According to a whistleblower who testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government this week, the FBI instructed him to divide up domestic terrorism cases to artificially inflate the number of cases, reports said on Friday.

Fox News reported that FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle, who worked at the Kansas City field office, stated that the FBI instructed him to divide a single domestic terrorism case into “four different cases.” This allowed the FBI to approach Congress and claim, “look at all the domestic terrorism we’ve investigated,” O’Boyle said. He added that dividing cases in this way was done to artificially inflate the number of cases investigated by the FBI.

“Where, really, I was working on one case,” O’Boyle continued. “But, the FBI can then say, well, he actually had four, and so we need you to give us more money because look at how big of a threat all this domestic terrorism is.”

FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle also said the FBI made him divide one domestic terrorism case into "four different cases," in what he described as an effort by the bureau to be able to show Congress an influx of domestic terrorism cases https://t.co/LVB2oB6GZI

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In addition, the whistleblower disclosed that the FBI established a threat tag to handle the disclosure of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center, which was subsequently refocused to target pro-life advocates. The THREATSCOTUS2022 tag was established to handle threats against Supreme Court justices, which are a federal offense. He added that the threat tag was then shifted and “began focusing on pro-life adherence.”

“When this threat tag came out, it was like, why are you focusing on pro-life people?” O’Boyle noted in a transcript of an interview, which Fox News reviewed. “It’s pro-choice people who are the ones protesting or otherwise threatening violence in front of Supreme Court justices’ houses.”

Fox News noted further:

After the ruling, O’Boyle said he felt the use of the threat tag was “legitimate” because “threatening a Supreme Court official is a violation of federal crime.” The FBI has used such tags to monitor similar cases on a large scope.

But O’Boyle said this threat tag “shifted and began focusing in on pro-life adherence.”

“When this threat tag came out, it was like, why are you focusing on pro-life people?” the agent told the panel, according to a transcript. “It’s pro-choice people who are the ones protesting or otherwise threatening violence in front of Supreme Court justices’ houses.”

O’Boyle said the FBI wanted agents to “look into” what the bureau called “pregnancy centers.”

“Like, the antithesis to abortion clinics. Whatever those are called,” he said, adding he was confused as to why agents would need to “talk to these people about threats.”

“If somebody is going to be getting threatened, it would be them, because people thought that abortion was suddenly outlawed, which, that wasn’t the case either, it was just remanded back to the states,” he said, claiming that the assignment “struck me as odd at the time.”

When asked if he felt the bureau was creating and employing threat tags in a politicized way, O’Boyle noted without hesitation: “I do.”

According to O’Boyle, the FBI took retaliatory action against him after he made protected disclosures to Congress. After his suspension, O’Boyle was not allowed to retrieve his personal belongings from a Virginia-based company that was contracted by the FBI for storage. O’Boyle claimed that he spent around $10,000 to retrieve his personal belongings from the FBI storage.