An FBI Agent Refused To Go Along With The Biden Admin's Anti-'Extremism' Agenda - It Cost Him His Career

https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/09/josh-hurwit-zach-schoffstall-idaho-
patriot-front/

When Zach Schoffstall, a former supervisory senior resident agent in the 
FBI’s Salt Lake City Division, heard his bosses wanted to focus more on 
“domestic terrorism” and “hate crimes,” he tried to work with them. He 
brought the U.S. Attorney in Idaho two hate crime cases. 

The U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) declined to prosecute both. Instead, 
Schoffstall told the Daily Caller, the Attorney for the District of Idaho, 
Josh Hurwit, said he was more interested in appeasing the Biden 
administration by hosting seminars to talk about hate crimes. Later on, 
when the FBI pushed Schoffstall to execute a search warrant against a 
“domestic extremist” group protesting LGBTQ activists, he refused. It 
eventually cost him his career.

“I had been told I brought embarrassment to the bureau because of all the 
pressure that DOJ placed on the bureau to get that warrant,” Schoffstall 
told the Caller.

In June of 2022, 31 Patriot Front members were arrested and charged with 
conspiracy to riot after they were found carrying poles and shields in a 
U-Haul at a Coeur d’Alene “Pride in the Park” event. Schoffstall said the 
group is known to protest BLM, LGBTQ, and anti-Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement (ICE) events.

Pride in the Park generated outrage after it was revealed that Idaho’s 
Satanic Temple chapter and sexualized drag queens would be present at the 
“family-friendly” event. Christian pastors, however, were removed for 
allegedly trespassing. The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office said that 
month that it was investigating whether a performer’s genitals were 
potentially exposed, according to the Idaho Dispatch.

At least one member of Antifa was also arrested at the pride event, Andy 
Ngo reported.

“It would appear from our investigation, [Patriot Font] went to great 
lengths to prevent anyone from committing an act of violence,” Schoffstall 
said. “They would suspend people for talking about it. They’d kick them 
out.”

While he said the group’s message was “pretty stupid,” Schoffstall 
emphasized that he never saw any calls for violence.

Still, the USAO and executive management at the FBI were determined to 
execute a federal search warrant, even pushing Schoffstall to give the 
warrant to an agent “with no knowledge of the investigation.”

After he refused, Schoffstall was removed and transferred to West Virginia 
to work in the Criminal Justice Information Services Division. Despite 
receiving feedback that he performed at an “exemplary level,” Schoffstall 
was dismissed in 2024 because of how he handled the 2022 investigation, he 
said.

The Patriot Front case was transferred to an LGBTQ FBI supervisor in 
Boise, according to Schoffstall. Additionally, Coeur d’Alene’s USAO branch 
manager had a child who was “transitioning” at the time of the Boise Pride 
event, Schoffstall said. He speculated there was a combination of 
“personal and political agendas.”

“You had obviously an [assistant U.S. attorney] with a personal interest 
in the LGBTQ movement,” Schoffstall said. “And you had a brand new U.S. 
attorney who stated he was looking to appease DOJ.”

Josh Hurwit was “looking to appear to be in the good graces of [DOJ],” 
Schoffstall told the Caller. Hurwit was nominated by President Joe Biden, 
and FEC filings show he donated to Biden and Harris’s presidential 
campaigns. He is also a supporter of the LGBTQ movement and attended a 
Boise Pride event in December 2022.

The Biden administration made advancing “racial equity,” a euphemism for 
discarding merit to judge individuals based on their race, a key tenet of 
its executive brand policy. At the DOJ, this manifested in the form of an 
annual “equity action plan.”

Hurwit reportedly told Schoffstall that one of his priorities as attorney 
for the District of Idaho would be combating hate crimes.

Schoffstall told the Caller he notified the USAO of two potential hate 
crimes. In one instance, a white male allegedly assaulted a black man with 
a knife and used racial slurs. In another, a Hispanic man was allegedly 
punched by a white man using racial slurs.

The USAO declined to prosecute both cases. Schoffstall later informed 
Hurwit about the potential hate crimes.

“He said, ‘Oh, I wasn’t aware, but I was more thinking we would do some 
conferences and so forth on the hate crime issues,'” Schoffstall stated.

“I think my takeaway from that was Mr. Hurwit, as the new U.S. Attorney, 
was very much just looking to appear to be in the good graces of main 
justice and parrot whatever they wanted him to parrot, but they weren’t 
necessarily looking for basic criminal prosecutions.”

The Caller reached out to Hurwit’s office for comment on the above but has 
not yet heard back.

Hurwit did establish a COVID-19 Fraud Task Force in 2023 to prosecute 
individuals who exploited various pandemic-related programs for fraud 
purposes. (RELATED: Kamala’s Last-Ditch Pitch To Black Men Is A Dream For 
Scammers, Fraudsters)

The DOJ launched a “United Against Hate” (UAH) initiative under Biden in 
2022 to combat hate crimes. The program partnered nonprofits and USAOs 
with the DOJ and FBI to “combat hate.”

“UAH shares resources to combat hate and encourages discussion between 
representatives from law enforcement, community organizations, and members 
of the public,” a DOJ press release stated.

Rather than prosecute hate crimes, Hurwit cosponsored a UAH event with 
Idaho State University in 2023 which included presentations about how to 
report them. He also participated in an event with the DOJ, FBI, and the 
Idaho nonprofit “Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations,” in 2022.

The City of Coeur d’Alene passed an anti-hate crime ordinance in July 
2024. One of the city’s councilmembers, Christie Wood, is on the board of 
the Task Force involved in the DOJ’s UAH program.

“The new U.S. attorney, you know, told me that he was wanting to parrot 
the priorities of DOJ main, and that included having conferences and at 
least making the appearance they were trying to do something about hate 
crimes,” Schoffstall said.

Hurwit spoke at the Task Force’s banquet in 2024. The group is based in 
Coeur d’Alene and worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to 
bankrupt the white-nationalist Aryan Nations, according to The Spokesman 
Review. Idaho’s USAO also co-sponsored a 2023 UAH event at Boise State 
University with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of the Pacific Northwest.

“I think this goes back to the Patriot Front issue,” Schoffstall told the 
Caller.

“They quickly realized they couldn’t charge these guys with a federal 
crime, right? But I think the facts would indicate that they wanted to 
make the appearance that they were leaning heavily into this and they were 
going to do something about it.”

In the end, the Patriot Front case amounted to almost nothing — the 
group’s leader walked free, and a handful were convicted of “conspiracy to 
riot,” bringing jail sentences of a few days and modest fines. The others 
pled guilty and received even softer punishments.


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