Posted on 06/10/2022 6:37:26 AM PDT by blam
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Tuesday claimed that the FBI is “purging” employees who hold conservative viewpoints.
In a letter (pdf) to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Jordan, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, said that multiple whistleblowers at the law enforcement agency had come forward alleging retaliatory actions to employees who had engaged in “disfavored political speech.”
The letter redacted the names and positions of the alleged whistleblowers.
The Ohio Republican lawmaker said that in one instance, an alleged veteran was targeted for failing to agree with officials’ conclusions about the Jan. 6, 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol.
The veteran, who allegedly served in the U.S military for several years and was deployed in Kuwait and Iraq, had their security clearance suspended, before being indefinitely suspended from duty and pay after sharing “personal views that the FBI was not being entirely forthcoming about the events of January 6.”
“As a result, the FBI determined that [REDACTED] had ‘espoused conspiratorial views’ and ‘promoted unreliable information which indicates support for the events of January 6,’ and therefore the FBI questioned allegiance to the United States,” Jordan wrote.
Jordan wrote that the same individual had “been rated as ‘Exceeds Fully Successful’ in performance evaluations, has received several awards, and has never been disciplined or reprimanded until this instance.”
Lawyers for the alleged whistleblower claimed that the FBI’s accusations against their client are a “monumental leap from objective fact” and a “distortion” of actions as well as “gross injustice” which violates their client’s right to exercise freedom of speech under the First Amendment.
In another incident, Jordan said that one alleged whistleblower, who has since left the FBI, had informed the House Judiciary Committee that they faced retaliation when they criticized the FBI in an anonymous survey circulated to employees following Jan. 6.
“The FBI allegedly escalated an adverse personnel action against this employee after [REDACTED] commented on the survey, which sought feedback about the [REDACTED] actions ‘during the recent crisis/command post’ event. The employee, too, was never disciplined or reprimanded until after [REDACTED] criticized the FBI,” the letter reads.
Jordan said multiple “whistleblowers have called it a ‘purge’ of FBI employees holding conservative views.”
A copy of the letter was also sent to Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
An FBI spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email: “While the FBI does not comment on specific personnel matters, under no circumstances would we take action against employees for lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights. All FBI employees understand that adherence to rigorous security policies and the highest standards of integrity are critical to fulfilling our mission of protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution of the United States.”
Jordan also claimed that a previous May 6 letter sent to Wray detailing allegations of the FBI’s alleged behavior had gone unanswered.
In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Jordan said that a total of six agents had come forward as whistleblowers, two of which related to a school board’s memo.
“We are conducting oversight to ensure the FBI is not retaliating against FBI employees for exercising their First Amendment rights and engaging in disfavored political speech,” he wrote in his letter on Wednesday. “We reiterate our earlier requests for your personal assurance that the FBI will cooperate fully with the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General’s examination of these matters and for a briefing on the FBI’s purge of employees holding disfavored viewpoints.”
The Ohio lawmaker’s letter comes as the House select committee probing the Jan. 6 attack is set to begin its public hearings on Thursday at 8 p.m.
It's happened in every branch of government, media and all educational institutes.
The DOJ has become America’s KGB. Its the political brain and nerve center of Fed.gov. It ensures compliance to all deep-state / party political plans, and makes sure no one within Fed.gov is disloyal to Fed.gov.
The leftist scum sends patriotic Americans overseas to die in useless wars for profit while they purge patriots at home.
Well, yeah. Obama was able to put the final touches on the Federal agencies to weaponize against the American people.
Defund and disband these jackboots.
The party first, then the Nation. I got the same treatment in the State Department.
It was the entrenchment of "The Deep State".
Can’t have any whistleblowers when you break the law.
Where's the picture of the very New England looking dudes (look at the picture closely and you can discern their chowdah-head accents) all standing around in their Ray-Bans and Bermuda shorts making like they're incognito?
What Conservatives?
Mark Levin called out FBI agents last night for not challenging the leadership. https://www.bitchute.com/video/a4w8ywghKYtq/
Purging communists and islamists was never a Trump policy. Has he learned anything from that mistake? (Perhaps we'll find out in a couple of years.)
All true.
THIS 1000% !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
President Trump’s campaign should compile lists of those who were fired from government agencies for political reasons, so that when reelected, they can not only be rehired, but promotions over those that persecuted them.
Then start a counter purge. Eliminate not just the overtly corrupt, but “agency cancers” like purveyors of p.c. and LGBT+whatever. A huge purge needs to be done at the Pentagon, the FBI, the Justice Department, State Department, etc.
How can you have uniformity without conformity? Pretty logical from one point of view, but why the uniformity in the first place?
I guess there is the right way and the FBI way.
FBI = Famous But Incompetent. And becoming more so every day.
When does fame become notoriety?
The entire DOJ/FBI needs to be purged. These so-called conservatives have been silent. They are part of the entire law enforcement covers each other asses clubs.
There were very good reasons why the founders excluded the children of foreigners from being President, because they ARE foreigners.
Anyone born with more than ONE nationality is NOT NATURALLY an American, because they were also born something else.
“adherence to rigorous security policies and the highest standards of integrity “
Lmfao!!!!!!!!!.... (deep breath) bwahahahahahaha!!!....(another deep breath) Lol!!!!!
So once the government gets all the high power spy and justice organizations weaponized to their liking I wonder what their next plan is going to be?
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