Describing himself as one of the “most significant whistleblowers in FBI history,” 15-year veteran FBI Special Agent Johnathan Buma was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport on March 17, 2025, as he was attempting to board an outbound international flight. Roughly a day later, a criminal charge was filed in the California Central District Court claiming that Buma disclosed classified information about FBI investigations and confidential informants.
According to a court-filed affidavit, Buma had allegedly sent emails and messages that contained excerpts of a prospective book about his career at the FBI. Some of the sensitive information that Buma reportedly disclosed related to “the FBI’s efforts and investigations into a foreign country’s weapon of mass destruction (‘WMD’) program.” Buma had also purportedly given “authorization” to the recipients to share the restricted details.
During the first Trump Administration, Buma blew the whistle on alleged political bias by the FBI. In a 2024 interview with Business Insider, Buma revealed that in 2019, he provided different sets of unverified information to his supervisor at the FBI field office in Los Angeles for potential action. The first possible case involved Hunter Biden and potential criminal activity regarding the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. According to Buma, his supervisor was “interested and adamant about…transferring [the case] to the appropriate case agent right away.” In the same meeting, Buma...
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