The following is from the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote Attorney General Pam Bondi and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel requesting the Department of Justice and FBI take corrective action to restore the security clearances of DOJ and FBI whistleblowers who’ve suffered retaliation.
“My office has been told that, in many of these cases, the suspension of their security clearances resulted in immediate, indefinite suspensions without pay while the FBI improperly and intentionally delayed the process for these individuals to contest the adverse action,” Grassley wrote. “This tyrannical government conduct caused significant financial hardship. The retaliatory government action also placed them in the impossible situation to either resign their position without completing their legal challenge or continue challenging the suspension or revocation of their clearance while suspended without pay with no prospect of obtaining new employment.”
“The Biden administration’s political weaponization of the Justice Department and FBI has caused significant damage to these institutions and its employees, but you’re in the position to right the ship,” Grassley continued. “Accordingly, I request that you personally review the adverse personnel matters for these individuals, which I will send under separate cover, and take all appropriate corrective actions, including restoring their security clearances and employment and firing or otherwise disciplining those who retaliated against them, if warranted.”
Grassley last year called on the DOJ to reform its security clearance review process, after receiving initial reports the agency had unlawfully used it to retaliate against whistleblowers. Ahead of the Judiciary Committee’s vote to advance Patel’s nomination as FBI Director, Grassley highlighted the cases of various FBI whistleblowers who have been retaliated against, including through the wrongful suspension or revocation of their security clearances.
Read Grassley’s full letter here or below.
March 20, 2025
VIA ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION
The Honorable Pam Bondi
Attorney General
Department of Justice
The Honorable Kash Patel
Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Dear Attorney General Bondi and Director Patel:
Over a period of years, my office has received allegations that I’ve actively worked to resolve relating to the Biden Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) taking adverse personnel action against several of its employees in retaliation for making legally protected whistleblower disclosures or because their political beliefs didn’t align with the Biden administration. My office has been told that, in many of these cases, the suspension of their security clearances resulted in immediate, indefinite suspensions without pay while the FBI improperly and intentionally delayed the process for these individuals to contest the adverse action. This tyrannical government conduct caused significant financial hardship. The retaliatory government action also placed them in the impossible situation to either resign their position without completing their legal challenge or continue challenging the suspension or revocation of their clearance while suspended without pay with no prospect of obtaining new employment.
The Biden administration’s political weaponization of the Justice Department and FBI has caused significant damage to these institutions and its employees, but you’re in the position to right the ship. Accordingly, I request that you personally review the adverse personnel matters for these individuals, which I will send under separate cover, and take all appropriate corrective actions, including restoring their security clearances and employment and firing or otherwise disciplining those who retaliated against them, if warranted. Please provide my office with an update on this review no later than March 27, 2025.
Thank you for your attention to this request and prompt review of this matter.
Sincerely,
Charles E. Grassley
Chairman
Committee on the Judiciary
From his AIPAC “handler”…
I am extremely disappointed in Grassley. People like Brennan and Crapper are not trustworthy, engaged in political warfare on the behalf of a despicable relentless Neo Marxist party. Such squishy Republicans are our bane, who still live in a world of Skip Jackson, John Kennedy, and other more centrist democrats. The era of live and let live is over and the destruction that has been wrought on the Constitution, our Republic, our education system, and our media is devastating. People who used their past positions to assist in the law attacks on a presidency deserve prison, let alone revocation of their clearances.
Freely dispensed FIAT money like Rat cheese in a one way trap Esp. abundant since the Gobalist cabals 1913 illegal U.S. monetary takeover handed to any takers has created both-
1) the Uni-Party collusion dillusion,
2) the unelected DC 438-Agency DeepState,
BOTH in “Pay for Play” will do as directed w/no way out = controlled by the Globalist Overseer’s Unseen Hand has been over Kings, Kingdoms and nations for millenia = as long as people can be bought even if its truly Treason as Traitor’s and even far worse as part of global genocide as long the bank accounts are bulging and the money-trail is covered up…!
“The root of all Evil IS the Love of money” ~ JESUS