Posted on 09/30/2022 11:43:33 AM PDT by Cercyon
House Judiciary Republicans are asking a senior FBI official to testify in a transcribed interview, alleging the official has signed off on many “adverse personnel actions” against conservative agents, saying they were being targeted in a “purge.”
Their allegations concern Jennifer Leigh Moore, the executive assistant director of the FBI’s human resources branch, according to a Sept. 29 letter from Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), and Mike Johnson (R-La.). Jordan is the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee.
“This is beyond outrageous,” the House Judiciary GOP wrote on Twitter.
The lawmakers said they found out how conservative agents were being targeted while investigating “serious allegations of abuse and misconduct within the senior leadership of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
“During the course of this investigation, we have received protected whistleblower disclosures that the FBI is engaging in a ‘purge’ of employees with conservative views by revoking their security clearances and indefinitely suspending these employees,” the lawmakers wrote.
They added, “Many of the formal notices for these adverse personnel actions have been signed by you,” referring to Moore.
What’s more, the three lawmakers allege that Moore has “retaliated against at least one whistleblower who has made protected disclosures to Congress.” That whistleblower shared information with the House Judiciary Committee about the Justice Department’s decision last year to create a threat tag label, to track cases of parents who protested at school board meetings, Jordan said in an interview with Fox News.
“Once a whistleblower makes a protected disclosure, an agency is prohibited from retaliating against the employee for that disclosure by taking or failing to take a personnel action,” the lawmakers wrote. “Your efforts to interfere with FBI employees who seek to expose the Bureau’s misconduct by communicating directly with Congress cannot be condoned.”
They added, “As we informed [FBI] Director Christopher Wray, we take whistleblower retaliation seriously and we therefore require that you appear for a transcribed interview as soon as possible.”
Moore is asked to schedule her transcribed interview by Oct. 4, according to the letter.
The FBI has denied wrongdoing in a statement to media outlets.
“The FBI does not target or take adverse action against employees for exercising their First Amendment rights or for their political views; to allege otherwise is false and misleading,” an FBI spokesperson said. “The FBI is required to follow established policies and procedures, to include a thorough investigation, when suspending or revoking a security clearance.”
“The FBI takes very seriously its responsibility to FBI employees who may make protected disclosures under the whistleblower regulations,” the spokesperson added. “FBI employees who report evidence of wrongdoing through a protected disclosure are protected from retaliation.”
On Monday, FBI agent Steve Friend revealed in his whistleblower complaint how the FBI was violating policies over its handling of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol breach investigation.
“I believed the investigations were inconsistent with FBI procedure and resulted in the violation of citizens’ Sixth and Eighth Amendment rights,” he wrote in his complaint. He added that one of his concerns was how the FBI was using SWAT teams to arrest Jan. 6 suspects facing misdemeanor charges.
He also wrote that he was told that child sexual abuse material investigations were “no longer an FBI priority” and should be referred to local law enforcement officials.
Friend, who has refused to participate in future operations relating to the Jan. 6 probe, has had his security clearance suspended, and has been stripped of his credentials, firearms, and badge.
The two enemies of The People are CRIMINALS and GOVERNMENT, so let us tie the second down with the chains of The Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
~Thomas Jefferson
....”and liberty and justice for all.”
Guess that’s outdated for the FBI. Like 8 track cartridges and yellow pages phone books.
But not to us.
I can’t wait until Trump is reelected and cleans out the other half:-)
They are doing their best to make us non entities.
Makes people feel justified about committing genocide.
The FBI us completely out of control.
Are they getting warrants to do some of this stuff, because
I can’t picture a judge granting one for some of this stuff.
If judges are granting these warrants, then we have some
judges that must be indicted for not abiding by their oath
of office.
The FBI does not consider anything they are doing to be 'wrongdoing' thus the retaliation is a justifiable personnel action. The same goes for targeting.
So, I am curious - how the heck do they determine who is a conservative?
What would ‘shock’ me would be if the next GOP-lead congress does a single thing about this...
About the only thing the next Congress could do is cut funding. Even in the rosiest projections, Dems will still have enough votes to filibuster. And then there’s the diseased Tyrant Rat sitting on the top of the sh!theap to veto anything.
Over 90 now, and I have a lengthy background in business, L.E. and sports. I have know a number of retired FBI agents from the early (Hoover) days and they were all very conservative.
A lot of Freepers should be prepared for getting Charlie Browned next year.
I’m over it.
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