{"id":1628588,"date":"2022-08-31T16:35:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T20:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628588"},"modified":"2022-08-31T16:35:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T20:35:18","slug":"whistleblower-lawyer-fbi-agents-have-lost-confidence-in-director-wray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whistleblower-lawyer-fbi-agents-have-lost-confidence-in-director-wray\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower Lawyer: FBI Agents Have Lost Confidence in Director Wray"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhistleblower-lawyer-fbi-agents-have-lost-confidence-in-director-wray%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628588&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A lawyer representing several unnamed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-fbi\">FBI<\/a> whistleblowers said Wednesday that agents have lost confidence in the bureau\u2019s leadership amid recent controversy.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI and the Department of Justice (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-doj\">DOJ<\/a>) have faced Republican criticism over the raid of former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago, while a number of whistleblowers have provided testimony to GOP lawmakers about alleged political bias at the bureau. Over the past weekend, high-ranking FBI agent\u00a0Timothy Thibault departed the agency amid whistleblower complaints.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m hearing from [FBI personnel] that they feel like the director has lost control of the bureau,\u201d Kurt Siuzdak, a lawyer and former agent who represents FBI whistleblowers, told the Washington Times on Wednesday. \u201cThey\u2019re saying, \u2018How does this guy survive? He\u2019s leaving. He\u2019s got to leave.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Siuzdak <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/aug\/30\/allegations-political-bias-widespread-misconduct-p\/\">told the paper<\/a> that FBI agents have told him they\u2019ve \u201clost confidence\u201d in FBI Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-christopher-wray\">Christopher Wray<\/a>. \u201cAll\u00a0Wray\u00a0does is go in and say we need more training and we\u2019re doing stuff about it, or we will not tolerate it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March,\u00a0Siuzdak <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/24\/bizarre-arrest-of-fbi-agent-spotlights-accusations-of-bureau-corruption\/\">told<\/a> the New York Post that he left the FBI after a 25-year career as an agent due to what he says is a lack of accountability among FBI managers and the bureau\u2019s leadership. He blamed it on political biases held by top managers and leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Whistleblowers,\u00a0Siuzdak told the paper this week, have alleged that Wray didn\u2019t take action on a variety of matters, including sexual harassment claims and agents being forced to sign fake affidavits.\u00a0Trump nominated Wray in 2017 after firing former Director James Comey.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted by The Epoch Times last week about recent whistleblower claims, the FBI issued a statement that the \u201cmen and women of the FBI do their jobs with rigor, objectivity, and a fierce commitment to our mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll FBI employees are held to the highest standards of professional and ethical conduct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lawyer representing several unnamed FBI whistleblowers said Wednesday that agents have lost confidence in the bureau\u2019s leadership amid recent controversy. The FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have faced Republican criticism over the raid of former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago, while a number of whistleblowers have provided testimony to GOP lawmakers about alleged [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}