An FBI whistleblower told congressional investigators that the D.C. field office pushed local offices to open criminal investigations into Americans based solely on financial transactions Bank of America tracked and voluntarily provided to the bureau, according to testimony reviewed by The Federalist.
According to the material reviewed, Hill testified that on either Jan. 7 or 8, 2021, Bank of America provided the FBI's D.C. field office a "Huge list" of individuals who used Bank of America credit or debit cards in D.C., or the surrounding Maryland and Virginia areas, on Jan. 5, 6, or 7, 2021.
The D.C. field office, which oversaw the Jan. 6 investigation, distributed the Bank of America list internally to field offices throughout the country, Hill testified in his deposition.
The SSA stood firm in his refusal, as did the local ASAC, Hill said, even though the D.C. field office then threatened the ASAC that it would escalate the matter to the office's special agent in charge, or SAC. The D.C. field office then pushed the office's SAC to open investigations into the targeted Americans.
While Boston's FBI office refused to open the requested cases, Hill stressed that "What I don't know and could not give accurate testimony to," was whether the D.C. field office "Took it upon themselves to open cases."
Hill's deposition testimony raises another troubling possibility: that one or more of the other 54 local FBI field offices either complied with the D.C. field office's initial request to open investigations into innocent Americans, or later capitulated when the D.C. office escalated the request up the chain of command to the ASAC and then the SAC. The only reason the Boston FBI office did not launch investigations into the Bank of America customers flagged by the D.C. field office is that the Boston office's leadership stood firm against the pressure.
The only reason we know about the D.C. field office's attempt to target innocent Americans based on Bank of America's data mining gun owners who happened to be in the greater D.C. area on Jan. 5, 6, or 7, 2021, is that a whistleblower came forward.
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