As the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) continues its war on President Trump, it is going after his supporters within the agency in what looks like an organized liberalization operation favoring the political left. More whistleblowers from the bureau have provided the Congress with documents showing how the agency is specifically targeting those agents that fit the profiles of Trump supporters.
The Washington Times reported the news on Friday (November 10) saying it has obtained copies of the disclosures that a US Marine along with other military veterans working at the FBI provided the House Judiciary Committee. The story wrote:
“…high-ranking FBI officials are targeting agents, specifically former military members, for their political beliefs and trying to force them out of the bureau.”
The documents by the whistleblowers name two FBI officials who actively and specifically go after FBI employees that have been either US Marines or other military veterans. The FBI officials thus named are Jeffrey Veltri, who is the deputy assistant director of FBI’s security division, and Dena Perkins, who is the assistant section chief. The reason these officials cite for removing the conservative agents with military background is, in their words, “disloyalty to the United States.”
When The Washington Times posted the story of the agency’s new whistleblowers, the FBI reportedly denied any wrongdoing and issued a general statement in the agency’s defense while calling the paper’s reporting “wholly irresponsible”. The statement included the line:
“We do not target or take adverse action against employees for exercising their First Amendment rights or for their political views.”
In May this year, the FBI issued a statement with the exact line in its defense against similar claims by other whistleblowers presented before the House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Two FBI special agents Stephen Friend and Garret O’Boyle, along with another employee Marcus Allen, testified before the House committees to point out how the bureau had targeted them for their political beliefs. The House Judiciary Committee report stated:
“The FBI weaponized the security clearance adjudication process to silence employees who fight against the politicized ‘rot’ within the FBI leadership.”
Meanwhile, the FBI continues to expand its power by consuming large chunks of taxpayer money. Congressman Matt Gaetz, firebrand Republican from Florida, didn’t pull any punches when he offered his comments on the House floor after his recent amendment to prohibit funding for FBI’s new $300 million headquarters failed because many House Republicans voted with the Democrats to allow FBI the funding. In a Twitter/X post on November 8, Gaetz wrote:
Our country is crumbling when a weaponized security state targets the civil liberties of American citizens because of their politics. Those in the J. Edgar Hoover Building should sit in that rat-infested building until they get their act straight.