Another former FBI agent has come forward to reveal that there has been a “drastic” shift within the bureau away from its traditional federal law enforcement roles to one of political weaponization.
Nicole Parker, a former special agent, told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo that potential whistleblowers inside the bureau are “terrified” of trying to publicly hold officials accountable.
“You have people that are seeing things that they do not agree with, but they are terrified to speak up, Maria. They are terrified,” she said. “Look at what they [FBI] did to some of these whistleblowers.”
Fox Business adds:
In May, the House Judiciary Committee and Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released a report that revealed new whistleblower testimony from several current and former FBI employees, exposing the “abuses and misconduct in the FBI.”
The report said that the FBI whistleblowers described the FBI’s alleged “retaliatory conduct” against them “after making protected disclosures about what they believed in good faith to be wrong conduct.”
Parker blasted her former employer, telling the host that “if you speak up, they’re going to find just anything on you, and they are going to rip you to shreds – and that’s terrifying to anyone.”
Continuing, she offered a solution as to how the bureau could react moving forward.
“Why don’t we humbly, as an agency, the FBI, look back and say, you know what? Maybe we should humbly listen and let’s see, is there something that we could fix?” Parker, who began her career with the bureau in 2010 under then-President Barack Obama, explained.
“The trickle-down effect started at the top, and it came all the way down to the field offices,” she said.
‘While serving in the Miami division, she and her colleagues observed significant changes within the FBI following the initiation of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation, commonly referred to as Operation Crossfire Hurricane.
“That’s when it really came to light,” Parker told Bartiromo.
“The FBI shifted. The trajectory of the FBI, its mission seemed to have stayed the same on paper, but it changed drastically,” she noted further as she described the evolution of the “politicized” bureau. She said “agents everywhere” saw exactly what was going on.
“All of us were dragged through the mud when we had nothing to do with it,” she added.
As the backlash against the bureau following the politicized attack on Trump became widespread, Parker said it became increasingly more difficult to do her job and recruit sources.
“It made it difficult to do my job when I’m trying to recruit sources, for instance, and they don’t even trust me,” she said. “They’re like, ‘Are you one of the good agents or one of the political agents?'”
