Posted on 03/21/2025 7:30:43 AM PDT by simpson96
A veteran FBI agent who blew the whistle on what he saw as political meddling in the bureau’s work was arrested this week by federal authorities while attempting to board an international flight at New York City’s JFK Airport.
Jonathan Buma, who had worked for the bureau for 15 years, stands accused of illegally disclosing classified records in his upcoming tell-all book about his career.
He drew scrutiny during Trump’s first term for reportedly saying during a presentation that he believed Rudy Giuliani may have been compromised by a Russian counter-influence operation—concerns that were immediately shut down by his superiors.
On Monday, the longtime counterintelligence officer was about to board an outbound international flight when he was taken into custody. Buma was released on $10,000 bail on Tuesday during a Brooklyn federal court hearing, and his case will be handled in a California federal court.
Federal prosecutors allege that Buma printed around 130 confidential files marked with clear security warnings from his FBI office in October 2023. This information was taken hours before Buma went on leave from the bureau.
According to the Associated Press, the court affidavit stated that these files included screenshots of messages with an informant, the identity of an informant, and information provided by informants.
He also allegedly shared drafts of his manuscript through email and on social media, which contained information regarding “the FBI’s efforts and investigations into a foreign country’s weapons of mass destruction (‘WMD’) program.”
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Outstanding.
Where’s the video of this FBI agenr being perpwalked through the airport in handcuffs and leg irons?!?
FBI director Kash Patel’s main job is to expunge political bias & rot inside FBI.
They let him out on bail?
What international destination was he flying to ?
And CNN wasn’t there to cover it? For shame….
Yes. $10,000 bail. And don’t worry, he’s no flight risk.
That’s kind of dumb. There are other ways to do that which wouldn’t leave a trail. A cell phone comes to mind.
He recalls an incident in 2019 during the Trump administration where he brought up two sets of unverified information on Hunter Biden and Rudy Giuliani. He had gotten the immediate green light to investigate further into Biden’s ties to Ukrainian energy company Burisma, but was shut down by his supervisors when he tried bringing up unfavorable information about Giuliani.
In the interview he remembers asking his co-handling agent: “Why do they keep going back to the Bidens?”
Bummer for Buma.
Toss his ass into solitary then lose the key!
Rudy Giuliani has been nothing but screwed for his courageous work in defense of fair elections. IMHO, Trump has been absent in defense of Rudy.
The Obama FBI brownshirts intimidation and lawfare tactics would always include the tip off to CNN to be on hand at 3 AM.
More of this quickly please.
Where is the notice about his jail term? Lacking that, this is no different than RogerStone’s “arrest”. A PR stunt.
Nobody is above the law.
Check out the author.
Explains a lot.
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Govt Gangster.
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