Let’s set up what today’s hearing is really about regarding FBI whistleblower disclosures and retaliation. There are biases within the department, agents are being prevented from asking questions about the FBI’s motives, and the Biden Justice Department appears to be actively punishing whistleblowers for speaking out – which is ILLEGAL according to law.

Whistleblowers within the FBI are alleging that there has been retaliation by the DOJ against them. Obviously, this should be a huge deal, as a report from the House Judiciary Committee and Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government state.

The report said that the FBI whistleblowers described the FBI’s alleged “retaliatory conduct” against them “after making protected disclosures about what they believed in good faith to be wrong conduct.”

Two whistleblowers — Steve Friend, a former FBI special agent, and Marcus Allen, an FBI staff operations specialist — had their security clearances revoked this month and are expected to appear for testimony before the Weaponization Subcommittee Thursday morning.”

The committees’ report said the FBI suspended Friend’s security clearance and suspended him without pay after he made protected disclosures about the bureau’s handling of Domestic Violent Extremism cases, and after he expressed concern about the bureau’s handling of cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.”

Friend explained that the FBI’s handling of Jan. 6-related investigations “deviated from standard practice and created a false impression with respect to the threat of DVE nationwide.”

As for Allen, the committees’ report said the FBI suspended his security clearance for simply performing duties of his job — conducting case-related research using open-source news articles and videos and sending his search results to his task force colleagues.”

Allen told the committees that he sent around links to open-source opinion videos related to the Capitol riot for “situational awareness.”

The FBI explains the suspensions this way.

The FBI said Friend’s top secret security clearance was revoked by the FBI on May 16, two days before Thursday’s Weaponization Subcommittee hearing. The letter states that Friend, in August 2022, “refused to participate in the execution of a court authorized, search and arrest of a criminal subject.”

“During his communications with his management about his refusal to participate, he espoused an alternative narrative about the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021,” the FBI said. “On September 3, 2022, Mr. Friend entered FBI space and downloaded documents from FBI computer systems to an unauthorized removable flash drive. The FBI then required Mr. Friend to attend a Security Awareness Briefing (SAB) regarding his actions, but he refused to do so.”

The FBI also said Friend “participated in multiple, unapproved media interviews, including an interview with a Russian government news agency.”

“Mr. Friend alleges he obtained approval from the FBI’s Office of Public Affairs (OPA) to participate in these interviews, but OPA did not provide such authorization,” the letter states. “Mr. Friend’s failure to follow FBI policies relating to social media contacts and his lack of candor poses a security concern.”

As for Allen, his top secret security clearance was revoked by the FBI on May 3, the letter states, after the bureau opened a security investigation into him in October 2021 following a referral from the FBI’s Charlotte Field Office. In January 2022, Allen’s security clearance was suspended based on security concerns.”

“As one example, on September 29, 2021, Mr. Allen sent an email using his FBI email account to multiple colleagues that contained links to websites and urged recipients to ‘exercise extreme caution and discretion in pursuit of any investigative inquiries or leads pertaining to the events of’ January 6,” the FBI said. “Another example included an email containing a link to a website that stated, among other things, ‘By now it’s clear that federal law enforcement had some degree of infiltration among the crowds gathered at the Capitol on January 6,’ to which Mr. Allen commented, ‘brings up serious concerns about USG participation.’”

This timing is more than a little suspicious, hmm? Both men are having their security clearances revoked within days of testifying to Congress? Does something smell off to anyone else?

Remember how the left and the media (but I repeat myself) hyperventilated over Alexander Vindman’s testimony and proclaimed that he MUST be believed and could not be questioned, and then freaked out when Trump removed him from the White House? I guess I’m just old enough to remember that. Imagine if the Trump DOJ had gotten two whistleblowers suspended from the FBI. There probably would have been another impeachment.

But Steve Friend and Marcus Allen, for daring invoke whistleblower protections, NOW get their security clearances revoked and are suspended from the job? And as Jazz Shaw points out on Hot Air, there is nary a peep from the mainstream media.

Why this isn’t the lead story on every news network (except Fox News) shouldn’t be that much of a mystery. Illegal activity by the Biden administration isn’t news as long as it benefits the Democrats and the permanent power structure in Washington. But as I mentioned at the top, this truly does represent a constitutional crisis.”

Congress is charged with conducting oversight of the administrative branch of the government. That includes our federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. But the Justice Department has the responsibility to investigate and prosecute such crimes. What happens when they refuse to investigate themselves when they are the ones breaking the law on behalf of the White House?”

Enter the brain trust that is Congresswoman Linda Sanchez (D-CA). She was so, so, SO CONVINCED that she had Marcus Allen on his January 6th conspiracies! SO VERY CONVINCED. Her staff found a TWEET with HIS NAME, and Sanchez promptly beclowned herself.

Whoops.

HOW EMBARRASSING.
⁰Today, while questioning FBI whistleblower Marcus Allen, @RepLindaSanchez asked Mr. Allen if he agreed with a random tweet from an account under the name "Marcus Allen."

The only problem? It wasn't even his account. pic.twitter.com/nMyl4dIvvW

— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) May 18, 2023

You have to admire Sanchez’s committment to the bit. Allen tells her it isn’t his Twitter account (and with that many numbers in the handle, it’s likely a bot), and Sanchez just keeps going like a wrecking ball to her own dignity. Someone is going to be fired from her office after that one.

The Democrats are not exactly hiding the ball here.

Democrats – Party of the FBI. https://t.co/N7zpUvlnq8

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 18, 2023

Of course they love the FBI now. They control it. They controlled it even when Trump was president, thanks to the Deep State. And there was another whistleblower testifying today, and this testimony should hurt to hear. This is how the FBI is treating their employees???

FBI Special Agent Garret O'Boyle was transferred across the country only to be suspended on his first day.

The FBI’s actions forced his family to beg and borrow warm coats for their children because the family’s belongings were locked in an FBI-controlled storage facility. pic.twitter.com/T7BseKr0cf

— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) May 18, 2023

Until a Republican president has enough guts to start firing people and cleaning house, then the FBI is going to remain hopelessly politicized and enforce law only on behalf of Democrat interests. The quote from Óscar R. Benavides, president of Peru in the 1930’s, has never felt so apt: “For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”

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