A volunteer journalist organization is asking the DOJ inspector general to release the results of an investigation into an FBI retribution case settled next week.
Marcus Allen, a former Marine combatant who had been suspended without pay for more than two decades, was reinstated by the FBI on Friday. Following the upheaval on January 6, 2021, Allen’s clearing was voided because of his making guarded disclosures related to FBI Director Christopher Wray’s evidence. Before the DOJ inspector general made its final report on the poor suspension, the FBI reversed its retaliation against Allen.
Despite Allen’s negotiation with the FBI, the journalist security organization Empower Oversight wrote a letter to Judge Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Tuesday urging him to release their results.
According to Empower Oversight President Tristan Leavitt,” Mr. Allen and his family had to live on first withdrawals from their pension accounts for 27 months in order to maintain officially challenging the FBI’s poor revocation of his security clearance.” Mr. Allen waited on your office to finish and report on its investigation into the FBI’s use of the security clearance process in retaliation for 13 of those months.
The FBI declined to accept public charity or seek employment while Allen waited for the inspector general’s office to review his case. Allen remained subject to gift rules for public officials despite receiving no pay or duties from the Bureau for more than two years.
According to Leavitt, Allen has since “voluntarily resigned” in accordance with a settlement with the FBI that includes full reinstatement of his pay and benefits for the entire 27 months of his suspension.
Allen believes that the public and the FBI’s oversight committees in Congress must learn the facts from your thorough investigation, even though he also consented to withdraw his complaints to your office and is no longer employed by the Bureau.
Before your office made its findings of its investigation, the FBI decided to reinstate his clearance, Leavitt continued,” but that should n’t be an excuse.”
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R- Ohio, characterized Allen’s clearance reinstatement as” a total vindication for a great patriot” in a Tuesday statement.
Despite being attacked by FBI bureaucrats and congressional Democrats,” Marcus bravely stood up and exposed misconduct at the FBI,” Jordan said. The Ohio lawmaker then demanded that Garret O’Boyle and Stephen Friend’s security clearances be reinstated by the Bureau.
O’Boyle and Friend suffered agency retaliation for disclosing the FBI’s use of force by far-left ideologies on a similar level. O’Boyle claimed that after protected disclosures to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, the federal intelligence agency moved him from the Great Plains to Washington, D.C., where he was suspended on his first day. White supremacy has been designated as a top national security threat by the FBI, according to O’Boyle to support broad surveillance.
Friend also suffered agency retaliation for complaints about the FBI’s response to suspects from the Capitol riot on January 6. Friends reported to lawmakers that the FBI had a SWAT team in Orlando to make the arrest.
” I’ve arrested over 150 violent criminals in my career, I’ve never required a SWAT team to do it”, Friend said during a congressional hearing.
” I think that Garrett and myself and Marcus Allen, we brought the information, certainly the Republicans on the committee were very receptive to that information. And we kind of laid the groundwork for people to think that whistleblowers can be protected, Friend said on Fox News.
