The integrity of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) remains in question as details slowly emerge about an internal audit rife with “compliance errors” pertaining to investigations of “politicians, candidates, religious groups, news media and others,” potentially including former President Donald Trump.
The audit was brought to the attention of House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) after a Washington Times article covered the highly redacted document. Covering investigations between Jan. 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019, the audit found 747 “compliance errors” occurring within 353 separate cases.
The implications of these undisclosed findings brought Biggs to issue a letter on March 21, in collaboration with Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Mike Johnson (R-LA), addressed to FBI Director Christopher Wray requesting an unredacted copy of the audit along with any related documents and detailed explanations on the predicate used by the FBI to open this many unseemly investigations.
It's time to hold the FBI's leadership more accountable.
My new letter with @Jim_Jordan and @RepMikeJohnson does this.
FBI Director Christopher Wray must address the bureau’s misconduct in investigations involving politicians, candidates, and religious groups. pic.twitter.com/7PXN9C2V3A
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) March 23, 2022
“This internal review documented systemic FBI failures to follow its own rules and procedures,” the letter states. “In particular, the audit found that FBI officials failed to receive approval from supervisors to open an investigation, failed to ensure that appropriate FBI attorneys review a SIM (sensitive investigative matter) prior to opening an investigation, and did not notify the appropriate United States Attorney’s Office in writing with a month of starting an investigation-all in violation of FBI policy.”
“It possibly includes information about the surveillance of candidate Trump and later President Trump,” Biggs told Fox News before later adding the need to hold a hearing on the matter. “I suspect this conduct goes back for multiple administrations and has been an ongoing problem affecting members of both parties.”
“We can’t let this go. It’s an important issue,” the Arizona lawmaker explained. “We’ve got to get to the bottom of it. The Judiciary Committee will have oversight in the next session of Congress.”
A spokesperson for the FBI confirmed the receipt of the letter and downplayed concerns over the audit suggesting it had led to appropriate changes. “The FBI takes compliance very seriously…which is why, in 2019, we conducted an internal audit of those matters, ” the spokesperson told Fox News.
“While the number of deviations from FBI approval, notification and administrative requirements noted in the report is unacceptable,” the FBI assured, “we began implementing important changes in training and raising awareness even prior to issuance of the report, and we remain committed to ensuring all personnel adhere to our internal investigative and operational guidelines.”
The letter called the number of errors “staggering” and stated it suggests “a pattern of misconduct and mismanagement with the FBI” as 191 cases involved public officials, 10 involved political candidates and 11 were related to news media.
Presenting serious First Amendment concerns, the letter also called for unredacted copies of all other internal audits that the “FBI’s Inspection Division” had conducted since Nov. 1, 2019 in addition to their other demands. Compliance was requested to be met no later than 5pm on Monday April 4.
As of Thursday, Biggs confirmed that he had not received a response from the FBI and this matter will only further enhance the growing distrust of the American public for the government organization.
At the end of 2021, a poll of 1,000 likely voters found that favorability of the FBI had dropped from 60 percent in May 2020 to 46 percent by December 2021. When combined, 64 percent of Republicans and 30 percent of Democrats amounted to 46 percent of respondents believing the President Joe Biden was utilizing the bureau as his own “personal Gestapo.”
Wray testified in 2021 that the FBI always uses “proper prediction” and that it does not “investigate First Amendment groups…” or “people for speech, association, for assembly [or] for membership in domestic First Amendment groups.”
“However,” the letter expressed, “this internal review – which you never disclosed and which shows fundamental errors with FBI investigations touching on sensitive political and constitutional matters – calls into question the reliability of your statement.
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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25 thoughts on “Republicans say ‘time to hold FBI leadership more accountable’ after audit reveals ‘staggering’ errors”
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An “audit??” How about JAIL? How about setting an example by bringing to heel one of the most corrupt, treasonous, Leftist “law enforcement” organizations in the world? Put these “leaders” in jail for life. It’s way past time to take out the garbage in Washington D.C.
I will not vote GOP. They have done nothing. Political prisoners still sit in DC jail. No effort by GOP to allow this prisoners there civil rights.
The Democratic enforcement div (FBI) will only change when all the top leaders are replaced. Director and Deputy Directors for starters. Then everyone related to the illegal Trump investigation.. But I doubt the DOJ will do it.
Wray is friends with Comey. Birds of a Feather
If I were you senator, I wouldn’t hold my breath..doubt you’ll hear from them at all until they’re through shredding!
Oh! No sheet boys?? When did you finally notice the problems with the FBI?? Wow laughable to say the least. You are the people that write the laws to protect Americans and you just noticed this? WAFJ this country has become !
No one trusts the FBI anymore especially since Trump arrived on the scene and now they are traitors to their own country by being an arm of the communist democrat party!
Any investigation that doesn’t end with long prison sentences for high ranking fbi officials is a waste of their time and effort for doing it and our time for reading about it. Until bureaucratic felons are imprisoned, their felonies will never stop.
The Nazi party of alive and well in j edgars modern FBI.
LOL, the republicans can not hold anyone accountable, ever! They are almost as bad a the dems when they attack the right!
Someone needs to go to jail for a long time.
Let’s start with Hillary, that will be the easiest for sure.
NEWSFLASH to GOP- The corrupt FBI, DOJ, IRS, NSA, CIA and all the other alphabet government agencies are nothing but corrupted arms of the Democrat Party-staffed from top to bottom with loyal Democrat operatives – who believe in ever bigger government agencies, power, wages and pensions. Most government workers hate GOP because they do not want any reductions in force, size or influence. The FBI, DOJ, NSA and IRS in particular-have become the Democrats very own personal KGB secret police – who only investigate Republicans and never go after corrupt Democrats like Hillary, The Biden Crime Family, Hunter Biden in particular and all the other crooks in the democrat party.
They have always been corrupt but nothing like today! Fire all and start over from the top down!
The FBI and Wray in particular has too much info on the Bidens to ever have an accounting in the next 3 years.
Just another part of the DoJ that has been corrupted by the dems. Why didn`t Pres. Trump fire Wray, then, replace him with a patriot? Maybe, DJT will choose better next time….
You do know who suggested Wray to Trump?
A large former Governor of NJ.
WELL………MAYBE the Republicans WILL do something, but their track record is in the toilet for doing ANYTHING about ANYTHING !! Trump has his hands full trying to deal with all his RINO LOSERS !
these are not errors, they are being done clearly on purpose. political bias by the fbi should never be allowed.
Honorable FBI legend J. Edger Hoover would’ve grabbed Robert Mueller, Christopher Ray, James Comey by the belt buckle and knocked out their teethe with his pistol grip.
Is that what we call treason now? “Staggering errors?” No federal agency has power outside federal lands. Your state leaders take monies to permit them to operate and violate your constitutional rights.
The FBI Needs to be Purged of All its Corruption!
yes, if the FBI was doing their job, there would have not been all the Trump collusion lies, and the absolute chaos it caused out country. The FBI was and probably is still corrupt and too political . Wray must go!!!! He is not doing is his job as a leader of of a non political FBI!!!
ANYBODY who heads up the FBI SHOULD come up through the ranks as a trained Agent………..NOT be a Political Appointee who has NO INVESTIGATIVE skills of any sort !
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