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FOIA Records Appear To Reveal Kash Patel’s Priority Is Tracking Down His Critics

Records appear to reveal that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel has made tracking down his critics a priority.

The FOIA records appear to show Patel directing his team on Feb. 5 to identify social media accounts criticizing him and respond to them.

The directive was contained in a text exchange between Patel and the FBI’s assistant director for public affairs, included in the latest tranche of records released by the government as part of its review of materials related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The directive was contained in a text exchange between Patel and the FBI’s assistant director for public affairs, included in the latest tranche of records released by the government as part of its review of materials related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. (RELATED: ‘Not Going To Take This Laying Down’: Kash Patel Announces Move Against Media Hit Piece)

In the exchange, Patel appeared focused on the reach of posts criticizing him and shared an account with his public affairs assistant director (AD) to examine. The aide characterized the account as an “‘Epstein didn’t kill himself bot account,’” while offering Patel an explanation: “if you are wondering where it’s coming from.”

Patel pushed back on the suggestion that the engagement was largely bot-generated, arguing that the account’s reach represented genuine attention. “277k responses are not bots,” Patel wrote.

He then reminded the aide that he had specifically instructed his team to identify the accounts behind the criticism and engage with them by highlighting the FBI’s accomplishments. “What I asked you and your team to do is find them, and post our record year results back at them all, continuously,” Patel wrote, before asking whether the aide had “been doing that.”

The aide appeared to distinguish between the number of responses and the post’s overall visibility, explaining that the engagement Patel cited did not necessarily translate into meaningful reach. “That’s views – it’s 400 responses; a real visible tweet gets 5x that,” the aide wrote.

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SoCal: Orange County Woman Shocked as FBI Agents Arrest Her For Stealing More Than $400,000 From High School Football Team in Pre-Dawn Raid

The FBI on Thursday morning arrested an Orange County, California, woman for stealing more than $400,000 from a high school football team.

56-year-old Julie Hanway Molina was the treasurer of an Orange County nonprofit and allegedly used more than $400,000 in stolen funds to pay off her mortgage and credit card debt.

Video posted to social media by the California Post shows FBI agents and local law enforcement surrounding Molina’s $1.4 million Aliso Viejo home early Thursday morning and taking her into custody.

The California Post reported that Julie Hanway Molina was stunned as federal agents used a bullhorn and demanded she “come out with your hands up.”

Molina walked out of her front door and looked shocked as federal agents handcuffed her.

Federal prosecutors alleged in the indictment that the scheme to defraud Aliso Niguel High School’s Wolverine Football Club began in 2023 and went through 2025.

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Declassified FBI notes expose discrepancies between Flynn interview, official FBI records

Two FBI agents’ long-secret handwritten notes of their 2017 interview with Mike Flynn have been declassified and highlight fresh discrepancies with the bureau’s official documents that were used to criminally prosecute President Donald Trump’s first national security advisor and pressure him to reach a plea deal nearly a decade ago.

The notes from former Special Agents Peter Strzok and Joe Pientka were released Wednesday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force at a time when federal prosecutors are ramping up a grand jury investigation into whether the FBI’s probe of Russia collusion amounted to a criminal conspiracy to falsely impugn Trump and his supporters during the 2016 election and its aftermath.  

The contemporaneous notes show differences between what the agents wrote down when they interviewed Flynn on Jan. 24, 2017, and what was recorded in the official typed summary of the interview, known as an FD-302, that was entered into the FBI system more than 20 days later and later used to underpin his prosecution.

Flynn was charged in federal court in Washington, D.C., in November 2017 with one count of false statements to the FBI agents investigating allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

According to prosecutors, Flynn “falsely stated and represented” to agents that he “did not ask the [Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak] to refrain from escalating the situation in response to sanctions the United States had imposed against Russia” for alleged 2016 election interference.

On December 20, 2016, the same day that Flynn had at least one call with Kislyak, the Obama administration expelled 35 Russian diplomats and authorized the government to respond to Russian cyber operations. 

But Pientka’s handwritten notes contain a tantalizing notation apparently attributed to Flynn in the interview about his conversation with Kislyak: “Hey, don’t do anything.”

Likewise, the FBI summary report stated that Flynn recalled making four or five calls the day he talked with the Russian diplomat from a Christmas vacation spot in the Dominican Republic. But Strzok’s notes quoted Flynn as saying: “If so, don’t remember. If so, busy place to make phone calls.”

Though Flynn initially pleaded guilty to the charges, he later filed to withdraw his plea under new representation. His new lawyer, Sidney Powell, argued that the FD-302, which formed the basis for the charges against her client, had been altered by Strzok, one of the agents who interviewed Flynn, and Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer who did not attend the interview. 

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FBI’s fifth Most Wanted Fraudster captured after alleged SNAP scam suspect arrested in India

The FBI’s Most Wanted Fraudsters initiative notched its fifth arrest in just three months after authorities in India arrested Manjit Singh Bedi Friday, and the bureau is working to return the alleged SNAP benefits fraud suspect to the United States, Fox News Digital has learned.

The FBI worked with Indian authorities to secure Bedi’s arrest and is actively working to return him to the U.S. to face charges, according to the bureau. 

Bedi’s arrest is the fifth through the FBI’s Most Wanted Fraudsters initiative, which targets fugitives accused of major financial crimes.

Launched in June, the initiative has led to the arrests of five fugitives whom the FBI says are collectively accused of more than $2 billion in alleged fraud after spending nearly 4,000 combined days on the run.

FBI officials say the latest arrest underscores the bureau’s effort to pursue alleged fraudsters who fled overseas in an attempt to evade prosecution.

“Five Most Wanted Fraudsters captured in just three months is a historic success for this initiative,” FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital.

“The days of taking advantage of American taxpayers without consequence are over.”

Federal investigators allege Bedi defrauded the U.S. government out of at least $600,000 through a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) fraud scheme between March 2024 and June 2025, while operating an Asian grocery store in Tacoma, Washington.

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MASSIVE SECURITY NIGHTMARE: FBI Investigates Dark-Web Service Selling 153+ MILLION Driver’s License Scans — Including Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Information for $100

The FBI is investigating what could be one of the most devastating identity-data breaches ever uncovered in North America.

A newly launched dark-web service called “Nexus” claims to be selling actual digital scans of more than 153 million driver’s licenses belonging to people across the United States and Canada, according to cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, who first reported the incident.

This is not merely another database containing stolen names, email addresses, and passwords.

The criminals reportedly obtained digital images of government-issued identification documents, including front-and-back scans and, in some cases, the infrared and ultraviolet images used to authenticate them.

According to cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, the massive collection allegedly includes:

  • More than 153 million driver’s licenses
  • More than 10 million identification cards
  • More than 3 million travel documents and international IDs
  • At least 579,000 medical cards

The database reportedly contains the driver’s license of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, along with identification documents belonging to other high-ranking federal officials, including an assistant director of the FBI. According to the report, the hacker offered Hegseth’s driver’s license for $100.

Krebs discovered that his own Virginia driver’s license was also in the database after the criminals behind Nexus displayed it as a free sample while advertising their service on the Russian-language cybercrime forum Exploit.

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Trump Lawyer Alina Habba Reveals Jack Smith SENT the FBI To Her New Jersey Home To Intimidate Her: “I Was Subpoenaed as a Lawyer — It’s Crazy”

President Trump’s former attorney Alina Habba revealed that disgraced Biden-era Special Counsel Jack Smith sent FBI agents directly to her New Jersey home and subpoenaed her as part of his sprawling investigation targeting Trump and his legal team.

Habba dropped the bombshell during an appearance on The Benny Show while discussing House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan’s criminal referral of Smith to the Justice Department.

“Jack Smith sent the FBI to my house. What are you talking about? You don’t even know that,” Habba told host Benny Johnson.

“The FBI came knocking on my door in New Jersey. I mean, people don’t know that,” she continued. “But yeah, I was subpoenaed as a lawyer. It’s crazy.”

Habba said Smith wanted to question her as part of what she described as one of the anti-Trump “hoaxes.”

Johnson appeared stunned that Smith’s team would send federal agents to the private home of one of President Trump’s attorneys.

Habba added that she generally avoided discussing the episode publicly because she did not want the attention.

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Mistress of Imprisoned Ex-FBI Special Agent Tried to Report His Crimes with China and the Bidens – Now She’s Dead

Allison Guerriero, FBI Agent Charles McGonigal’s ex-mistress turned whistleblower, wrote the following on her Substack about the OIG politely declining to investigate her claims that former top Biden FBI Executive, Charles McGonigal was involved in fraudulent activities with China as well as with Europeans. (emphasis added)

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The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) officially declined to open a case into the FBI’s handling of matters involving Charles McGonigal — and instead punted the whole thing back to, wait for it… the FBI.

Hmmm so the FBI is involved in some alleged crimes and corruption? What better agency to investigate this than the FBI!

The jokes just write themselves…

Yes, really.

It is my belief that I witnessed deeply troubling conduct by former senior FBI official Charles McGonigal. I reported that conduct through the appropriate channels, at great personal risk. It is also my belief that this conduct involved potential espionage, uncharged sanctions violations, and serious financial irregularities.

So naturally, the agency I believe helped cover it up is now being asked to investigate… itself.

This is like reporting your house was robbed, and the police say:

“Don’t worry, the suspect you named is a retired cop — he’ll drop by later and see if you’re missing anything.”

Honestly, I expected the OIG to decline and I was looking forward to posting it solely for the jokes. Every whistleblower I’ve ever spoken to receives some version of the same polite form letter. It’s like a “thank you for your bravery” Hallmark card, sealed with a bureaucratic shrug.

To be clear: it is my belief that this isn’t about one bad actor. I believe this is systemic. The same system that failed to act on credible information is now in charge of reviewing itself — and we’re all supposed to pretend that’s accountability.

It’s not.

But I’m still here. I’m still speaking out. And I’m still fighting — despite the retaliation, the legal bills, and the silence from the very institutions that were supposed to protect whistleblowers like me.

If you’d like to help me stay in this fight, please consider supporting my legal defense and basic expenses here:

http://www.GiveSendGo.com/AllisonGuerriero

And you can follow me on X (formerly Twitter), where I post updates, public filings, and the kind of truths that make federal agencies squirm:

Thanks for reading. More to come.

— Allison Guerriero

(See the letter from the OIG at Ms. Guerriero’s Substack) 

Ms. Guerriero was correct.  It turns out FBI’s finest – Charles McGonigal – was providing secret information to China related to Hunter Biden’s business in China and was never convicted under the Biden Administration.  This is reported from the same entity that recently turned down a review of Ms. Guerriero’s complaint into the same matter.

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Mistress of Ex-FBI Special Agent Who Investigated Trump-Russia Collusion Found Dead in Her Florida Home After Flurry of Mysterious X Posts

The alleged mistress of the ex-FBI special agent who investigated Trump-Russia collusion was found dead in her Florida home, her family said on Facebook.

Allison Guerriero, 52, was found dead in her Boynton Beach, Florida, home last Thursday evening after firing off a flurry of mysterious X posts.

“I turned in two time convicted traitor, former head of Counterintelligence for FBI, Charles McGonigal. I’ve been sick with illnesses and injuries for 8 years,” Guerriero’s X bio reads.

Guerriero posted 75 X posts last Thursday before she was found dead in her home later that night.

According to The Daily Mail, Guerriero’s father said the circumstances surrounding his daughter’s death are still a mystery.

“We really don’t know yet. We’re waiting to get access to the autopsy report. I believe they’re going to issue a death certificate within the next day so we can get her home and have her put to rest,” William Guerriero told The Daily Mail.

“It could have been an accident. She could have slipped. It could have been anything. We’re waiting for the death certificate so we know what happened,” he said.

Boynton Beach police do not believe foul play was involved.

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Microsoft knows your entire browser history — and it can send it to the FBI

Virtual Private Networks are meant to shield your browsing history from all manner of prying eyes, including your internet service provider, your workplace or school, and even potential hackers. If you use a VPN with your Windows PC, though, I have some bad news: Microsoft has a full record of your browsing habits, and it can even report your activity to the FBI.

According to court documents released on July 1, a 19-year-old young man working with the cyber criminal group known as Scattered Spider was caught hacking into a computer system belonging to a luxury jewelry store. While inside, the hacker stole company data and demanded $8 million in cryptocurrency for ransom. Ultimately, the jewelry store kicked the hacker out of its system without paying the ransom, and the perpetrator was later arrested and charged.

It’s a simple case of conspiracy, digital intrusion, and fraud … but there’s a catch.

The hacker’s identity should have been hidden from the feds.

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DOJ Weaponization Working Group Drops Explosive Report Exposing FBI’s Outrageous Spy Campaign Against Traditional Catholics Under Biden Regime

The Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group released a bombshell report detailing how the Biden-era FBI expanded an investigation of one dangerous criminal suspect into a disturbing intelligence operation targeting Catholic priests, traditional Catholic churches and constitutionally protected religious beliefs.

The 231-page Richmond Domain Perspective Report concludes that personnel responsible for the disgraceful intelligence product have now been removed.

“The FBI personnel involved in the creation of the Richmond Catholic Memo have been terminated from their positions,” the report states.

The Justice Department did not publicly identify the terminated personnel.

The DOJ announced Thursday that investigators reviewed more than 1,800 pages of internal emails, intelligence assessments and investigative records concerning the FBI Richmond Field Office’s infamous January 2023 memorandum.

The report reveals that FBI personnel:

  • Opened investigative “Guardian” assessments on two Catholic priests.
  • Examined the priests’ travel and communications.
  • Pulled airline and credit-card information.
  • Searched one priest’s phone at Boston Logan International Airport.
  • Followed that priest from the airport to a private residence.
  • Conducted surveillance outside another residence associated with him.
  • Proposed cultivating Catholic clergy and church leaders as “tripwires” and sources.
  • Considered elevating the Richmond memo into a national intelligence product for senior FBI leadership.
  • Continued revising the project even after FBI headquarters ordered the original memo removed from bureau systems.

The FBI eventually closed both assessments after finding no national-security threat or evidence linking the priests to violent extremism.

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