BREAKING: FBI whistleblower @realSteveFriend revealed that bureau leadership received cash incentives to inflate the number of their “domestic extremism” cases! The FBI has been targeting our fellow Americans as “extremists” in order to abuse their power.

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[–]Site_rly_sux 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

Lie. This is fake news.

Fake Claim #1 - Chipit is lying when he says that anyone was incentivised to "inflate" cases of domestic extremism.

Truth: Actually, in the video cited by chipit, Gaetz says the following:

"one of the things Steve Friend bought forward in his whistleblower report is that there were cash incentives given to people in FBI leadership based on case volume."

There's nothing cited by chipit which indicates anything to do with domestic extremism. So how did that part get added to chipit's claim? It got added by a domestic extremist, is my guess.

Fake Claim #2 - Gaetz in chipit's video claims that Friend reported "that there were cash incentives given to people in FBI leadership based on case volume". This was a lie by Gaetz.

Truth: actually this wasn't said by Steve Friend at all! And certainly not part of his whistleblower report. The House committee released the full transcript pdf and cspan has their autosubs available online. He didn't say it.

It was actually said by Garret O'Boyle on Fox news. Somewhere in this video which I don't care to watch.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/whistleblower-willing-homeless-hands-fbi-speak-out

?? Claim #3 - "there is a system in the FBI where the executive management does get a cash bonus if they get gold checkmarks in certain criteria" is the claim made by O'Boyle in the video, as cited by fox below the video.

Truth: who cares? Did anyone care before today how the DoJ maintained gold standards in its field offices? Private sector executives get stock and I know ASAC Hank Schrader isn't walking around with federal treasury certificates. So I don't care whether they use a cash bonus system, I just care that we get through a year without on-site molestations or slippin jimmy lawsuits or whatever fucking KPIs the field offices use. I don't care

[–]SoCo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

Yes this was in the whistle blower report. You can't debunk it by attacking hear say.

[–]Site_rly_sux 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

Link to it. Here, I'll help you. Because you're totally wrong.

https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/hearing-weaponization-federal-government-2

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/friend-testimony.pdf

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-05-17-fbi-whistleblower-testimony-highlights-government-abuse-misallocation-of-resources-and-retaliation-sm.pdf

It is debunked and it's totally lies.

"The FBI dispenses cash bonuses to local field office leadership for meeting certain arbitrary metrics and performance goals."

Absolutely nothing to do with domestic extremism and everything to do with running a local field office

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

You linked to the hearsay testimony...

[–]Site_rly_sux 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

Yes this was in the whistle blower report

Show me what you mean, then.

I believe I have linked and reviewed all such reports, including the original in-person congressional testimony from the mouths of the quoted parties which is quite literally the opposite of hearsay, you moron

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

Morons like hearsay over the actual report.

[–]Site_rly_sux 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

SoCo you keep saying hearsay, do you actually know what the word means?

It means an "out of court" statement by a party not under oath.

I have linked to the in-committee testimony from the sworn-in parties, their direct testimony.

That is not hearsay. I am struggling to understand what you think is happening here.

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

That is not what hearsay means....omg

[–]Site_rly_sux 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Be careful not to reply with any specifics SoCo, because then everyone would see you're talking out your ass

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Hearsay has very specific meanings in legal proceedings....but even in general terms, it has a specific meaning. This isn't some vague debatable thing you can troll an argument out of to hide that you are wrong about such a basic thing.