All FBI Agents Must Blow Their Whistles
Or They’ll Be Complicit In Bureau’s Politicization
The Federalist,
by
Margot Cleveland
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/3/2022 6:01:15 AM
Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office confirmed to The Federalist that the multiple FBI whistleblowers charging misconduct related to the Hunter Biden investigation only came forward in the last two months. While the existence of these new whistleblowers proves promising, other FBI agents with knowledge of misconduct or political bias must stop hiding behind the chain of command and start blowing their own whistles.
“Multiple FBI whistleblowers, including those in senior positions” informed the Iowa Republican senator that “Washington Field Office assistant special agent in charge Timothy Thibault and other FBI officials … ‘falsely portray[ed] as disinformation evidence acquired from multiple sources that provided the FBI derogatory information related to Hunter Biden’s
Unfortunately, Trump appointed Wray on Chris Christie’s recommendation. Most of Trumps troubles came from his poor judgement on appointments. If he gets a second term, he will need to do a lot better.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rinktum 8/3/2022 6:51:17 AM (No. 1236248)
I want to believe the tide is turning as the article suggests it may be. However, this is government workers we are talking about. I mean no offense to whatever good is left on the FBI rotting vine but the time has passed when they should have come forward. We look around at the power of corruption and lawlessness this administration has wrought and are dumbfounded that more patriots have not come forward. You don’t ignore the magnitude of this crime. When an administration is using various agencies to direct a war against the previous administration that is a monumentally illegal. The agencies of the government cannot be used by one party as a political weapon against its opposition. That is tantamount to the strategies that third world dictators use to quash any opposition.
From using their power to go after a presidential candidate and when that was unsuccessful, going after a sitting President to making a mockery of our judicial system with the horrific injustice shown to the J6 political prisoners, the actions of the Biden administration and the FBI and other agencies has been abhorrent and goes against the very ethos of our founding. Equal justice under the law and the right to a fair and speedy trial have been decimated by a highly partisan department of justice. It is imperative that the people behind these shameful crimes be held accountable. Our Republic is hanging by a thread because of the actions of men and women in our highest levels of government who believe they are above the law. It’s past time to set the record straight. We are a nation of laws, not men.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 8/3/2022 6:57:42 AM (No. 1236253)
Fear of losing one’s career and retirement package is a strong motivator to keep one’s pie hole shut instead of doing the right thing.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Blue Hen1 8/3/2022 7:21:00 AM (No. 1236265)
Sadly all we’re gonna hear from Wray tomorrow is that he can’t comment on an ongoing investigation
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
hershey 8/3/2022 7:29:17 AM (No. 1236277)
A fish rots from the head down...and I"m smelling dead fish....
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You meant to write bureau's corruption"....right?!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Krause 8/3/2022 8:15:14 AM (No. 1236332)
Agree with no. 3. If they come forward prune-face Garland will fire them on the spot. They need to be protected from this administration hit man.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
seamusm 8/3/2022 8:15:53 AM (No. 1236333)
Pony up, boys or take the next train out of town. Justice IS coming and the stables will be hosed clean of the likes of you.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/3/2022 8:17:40 AM (No. 1236336)
All one percent of the good FBI people should participate.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
coldborezero 8/3/2022 8:36:12 AM (No. 1236352)
Most of us who call ourselves patriots tend to think of LEO’s as paragons of virtue. They are not; they are humans, just like us. Most are in law enforcement for “a paycheck and a pension” and they aren’t going to do anything to jeopardize that. If their political masters tell them to crush the Deplorables; they will crush the Deplorables, without hesitation. It troubles me to write that, but it is quite simply the truth.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/3/2022 8:47:57 AM (No. 1236364)
I’m still waiting for all of those agents who were outraged about Comey’s velvet glove treatment of Hillary’s endless list of felonies to blow the whistle. And that was 6 years ago.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/3/2022 8:50:35 AM (No. 1236370)
To be honest, over the years too much rot has been evident. American citizens, innocent of any crimes have lost their freedom and their lives due to operations like these.
It would take decades to resolve. I'm afraid the FBI is toast, and deservedly so. It should be replaced with an informational bureau, with no ability or authority beyond relaying information between police departments. The CIA also should be eliminated and their duties returned to Military Intelligence.
That said, corruption is so bad in the Pentagon, that I'm in favor of Courts Marshal for everyone above the rank of bird colonel. Replace from good field officers.
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I would not count on that happening.....from the director to the field agent, it is a criminal organization that will kill anyone who gets in their way
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Simply put, anyone charged with a crime due to the work of the FBI should simply claim unequal protection under the law. Period. It is plainly obvious that the FBI is now the political enforcement branch of the Demoncrat Party, nothing more, and probably a lot less.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
john56 8/3/2022 9:36:11 AM (No. 1236458)
The key in all this "get Trump" stuff was being able to take down Gen. Flynn fast. There's no doubt that if Gen Flynn had a few weeks to settle in and start digging around, he would have figured out the scheme pretty quickly. Give the devil (deep state) their due, they did their job well. Too bad Trump, Pence and the WH leadership didn't tell Flynn to stand firm and continue.
He'd basically have been the Jiggs Casey (Kirk Douglas) in a real-life "Seven Days in May."
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MDConservative 8/3/2022 10:08:54 AM (No. 1236507)
There's something called Blue Omerta, and it is a professional obligation to keep quiet about the wrongdoing of fellow officers. It applies to the FBI and other non-uniformed law enforcement agencies as well as those boys in blue. Any agent coming forward at this stage had better become part of a witness protection program. Grassley and the Senate can't protect them from what they may encounter. A "civilian" coming forth with evidence will have an even worse time. The Deep State is nothing to mess with...ask a number of well-known and apparent victims.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
felixcat 8/3/2022 10:10:01 AM (No. 1236510)
Some whistleblowers are more equal than others and whistleblowers who threaten a Dem Administration are risking a lot - no matter what legal protections they are entitled to. You won't find any of these FBI whistleblowers getting the Eric Ciaramella or Vindman star treatment.
And even if every FBI employee came forward about the garbage going on in the FBI - then what? What will Congress do even if the Rs take back both houses of Congress? Has Congress ever reduced by one penny the budget for the FBI, DOJ, etc?
Even those members of the third branch of government with lifetime employment, the Judiciary, is not willing to do their job, i.e., Justice Roberts who oversees the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) which was abused by the FBI with the mindless consent of its judges and has done nothing to correct the abuses by the FBI and the blind allegiance of its judges to accept every warrant presented to it without question.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Zigrid 8/3/2022 10:16:18 AM (No. 1236518)
Poster #1...chris christie's recommended FBI has left it's mark on US...but let's remember President Trump...as President...came into a strange city and had to appoint thousands od personnel ASAP...it was a huge job...so a few mistakes were made...Wray was one...and Christie is still smoldering from the rejection he got...plenty of anger at being passed by...just like Romney who wanted to be sec of state...I thank God President Trump gave US four years of his business know/how...hopefully another four years soon...
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 8/3/2022 10:32:33 AM (No. 1236546)
If, knowing what they do now about DOJ and FBI leadership’s inability to clean the political mess, agents remain mum, they will be complicit in the scandal, and Americans will no longer distinguish between the hardworking men and women of the FBI and the supposedly few bad apples — we will view the entire bureau as bad.
Yes Margot, we will view the entire bureau as bad!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 8/3/2022 11:04:38 AM (No. 1236597)
Far too many FBI types are worried more about their pensions and jobs than they are about the law or the country.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
SouthernYankee 8/3/2022 11:31:38 AM (No. 1236636)
At one time I believed in Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity. Comey, Wray, Strozk, Page, etc disabused of those ideas. Then I though we’ll surely there are true patriots in the fbi but alas, none came forward. Now should I ever run into one of these Stormfuhrers all they will hear is “Am I being detained?” “I do not revoke any of my god given, constitutional protected rights to search, seizure or questioning.” “I demand representation.”
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 8/3/2022 11:45:38 AM (No. 1236648)
I think #12 has the best answer and one that fits our constitution much better than the agencies we have now. NO agency of the executive branch should be carrying weapons. Secret Service agents guarding Pres. and VP, maybe, but everyone else in the federal government should be disarmed except for the military. When they need help, they can ask, better yet, beg the local law enforcement for help.
EPA, NOAA, FDA, IRS, USPS and countless other agencies do not need to have guns to be used as "weapons of war" and millions or billions of rounds of ammunition in their inventories along with their own "police" or "security" to put them to use. (When governments use guns, they really are weapons of war, even if they only use rocks.)
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
broken01 8/3/2022 12:08:06 PM (No. 1236675)
Fear not good people that staunch Conservative Sean Hannity is gathering up all of those good FBI agent whistleblowers as we speak.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
smokincol 8/3/2022 12:08:56 PM (No. 1236676)
there are very few of these accountants/lawyers turned cops who will do the right thing but to them doing the right thing is protecting the ones that protect them but in reality the ones that protect them will send them down the drain faster than than they can take their last breath, there is no loyalty among any of them in the fbi because they all want to be "the Director" when it comes right down to it. they play some very serious EGO games in that organization
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
nerdowell 8/3/2022 12:18:20 PM (No. 1236683)
This is a campaign issue now, after the election, with command of senate, let the feathers fly.
Flog it and multiply the allegations by 4x. Keep the names out of the media and promise to protect anonymity of others and protect their perquisites. Warn anyone staying back or scheming retaliation that there will be consequences.
This is an issue to run with.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
columba 8/3/2022 1:40:46 PM (No. 1236749)
The Chain of Command convinces the employee that ALL findings of wrong behvior must be provided to the next-in-line in the chain of command etc. If the employee does not follw the Chain of Command he will lose his job (and salary).
The chain of command is a reminder of slavery but with a different name.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
NotaBene 8/3/2022 1:51:08 PM (No. 1236761)
The FBI should not have created the J6 alliance with Black Lives. The G-men left US defenseless against the communists.
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Sorry, I only partly buy the premise of #2 and #3... that FBI/DOJ folks are cowardly,selfish bureaucrats who only care about their pay/pension. Instead, I think #17 nails it-- anyone in the U.S. paying attention for the last thirty years knows darn well that crooked politicians and others have repeatedly escaped ANY accountability for wrongdoing, both minor and major, whether from a legal standpoint or a public relations/journalistic angle. (Can you say Whitewater or 'FBI files'?)
It's one thing to risk your pay/pension-- and your family's security-- if there's a reasonable chance that taking such a risk will lead to reforms or individual accountability by wrongdoers. On the other hand, who in their right mind, seeing FOR YEARS the numerous travesties of people who did terrible things but skated, would come forward to face not only legal and financial ruin, but public scorn, destruction, and even physical threats?
I don't consider myself a coward-- and have never been ruled by fear-- but I'm not sure I would be able to justify trading a normal, happy life for the miniscule possibility that my whistle-blowing would do any good. The overwhelming evidence is that it would be futile, but guaranteed to ruin me/my loved ones.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 8/3/2022 3:26:52 PM (No. 1236820)
Any government employee at any level who believes in Freedom and the Constitution should get out without delay. The federal government is Public Enemy #1.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
mifla 8/4/2022 4:42:00 AM (No. 1237238)
Margot, your statement assumes that those in the FBI who are breaking the law will be brought to justice. Never going to happen. Whistleblowers will simply lose their jobs or become a pariah at work.
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