Jim Jordan: FBI ‘purging’ staffers with conservative viewpoints, retaliating against whistleblowers
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FBI ‘purges’ conservative staffers and retaliates against whistleblowers who complained of misconduct, Republican Representative Jim Jordan claims
- Republican Representative Jim Jordan accuses FBI of purging conservatives and whistleblowers who have come forward to expose political bias
- Fox News Digital reported Thursday that Jordan has written a letter to FBI Human Resources Executive Assistant Director Jennifer Moore.
- In the letter, he highlighted instances of alleged retaliation and demanded she sit down for an interview with Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee
- Jordan accused the FBI of a ‘purge’ by revoking security clearances and indefinitely suspending conservative employees
- She was subject to his letter, Jordan explained, because “many of the formal notices” were signed by her
- He told Moore he had information showing that she had “retaliated against at least one whistleblower who made protected disclosures to Congress.”
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Republican Representative Jim Jordan accuses the FBI of purging conservatives and whistleblowers who have come forward to expose political bias.
Fox News Digital reported Thursday that Jordan wrote a letter to the FBI’s Executive Assistant Director of the Human Resources Department, Jennifer Moore, to highlight cases of alleged retaliation and to demand that she be present for an interview with Republicans of the House Judiciary committee.
“During this investigation, we received protected disclosures from whistleblowers that the FBI is carrying out a ‘purge’ of conservative employees by revoking their security clearances and suspending these employees indefinitely,” Jordan told Moore.
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She was subject to his letter, Jordan explained, because “many of the letters” were signed by her.
He told Moore he had information showing that she had “retaliated against at least one whistleblower who made protected disclosures to Congress.”
Jordan told Fox that person shared with Republicans on the Judiciary Committee that the Justice Department labeled some parents who showed up at school board meetings a threat, allowing the DOJ to “prosecute them when appropriate.”
“As we have informed Director Christopher Wray, we take whistleblower retaliation seriously and require you to appear for a transcribed interview as soon as possible,” Jordan warned.
Republicans have pointed to a letter from the National School Boards Association to Attorney General Merrick Garland last fall, warning that some of the threats school officials received “could be the equivalent of some form of domestic terrorism.”
Garland, in turn, instructed the DOJ to investigate threats, but did not use the language of “terrorism.”
Jordan had previously revealed that he had heard from whistleblowers that the agency “deliberately manipulated” how files relating to Jan. 6 are maintained to fit the “political narrative” that domestic extremism is on the rise in the US
The Ohio Republican referred to those revelations in his interview with Fox Thursday.
“We call that squeezing the numbers — the pressure the FBI has to accommodate this story of President Biden, where he called half the country fascists and extremists,” Jordan said, pointing to Biden’s recent series of speeches in which he was mentioned. from “MAGA Republicans” especially for their role on January 6.