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

#	Summary	Date	Source
1	Attorney General Charles Bonaparte creates the Bureau of Investigation by memo two months after Congress banned the Justice Department from borrowing Secret Service agents, standing up the new force while Congress was out of session	07/26/1908	FBI, 'A Brief History'
2	Bureau of Investigation agents, police and more than 20,000 American Protective League volunteers sweep New York City for draft 'slackers' over three days, stopping at least 300,000 men and jailing tens of thousands without warrants in armories and on the	09/03/1918	The New York Review of Books
3	Bureau of Investigation and Immigration Bureau agents round up some 10,000 people in 33 cities in the Palmer Raids planned by J. Edgar Hoover's General Intelligence Division, including many citizens and non-members, after Hoover secured a rule change thre	01/02/1920	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
4	Three weeks after the Palmer Raids, J. Edgar Hoover presses the Immigration Bureau to keep arrested aliens off bail so they cannot consult lawyers, arguing bail 'defeats the ends of justice'	01/22/1920	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
5	Twelve prominent lawyers including Roscoe Pound, Felix Frankfurter and Zechariah Chafee publish a report charging the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation with warrantless mass arrests, incommunicado detention, warrantless home searches, 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 throws out well over 1,500 of the Palmer Raid deportation cases built on Bureau of Investigation arrests as lacking due process, leaving 556 deportations standing, and survives a House impeachment effort pushed by Palm	05/07/1920	History.com
7	Bureau of Investigation, in a campaign directed by J. Edgar Hoover that coordinated at least seven federal agencies seeking to deport him, helps secure black nationalist Marcus Garvey's 1922 mail-fraud indictment over Black Star Line stock; Garvey is conv	02/01/1922	PBS American Experience
8	Federal grand jury in Montana indicts Sen. Burton Wheeler on a charge of taking a fee from an oil man while he is leading the Senate investigation of Attorney General Daugherty and Bureau chief William Burns; the Senate votes 56-5 to exonerate him and a M	04/08/1924	TIME
9	New Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone forces out Bureau director William Burns over Teapot Dome and orders the Bureau confined 'strictly to investigations of violations of law', later describing the organization he inherited as 'lawless' and 'brutal and	05/13/1924	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
10	Bureau agents led by Melvin Purvis open fire on a car leaving Little Bohemia Lodge in Wisconsin, killing Civilian Conservation Corps worker Eugene Boiseneau and wounding two other innocent men, while John Dillinger's gang escapes and Baby Face Nelson kill	04/22/1934	PBS American Experience
11	President Roosevelt orally asks J. Edgar Hoover for 'a broad picture' of 'subversive activities' by fascists and communists, and Hoover builds a standing domestic-intelligence program with no statute, deliberately kept secret from Congress until 1939 to '	08/24/1936	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
12	After Attorney General Robert Jackson bans all FBI wiretapping as unethical and barred by the 1934 Communications Act and the Supreme Court's Nardone rulings, President Roosevelt secretly overrides him within ten weeks, authorizing FBI taps on 'persons su	05/21/1940	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
13	President Roosevelt's secretary Stephen Early sends J. Edgar Hoover hundreds of telegrams from citizens opposing FDR's defense policy, noting the President 'thought you might like to look them over, noting the names and addresses of the senders', and the	05/21/1940	Church Committee, Final Report Book II
14	Attorney General Jackson and the American Legion approve an FBI plan to recruit members of local Legion posts nationwide as unpaid 'confidential sources' reporting on their neighbors' 'subversive' activity, a program the FBI runs until 1954	11/01/1940	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
15	J. Edgar Hoover reorganizes his 'Official and Confidential' files, 165 files totaling some 17,000 pages of derogatory and personal material on political leaders, journalists and others, and restricts them to his own office suite where only he and secretar	01/01/1941	FBI (fbi.gov)
16	FBI Director Hoover stage-manages press coverage of the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs as brilliant detective work, concealing that saboteur George Dasch had phoned the FBI to turn himself in, been dismissed as a prank caller, then walked into FBI headqu	06/27/1942	Smithsonian Magazine
17	Attorney General Francis Biddle orders the FBI's Custodial Detention List of citizens abolished as having 'no statutory authorization or other present justification', and Hoover simply renames it the Security Index, orders field offices never to mention i	07/16/1943	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
18	Hoover orders local police to flag federal employees arrested as 'sex deviates' on their fingerprint cards and has the FBI collect the cards, building the files later used to purge gay government workers under the bureau's Sex Deviates program	05/01/1950	Associated Press (via CBS News)
19	FBI and Justice Department secretly agree to ignore the Emergency Detention Act of 1950, keeping Hoover's broader Security Index of 'potentially dangerous' Americans for mass round-ups while hiding the noncompliance from Congress and withholding parts of	09/23/1950	Church Committee, Final Report Book II
20	Second Circuit, in an opinion by Learned Hand, throws out Judith Coplon's espionage conviction because FBI agents arrested her without a warrant when there was no emergency and the trial judge let the government hide its wiretap records from the defense	12/05/1950	United States v. Coplon, 185 F.2d 629 (2d Cir. 1950)
21	D.C. Circuit orders a hearing on Judith Coplon's charge that FBI agents wiretapped her telephone calls with her lawyer before and during her Washington trial, saying that if true it violated her constitutional rights; the government never retried 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, launching 15 years of secret counterintelligence actions against domestic political groups	08/01/1956	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
23	After decades of dismissing the existence of a national Mafia, Hoover is forced by the police raid on the Apalachin, N.Y., mob summit to reverse course and orders the FBI's first anti-mob 'Top Hoodlum Program' four days later	11/14/1957	Smithsonian Magazine
24	FBI Klan informant Gary Thomas Rowe takes part in the Mother's Day beating of Freedom Riders at the Birmingham bus depot after warning the bureau in advance, and his FBI handler tells him there was no one to report it to because Birmingham police had help	05/14/1961	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
25	FBI launches a COINTELPRO against the Socialist Workers Party, with Hoover's concurrence, on a theory of 'even-handed treatment' despite conceding the party never engaged in violence or any criminal attempt to overthrow the government	10/12/1961	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
26	FBI wiretaps New York Times military correspondent Hanson Baldwin and a Times secretary over a story on Soviet missiles, installing the taps without the attorney general's prior written approval and tapping the secretary without his knowledge	07/28/1962	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
27	Attorney General Robert Kennedy approves FBI wiretaps on Martin Luther King Jr.'s home and SCLC offices, authority the bureau then stretches to King's hotel rooms and a friend's home, keeping the home tap until mid-1965 without seeking renewal	10/01/1963	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
28	Within hours of Lee Harvey Oswald's death, Dallas FBI agent James Hosty destroys a threatening note Oswald had delivered to the office days before the assassination, on what he says were orders from Dallas chief J. Gordon Shanklin, and the bureau conceals	11/24/1963	TIME
29	The FBI spied on the 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. in his Willard Hotel room in Washington, part of 16 acknowledged hotel bugs aimed at getting material to 'completely discredit' him, then shows a summary of the tapes to President Johnson's aide Wa	01/05/1964	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
31	The FBI threatened Martin Luther King Jr., telling him to kill himself	06/13/1964	FBI Investigations
32	At the White House's request Hoover sends a 30-agent 'special squad' under Cartha DeLoach to the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, where it wiretaps Martin Luther King Jr.'s hotel room, bugs SNCC-CORE headquarters and feeds political intell	08/22/1964	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
33	Hoover's FBI launches COINTELPRO-White Hate, directing 17 field offices to 'expose, disrupt, and otherwise neutralize' 17 Klan groups and nine other organizations including the American Nazi Party, with informants later told to break up Klansmen's marriag	09/02/1964	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
34	Hoover publicly brands Martin Luther King Jr. the 'most notorious liar' in the country at a briefing for women reporters, escalating the FBI's campaign against King weeks before King receives the Nobel Peace Prize	11/18/1964	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
35	FBI informant Gary Thomas Rowe is in the car with the Klansmen who shoot and kill civil rights volunteer Viola Liuzzo on the Selma highway, having been told by his FBI handler to go along on the 'mission' and report what happened	03/25/1965	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
36	Hoover's deputy Cartha DeLoach moves to 'neutralize' Sen. Edward Long's subcommittee investigation of FBI wiretapping, drafting a statement for Long to release as his own exonerating the bureau and extracting Long's commitment to call no FBI witnesses	01/01/1966	Church Committee, Final Report Book II
37	FBI concedes its agents carried out at least 238 warrantless 'black bag' break-ins against 14 domestic groups between 1942 and 1968, a technique its own intelligence division described in a 1966 memo as 'clearly illegal' and hid from every attorney genera	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' groups including the SCLC, SNCC, CORE and the Nation of Islam and leaders such as Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Bro	08/25/1967	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
39	FBI headquarters expands COINTELPRO-Black Nationalist to 41 field offices with a directive to 'prevent the rise of a messiah' who could unify the movement, naming Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael and Elijah Muhammad as candidates one month befor	03/04/1968	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
40	FBI launches COINTELPRO-New Left against antiwar and student activists after the Columbia campus uprising, with a headquarters memo justifying it in part because the New Left had 'viciously and scurrilously attacked the Director and the Bureau'	05/09/1968	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
41	A year after King's assassination, Hoover approves a Crime Records Division plan to brief House Internal Security Committee members so they would 'realize King was a scoundrel' and keep a bill making his birthday a national holiday from leaving committee	03/18/1969	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
42	At Henry Kissinger's request on behalf of President Nixon, Hoover's FBI begins the 'Kissinger wiretaps' of 17 government officials and journalists, starting with NSC aide Morton Halperin, to hunt the source of a New York Times story on the secret bombing	05/09/1969	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
43	The FBI, as part of its COINTELPRO program and using a paid informant, was involved in the 1969 raid that killed young, Black Panther leader Fred Hampton.	12/04/1969	History
44	FBI's Los Angeles office, with headquarters' approval, plants a false rumor with gossip columnists that actress Jean Seberg's unborn child was fathered by a Black Panther to 'cheapen her image', a plot the bureau admits in 1979 a week after her suicide	04/27/1970	The New York Times
45	FBI establishes the Key Black Extremist program, placing about 90 black activists on the top priority of its detention Security Index and obtaining IRS tax returns on at least 72 of them to use as 'weapons' to 'neutralize' them	12/23/1970	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
46	The FBI Never Managed To Solve A Burglary Into Their Own Offices	03/08/1971	The Intercept
47	After Congress repeals the Emergency Detention Act, Hoover's FBI keeps its Security Index of 'potentially dangerous subversives' alive under a new name, the Administrative Index, on the theory that a president could later ask Congress for detention author	09/25/1971	Church Committee, Final Report Book II
48	On Hoover's standing instructions, his secretary of 54 years Helen Gandy destroys the director's personal files in the days after his death, burning or shredding every paper she says she found at his home, while 30 drawers of his files are moved out of FB	05/02/1972	TIME
49	Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray resigns after it emerges he burned files taken from Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt's White House safe, which Gray said he did because he was ordered to	04/27/1973	Associated Press (via CBS News)
50	Attorney General Edward Levi discloses to the Church Committee that beyond its five named COINTELPROs the FBI ran 37 covert actions against Puerto Rican independence groups from 1960 to 1971 and 'Operation Hoodwink', a 1966–68 scheme to set organized crim	05/23/1975	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
51	FBI Violates International Treaty Law by threatening a developementally disasbled woman into signing three false affidavits.	02/03/1976	Trial Transcripts
52	Church Committee finds the FBI's COINTELPRO ran 2,370 covert actions from 1956 to 1971 against the Communist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the Klan, black nationalists and the New Left, including anonymous letters accusing targets of infidelity, 'sn	04/23/1976	Church Committee, Final Report Book III
53	Church Committee's final report finds FBI headquarters alone built more than 500,000 domestic intelligence files on Americans, opening 65,000 in 1972, and ran 500,000-plus 'subversive' investigations from 1960 to 1974 without a single prosecution under th	04/26/1976	Church Committee, Final Report Book II
54	Church Committee finds the FBI ran eight mail-opening programs from the 1950s into the 1960s without seeking any outside authorization, with supervisors admitting legal considerations were 'simply not raised'	04/26/1976	Church Committee, Final Report Book II
55	Former FBI No. 2 W. Mark Felt and intelligence chief Edward S. Miller are convicted by a federal jury of conspiring to violate civil rights by approving illegal break-ins at homes of Weather Underground relatives and friends in 1972–73; Reagan pardons bot	11/06/1980	The Christian Science Monitor
56	Richard W. Miller becomes the first FBI agent ever convicted of espionage, found guilty of passing a classified counterintelligence manual to his Soviet lover Svetlana Ogorodnikova, and is sentenced to two life terms plus 50 years	06/19/1986	UPI
57	Justice Department concludes the FBI discriminated against black agent Donald Rochon, who was subjected to a campaign of racial harassment by white colleagues in the Omaha and Chicago field offices, and then retaliated against him for complaining; the Bur	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 City librarians to watch for 'suspicious-looking' patrons, monitor what they read and report back to the Bureau, prompting a House Judiciary subcommittee inquiry	08/18/1988	The Christian Science Monitor
59	Federal judge Lucius Bunton rules in a class action brought by more than 300 Hispanic agents that the FBI discriminated against them in assignments, transfers and promotions, the first judicial finding of systemic discrimination inside the Bureau	09/01/1988	The Christian Science Monitor
60	FBI Director William Sessions disciplines six employees over the Bureau's flawed 1981–85 investigation of CISPES, a group opposing Reagan's Central America policy, admitting the probe 'continued to expand unchecked' across field offices until the Justice	09/14/1988	The Christian Science Monitor
61	Senate Intelligence Committee concludes the FBI's CISPES investigation was opened on allegations 'that should not have been considered credible' and expanded nationwide 'without adequate justification', sweeping roughly 2,375 individuals and 1,330 groups	07/01/1989	Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 'The FBI and CISPES'
62	After a pipe bomb explodes under Earth First! organizer Judi Bari's car seat in Oakland, the FBI and Oakland police arrest Bari and passenger Darryl Cherney as the bombers; charges are dropped and in 2002 a federal jury awards $4.4 million for the illegal	05/24/1990	ABC7 San Francisco
63	The FBI murdered Vicki Weaver while she held her infant daughter	08/22/1992	The Washington Post
64	FBI over reacted in serving warrants to the Branch Davidians' compound in Waco, TX leaving 75 dead	02/28/1993	PBS
65	FBI Director Louis Freeh promotes Larry Potts to deputy director weeks after Potts was censured for failing to define the Ruby Ridge rules of engagement, then demotes him ten weeks later amid allegations FBI employees destroyed records to clear him	07/14/1995	UPI
66	FBI admits 'egregious violations of privacy' after it handed the Clinton White House confidential background files on hundreds of people, mostly Reagan and Bush appointees, on unsigned request forms from the White House personnel security office run by Cr	06/14/1996	TIME (via CNN AllPolitics)
67	E. Michael Kahoe, former chief of the FBI's violent crimes section, agrees to plead guilty to obstruction of justice for destroying the Bureau's Ruby Ridge after-action critique so it would not reach prosecutors in the Randy Weaver case	10/22/1996	Associated Press (via Government Executive)
68	FBI supervisory special agent Earl Edwin Pitts pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage for selling national security information to the KGB and its successor from 1987 to 1992 for at least $129,000, and is sentenced to 27 years	02/28/1997	United States v. Pitts, 973 F. Supp. 576 (E.D. Va. 1997)
69	Justice Department inspector general finds FBI Laboratory examiners gave scientifically flawed or inaccurate testimony and altered or slanted reports in the Oklahoma City, World Trade Center and Avianca bombing cases, and recommends removing explosives un	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 flat denials, the FBI acknowledges its agents fired military pyrotechnic tear-gas rounds at the Branch Davidian compound on the day it burned, prompting Attorney General Janet Reno to appoint former Sen. John Danforth as special counsel	08/25/1999	Associated Press (via The Seattle Times)
72	FBI agent Robert Messemer admits under oath that key testimony he gave at Wen Ho Lee's December 1999 bail hearing, that Lee deceived a colleague to use his computer, was wrong, undercutting the government's case for holding Lee in solitary confinement	08/17/2000	CNN
73	Federal Judge James Parker apologizes from the bench to Wen Ho Lee for the unfair way the executive branch held him in solitary confinement for nine months, as the government drops 58 of 59 counts and Lee pleads to one felony	09/13/2000	CNN
74	The FBI Put A Mole In Charge Of Finding The Mole In The FBI	03/05/2001	Time
75	Attorney General John Ashcroft postpones Timothy McVeigh's execution after the FBI discloses it failed to turn over roughly 3,000 pages of investigative documents to McVeigh's defense before his 1997 trial	05/11/2001	CNN
76	The FBI was warned about the 9/11 terrorists, but failed to stop them	09/11/2001	Coleen Rowley (former FBI special agent)
77	DOJ inspector general audit finds the FBI's own inventory turned up 581 missing weapons and 310 missing laptop computers, some containing classified or sensitive data, after the bureau had first admitted in July 2001 to losing 445 weapons and 184 laptops	08/01/2002	DOJ Office of the Inspector General (Audit 02-27)
78	FBI supervisory agent James J. Smith pleads guilty to lying about his two-decade sexual relationship with Katrina Leung, the FBI's prized China informant he handled while she was allegedly working as a double agent for Beijing and accessing classified doc	05/12/2004	Associated Press (via NBC News)
79	DOJ inspector general finds the FBI fired translator Sibel Edmonds at least in part because she reported security breaches and misconduct in its language unit, and that the bureau never adequately investigated her allegations, many of which had a basis in	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, the DOJ inspector general finds, leaving agents on an antiquated case-management system years after 9/11	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’s extra-judicial killing of independence leader Filiberto Ojeda Ríos in September 2005	09/23/2005	NACLA
83	United States pays Oregon lawyer Brandon Mayfield $2 million and formally apologizes after FBI fingerprint examiners wrongly matched him to a print from the 2004 Madrid train bombings, leading to two weeks' detention as a material witness plus covert sear	11/29/2006	Associated Press (via NBC News)
84	DOJ inspector general Glenn Fine reports serious misuse of Patriot Act national security letters, including the FBI underreporting to Congress how many it issued and sending more than 700 'exigent letters' demanding phone records on the false pretext of e	03/09/2007	NPR
85	FBI undercover agent poses as an Associated Press editor and sends a Seattle-area teenager a fake AP news story laced with malware to locate him in a bomb-threat case, a tactic the DOJ inspector general later finds broke no FBI rule in force at the time b	06/01/2007	DOJ Office of the Inspector General (Oversight & Review 16-07)
86	The 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 feeding confidential information to Colombo capo and top-echelon informant Gregory Scarpa Sr. that helped Scarpa kill rivals during the 1991–93 Colombo war, collapse when the s	11/01/2007	The Philadelphia Inquirer
88	Justice Department pays former Army scientist Steven Hatfill $5.8 million to settle his Privacy Act suit after the FBI and Attorney General Ashcroft publicly branded him a 'person of interest' in the 2001 anthrax letters, searched his home on camera and l	06/27/2008	NPR
89	The FBI let a terrorist with a bomb in his car drive to NYC (he backed out of the attack)	09/22/2009	PJ Media
90	DOJ inspector general finds the FBI's Communications Analysis Unit issued at least 739 'exigent letters' obtaining records on some 3,000 phone numbers with no legal process, improperly acquired reporters' phone records in leak probes and made inaccurate s	01/20/2010	DOJ Office of the Inspector General
91	DOJ inspector general finds the FBI investigated Greenpeace, PETA, the Catholic Worker and the Thomas Merton Center on thin or no predication, kept activists on terrorism watchlists, and gave Congress and the public false explanations for surveilling a 20	09/20/2010	DOJ Office of the Inspector General
92	National Academy of Sciences panel concludes the FBI overstated the scientific certainty linking the anthrax letters to Bruce Ivins's flask RMR-1029, saying the genetic evidence alone could not prove the mailed spores came from his lab, two years after th	02/15/2011	NPR
93	Three of the 'Newburgh Four' are sentenced to the 25-year minimum for a synagogue bomb plot that FBI informant Shahed Hussain built with fake Stinger missiles and promises of $250,000, with Judge Colleen McMahon declaring that only the government could ha	06/29/2011	Courthouse News Service
94	FBI confirms it has switched off about 3,000 warrantless GPS trackers attached to vehicles nationwide after the Supreme Court's United States v. Jones ruling that such tracking is a 4th Amendment search, with General Counsel Andrew Weissmann calling the d	02/27/2012	NBC News
95	FBI tells Congress it has purged 876 pages and 392 presentations from its counterterrorism training materials after reporting exposed lessons teaching agents that mainstream Muslims are likely terrorist sympathizers and that the bureau can 'bend or suspen	03/28/2012	NPR
96	FBI Special Agent Convicted for Dealings with Criminals Agency Investigating	06/18/2012	Newsweek
97	FBI agent Frederick Humphries, who had once sent a shirtless photo of himself to Tampa socialite Jill Kelley, launches the probe of her harassing emails that exposed CIA Director David Petraeus's affair, then takes the case outside the bureau to Rep. Dave	11/14/2012	CBS News
98	FBI agent Aaron McFarlane shoots Chechen immigrant Ibragim Todashev seven times, including once in the head, during an unrecorded late-night interview in his Orlando apartment about the Boston bombers; a Florida prosecutor later rules the killing justifie	05/22/2013	WBUR
99	After the NSA scandal exploded in 2013, Comey's FBI was exposed conducting its own data mining on innocent Americans; the agency retains that material for decades (even if no wrongdoing is found)	06/30/2013	Bloomberg
100	The FBI was warned about the Fort Hood terrorist, Nidal Hasan, but failed to stop him	08/28/2013	Breitbart
101	The FBI was warned about the Boston Marathon bombers but failed to stop them	04/15/2014	NBC News
102	The FBI was warned about three Americans who joined ISIS in Syria, but failed to stop them	05/14/2014	NBC News
103	The FBI was warned about an ISIS-inspired American who killed three in Washington, one in New Jersey, but failed to stop him	08/06/2014	Seattle Times
104	Federal magistrate judge throws out evidence after FBI and Nevada gaming agents cut the Internet to Caesars Palace villas and posed as repair technicians to get inside and film gambler Wei Seng 'Paul' Phua's suite without a warrant, a ruling the district	02/02/2015	Associated Press (via KNPR)
105	In 2015, Comey's FBI conducted a controversial raid on a Texas political meeting, finger printing, photographing, and seizing phones from attendees	03/01/2015	World Net Daily
106	FBI and Justice Department acknowledge that 26 of 28 examiners in the FBI Laboratory's microscopic hair comparison unit gave scientifically invalid testimony favoring prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed, including 32 death-penal	04/18/2015	NBC News
107	Comey was forced to apologize after an error in the FBI's background check system allowed Dylann Roof to buy his gun	07/10/2015	The Atlantic
108	FBI agent John Connolly was the handler of criminal informant, James "Whitey" Bulger, and was later convicted of racketeering and second-degree murder	09/15/2015	Biography
109	FBI Hostage Rescue Team agent W. Joseph Astarita fires two shots at Robert 'LaVoy' Finicum's truck at the Oregon roadblock where state police killed Finicum, then denies shooting, leading to his 2017 indictment for false statements and obstruction; a jury	01/26/2016	Associated Press (via NBC News)
110	The FBI was warned about a man shouting "Allahu Akhbar" while attacking patrons at an Israeli-owned deli, but failed to stop him	02/14/2016	PJMedia
111	DOJ inspector general finds the FBI unit chief leading the San Bernardino iPhone effort never asked the bureau's own Remote Operations Unit for help before Director Comey told Congress the FBI could not open the phone, and was 'definitely not happy' when	03/28/2016	DOJ Office of the Inspector General (18-03)
112	During the FBI's Hillary probe, "A technician who destroyed evidence lied to FBI investigators even after he received immunity, and Comey did nothing"	04/01/2016	The Federalist; The Wall Street Journal
113	The FBI was warned about the Pulse Nightclub terrorist, but failed to stop him	06/12/2016	Grabien
114	Comey promised transparency into the investigation into the Pulse Night Club terrorist, but almost immediately redacted from transcript the killer's reference to Islam	06/12/2016	The Federalist
115	Under Comey, the FBI blew its highest profile corruption investigations (into Sen. Ted Stevens); a federal judge blamed the "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	The FBI was warned about a Va. man shouting "Allahu Akhbar" while stabbing a couple, but failed to stop him	08/23/2016	WSLS
118	Under Comey, the FBI authorized informants to break the law 22,800 times in just four years	08/23/2016	The Daily Dot
119	The FBI was warned about the NYC bomber, Ahmad Khan Rahani, but failed to stop him	09/19/2016	The New York Times
120	During its investigation into Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified material, the FBI made an unusual deal in which Clinton aides were both given immunity and allowed to destroy their laptops.	10/03/2016	Fox News
121	Comey's FBI was embedded with the ISIS-affiliated terrorists who struck the 'Draw Mohammad' event but failed to act	03/26/2017	CBS News
122	FBI caught posing as documentary filmmakers in an undercover operation to investigate a Nevada ranching family fighting against overreach by the federal government	05/15/2017	PBS
123	Comey claimed in Senate testimony he didn't feel compelled to memorialize his meetings with presidents besides Trump; however, that's untrue	06/10/2017	Powerline
124	Comey drafted an exoneration statement for Hillary Clinton months before the 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, the FBI's case against Cliven Bundy was destroyed after the feds were caught deliberately withholding evidence	12/21/2017	The Oregonian
127	The FBI was warned about the Parkland mass killer, Nikolas Cruz, but failed to stop him	02/14/2018	BuzzFeed
128	Sexual misconduct was rampant at the FBI under Comey's watch, with at least 14 agents sanctioned	02/25/2018	The Daily Caller
129	The FBI was warned about Corey Johnson, who converted to Islam and killed a 13-year-old boy and stabbed a mom and her son, but failed to stop him	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 the Pulse club killer's wife into a confession, but the case was dropped over the FBI forcing her to lie	04/03/2018	The American Conservative
132	Agent Peter Strzok was considered so hostile to Trump, Robert Mueller dropped him from the Russia probe; Comey, however, found him fit to lead the Clinton probe	04/17/2018	RealClearPolitics
133	On the FBI's Hillary probe, Comey claimed there was no coordination between the DoJ and FBI, but texts and emails later showed that to be untrue	04/19/2018	The Washington Examiner
134	The memos Comey leaked contained classified material, prompting the DoJ inspector general to investigate his illegal leak	04/20/2018	The Wall Street Journal
135	Comey's memos reveal that he briefed Trump on the Steele dossier specifically so it would leak to the media	04/20/2018	The Federalist
136	The FBI was warned about the 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	During his book tour, Comey claimed he didn't know the FBI thought Michael Flynn believed he was telling the truth	05/14/2018	Townhall
139	The FBI was caught overhyping the threat of encrypted phones	05/23/2018	Axios
140	IG Report That Seriously Undermine The FBI’s Credibility	06/14/2018	The Federalist
141	The FBI's mismanaged surveillance of the New Mexico terror compound case resulted in a delayed raid	09/14/2018	The Federalist
142	An FBI agent was sentenced to 4 years in jail for leaking documents	10/18/2018	KSTP
143	FBI uses the 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, it nonetheless promoted disinformation that the laptop was itself disinformation	08/02/2020	Senator Grassley
146	Special Agent Timothy Thibault, an outspoken Trump critic, improperly attempted closing the FBI's Hunter Biden probe so it couldn't be re-opened	08/03/2020	Senator Grassley
147	FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith, 38, pleaded guilty in Court for the District of Columbia to a false statement offense stemming from his altering of an email in connection with the submission of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“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 they failed to stop him	12/30/2020	WSMV
149	The FBI refuses to abide guidelines for recording interviews with witnesses	03/13/2021	The American Conservative
150	The FBI was warned about the Boulder shooter, Ahmad Al Issa, but failed to stop him	03/23/2021	The Daily Mail
151	FBI personnel conducted queries of data troves containing Americans’ emails & other communications without proper justification in 2019 & 2020, the FISA court ruled	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	The FBI provided location data to the UAE’s authoritarian ruler about his estranged daughter, which he then 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	The 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 for 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	71-Year-Old Grandmother Visited By FBI Over Attending January Trump Rally	08/19/2021	The Federalist
161	FBI agent, 39, investigating Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot is fired two months after he was arrested for 'beating his wife over a disagreement at a swingers party'	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	The FBI is abusing its 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 is covering up their involvement with the murder of Seth Rich	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 The Targeting Of Parents As Domestic Terrorists	11/16/2021	The Federalist
167	Parkland families reach $127.5 million settlement with Justice Dept. after FBI failed to follow-up on mass 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	The Gretchen Whitmer Kidnapping Plot Looks an Awful Lot Like Entrapment	01/26/2022	Reason - Free Minds and Free Markets
172	The January 6 Pipe Bombs Look Like Another FBI Hoax	02/14/2022	American Greatness (AG)
173	The FBI Seized Almost $1 Million From This 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 Slight Attempts At 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 Ever Saw During 4-Year Presidential 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 The Post’s Hunter Biden stories because FBI warned of Russian misinfo ‘dump’ By Bruce Golding	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	Information obtained through FOIA show FBI secretly pressured Americans to surrender their Second Amendment Right using secret bureau forms	09/06/2022	Daily Caller
184	GOA uncovered a secret FBI form to lure Americans into forfeiting Second Amendment rights	09/08/2022	Gun Owners of America
185	The FBI is covering up all of its Jeffrey Epstein records	09/09/2022	Techno Fog
186	Igor Danchenko, a primary contributor to the Steele dossier, was hired by the FBI as a confidential informant after the FBI learned 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 involved in Trump-Russia investigation under scrutiny by federal prosecutors for his own ties to Russia	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	Arrest of Peaceful Pro-Lifers But Not of Violent Pro-Abortionists confirms Biden's DOJ Does Not Equally Apply the Law	10/06/2022	The Federalist
195	FBI Raids Home of Another Pro-Lifer, Still No Arrests in Pregnancy Center Fire-Bombings	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	The FBI Has Announced Indictments Of 22 Pro-Life Protesters And Zero Pregnancy Center Firebombers	10/19/2022	The Federalist
199	The FBI is purging employees who refuse to align themselves with the leadership’s political ideology.	11/04/2022	U.S. House of Representatives
200	The FBI is helping Big Tech to 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 Denver Racial Justice Protests Informant	02/07/2023	The Intercept
205	Internal memos chronicle years of drunk driving, lost weapons and other 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	A 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 their own standards when they searched a repository of foreign intelligence for information related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and racial justice protests in 2020	05/19/2023	NBC News
213	FBI Helps Ukraine Censor Twitter Users and Obtain Their Info	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	The 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