卡什·帕特尔备忘录显示:雷伊领导下的FBI秘密支付反特朗普网络侦探追捕1月6日嫌疑人
多年来,克里斯托弗·雷一直宣称他已清理了FBI的线人计划。但Just the News获得的最新FBI备忘录(由局长卡什·帕特尔向国会披露)讲述了一个完全不同的故事。
在雷伊领导下,拜登时代的FBI向一个名为Sedition Hunters(叛乱猎手)的匿名在线团体成员支付了超过15万美元。这些业余侦探被招募为机密线人,负责仔细查看视频 footage,帮助识别1月6日被告,并为针对特朗普阵营的臭名昭著的“Arctic Frost”调查提供线索。FBI将他们作为受保护来源对待了大约三年。
问题在于:这个团体公开、狂热地反特朗普、反共和党——这正是雷在克里斯托弗·斯蒂尔事件后承诺不会再污染线人队伍的偏见。更糟糕的是,备忘录显示有外国势力参与其中:部分分析工作是在英国的电脑上完成的,而英国正是斯蒂尔出身的国家。这些侦探还公开吹嘘自己正在与FBI合作,这彻底破坏了作为合法线人应有的保密性。记录显示,其中一笔付款是由杰克·史密斯签字批准的——正是后来追查特朗普的那位特别检察官。
帕特尔直言不讳。他告诉Just the News:
“支付公开的反特朗普活动人士,使用可疑技术来识别美国人,这是对FBI权力的惊人滥用,也是对长期以来线人规则的公然违反。”他称整个安排极不恰当。
这就是武器化的FBI👉纳税人的钱、受外国影响的党派人士、特别检察官的签字,全部对准总统自己的支持者。雷承诺改革,但收据显示的却是一份工资单。
𝐊𝐀𝐒𝐇 𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐋’𝐒 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐒 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐖𝐑𝐀𝐘’𝐒 𝐅𝐁𝐈 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐃 𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈-𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐒𝐋𝐄𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓 𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐔𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝟔 𝐒𝐔𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐒
For years Christopher Wray swore he had cleaned up the FBI’s informant program. Newly released bureau memos, obtained by Just the News and disclosed to Congress by Director Kash Patel, tell a very different story.
Under Wray, the Biden-era FBI paid out 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝟏𝟓𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬 to members of an anonymous online group called the 𝘚𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘏𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 — amateur sleuths recruited as confidential informants to scour footage and help identify January 6 defendants, and to feed the now-infamous Arctic Frost probe that targeted Trump-world. The bureau treated them as protected sources for roughly three years.
Here is the problem. The group was 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐲, 𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢-𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢-𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 — the exact bias Wray promised would never again taint an informant after the Christopher Steele fiasco. Worse, the memos show foreign hands in the work: some of the analysis was being done on computers in Great Britain, the same country that gave us Steele. And the sleuths bragged openly that they were working with the bureau, shredding the confidentiality that defines a legitimate source. One of the payments, the records show, was 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐛𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡 — the same special counsel who later pursued Trump.
Patel did not mince words. 𝘗𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪-𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘺 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘶 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴, he told Just the News, calling the entire arrangement inappropriate.
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐁𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫: 𝐭𝐚𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲, 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐧-𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐥’𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭’𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝐖𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥.