The FBI: 219 Scandals, Controversies, & Acts of Corruption
By Tom Elliott
Contributors: 12
Items: 219
| # | 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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