Thread by @bhweingarten

Something to remember in reading DOJ IG report clearing feds of involvement with J6 directly/via sources. Beyond fact IGs often appear to be captured by their agencies, consider that one FBI whistleblower's disclosure informants were at Capitol led to massive retaliation. Why?

Decorated Marine Corps veteran and award-winning FBI Staff Operations Specialist Marcus Allen reported up the chain in Sept. 2021 that confidential FBI informants may have been at Capitol on J6 -- calling into question veracity of FBI Director Wray's testimony

The day he made the protected disclosure FBI seemingly opened a security clearance reinvestigation into him. Despite being cleared, he would enter a world of weaponization hell

Because of his reporting about potential FBI involvement in Jan. 6, "vaccine hesitancy" and opposition to vaccine mandates, purported open-mindedness to "conspiracy theories" and "hostile views towards the U.S. government," he was deemed a potential "insider threat"

Kafkaesque doesn't even begin to do justice to the nature of the probing and questioning of the man's character and loyalty by offices controlling his livelihood by way of his security clearance

Of note: His whistleblower disclosure was dinged in part for linking to sites where I'm proud to hang my hat of RealClearInvestigations and RealClearPolitics. This despite FBI news bulletins sourcing from RCP!

After ultimately being cleared again, FBI's Security Division went ahead and suspended Marcus Allen's clearance anyway. Why? For raising concerns Wray may have perjured himself, vaccine mandate non-compliance

Ultimately, as his reps @EMPOWR_us would write,"not only was the FBI’s political climate such that Mr. Allen’s disclosure resulted in retaliation against him, three different individuals were reassigned in SecD in retaliation for disclosing the impropriety of SecD’s action against Mr. Allen"

Allen not only had his security clearance suspended, but was placed on unpaid leave for months -- stuck in limbo, and unable to adequately defend himself without knowledge about why he was being targeted. Only after several years was the case resolved -- with Allen resigning in exchange for 27 months of back pay if his clearance was reinstated. It was reinstated

Here's Allen's own testimony about the hell he was put through for disclosing concerns about Director Wray's candor in re FBI sources and January 6 -- plus his dissent from covidian orthodoxy

He didn't actually receive his back pay for months even after the settlement was reached. In fact, he didn't receive it until after delivering that testimony before @Weaponization

Returning to the main question, is it unreasonable to be skeptical about the scope and rigor of the IG report, the comprehensiveness of the documents and testimony the FBI produced, given all we know about hyper-politicization and weaponization of these agencies -- including the effort to crush Marcus Allen for merely raising questions about FBI Director Wray's candor in re any nexus between the FBI and Jan. 6?

.@Kash_Patel will have his work cut out for him given both the knowns, and the known unknowns in re the FBI's misconduct

Here's the detail on Marcus Allen's trials and tribulations empowr.us/wp-content/upl…