An FBI supervisory special assistant–and registered Democrat– filed a whistleblower complaint that notes the bureau was pushing politics as part of decisions on security clearances.
He says that after he disclosed the FBI’s improper suspension and revocation of other employees’ security clearances, the FBI retaliated and suspended his security clearance.
On Tuesday, he sent a disclosure to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. On Friday, he filed a complaint with the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility about the FBI’s security division.
“The client—a registered Democrat—witnessed firsthand as an SSA [supervisory special agent] how the FBI’s Security Division improperly suspended or revoked employees’ security clearances whose political views, medical views, or even ethnicity were…
