An FBI whistleblower has told the House Judiciary Committee that he witnessed the bureau’s deputy director violate security policies, putting classified information at risk.
The special agent told lawmakers that Paul Abbate, who oversees all FBI domestic and international investigative and intelligence activities, used his smartphone in an FBI sensitive compartmented information facility or SCIF, which is a violation of bureau security protocols.
Just bringing a phone into the SCIF is a security breach.
The senior agent accused Mr. Abbate of walking around in the SCIF while talking on the smartphone and sending text messages and emails.
Another FBI whistleblower claimed that senior FBI officials routinely break the no-cellphone rule in SCIFs.
The Washington Times viewed a letter the whistleblowers’ lawyer sent to Judiciary Committee Republicans that described the allegations against Mr. Abbate. It is part of a recent flood of FBI whistleblower complaints about politicized investigations and misconduct at the bureau. But this time, the subject of the complaint is in the top tier of FBI leadership.
The FBI bristled when asked about the whistleblowers’ allegations. “This reporting is categorically false,” the FBI said in a statement to The Times.
The whistleblowers’ lawyer, Kurt Siuzdak, who is also a former FBI agent, said he sent the disclosures to the FBI’s Office of General Counsel but it was rebuffed.
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