Posted on 04/23/2023 8:49:56 PM PDT by bitt
"Federal agencies cannot conceal their wrongdoing behind illegal nondisclosure agreements and related documents," Grassley and Johnson wrote.
Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and Ron Johnson (Wisc.) sent letters to the Justice Department demanding answers after a former FBI agent said he was forced to sign a nondisclosure agreement that did not include the legally required whistleblower exceptions allowing him to come forward to Congress.
Whistleblower protections have been enshrined in federal law for more than a decade, and federal agencies may not use taxpayer dollars for nondisclosure agreements without including whistleblower exceptions. However, former Special Agent Steve Friend, who came forward in the fall with claims that the FBI used excessive tactics and did not follow its own rules in probing the Jan. 6 riot, provided the GOP senators with the nondisclosure agreement he was forced to sign that did not include the required anti-gag provision.
"These accountability measures are critically important because they ensure whistleblowers know they have the right to disclose government fraud, waste, and abuse to Congress and Inspectors General," Grassley and Johnson wrote in a letter Wednesday to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray. "Federal agencies cannot conceal their wrongdoing behind illegal nondisclosure agreements and related documents."
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There is a legal term for acting in ways that tip your hand that you committed or are committing a crime. This action, by lawyers in the doj, is one of those actions.
RICO
Serious stuff, but unfortunately, nothing will come of it.
There are no good FBI agents except whistleblowers exposing corruption and crime.
Consider the last four FBI directors, with service spanning the last two decades have been attorneys.
Robert Mueller
James Comey
Andrew McCabe (acting)
Christopher Wray
Imagine a law enforcement agency, headed by lawyers, and staffed by a multitude of lawyers, not upholding the law.
Defund the FBI. The FBI has lost the trust of the American people.
I read that Non disclosure agreements were hush money payments (when Trump is involved).
These agents are also receiving hush money payments (by being allowed to keep their jobs).
Grassley remembers the America we all loved and were proud of... not the WOKE hellhole supported by dirty agents of the FBI and the filthy pretentious 'men' and whores of the DOJ...
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