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A federal agent stands in front of property connected to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska as members of the New York Police Department patrol the area, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, in New York. More than half of Republican voters believe the … more > FBI agents violated their own rules at least 747 times in 18 months while conducting investigations involving politicians, candidates, religious groups, the news media and others, according to a 2019 FBI audit obtained by The Washington Times.
The internal review revealed a ratio of slightly more than two “compliance errors” per each sensitive investigative matter (SIM) reviewed by FBI auditors. These errors involved things like agents failing to get approval from senior FBI officials to start an investigation, agents failing to document a necessary legal review occurring before they opened an investigation and agents failing to tell prosecutors what they were doing, among other things.
Cato Institute senior fellow Patrick Eddington uncovered the audit in litigation his organization brought against the FBI for access to government records. He said the audit reveals how far “off-the-chain” FBI field offices have strayed.
“When they open investigations without authorization, to me that’s about as radical as it gets,” Mr. Eddington said.
The FBI auditors reviewed a small portion of the bureau’s total portfolio. They studied 353 cases involving sensitive investigative matters — fewer than half of the total number of such cases — and found rules broken 747 times between Jan. 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019.
Sensitive investigative matters are actions that may impact constitutional rights because they involve people engaged in such things as politics, governance, religious expression and the news media.
A majority of the cases studied, 191, involved domestic public officials. Dozens of cases involved religious organizations or their prominent members and dozens of cases involving domestic political organizations and individuals. […]
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