‘Politically motivated’: Former agent confirms FBI hirings under Comey had little basis in qualifications

The FBI under Barack Obama and Joe Biden essentially was turned into an anti-Trump operation, evidence shows.

Case in point: During the 2020 election officials there interfered in the vote by claiming, even though they knew their allegations were wrong, that Biden family scandals documented in a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden were “Russian disinformation.”

The FBI advised publications to suppress that information.

A subsequent polling showed that had reporting ordinarily described the scandals, the election outcome could have been different.

Now there’s been confirmation that under James Comey’s direction during that time period, agents were hired not based on ability but based on “political leanings.”

That’s according to a report at Just the News, which described how Bassem Youssef, retired, who ran the FBI’s Communications Analysis Unit from 2004 until 2014, explained he warned senior officials about possible civil liberties abuses in surveillance efforts.

But neither Comey nor the White House took his warning seriously, he said.

“When I worked in the bureau, in field offices, and then eventually at FBI Headquarters, where I oversaw the Communications Analysis Unit that there was already a process where you could see that from the highest levels of the FBI, meaning the director’s office and the executive assistant directors, that there is a soft recruitment of people of like mind that didn’t necessarily meet the requirements for the job, but they were recruited because of their leaning, which was, in fact, very politically motivated,” he charged.

Reports this week confirmed that Trump and his supporters were targeted by at least four FBI counterintelligence agendas that subjected Trump, his associates, and hundreds of innocent people to privacy-invading schemes.

The current FBI chief, Kash Patel, has been working to uncover and expose what went on.

He has subjected the bureau’s spying operations to a full exam in recent months, and Just the News was able to report that the Government Accountability Office estimated the FBI began 1,200 investigations of politicians, journalists, religious leaders, academics and other potential political opponents.

Youssef confirmed during the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show he thinks the failure of the FBI to learn from former intel collection mistakes was at least partly because the FBI hired employees based on their politics.

In fact, sources with access to the FBI records have confirmed to the publication that the FBI expanded its counterterrorism and counterintelligence operations after the Muslim terror attack on America on Sept. 11, 2001, and those units “eventually became hijacked by politics and led agents to deploy tools meant for terrorists and spies against everyday Americans in a bid to find a way to bring criminal cases against Trump,” the report said.

Youssef confirmed, “It tells you that the FBI, unfortunately, during the previous administration has cast a wide dragnet that got so many people who were not involved in any way. And I hate to use that word, but it’s really framing those people for some kind of malfeasance when there really wasn’t in the first place.”

Youssef said he had concerns about surveillance, and talked with Comey about them, and was promised a review.

However, he said the FBI at the time actually expanded its reach, and “authority was given to people who had no business in the Intel world.”

Comey, in fact, once spread on social media a message he said he found in seashells. That was the message to “86,” president No. “47,” or Donald Trump.