{"id":2287986,"date":"2024-07-02T13:18:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whistleblower-report-corroborates-fbi-abuses\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T13:25:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:25:29","slug":"whistleblower-report-corroborates-fbi-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whistleblower-report-corroborates-fbi-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower Report Corroborates FBI Abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/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-report-corroborates-fbi-abuses%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=2287986&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>The House Judiciary Committee received a new whistleblower complaint corroborating reports of political retaliation within the FBI.\u200b The complaint,\u200d submitted by an anonymous supervisory special agent (SSA), detailed instances\u2064 of colleagues experiencing political retribution and claimed that the whistleblower themselves had been retaliated against. The whistleblower witnessed the FBI&#8217;s Security \u200cDivision improperly suspending or revoking employees&#8217; security clearances based\u2062 on\u200b political views, medical views, or ethnicity. The special agent who submitted the\u200b complaint was suspended last year after serving as an SSA since 2018.\u2064 The whistleblower also \u200doutlined cases of retaliation, including \u200dthe suspension of Staff Operations Specialist Marcus Allen, whose security clearance\u2064 was revoked\u200c over protected disclosures related to FBI Director Christopher Wray&#8217;s\u2063 testimony following the\u2064 January 6th turmoil. The whistleblower accused acting deputy assistant director Jeffrey Veltri and acting \u200bsection chief Dena Perkins\u2064 of colluding to\u200b suspend Allen&#8217;s clearance despite \u2063an initial investigator finding no issues with his allegiance to the United States. Allen, who had been suspended without pay for more than two years, was denied requests to seek other work or accept \u2062public charity while waiting for the Justice Department\u2062 inspector general to review his case. The whistleblower \u2064behind these complaints had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-jordan-fbi-purging-conservative-employees-retaliating-against-whistleblowers\/\" title=\"Jim Jordan: FBI Purging Conservative Employees, Retaliating Against Whistleblowers\">made protected disclosures<\/a> about superiors&#8217; misconduct last summer and faced discipline as a result.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The House Judiciary Committee received a new whistleblower complaint Tuesday morning corroborating previous reports of political retaliation within the FBI. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday, attorneys sent a complaint for an anonymous supervisory special agent (SSA) to the Justice Department inspector general and the department\u2019s Office of Professional Responsibility. The complainant, who is a registered Democrat and has won awards as an agent for work against child trafficking, reports witnessing colleagues within the FBI experience political retribution. The whistleblower also claimed to have been retaliated against. The complaints were submitted to the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government and shared with The Federalist.<\/p>\n<p>According to the disclosures, the latest whistleblower \u201cwitnessed firsthand as an SSA how the FBI\u2019s Security Division improperly suspended or revoked employees\u2019 security clearances whose political views, medical views, or even ethnicity were questioned by Security Division leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outcomes of clearance investigations and adjudications were often pre-determined by the Division\u2019s acting Deputy Assistant Director and the acting Section Chief responsible for security clearance investigations and adjudications, who often overruled line staff and even dictated the wording of documents in the clearance process,\u201d the disclosure read. <\/p>\n<p>The special agent in question was suspended last year after serving half a decade as an SSA since 2018. Protected disclosures were particularly made against Jeffrey Veltri, the acting deputy assistant director of the FBI\u2019s Security Division, and Dena Perkins, the acting section chief for the Security Integrity and Investigations Section. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSSA Client quickly discovered that acting [Section Chief] Perkins and acting [Deputy Assistant Director] Veltri were often inappropriately involved in individual clearance cases throughout those cases\u2019 time in [the Security Integrity and Investigations Section], from referrals to investigations to adjudications and appeals,\u201d the disclosure read. \u201cPerkins and Veltri would frequently make initial judgments about cases based on their own prejudices, then would refuse to move from their first impressions \u2014 regardless of what facts an investigation uncovered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latest disclosures outline myriad cases in which the whistleblower witnessed retaliation, including the clearance investigation of Staff Operations Specialist Marcus Allen.<\/p>\n<p>A Marine combat veteran who was suspended without pay for more than two years, Allen had his security clearance <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/04\/us-news\/fbi-agent-regains-security-clearance-wins-back-pay-after-retaliation-over-capitol-riot-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revoked<\/a> over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-report-reveals-what-fbi-did-to-employees-who-spoke-out-against-politicized-rot\/\" title=\"FBI punished employees who spoke out against &#039;politicized rot&#039;: House report.\">making protected disclosures<\/a> related to FBI Director Christopher Wray\u2019s testimony following the turmoil on Jan. 6, 2021. The FBI walked back its retaliation before the DOJ inspector general released a final report on the improper suspension, but a whistleblower protection group is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/05\/watchdog-group-calls-on-doj-ig-to-release-findings-in-fbi-whistleblower-settlement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">calling<\/a> on the agency watchdog to release the report anyway.<\/p>\n<p>According to the whistleblower disclosures submitted to lawmakers, Veltri and Perkins colluded to suspend Allen\u2019s clearance despite the agency investigator concluding his \u201cAllegiance to the United States\u201d was not in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerkins overruled the initial investigator and reassigned the case to another investigator to move forward with suspending [Staff Operations Specialist] Allen\u2019s clearance,\u201d the disclosure read. <\/p>\n<p>As Allen waited for the Justice Department inspector general to review his case, the FBI denied requests to seek other work or accept public charity. Allen remained subject to gift rules for public officials despite no pay or public duties for more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>The whistleblower behind the latest complaints made protected disclosures about superiors\u2019 misconduct last summer and was disciplined by the end of September for his \u201cattitude,\u201d according to the report submitted to Congress. <\/p>\n<p>Other FBI whistleblowers who\u2019ve alleged agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/whistleblower-willing-homeless-hands-fbi-speak-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">retaliation <\/a>include Garret O\u2019Boyle and Steve Friend, both of whom blew the whistle on the weaponization of the agency by far-left ideologues. <\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Boyle <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/05\/watchdog-group-calls-on-doj-ig-to-release-findings-in-fbi-whistleblower-settlement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> lawmakers the FBI moved him from the Great Plains to Washington, D.C., where he was suspended on his first day after making protected disclosures to Congress. O\u2019Boyle said the FBI had been inappropriately designating white supremacy as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-calling-china-the-top-geopolitical-threat-biden-lets-beijing-off-the-hook\/\" title=\"After Calling China the Top Geopolitical Threat, Biden Lets Beijing Off The Hook\">top national security threat<\/a> in order to justify broad surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Friend also suffered retaliation for objections made to the FBI\u2019s response to suspects at the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Friend told lawmakers the FBI deployed a SWAT team to arrest such an individual in the Orlando area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve arrested over 150 violent criminals in my career, I\u2019ve never required a SWAT team to do it,\u201d Friend said during a recent congressional hearing.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Judiciary Committee received a new whistleblower complaint on Tuesday morning that supports previous reports of political retaliation within the FBI. The complaint was submitted by an anonymous supervisory special agent (SSA) who is a registered Democrat and has received awards for work against child trafficking. The whistleblower reported witnessing colleagues within the FBI experiencing political retribution and claimed to have been retaliated against themselves. The complaint was sent to the Justice Department inspector general and the department\u2019s Office of Professional Responsibility. The whistleblower disclosed instances where the FBI\u2019s Security Division improperly suspended or revoked employees\u2019 security clearances based on their political views, medical views, or ethnicity. The whistleblower also detailed specific cases of retaliation, including the suspension of Staff Operations Specialist Marcus Allen&#8217;s security clearance. Other FBI whistleblowers, including Garret O\u2019Boyle and Steve Friend, have also alleged agency retaliation for speaking out against misconduct within the agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2287987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/10534326184_7e1758d269_k-1-e1719935578871.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5582,25192,5591,3819,14057],"class_list":["post-2287986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abuses","tag-corroborates","tag-fbi","tag-report","tag-whistleblower"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/10534326184_7e1758d269_k-1-e1719935578871.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287986","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2287987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}