185. (BREAKING) New FBI Whistleblower Claims Re: Director Wray and Jan. 6
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Sharyl Attkisson
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🗓️ 16 May 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Another FBI Agent has stepped forward to claim retaliation related to the agency’s January 6 activities and disclosures. Tristan Leavitt of the whistleblower advocacy group Empower Oversight has the story of Agent Marcus Allen.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to a special breaking news edition of the Cheryl |
| 0:12.0 | Ackison podcast. Today, another FBI agent has stepped forward to claim retaliation related |
| 0:19.1 | to the agency's January 6 activities and disclosures. |
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| 1:02.0 | slash podcasters to get started. Well, another FBI agent is stepping forward to claim retaliation |
| 1:10.3 | related to the agency's January 6 activities and disclosures. According to a complaint |
| 1:16.0 | filed with the inspector general, the agent named Marcus Allen internally alerted his FBI colleagues |
| 1:22.4 | to what he saw as misleading testimony by FBI director Christopher Ray about the FBI's role |
| 1:28.6 | in the January 6, 2021 pro Trump demonstrations at the US Capitol that turned violent. Marcus |
| 1:35.3 | Allen is not alone as you will hear in today's podcast. We're getting the low down from |
| 1:40.3 | Tristan Levit of the whistleblower advocacy group Empower Oversight. And while we're at it, |
| 1:45.8 | we're going to ask Tristan about another breaking news story. This one about alleged retaliation |
| 1:50.6 | against a whole team of IRS agents working and undisclosed but high profile investigation, |
| 1:57.0 | apparently of great political importance that they're not allowed to specifically identify. Here's |
| 2:02.8 | Tristan Levit. So I have worked with with whistleblowers for about the last decade or so. |
| 2:10.3 | My first job after law school was working with Senator Chuck Grassley and so working with John Dodson, |
| 2:17.8 | the whistleblower in Operation Fast and Furious, was my real introduction to that. And then I |
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