Rep. Matt Gaetz on Monday reiterated that Congress must cut funding for the FBI if there will be any serious attempt to get the nation’s leading law enforcement agency back to its main purpose: protecting, instead of persecuting, the American people.
In an interview with One America News, the Fort Walton Beach Republican noted that the recent testimony of FBI whistleblowers only confirms how off-track the agency has become.
“The exact same people and task forces that have been weaponized against our fellow Americans were the ones set up to go after terrorists in the caves of Central Asia,” said Gaetz.
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Now, instead, they hunt down pro-life Catholics and parents protesting local school board meetings, he added.
“Those people are less focused now on the terrorism threat because [FBI Director] Christopher Wray wants you to believe that every neighbor with a MAGA flag, or even an American flag if it’s the Betsy Ross flag, that they’re all terrorists and dangerous,” said Gaetz.
“I have a far higher view of our fellow Americans. I think the American people are, for the most part, loving, kind, patriotic. It’s our government that is trying to sow this discord.”
The current FBI has stood crime-fighting on its head, said Gaetz. Agents seek out the target and then try to find evidence of a crime, while disregarding any facts that undermine their quest to get whomever they are after.
“In that way, the FBI has broken bad on us in a lot of cases,” the congressman added.
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Gaetz said people should not take that as an indictment of “front-line” agents who operate in America’s heartland.
“It’s Washington where the rot runs deep,” he added, “and that’s where we have to just cut the lifeblood off to some of these authorities. We have to cut the funding.”
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