Whistleblower: FBI Threatened to Fire Employees Who Questioned Different Treatment of BLM Riots and Jan. 6By Nick Arama
June 27, 2023
We covered some of the riveting testimony from FBI whistleblowers last month, revealing bias and the politicization of the FBI. This was on top of a long list of things that the whistleblowers have already revealed at that point.
Now, another whistleblower has come forward with some concerning news about how the FBI was dealing with the investigation into Jan. 6 compared to other riots. We’ve touched on this before, with a whistleblower saying it was handled differently.
According to an affidavit from that whistleblower that went to the House Judiciary Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus, and the Justice Department’s Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz, the FBI employee said that Deputy Director Paul Abbate threatened to fire agents and other bureau employees who questioned the differences in response to the U.S. Capitol riot in 2021 and the George Floyd riots in 2020.
In an affidavit delivered to Congress, the unnamed FBI worker said Mr. Abbate made the threats during a secured video teleconference with the special agents in charge of the bureau’s 56 field offices. Mr. Abbate told these supervisors that some agents were questioning the massive investigative response to pro-Trump demonstrators storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
“Abbate told the audience that anyone who questions the FBI’s response or his decisions regarding the response to Jan. 6 did not belong in the FBI and should find a different job — or something to that effect,” according to the affidavit.
In a letter accompanying the affidavit, the whistleblower’s lawyer, Tristan Leavitt, explained: “Abbate had heard that some employees were contrasting the FBI’s response to Jan. 6 with its failure to protect federal personnel and property, or to aggressively investigate interstate conspiracies and resulting damage, during the civil unrest after the murder of George Floyd in 2020.”
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Source:
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/06/27/whistleblower-fbi-threatened-to-fire-employees-who-questioned-different-treatment-of-blm-riots-and-jan-6-n767910
