posted August 10, 2022 04:45 PM            

A whistleblower has come forward with the name of a second FBI official who allegedly pressured agents to label cases as “domestic violent extremism” to boost case numbers, according to House Judiciary Committee Republicans.

Jill Sanborn, a now-Roku employee who worked at the FBI for more than two decades, is one of now two officials whistleblowers have identified as having “exerted pressure on agents to reclassify cases as DVE [domestic violent extremism] matters,” according to a letter sent to Sanborn on Wednesday and obtained by Breitbart News.

The letter, written by Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and committee member Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), comes on the heels of a different whistleblower contacting Jordan’s office in July and accusing another FBI official, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault, of also seeking to inflate domestic violent extremism case numbers.

August 10, 2022
Ms. Jill Sanborn Senior Director Geopolitical Strategy & Risk Analysis Roku Inc. 1701 Junction Court, Suite 100 San Jose, CA 95112 Dear Ms. Sanborn: On July 27, 2022, we wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray about whistleblower disclosures 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.

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Between January 2020 and April 2021, according to public information, you served as the Assistant Director of the FBI Counterterrorism Division, and then as Executive Assistant Director of the National Security Branch until you left federal service.

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Accordingly, we believe that you may possess information relating to this matter and we request your assistance with our inquiry. Whistleblower disclosures made by multiple FBI employees from different field offices suggest that FBI agents are bolstering the number of cases of DVEs to satisfy their supervisors. For example, one whistleblower explained that because agents are not finding enough DVE cases, they are encouraged and incentivized to reclassify cases as DVE cases even though there is minimal, circumstantial evidence to support the reclassification. Another whistleblower stated
that a field office Counterterrorism Assistant Special Agent in Charge and the FBI’s
then-Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division pressured agents to move cases into the DVE category to hit self-created performance metrics. This whistleblower identified you as one official who exerted pressure on agents to reclassify cases as DVE matters. The Committee on the Judiciary has legislative and oversight jurisdiction over the Department of Justice and the FBI pursuant to Rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives. We are investigating several allegations concerning the politicization of the FBI, including allegations that the FBI is padding its DVE data. Your testimony is necessary to

Letter from Jim Jordan, Ranking Member, H. Comm. on the Judiciary, to Christopher A. Wray, Dir. Fed. Bureau of Investigation (July 27, 2022).

@Jill Sanborn, L
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-sanborn-74a402190;
Press Release, Fed. Bureau of Investigation,
Jill Sanborn Named Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division
(Jan. 8, 2020); Press Release, Fed. Bureau of Investigation,
Jill Sanborn Named Executive Assistant Director of the National Security Branch
, (May 7, 2021).

Ms. Jill Sanborn August 10, 2022 Page 2 advance our oversight. We therefore ask that you please contact Committee staff to schedule a transcribed interview as soon as possible, but no later than 5:00 p.m. on August 24, 2022. You may contact Committee staff at (202) 225-6906. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Sincerely, Jim Jordan Mike Johnson Ranking Member Ranking Member Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

posted August 12, 2022 06:47 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
The FBI needs to be dismantled and restructured.

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