'Corrupt' FBI Should Be 'Eliminated' For Statement On Texas Reform Temple Hostage Taker: Critics

By FOX News
Posted on 01/16/22 | News Source: FOX News

Critics are slamming the FBI as 'solely focused on destroying the domestic enemies of the Democratic Party'

The FBI is facing backlash on social media after an official said that the Texas temple hostage taker’s demands were "not specifically related to the Jewish community."

"The FBI is now an organization solely focused on destroying the domestic enemies of the Democratic Party," conservative talk radio show Jesse Kelly tweeted Sunday morning. "Any Republican Congress or Presidential candidate who doesn’t loudly proclaim his intention to massively reform or disband this organization should not be considered."

Kelly’s tweet came in response to the Associated Press reporting that FBI officials said "the Texas temple hostage taker's demands were specifically focused on issues not connected to the Jewish community."

"We do believe from our engaging with this subject that he was singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community. But we're continuing to work to find motive," FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno said at a press conference.

He allegedly demanded the release of a Pakistani woman who is imprisoned in Texas on charges of trying to kill American service members in Afghanistan.

The FBI and Justice Department previously described the woman, Aafia Siddiqui, as an "al-Qaida operative and facilitator" at a May 2004 news conference. She is serving an 86-year prison sentence after being convicted in 2010 on charges that she sought to shoot U.S. military members while in Afghanistan two year earlier.