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Even as the Department of Justice
Inspector General released a report this week criticizing the politicization of
the department, the FBI on Tuesday raided the homes of a Republican
election official and several of her associates in Mesa County, Colo., in
connection with a dispute about efforts to preserve 2020 election files.
In collaboration with state and
county law enforcement, the FBI raided the homes of Mesa County Clerk and
Recorder Tina Peters, Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert's
former campaign manager Sherronna Bishop, and two others.
The
FBI operations targeting skeptics of the 2020 election results follow the bureau's raids
earlier this month on the homes of conservative guerrilla journalist James
O'Keefe and several of his associates with Project Veritas.
Numerous
elected officials, reporters, and the American Civil Liberties Union have
voiced their concerns about potential
infringement of press freedom by
the FBI and Justice Department in the O'Keefe raid. These fears were
exacerbated when information collected in the raid was published in the New
York Times, which has been defending itself against a lawsuit filed by
Project Veritas.
The DOJ's inspector
general released a report this week
rebuking the department for straying from its own policies on avoiding the
appearance of political bias.
"The
Department faces a challenge in addressing public perception about its
objectivity and insulation from political influence," Justice
Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz wrote in his
report. "The Department's efficacy as the guardian of the rule of law
depends on maintaining the public trust in its integrity, impartiality, and
ability to effectively administer justice."
Horowitz's critique of the department follows Attorney General Merrick
Garland directing the FBI to investigate parents protesting policies of their
children's schools, the DOJ misleading the FISA court in the Russia collusion
case, and declining to prosecute in Hillary Clinton's email probe.
Peters
said her home was raided at 6 a.m. on Tuesday and that FBI agents searched it
for "about three hours" and took all of her electronics, including
her phone.
"[On
Tuesday] large teams of heavily armed federal agents, using a battering ram to
break down doors, raided the homes of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and several
of her friends and colleagues, mostly elderly women in their mid 60s," read a statement
released Wednesday by Peters'
legal defense fund. "This is a level of weaponization of the Justice
Department we haven't seen since the McCarthy era. Thank God Tina wasn't
protesting critical race theory at a Virginia school board meeting or they
might have brought two battering rams."
Bishop,
who is a resident of Garfield County and an associate of Peters, told Mike Lindell
and and cohost Brannon Howse on Lindell TV Wednesday that her home was also raided by the FBI.
She
said she was handcuffed as her 18-year-old daughter was "manhandled"
and agents searched the place, confiscating her phone and other electronics.
Even as the Department of Justice Inspector General released a report this week
criticizing the politicization of the department, the FBI on Tuesday
raided the homes of a Republican election official and several of her
associates in Mesa County, Colo., in connection with a dispute about efforts to
preserve 2020 election files.
In collaboration with
state and county law enforcement, the FBI raided the homes of Mesa County
Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters, Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren
Boebert's former campaign manager Sherronna Bishop, and two others.
The FBI operations
targeting skeptics of the 2020 election results follow the bureau's
raids earlier this month on the homes of conservative guerrilla journalist
James O'Keefe and several of his associates with Project Veritas.
Numerous elected
officials, reporters, and the American Civil Liberties Union have voiced their
concerns about potential infringement of press
freedom by the FBI and Justice
Department in the O'Keefe raid. These fears were exacerbated when information
collected in the raid was published in the New York Times, which has been
defending itself against a lawsuit filed by Project Veritas.
The DOJ's
inspector general released a report this
week rebuking the department for straying from its own policies on avoiding the
appearance of political bias.
"The Department
faces a challenge in addressing public perception about its objectivity and
insulation from political influence," Justice Department Inspector
General Michael Horowitz wrote in his report. "The Department's
efficacy as the guardian of the rule of law depends on maintaining the public
trust in its integrity, impartiality, and ability to effectively administer
justice."
Horowitz's critique of
the department follows Attorney General Merrick Garland directing the FBI
to investigate parents protesting policies of their children's schools, the DOJ
misleading the FISA court in the Russia collusion case, and declining to
prosecute in Hillary Clinton's email probe.
Peters said her home
was raided at 6 a.m. on Tuesday and that FBI agents searched it for "about
three hours" and took all of her electronics, including her phone.
"[On Tuesday]
large teams of heavily armed federal agents, using a battering ram to break
down doors, raided the homes of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and several of
her friends and colleagues, mostly elderly women in their mid 60s," read a
statement released Wednesday by Peters'
legal defense fund. "This is a level of weaponization of the Justice
Department we haven't seen since the McCarthy era. Thank God Tina wasn't
protesting critical race theory at a Virginia school board meeting or they
might have brought two battering rams."
Bishop, who is a
resident of Garfield County and an associate of Peters, told Mike
Lindell and and cohost Brannon Howse on Lindell TV Wednesday that her home was also raided by the FBI.
She said she was
handcuffed as her 18-year-old daughter was "manhandled" and agents
searched the place, confiscating her phone and other electronics.
Bishop said she wasn't
told why her home was being searched, but agents left behind documents relating
to the search warrant that said it was because she was suspected of causing
"intentional damage to a protected computer, wire fraud and conspiracy to
cause damage to a protected computer."
"I don't know
anything about this," she told Howse. "They couldn't explain any of
this. I will tell you why: They were at my home to intimidate me, to shut me
up, because I was using my First Amendment rights to advocate for Tina Peters
on the issue of Dominion [voting machines] and the damage done in our election.
And they'll never be held accountable. Instead they will criminalize this woman
who has stood up."
On Wednesday
afternoon, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and 21st
Judicial District Attorney Dan Rubinstein released a statement in
response to Peters, saying: "Yesterday, the 21st Judicial District
Attorney's Office and the Colorado Attorney General's Office — along with our
FBI partners — conducted authorized enforcement actions in support of an
ongoing investigation into the alleged election system breach in Mesa County.
"We have reviewed
a statement from Tina Peters' legal defense fund that claims a level of force
during the execution of this joint federal-state law enforcement operation. At
no time was force used on Ms. Peters or her home. Ms. Peters was allowed to
move around her home and fix herself breakfast while agents gathered items
before departing. We are issuing this statement to clear up inaccuracies about
what occurred during yesterday's enforcement action. We will continue to
conduct a thorough investigation based on facts and the law, including using
proper law enforcement tools such as the judicially authorized search that was
executed properly in this matter."
The Mesa County
Clerk's office has been under
investigation by the county district attorney since August for allegedly breaching the security of the
county's voting system components. Colorado's Democratic Secretary of State
Jena Griswold cited the alleged breach in ordering the
county to replace all of its voting machines.
Peters has been
accused of aiding the non-employee responsible for taking the software
passwords for the machines and posting them on social media during a limited
access trusted build installation on May 25, according to
Colorado Politics. The installation was
a routine update for election systems, and according to Griswold agents
discovered the county's surveillance system was turned off prior to the update.
The secretary of state
alleges that Peters lied about having the unauthorized person involved in the
voting system update as she attempted to expose alleged election
irregularities.
Peters said in August
at a news conference, "The Mesa County Clerk and Recorder's office
directed her staff to turn off the video surveillance of the voting
equipment," Peters explained that she had copied files on the voting
machines for security before the update was made.
"I was concerned
they were going to delete important election files, I did a backup image before
and after they did that," Peters told the news outlet.
She alleges that the
images showed numerous voter files were removed during the update and her job
was to supervise the files.
In October, Peters was
prohibited by a Mesa County judge from overseeing the county's election in a
ruling on a lawsuit filed by Griswold, according to Colorado Politics.