A former FBI staff operations specialist choked up Wednesday as he told lawmakers on Capitol Hill about his years of suffering for lawfully expressing dissent — one of many retaliatory actions deemed “highly inappropriate” by the Justice Department’s inspector general.
Marcus Allen, whose attorneys reached a settlement with the bureau earlier this year, told the Judiciary Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government that higher-ups “accused me of promoting conspiratorial views and unreliable information” for questioning how many confidential informants were present at the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
“The FBI questioned my allegiance to the United States, suspended my security clearance, suspended my pay and refused to allow me to obtain outside employment or even accept charity,” Allen testified about the 27 months he was held in “indefinite limbo.”
“There are no words strong enough to describe the impact the FBI’s lies about me have had on me and my family,” he went on, becoming emotional. “The stress has taken a toll on our health and our children have suffered, traumatized by the thought of our door getting kicked in or Dad not coming home.”
A devout Catholic, Allen said he was even forced to take early withdrawals from a retirement account to make mortgage payments for his family home.
“Despite the stress and uncertainty, I’ve never once regretted standing up for truth,” added the former G-man and Marine Corps veteran, his voice quavering. “Indeed, my family and I persevered due to our strength in faith, God’s grace and the sacraments.”
………The accusations against Allen stemmed from a Sept. 29, 2021, email that he forwarded to supervisors and colleagues at the Charlotte Field Office, which included hyperlinks to what was later flagged as “extremist propaganda” from “questionable sources.”
Allen sent the links to highlight what he believed was not “forthright” testimony by FBI Director Christopher Wray about confidential human sources not being at the Capitol during the “Stop the Steal” rally thrown by former President Donald Trump.
His belief was buttressed by reporting that originated in the New York Times and included links to other well-known political news sites like the polling aggregator RealClearPolitics.
Ex-FBI Washington Field Office Assistant Director in Charge Steven D’Antuono confirmed last year in testimony to the full House Judiciary Committee that the bureau even lost count of the total confidential informants on the ground that day.
Allen testified alongside his attorney, Tristan Leavitt, president of the whistleblower legal nonprofit Empower Oversight, and Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
Both were able to discuss Allen’s case since he had waived his privacy rights after regaining his security clearance and winning back pay in the June settlement, making him the only former spook to overcome the suspension of a security clearance.
“No employee should suffer reprisal for bringing forward information that they reasonably believe is evidence of waste, fraud, abuse or a violation of law,” Horowitz said in his opening remarks before laying out the allegations that he is investigating related to the FBI’s security clearance investigation and adjudication process.
Those claims include “highly inappropriate questions being asked of witnesses during the security clearance investigations” — including political conservatives who were seen as loyal to Trump or resistant to COVID-19 vaccine mandates — and at least one case of a clearance being revoked “based on race.”
“These allegations raise serious issues, and I would note do not apply to only a subset of employees with certain political views or ideologies,” Horowitz added, vowing he was seeking “to ensure that the security clearance investigation and adjudication is never used against whistleblowers” again.
……..Allen’s case is one of dozens reviewed by Horowitz earlier this year as part of a probe into the FBI’s retaliation via the security clearance process.
At least 106 agents were suspended for an average of almost 18 months with the state of their security clearance and future employment in doubt, according to data released in May by Horowitz’s office.
“It is my opinion that the bureau used reprisal and fear to control the workforce,” Allen said in his closing remarks. “I welcome the work of the IG, but I think [with] any type of lawless action, there’s no legitimate timeframe to rein them back in.”
“Their ability to overclassify information,” he added, “can allow them to stonewall forever.”
Weaponized/politicized government agencies not only target American citizens who run afoul of the Biden regime, they also penalize employees for not having the correct political views.
The FBI, like their partners in the DOJ, is no longer in law enforcement. It’s the Stasi. Whistleblowers have come forward to say Christopher Wray has lost control of the agency; that the same FBI boss who shut down the probe into Hunter Biden’s laptop also pressured agents to inflate the number of “domestic extremists”, and how the agency suppresses evidence of Biden family crimes.
Former FBI agent Stephen Friend went public with the FBI’s abuse of the Bill of Rights. The FBI retaliated by suspending his security clearance thus putting him in limbo.
He’s not the only one to speak out. Former FBI Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division Terry Turchie slammed the use of SWAT teams to terrorize people accused of misdemeanors.
Nicole Parker, a former FBI special agent who served in the bureau from 2011-22, testified before the House Committee on Weaponization saying, “The FBI became politically weaponized, starting from the top in Washington and trickling down to the field offices.”
Whistleblower and Former FBI Staff Operations Specialist Marcus Allen:
…….“This is a warning to the American people, I say: I personally have no confidence that the FBI will rein in its own conduct”…… “I personally believe that there are no current, effective checks and balances against them conducting lawless action with any type of correction in a legitimate timeframe.”…..“My other recommendations are in the natural order: First, vote,” Allen said. “The second is the Second Amendment — arm yourself and know how to defend yourself. Make three to four friends in your neighborhood and promise to come to each other’s mutual aid in times of hardship.”
Congress has the power to enact reform that would overhaul and reform the corrupt FBI and DOJ. That would require bipartisanship; which will never happen as long as the agencies are tools of the Dems and RINOs don’t have the guts.
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