Left to right: Garret O’Boyle, Steve Friend, and Marcus Allen testify before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government
Since winning a majority in the midterms, House Republicans have been working to ferret out anti-conservative bias in government agencies. A subcommittee led by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, says the Biden administration weaponizes security clearances to “purge” conservatives from the federal government.
“I’ve become a charity case,” FBI agent Garret O’Boyle told the House subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government last month. He has spent roughly eight months without pay or work after the FBI revoked his top secret security clearance.
Every FBI staffer is required to have the clearance as a condition of employment. Without it, employees cannot access anything under the FBI scope: base housing, the office, computers, and other equipment. If a staffer loses clearance, he or she is automatically suspended without pay and cannot seek another job without getting permission from the FBI or voluntarily resigning.
O’Boyle said he reported to supervisors that he believed the FBI was conflating investigation numbers related to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot and labeling them all as domestic terrorism. According to O’Boyle, the FBI has offered monetary bonuses to people who can meet a Jan. 6 investigation quota, which he says could violate...
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