The surprising appointment of the hard-hitting critics of the protesters on January 6 to lead the FBI's Washington Field Office burned the conservative political world and placed new FBI director Kash Patel on the fire boundaries from a group of voices of Donald J. Trump.
News was broken for the first time on April 4th In the New York Times Stephen J. Jensen has been appointed the most powerful assistant director of the FBI's 56 field offices. Conservative critics and critics who had hoped the FBI would be furious and reformed under President Trump, plunged the news of Jensen's appointment with all his might.
Jensen said, “We have built a structure for the January 6th witch hunt.”
After the Times published an article on Jensen's appointment, Gateway critic They called it “fake news.” On April 6th, Blaze News confirmed Jensen's appointment to the major FBI job. Discussions on social media have intensified whether Jensen's appointment is authentic and why the FBI has not made a formal announcement of the promotion. Such major appointments are usually announced by news releases.
“He was a key figure in the promotion of fear in the country, according to previous testimony in the House.” Tom Fitton said, President of Judicial Watch. “He was one of the key instigators who treated them all as terrorists and pushed the story in the bureaucracy that required these people to be imprisoned and ferretted.”
The FBI's National Press Office declined to comment on Jensen's appointment and featured Blaze News on the Washington Field Office homepage.
Jensen was linked to some of the FBI's worst rights abuses, according to Mike Howell's president Surveillance project.
“Steve Jensen shouldn't work for the FBI,” Howell told Blaze News. “He was on the edge of some of the worst abuses in the FBI. The coordinated pushback to those calling him is a shame, but he had to go back to the important point already.
“For example, at first, Jensen wasn't promoted,” Howell said. “It turned out to be clearly wrong. Now we're in the stage of people pretending that he's promoted to be a good thing.”
George Hill, retired FBI national security intelligence supervisor, called JensenThomas de Torquemada J6 round-up of “domestic terrorists.” “Torquemada was the first Grand Inquisitor of Spain in the 15th century.
In testimony before the Federal Government's subcommittee on weaponization, Hill said he attended a regular conference call led by Jensen and former FBI assistant director Stephen Dantoono.
New FBI Director Kash Patel.
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“You know, this is a conversation that took place almost two years ago,” Hill said in a private, transcribed interview. “But the Philadelphia office said, “Well, there's no evidence of violent or rebel tendencies you know,” Steve Jensen said, “I know, I don't give you a blank space, they're god-*** terrorists and we'll end them all.”
Hill said as chief of the FBI headquarters' domestic terrorist operations division, Jensen held regular conference calls that began two days after the January 6 protest.
“This conference call, everyone can dial it,” Hill said. April 7th episode “Kyle Serafin Show.” “This is in every fusion center where police chiefs dial in. Usually, there are members of the state police who are involved, and all of these people have direct access to the governor's staff, the mayor's staff.
“So this information was this story of how our country fell, twice a day, in the enforcers of all states and all mayors' residences across the country,” Hill said.
Jensen “created a structure for the January 6th witch hunt,” Hill said. “After January 6th, he had a ready-made buffet of endless domestic terrorists and he went to them very aggressively.”
“It's absolutely vulnerable.”
Hill was the subject of X's blowback over his testimony. He said he had never been questioned before the news that Jensen would surface on April 4th.
“What my name is about to be dragged over is a shift from the fact that Stephen Jensen was the organizer of the entire J6 Roundup by the indictment from the fact that it is already in irresistible evidence,” Hill said.
Email text circulated on April 6th on April 6th Blaze News We have confirmed that Jensen has been appointed head of the Washington Field Office. An email on March 28 said Jensen would take on the role on March 31.
“This came quite unexpectedly as I was recently asked to serve as the acting director of the National Security department, but in a statement released by Philip Bates, acting assistant director of WFO's mission support department, Jensen wrote: “They are the driving force behind who I am and how I am leading, and are updating their commitment to these principles as I move into this new leadership role at WFO.”
Jensen has been with the FBI for 19 years and most recently headed the domestic terrorist operations division at the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC from April 2020 to October 2021 as a special agent in the FBI field office in Columbia, South Carolina.
News of Jensen's promotion to run the Washington Field office thundered across conservative social media.
“By defending Steve Jensen's promotion, we will call for a scam that will try to suck you into Kash,” defendant Jan. 6. William Pope wrote on x. “The man cornered the J6ers, destroyed American families, and labeled them as American terrorists. It's absolutely vulnerable.”
The Pope added: “Jensen gets a gold mine. The J6ers get a shaft.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation Member SWAT team will patrol the Longworth House Office Building on January 6, 2021.Photo by Elin Scott/Bloomberg by Getty Images
Howell said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the powerful House Committee on Judicial, was behind the pressure to nominate Jensen for the FBI post. Jordan denied the claim through an unnamed spokesman. Journalist Brena Morello.
Steve Friend, a former special agent for the FBI, was suspended without a salary after raising concerns about the level of FBI forces that were used to close out Jensen's appointment, even the Jan. 6 suspect, who called Jensen's appointment a “disappointment,” and even the misdemeanor suspect.
“Stephen Jensen exposed himself as a partisan when he armed the FBI to persecute Americans on January 6th,” a friend told Blaze News.
Defendant Jennifer Heinle on January 6th protest Jensen's promotion, tells us that the FBI “completely destroyed my life.”
“I was one of the so-called terrorists and he didn't care,” she wrote to X.
Fitton said he is suffering from a lack of previous discussion about reforms between the FBI and the Department of Justice.
“All I know, he's a good guy and we all misunderstand that,” Fitton said.
Dun Bongino, the deputy FBI director, has responded to the apparently growing panic over change, but without direct reference to the controversy, sought continuous tolerance as the process unfolds.
“If you see something happening, and the whole story is not published and all the underlying facts are not published, it may seem counterintuitive to our reform agenda. I promise you, it's not an accident,” he posted to X on Sunday evening.
“I find myself asking that 'trust in me' is a waste of time. See what happens, demand results, keep an eye on the “trap” of the story, and combine the puzzle pieces. What we are doing makes sense.
Editor's Note: This article has been updated to include a statement from Dun Bongino, the Deputy Director of the FBI.
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