New FOIAs to @FBI and @JusticeOIG on #whistleblower retaliation against @RealStevefriend
https://twitter.com/empowr_us/status/1621154176343617536
The @FBI stripped @RealStevefriend of his paycheck with no due process, w/o any investigation. He remains an FBI employee in a leave w/o pay status.
Then the @FBI refused to provide @RealStevefriend’s records to him as required by the Privacy Act, which hinders his ability to look for other work.
After that, the @FBI denied @RealStevefriend permission to work another job to bring in some money while waiting for the FBI and @JusticeOIG to finish their investigations.
This is the classic @FBI #whistleblower squeeze play. Crush the employee financially before they have had any due process so that they have to give up and quit in order to provide for their families.
The @FBI opens up multiple retaliatory investigations targeting the #whistleblower. Meanwhile, there are zero investigative resources devoted to looking into the improper conduct and waste of resources @RealStevefriend reported.
The @FBI yanked @RealStevefriend off of child exploitation cases to chase Jan 6 dead ends and keep cases open—artificially goosing domestic violent extremism stats cited by the Attorney General.
If @JusticeOIG fails to probe how, to what extent, and why the @FBI de-prioritized child exploitation cases, ditched normal protocols, and engaged in risky, unneeded SWAT ops, then it falls to Congress. @ChuckGrassley, @Jim_Jordan.
The retaliation against @RealStevefriend should stop and serious investigation of his disclosures should begin.
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