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   On Thursday, three FBI whistleblowers testified before Congress about the   
   runaway corruption they witnessed while working for our nation’s domestic   
   intelligence service.   
      
   These public declarations, made in front of the House Judiciary Select   
   Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, coincide with   
   release of the Durham report. Special Counsel John Durham’s independent   
   investigation found that the FBI ginned up the Trump-Russia collusion   
   controversy for political reasons.   
      
   The three dissenting agents, Steve Friend, Marcus Allen, and Garrett   
   O’Boyle, told the Judiciary that attempts to show supervisors evidence of   
   repeat abuses and wrongdoing led to the indefinite suspension of their   
   security clearances, despite their stellar service records. The FBI has   
   sought to make examples of these men, who are suspended without pay, by   
   refusing to grant them permission to find alternative avenues of employment   
   to support their wives and children.   
      
   Friend, Allen and O’Boyle told Congress that retaliation from the   
   Department of Justice and FBI have made them indigent, with Allen stating   
   that he has had to take money out of retirement savings to survive, while   
   O’Boyle has relied on charity from his Church, who he did not name out of   
   fear that the FBI would target them next.   
      
   The Republican interrogators were surprisingly serious. Representative Jim   
   Jordan, Matt Gaetz and others resisted the urge to turn the hearing into   
   another Hunter Biden soap opera and allowed the whistleblowers to be the   
   main attraction.   
      
   Democrats, some who appeared sporting purple hair, were caught off-guard by   
   their opponents professional demeanor.   
      
   Congress members Stacey Plaskett, Linda Sanchez, Daniel Sachs Goldman,   
   Debbie Wasserman Schultz and others largely sought to obfuscate and instead   
   began engaging in childish theatrics, off-topic distractions, and fixated   
   on pedantic proceduralism. It was clear that they were working cheek and   
   jowl with the Department of Justice and FBI to take the hearing off the   
   rails, with instances such as accusing Allen of posting a Tweet from an   
   account supporting the January 6th protests that he testified under oath   
   did not belong to him or interrupting speakers to make repeated note of a   
   man standing up against the wall.   
      
   In Rep. Plaskett’s opening statement, she stressed that she has criticized   
   the FBI for past violations of the the rights of non-white people, but then   
   pivoted to defend the agency’s predatory behavior in its pursuit of “white   
   Christian” men.   
      
   Attempts to characterize these men as being motivated by monetary   
   incentives or pro-Trump bias did not stand up to scrutiny. The few agents   
   who have decided to come forward only have done so after witnessing   
   multiple abuses over a lengthy period of time. They have provided the   
   judiciary with records of complaints lodged internally that were suppressed   
   by their superiors, who then threatened them to stay silent. The men told   
   the panel that they only approached congressional Republicans as their last   
   resort.   
      
   The stories these men told were harrowing. In one instance, Special Agent   
   Friend, a member of the FBI SWAT team in Jacksonville, was dispatched to   
   spy on parents protesting the open anti-white racism in their children’s   
   class lessons. He recalled how these investigations like this were not   
   predicated on any evidence of wrongdoing, but were instead based on   
   direction from Washington combined with anonymous tips from people who had   
   political disagreements with their neighbors, not evidence of criminal   
   wrongdoing.   
      
   Following directives from his superiors, Friend was ordered to collect   
   intelligence on ordinary families participating in school board   
   discussions, including covertly photographing the license plates of parents   
   attending the meetings.   
      
   It dawned on Friend that what he was doing was wrong when he realized that   
   he had previously expressed disapproval of political aspects of his own   
   children’s school curriculum. Friend looked back on an instance where a   
   colleague learned of his engagement with his children’s teachers on the   
   matter and glibly joked that one day he might be investigated for being an   
   extremist.   
      
   The final straw for Friend was when his team was ordered to execute a   
   military style SWAT raid on the home of 20-year-old Tyler Bensch. As an   
   agent in the SWAT unit, Friend told the House that he participated in over   
   150 arrests of violent felony suspects throughout his career and yet had   
   never needed to deploy such dangerous tactics. Bensch, who was only being   
   charged with a misdemeanor crime related to entering the Capitol, had   
   offered to surrender peacefully.   
      
   The FBI holds that Bensch was allegedly a member of the conservative Three   
   Percent Militia, and it is implied that they wanted to send this young   
   political activist a message. Friend refused this order, citing it as an   
   abuse of authority, and did not participate in the subsequent siege.   
      
   Marcus Allen, a decorated war veteran working as a Staff Operation   
   Specialist in the FBI’s Charlotte field office drew the ire of superiors   
   for gathering intelligence that challenged the media and government’s   
   official story about what transpired on January 6th. Allen, who is black,   
   was the Charlotte FBI’s employee of the year and held a security clearance   
   for 20 years before suddenly losing it when he brought the selective use of   
   intelligence to fabricate a political narrative to the attention of his   
   bosses.   
      
   The most eye-opening moment of the hearing was video testimony from the   
   Boston FBI’s Intelligence supervisor George Hill. Hill recalled how after   
   requesting the 11,000 hours of surveillance camp footage related to the   
   January 6th protest at the Capitol, he was refused access by his superiors   
   due to fear that undercover federal agents and informants were on tape   
   committing crimes and could be identified.   
      
   The men, all working January 6th cases in different parts of the country,   
   found similar opaqueness when investigating the alleged insurrectionists.   
   The facts point to a high-level government conspiracy, where even many   
   rank-and-file FBI agents were being given evidence need-to-know basis while   
   building their respective criminal cases.   
      
   The whistleblowers also stated that there are many other FBI agents with   
   additional complaints about corruption and abuses at the Bureau, but they   
   are too afraid to speak out.   
      
   The most heartfelt moment came at the end, when an indignant O’Boyle said   
   he was advising other agents not to come forward, “The FBI will crush you.   
      
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