WASHINGTON (TND) — House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee and Weaponization Subcommittee released a report Thursday including new whistleblower testimony from current and former employees with the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the “abuses and misconduct” by the agency.
The 80-page report was released before three of the whistleblowers testified before the Weaponization Subcommittee.
It said that the FBI retaliated against whistleblowers for making “protected disclosures about what they believed in good faith to be wrong conduct.”
One whistleblower was allegedly suspended without pay after he made protected disclosures expressing concern about the agency’s handling of cases related to the Jan. 6 riot, according to the report.
Another allegedly sent news articles and videos related to the riot to his task force colleagues but because they “questioned the FBI’s handling of the violence at the Capitol,” he was suspended.
The report says that the “FBI, under Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, is broken” and that the leadership at both the FBI and the Justice Department have “weaponized law enforcement against everyday Americans, seeking to silence those who dare to have a different viewpoint.”
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