{"id":1665726,"date":"2022-09-30T06:04:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T10:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1665726"},"modified":"2022-09-30T06:05:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T10:05:40","slug":"fbi-singles-out-conservative-agents-in-purge-retaliates-against-whistleblowers-gop-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-singles-out-conservative-agents-in-purge-retaliates-against-whistleblowers-gop-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Singles Out Conservative Agents in \u2018Purge,\u2019 Retaliates Against Whistleblowers: GOP Lawmakers"},"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\">24<\/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%2Ffbi-singles-out-conservative-agents-in-purge-retaliates-against-whistleblowers-gop-lawmakers%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=1665726&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>House Judiciary Republicans are asking a senior FBI official to testify in a transcribed interview, alleging the official has signed off on many \u201cadverse personnel actions\u201d against conservative agents, saying they were being targeted in a \u201cpurge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their allegations concern Jennifer Leigh Moore, the executive assistant director of the FBI\u2019s human resources branch, according to a Sept. 29\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JudiciaryGOP\/status\/1575585512915537920\">letter<\/a> from Reps. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-jim-jordan\">Jim Jordan<\/a> (R-Ohio), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-darrell-issa\">Darrell Issa<\/a> (R-Calif.), and Mike Johnson (R-La.). Jordan is the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is beyond outrageous,\u201d the House Judiciary GOP wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers said they found out how conservative agents were being targeted while investigating \u201cserious allegations of abuse and misconduct within the senior leadership of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the course of this investigation, we have received protected whistleblower disclosures that the FBI is engaging in a \u2018purge\u2019 of employees with conservative views by revoking their security clearances and indefinitely suspending these employees,\u201d the lawmakers wrote.<\/p>\n<p>They added, \u201cMany of the formal notices for these adverse personnel actions have been signed by you,\u201d referring to Moore.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, the three lawmakers allege that Moore has \u201cretaliated against at least one whistleblower who has made protected disclosures to Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/09\/25\/GettyImages-1400656747-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) listens during a House Judiciary Committee mark up hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington on June 2, 2022. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>That whistleblower shared information with the House Judiciary Committee about the Justice Department\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/justice-department-to-roll-out-measures-protecting-school-staff-from-parents-threatening-violence_4032063.html\">decision<\/a> last year to create a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/whistleblowers-allege-fbi-investigated-parents-opposed-to-school-covid-19-policies_4462127.html\">threat tag label<\/a>, to track cases of parents who protested at school board meetings, Jordan said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fbi-allegedly-engaging-purge-conservative-employees-retaliating-against-whistleblowers-jim-jordan\">interview<\/a> with Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce a whistleblower makes a protected disclosure, an agency is prohibited from retaliating against the employee for that disclosure by taking or failing to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Judiciary Republicans are asking a senior FBI official to testify in a transcribed interview, alleging the official has signed off on many \u201cadverse personnel actions\u201d against conservative agents, saying they were being targeted in a \u201cpurge.\u201d Their allegations concern Jennifer Leigh Moore, the executive assistant director of the FBI\u2019s human resources branch, according to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"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-1665726","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\/1665726","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\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665726\/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=1665726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}