In recent congressional testimony, a former FBI intelligence analyst revealed further details about the bureau’s attempts to disproportionately persecute anyone who even attended the peaceful protest in Washington D.C. on January 6th, 2021, from bank account surveillance efforts to pressuring local field offices into launching investigations.
Just The News reports that George Hill, a military veteran and former analyst for the National Security Agency (NSA), testified before the House Judiciary Committee in a transcribed deposition. In his testimony, he revealed that FBI leadership in Washington tried to pressure agents in Boston to open up additional criminal investigations into at least 140 people who did nothing more than take a bus ride to D.C. on January 6th. The Boston agents, Hill said, refused to do so due to the lack of criminality on the parts of the 140 people in question.
“There’s no evidence of a crime being committed here,” Hill said in an interview. “We cannot open up preliminary investigations on someone for using a financial instrument in the District. And so they pushed back, and Boston did not take any action on those names. Getting on a bus and participating in a political rally is not predication for a crime or a preliminary investigation.”
Hill also revealed that the FBI mined the banking data of thousands of Americans just to find out who was in D.C. on January 6th, without court authority and despite no probable cause to do so. In addition, Hill says that the bureau has refused to release key video footage from the protest that day since the footage could identify undercover agents who had infiltrated the crowd.