FBI Director Christopher A. Wray told a Senate panel Thursday that the bureau will take steps to protect whistleblowers, after current and former Justice Department and FBI employees alleged that agents illegally suppressed information about Hunter Biden in a criminal probe.
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mr. Wray did not address specific allegations related to the Hunter Biden case, but spoke in general terms about protecting whistleblowers.
“We will be scrupulous in our adherence to rules related to whistleblowers,” Mr. Wray said. “If there are allegations of misconduct by FBI employees, we want to make sure that we get that information so we can use the tools we have to go after that conduct. But certainly, I condemn in the strongest possible terms any prospect of retaliation against whistleblowers.”
“I think retaliatory conduct against whistleblowers is unacceptable and we have a number of mechanisms to report [it] but also be protected from retaliation,” he said.
The FBI director’s pledge comes after Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, revealed that his office has been contacted by current and former “highly credible whistleblowers” who described how the FBI improperly sought to discredit the Hunter Biden investigation by labeling “verified and verifiable” information about the president’s son as “disinformation.”
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