Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government intended for Thursday’s subcommittee hearing to help prove his point that the FBI has been wrongly targeting conservative agents. Jordan would bring forward whistleblowers, he promised, who would testify that the FBI stripped them of their security clearances for purely political reasons. However, Jordan’s efforts backfired even before they began. The FBI delivered Jordan a letter Wednesday night that lists what the bureau says are the real reasons why his witnesses were found unworthy of their security clearances.
The FBI delivered a letter that lists what the bureau says are the real reasons his witnesses were found unworthy of their security clearances.
The letter from Christopher Dunham, acting assistant director of the bureau, is a convincing rebuttal of Jordan’s story that the FBI retaliated against well-meaning public servants for expressing views contrary to their agency. Dunham explains that the agents in question had their security clearances revoked, pending appeal, for a number of reasons, including questions about their allegiance, reported criminal conduct, personal misconduct and how sensitive information was handled.
Jordan chose to largely ignore the FBI’s response except to say, “It doesn’t surprise me that the FBI puts out this letter the night before we’re going to have a hearing.” The Democrats on the subcommittee, however, used the FBI’s report to hammer home the point that they weren’t buying what the witnesses were selling.
Even so, Jordan proceeded with his hearing and paraded before the cameras two current FBI employees and one former employee who term themselves “whistleblowers” and who testified that it was only because they expressed various concerns about the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection investigations that the FBI revoked their security clearances.
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