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   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   
      
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