 The Christian Science Monitor
60 FBI Director Sessions disciplines six employees over the flawed CISPES investigation, admitting it 'continued to expand unchecked' 09/14/1988 The Christian Science Monitor
61 Senate Intelligence Committee finds the CISPES probe expanded 'without adequate justification' to roughly 2,375 individuals and 1,330 groups 07/01/1989 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 'The FBI and CISPES'
62 FBI and Oakland police arrest Judi Bari as her car's bomber; charges drop and a jury awards $4.4 million 05/24/1990 ABC7 San Francisco
63 FBI murdered Vicki Weaver while she held her infant daughter 08/22/1992 The Washington Post
64 FBI overreacts in serving warrants at Branch Davidians' Waco, TX compound, leaving 75 dead 02/28/1993 PBS
65 Freeh promotes Larry Potts to deputy director after his Ruby Ridge censure, then demotes him amid records-destruction allegations 07/14/1995 UPI
66 FBI admits 'egregious violations of privacy' after giving the Clinton White House confidential files on hundreds of Reagan and Bush appointees 06/14/1996 TIME (via CNN AllPolitics)
67 E. Michael Kahoe, former FBI violent crimes chief, agrees to plead guilty to obstruction for destroying the Ruby Ridge critique 10/22/1996 Associated Press (via Government Executive)
68 FBI agent Earl Edwin Pitts pleads guilty to espionage conspiracy for selling secrets to the KGB, and gets 27 years 02/28/1997 United States v. Pitts, 973 F. Supp. 576 (E.D. Va. 1997)
69 Inspector general finds FBI Laboratory examiners gave flawed testimony and slanted reports in Oklahoma City, World Trade Center and Avianca cases 04/15/1997 DOJ Office of the Inspector General, 'The FBI Laboratory'
70 FBI falsely accused Richard Jewell of terrorism after Atlanta Olympics bombing, U.S. Congress finds 07/30/1997 US House
71 After six years of denials, FBI acknowledges firing pyrotechnic tear-gas rounds at the Branch Davidian compound; Reno appoints Danforth 08/25/1999 Associated Press (via The Seattle Times)
72 FBI agent Robert Messemer admits key testimony at Wen Ho Lee's bail hearing was wrong, undercutting solitary confinement 08/17/2000 CNN
73 Judge James Parker apologizes to Wen Ho Lee for nine months in solitary as the government drops 58 of 59 counts 09/13/2000 CNN
74 FBI put a mole in charge of finding the mole in the FBI 03/05/2001 Time
75 Ashcroft postpones McVeigh's execution after the FBI discloses it withheld roughly 3,000 pages of documents from his defense 05/11/2001 CNN
76 FBI was warned about the 9/11 terrorists but failed to stop them 09/11/2001 Coleen Rowley (former FBI special agent)
77 Inspector general finds 581 missing FBI weapons and 310 missing laptops, some with sensitive data, beyond earlier admissions 08/01/2002 DOJ Office of the Inspector General (Audit 02-27)
78 FBI agent James J. Smith pleads guilty to lying about his two-decade affair with China informant Katrina Leung 05/12/2004 Associated Press (via NBC News)
79 Inspector general finds FBI fired translator Sibel Edmonds partly for reporting misconduct and never adequately investigated her allegations 01/01/2005 DOJ Office of the Inspector General
80 FBI's Virtual Case File project collapses after three years and $170 million with no working system, inspector general finds 02/01/2005 DOJ Office of the Inspector General (Audit 05-07)
81 FBI continues to withhold evidence concerning the Oklahoma City bombing 04/19/2005 U.S. Government Publishing Office
82 FBI carries out extrajudicial killing of independence leader Filiberto Ojeda Ríos in September 2005 09/23/2005 NACLA
83 U.S. pays Brandon Mayfield $2 million and apologizes after FBI wrongly matched his print to the Madrid train bombings 11/29/2006 Associated Press (via NBC News)
84 Inspector general Glenn Fine reports serious misuse of national security letters, including 700-plus 'exigent letters' on false pretexts 03/09/2007 NPR
85 FBI agent poses as an AP editor and sends a teenager a fake news story laced with malware 06/01/2007 DOJ Office of the Inspector General (Oversight & Review 16-07)
86 FBI framed four men for murder; two died in prison, two spent 62 years behind bars 07/26/2007 The New York Times
87 Murder charges against retired FBI supervisor R. Lindley DeVecchio, accused of aiding informant Gregory Scarpa Sr.'s killings, collapse 11/01/2007 The Philadelphia Inquirer
88 Justice Department pays Steven Hatfill $5.8 million after the FBI and Ashcroft branded him a 'person of interest' in the anthrax letters 06/27/2008 NPR
89 FBI let terrorist with a bomb in his car drive to NYC; he backed out 09/22/2009 PJ Media
90 Inspector general finds the FBI issued 739 'exigent letters' on some 3,000 phone numbers with no legal process and took reporters' records 01/20/2010 DOJ Office of the Inspector General
91 Inspector general finds the FBI investigated Greenpeace, PETA and the Catholic Worker on thin predication and gave Congress false explanations 09/20/2010 DOJ Office of the Inspector General
92 National Academy of Sciences panel finds FBI overstated scientific certainty linking the anthrax letters to Bruce Ivins's flask 02/15/2011 NPR
93 Newburgh Four defendants get 25-year minimums for a plot FBI informant Shahed Hussain built, with the judge saying only the government could have 06/29/2011 Courthouse News Service
94 FBI switches off about 3,000 warrantless GPS trackers after United States v. Jones rules tracking is a 4th Amendment search 02/27/2012 NBC News
95 FBI purges 876 pages and 392 presentations from counterterrorism training after reporting exposed anti-Muslim lessons 03/28/2012 NPR
96 FBI special agent convicted over dealings with criminals the agency was investigating 06/18/2012 Newsweek
97 FBI agent Frederick Humphries launches the probe of Jill Kelley's emails that exposed Petraeus's affair, then takes the case to a congressman 11/14/2012 CBS News
98 FBI agent Aaron McFarlane shoots Ibragim Todashev seven times in an unrecorded Orlando interview; a prosecutor rules it justified 05/22/2013 WBUR
99 After 2013 NSA scandal, Comey's FBI exposed data mining innocent Americans, retaining material for decades 06/30/2013 Bloomberg
100 FBI was warned about Fort Hood terrorist Nidal Hasan but failed to stop him 08/28/2013 Breitbart
101 FBI was warned about the Boston Marathon bombers but failed to stop them 04/15/2014 NBC News
102 FBI was warned about three Americans who joined ISIS in Syria but failed to stop them 05/14/2014 NBC News
103 FBI failed to stop warned-about ISIS-inspired American who killed three in Washington, one in New Jersey 08/06/2014 Seattle Times
104 Judge throws out evidence after FBI agents cut Caesars Palace Internet and posed as repair technicians to film Paul Phua's suite 02/02/2015 Associated Press (via KNPR)
105 Comey's FBI stages controversial 2015 raid on Texas political meeting, fingerprinting attendees and seizing phones 03/01/2015 World Net Daily
106 FBI acknowledges 26 of 28 hair-comparison examiners gave invalid testimony favoring prosecutors in over 95 percent of 268 trials 04/18/2015 NBC News
107 Comey forced to apologize after FBI background check error let Dylann Roof buy his gun 07/10/2015 The Atlantic
108 FBI handler John Connolly, Whitey Bulger's FBI handler, is later convicted of racketeering and second-degree murder 09/15/2015 Biography
109 FBI agent W. Joseph Astarita fires two shots at Finicum's truck, then denies shooting, leading to his 2017 indictment 01/26/2016 Associated Press (via NBC News)
110 FBI warned about man shouting 'Allahu Akhbar' while attacking Israeli-owned deli patrons, failed to stop him 02/14/2016 PJMedia
111 Inspector general finds the San Bernardino iPhone unit chief never asked the Remote Operations Unit for help before Comey said the FBI could not open the phone 03/28/2016 DOJ Office of the Inspector General (18-03)
112 In Hillary probe, technician who destroyed evidence lied to FBI even after immunity; Comey did nothing 04/01/2016 The Federalist; The Wall Street Journal
113 FBI was warned about the Pulse Nightclub terrorist but failed to stop him 06/12/2016 Grabien
114 Comey promised transparency on Pulse terrorist probe, then quickly redacted killer's reference to Islam from transcript 06/12/2016 The Federalist
115 Under Comey, FBI blew high-profile Ted Stevens case; judge cites 'worst prosecutorial misconduct' he'd ever seen 07/01/2016 The Federalist
116 FBI: No evidence Clinton's email was hacked by foreign powers, but it could have been 07/05/2016 Washington Post
117 FBI warned about Va. man shouting 'Allahu Akhbar' while stabbing couple, failed to stop him 08/23/2016 WSLS
118 Under Comey, FBI authorized informants to break the law 22,800 times in four years 08/23/2016 The Daily Dot
119 FBI was warned about NYC bomber Ahmad Khan Rahani but failed to stop him 09/19/2016 The New York Times
120 During Clinton probe, FBI strikes unusual deal giving aides immunity and letting them destroy laptops 10/03/2016 Fox News
121 Comey's FBI was embedded with ISIS-affiliated terrorists who struck 'Draw Mohammad' event but failed to act 03/26/2017 CBS News
122 FBI caught posing as documentary filmmakers to investigate Nevada ranching family fighting federal overreach 05/15/2017 PBS
123 Comey told Senate he didn't feel compelled to memorialize other presidents' meetings, but that's untrue 06/10/2017 Powerline
124 Comey drafted Hillary Clinton exoneration statement months before FBI even investigated her 10/16/2017 Newsweek
125 Under Comey, the FBI's database for gun buyers lost millions of records 11/10/2017 The Washington Post
126 Under Comey, FBI's Cliven Bundy case collapsed after feds were caught deliberately withholding evidence 12/21/2017 The Oregonian
127 FBI was warned about Parkland mass killer Nikolas Cruz but failed to stop him 02/14/2018 BuzzFeed
128 Sexual misconduct was rampant at Comey's FBI, with at least 14 agents sanctioned 02/25/2018 The Daily Caller
129 FBI failed to stop Corey Johnson, an Islam convert who killed a 13-year-old boy, despite warnings 03/13/2018 WPEC
130 Comey's FBI blew its case against Omar Mateen's wife due to agents' misconduct 04/03/2018 USA Today
131 FBI forced Pulse club killer's wife into confession; case dropped over FBI forcing her to lie 04/03/2018 The American Conservative
132 Mueller dropped Peter Strzok over Trump hostility, yet Comey found him fit to lead Clinton probe 04/17/2018 RealClearPolitics
133 Comey claimed no DoJ-FBI coordination on Hillary probe, but later texts and emails showed that untrue 04/19/2018 The Washington Examiner
134 Memos Comey leaked contained classified material, prompting DoJ inspector general probe of his illegal leak 04/20/2018 The Wall Street Journal
135 Comey memos reveal he briefed Trump on Steele dossier specifically so it would leak to media 04/20/2018 The Federalist
136 FBI was warned about Waffle House mass killer Travis Reinking but failed to stop him 04/22/2018 Grabien News
137 During the Hillary probe, the FBI lost track of Hillary's server for months 05/05/2018 Jack Posobiec
138 Comey claims he didn't know FBI thought Michael Flynn believed he was telling the truth 05/14/2018 Townhall
139 FBI caught overhyping the threat of encrypted phones 05/23/2018 Axios
140 Inspector general report seriously undermines the FBI's credibility 06/14/2018 The Federalist
141 FBI's mismanaged surveillance of New Mexico terror compound case results in delayed raid 09/14/2018 The Federalist
142 FBI agent sentenced to 4 years in jail for leaking documents 10/18/2018 KSTP
143 FBI uses notorious gangster James "Whitey" Bulger as an informant for almost 2 decades 11/01/2018 History Channel
144 FBI possessed Hunter Biden laptop and its evidence of Biden family corruption, refused to act 08/01/2020 Senator Grassley
145 Despite knowing Hunter's laptop was authentic, FBI promoted disinformation that it was itself disinformation 08/02/2020 Senator Grassley
146 Agent Timothy Thibault, outspoken Trump critic, improperly tried closing Hunter Biden probe so it couldn't reopen 08/03/2020 Senator Grassley
147 FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith, 38, pleads guilty to false statement for altering email in FISA application 08/19/2020 U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut
148 Nashville bomber's girlfriend alerted FBI he was building bombs, yet it failed to stop him 12/30/2020 WSMV
149 FBI refuses to abide guidelines for recording interviews with witnesses 03/13/2021 The American Conservative
150 FBI was warned about Boulder shooter Ahmad Al Issa but failed to stop him 03/23/2021 The Daily Mail
151 FISA court rules FBI queried Americans' emails and communications without proper justification in 2019 and 2020 04/27/2021 The Washington Post
152 FBI defends 'suicide by cop' designation for 2017 baseball field shooting 04/29/2021 Politico
153 FBI demands USA Today hand over data on its readers 06/03/2021 Politico
154 FBI gave UAE ruler location data on his estranged daughter, which he used to abduct her 07/07/2021 USA Today
155 FBI tells Americans to report 'family members and peers' in tweet, gets blowback 07/12/2021 Epoch Times
156 FBI agents disregarded gymnasts' complaints about Nassar, then made false statements to cover mistakes, report says 07/14/2021 The Wall Street Journal
157 FBI never acted to bring long-time sex trafficker Jeff Epstein to justice 07/20/2021 The Daily Caller
158 Michigan kidnapping case is major test of Biden administration's commitment to fighting domestic terrorism 07/20/2021 Buzzfeed News
159 Men accused in plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer say FBI set them up 07/21/2021 NY Post
160 FBI visits 71-year-old grandmother over attending January Trump rally 08/19/2021 The Federalist
161 FBI agent, 39, on Whitmer kidnap plot fired two months after arrest for 'beating his wife' 09/13/2021 The Daily Mail
162 FBI agents stole valuables from hundreds of safety deposit boxes in California 09/20/2021 Los Angeles Times
163 FBI abuses counterterrorism authorities to investigate parents who spoke at school board meetings 10/04/2021 U.S. House of Representatives
164 FBI is lying to a federal district judge and covering up its involvement in Seth Rich's murder 10/28/2021 National File
165 Sen. Johnson probes FBI aerial surveillance after Rittenhouse defense suspects foul play in Kenosha case 11/11/2021 The Federalist
166 DOJ whistleblower documents suggest Merrick Garland lied about targeting parents as domestic terrorists 11/16/2021 The Federalist
167 Parkland families reach $127.5 million DoJ settlement after FBI failed to follow up on shooter leads 11/22/2021 The Washington Post
168 FBI officials had sex with prostitutes while overseas, inspector general investigation finds 12/14/2021 Fox News
169 Secret commandos with shoot-to-kill authority were at the Capitol 01/03/2022 Newsweek
170 Texas synagogue attack smells like more evidence of FBI corruption 01/18/2022 The Federalist
171 Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot looks an awful lot like entrapment, Reason says 01/26/2022 Reason - Free Minds and Free Markets
172 January 6 pipe bombs look like another FBI hoax 02/14/2022 American Greatness (AG)
173 FBI seized almost $1 million from a family and never charged them with a crime 02/18/2022 Reason
174 Treasure hunters accuse FBI of making off with tons of Civil War gold 06/13/2022 Associated Press
175 FBI lies and entrapment result in probation sentence for former Republican congressman 06/29/2022 The Federalist
176 FBI director sets new record for lies, dodges and obfuscations to avoid congressional oversight 08/04/2022 The Federalist
177 FBI searched Melania's wardrobe, spent hours in Trump's private office during Mar-a-Lago raid 08/09/2022 New York Post
178 FBI raid warrant demanded seizure of literally any record Trump saw during four-year term 08/12/2022 The Federalist
179 Johnson whistleblowers reveal more FBI corruption in 2020 08/24/2022 The Federalist
180 FBI colluded with Big Tech to prevent voters from learning about Hunter Biden's laptop 08/26/2022 The Federalist
181 Zuckerberg says Facebook censored Post's Hunter Biden stories because FBI warned of Russian misinfo 'dump' 08/26/2022 NY Post
182 FBI employee sexually abused 5 kids as young as 6, cops say 08/31/2022 American Military News
183 FOIA records show FBI secretly pressured Americans to surrender 2nd Amendment rights using secret bureau forms 09/06/2022 Daily Caller
184 GOA uncovers secret FBI form to lure Americans into forfeiting 2nd Amendment rights 09/08/2022 Gun Owners of America
185 FBI is covering up all of its Jeffrey Epstein records 09/09/2022 Techno Fog
186 FBI hires Steele dossier contributor Igor Danchenko as informant after learning he was lying 09/14/2022 National Review
187 FBI labeled veteran-led disaster organization a 'terror' group over government criticism, whistleblower says 09/15/2022 Yahoo! News
188 Former top FBI official in Trump-Russia probe under scrutiny by federal prosecutors for own Russia ties 09/15/2022 Business Insider
189 FBI inflating 'white supremacy' threat to help White House political agenda 09/15/2022 The Washington Times
190 FBI whistleblower alleges Jan. 6 cases manipulated to create illusion of national crisis 09/20/2022 Just the News
191 FBI whistleblower: Counterterrorism cases against alleged right-wing extremists mostly 'entrapment' 09/22/2022 The Washington Times
192 FBI misled judge who signed warrant for Beverly Hills seizure of $86 million in cash 09/23/2022 Yahoo News
193 FBI agents raid home, arrest pro-life advocate in front of wife and children 09/25/2022 The Daily Signal
194 Arrests of peaceful pro-lifers but not violent pro-abortionists confirm Biden DOJ does not apply the law equally 10/06/2022 The Federalist
195 FBI raids home of another pro-lifer, still no arrests in pregnancy center firebombings 10/07/2022 Texas Right to Life
196 FBI creates back door access to conservative dating site to spy on voters 10/10/2022 NY Post
197 Director Christopher Wray's use of FBI jet amounts to 'embezzlement,' current and ex-agents allege 10/16/2022 New York Post
198 FBI announces indictments of 22 pro-life protesters and zero pregnancy center firebombers 10/19/2022 The Federalist
199 FBI is purging employees who refuse to align with leadership's political ideology 11/04/2022 U.S. House of Representatives
200 FBI is helping Big Tech censor Americans' political speech 11/04/2022 U.S. House of Representatives
201 FBI paid Twitter $3.4M for doing its dirty work on users, damning email shows 12/19/2022 New York Post
202 Capsule summaries of all Twitter Files threads to date, with links and a glossary 01/04/2023 Racket News
203 Two defendants indicted for civil rights conspiracy and FACE Act offenses targeting pregnancy resource centers 01/24/2023 U.S. Department of Justice
204 FBI used an informant in Denver racial justice protests 02/07/2023 The Intercept
205 Internal memos chronicle years of drunk driving, lost weapons and other FBI misconduct 02/23/2023 Just the News
206 FBI agents colluded to illegally intercept defendant's communications with his attorney 03/09/2023 The Gateway Pundit
207 House Judiciary finds Biden DOJ had 'no legitimate basis' to target parents as 'terrorists' 03/22/2023 The Federalist
208 FBI documents associate internet slang like 'based' and 'red pill' with 'extremism' 04/10/2023 New York Post
209 House Weaponization Committee subpoenas FBI director over agency targeting Catholics 04/11/2023 The Federalist
210 Prankster's conviction sends a message: anti-regime speech is a crime 04/11/2023 The Federalist
211 FBI concocted plans known as "Crossfire Hurricane" to frame Trump as a Russian agent 04/14/2023 The Federalist
212 FBI officials repeatedly violated own standards searching foreign intelligence repository for Jan. 6 and 2020 racial justice protest information 05/19/2023 NBC News
213 FBI helps Ukraine censor Twitter users and obtain their information 06/07/2023 Aaron Mate, Substack
214 FBI groomed teenager to become a terrorist 06/15/2023 The Intercept
215 FBI improperly searched U.S. senator's name in foreign-spying database 07/21/2023 The Wall Street Journal
216 Mom accuses FBI of entrapping her 'neurodiverse' teenager in terrorism scheme 08/01/2023 ZeroHedge
217 FBI has '50-percent rate' of getting speech censored from the internet 09/25/2023 Daily Caller
218 FBI refuses to release documents in probe into possible nationwide voter registration fraud 09/26/2023 Just the News
219 FBI accused of targeting Trump types; agents who served in military deemed 'disloyal' 11/10/2023 Washington Time
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