Idaho GOP slams FBI in new resolution, calls to abolish 'this corrupt government agency' if it 'cannot be reformed'

A new resolution from the Idaho Republican Party slammed the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a "corrupt government agency" and called for its total "abolition" if it "cannot be reformed."

Last Friday and Saturday, members of the Idaho GOP met for its Summer Meeting in Challis, Idaho, in the middle of the state about 200 miles northeast of Boise. During the meeting, members discussed 26 proposed resolutions — including Resolution 2023-52, in which the Idaho Republican State Central Committee formally "condemns" the FBI.

The resolution lists a series of egregious civil rights violations, dating back to the 1950s, which the FBI has allegedly committed. Those alleged violations include:

• "illegally" surveilling, infiltrating, and disrupting civil rights activists in the 1960s;
• targeting "political opponents" and "other individuals considered a threat to national security";
• sieging a cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992, an incident "which resulted in the unnecessary deaths of Vicky and Sammy Weaver as well as a U.S. Marshal due to excessive use of force and revised rules of engagement." A family dog was also killed in the incident;
• engaging in a standoff with the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, in 1993 — a standoff which ended in the violent deaths of 76 people, 25 of whom were children;
• surveilling the presidential campaign of former President Donald Trump;
• "essentially" entrapping the defendants in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D);
• participating in the Jan. 6 incident at the Capitol;
• attempting to intimidate pro-lifers and parents attending local school board meetings;
• monitoring the worship and behaviors of "the Catholic Latin Mass community"; and
• raiding Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence "at the unethical, politically motivated behest of Attorney General Merrick Garland."

These actions have terrorized American citizens, the resolution stated, and undermined the trust that Americans have in their government and federal law enforcement.

Because of the FBI's "long history of misconduct," the Idaho Republican State Central Committee demanded in the resolution that FBI leaders begin implementing significant reform measures so that the agency "operates within the confines of the Constitution and respects the rights of American citizens." If such reforms are impossible, the committee "supports the abolition of this corrupt government agency."

The committee also requests in the resolution that the Idaho GOP chairwoman, Dorothy Moon, transmit the resolution to various politicians and officials, including the state's two Republican U.S. senators, Mike Crapo and James Risch, and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. A spokesperson for the Idaho GOP claimed that the resolution will be transmitted as directed.

"All federal agencies need to be held accountable for their actions, especially when US citizens are harmed or their constitutional rights are violated," Moon said in a statement. "This resolution calls for accountability within the FBI, and reformation to ensure that they respect the rights of American citizens. Our Idaho Republican state central committee voted unanimously to pass this resolution."

The resolution first passed unanimously through an Idaho GOP committee in late April and, according to Moon, passed unanimously at the Summer Meeting as well. All of the resolutions discussed at the Summer Meeting can be read here.

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