East Volusia News

The FBI is no longer following its own rule and doing its job, a former FBI agent who has since turned to whistleblower in the Jan. 6 investigations said during a two-part interview on The Jenny Beth Show.

Part one of the interview was posted to YouTube on July 12 while part two premiered on the video-sharing platform on Friday, July 14.

"From my perspective, the way the FBI has departed from its rules it's not keeping with the system that it’s supposed to be protecting," Friend said.

There is a difference between the job of local police and the FBI Friend said.

"The police exist in your town to bring crime down; the FBI exists to bring the crime numbers up," Steve Friend. "Say, you have a case of four bad guys that are working together…well, why would I open one case with four bad guys? I should open four cases with four bad guys. Those are the types of number games that go on for the FBI and it creates a false statistical narrative."

Friend told podcast host Jenny Beth Martin that the structure of the FBI depends on recruiting agents who aspire to produce the numbers they want, or will stay quiet to keep their job.

"I think there is an element of we’re going to make an example our of [FBI whistleblowers]," Friend said.

Friend worked as a special agent for the FBI for more than eight years, working on more than 200 violent crime cases during that tenure. He also served five years on an FBI SWAT team and an additional five years as a local law enforcement officer in Georgia. When Friend shared his concerns to superior officers in the FBI following the January 6 event, he was quickly brought out of active duty after refusing to drop the subject.

Martin is the Honorary Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action, which is headquartered in Cherokee County, Georgia. She was named one of 2010's "Most Influential Leaders" by Time Magazine. She attended Reinhardt University in Wales, Georgia, as well as the University of Georgia.