Evening Edition: Whistleblowers Claim The F.B.I. Retaliated Against Them

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🗓️ 18 May 2023

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F.B.I. 'whistleblowers' testified today before members of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government claiming they were retaliated against for expressing their concerns the agency was being politicized. The witnesses say they were suspended or had their security clearances revoked while the F.B.I. says at least on agent refused to arrest a subject and participated in unauthorized media interviews, including with a Russian government agency. FOX's Eben Brown spoke with David Spunt, FOX News Washington D.C. Correspondent, about what was said during the hearing and reaction from both political parties. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Brian Kilmeade. I'm Martha McCallum. I'm David Asman, and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:08.2	Thursday, May 18, 2023, I'm Evan Brown, a special House subcommittee got to hear from FBI
0:15.8	whistleblowers who say they were targeted for speaking up, but what did they do? And who didn't
0:22.4	want them to talk? Since Republicans have taken over Congress, there are multiple different whistleblower
0:27.6	investigations floating down in Washington. So now I think people are taking the time to sit
0:31.6	and talk and discuss and say, okay, what does this mean? What does a whistleblower? What is an
0:35.1	informant? This is the Fox News rundown, the evening edition.
0:43.2	From the Fox News Podcasts Network, I'm Ben Dominic Fox News contributor and editor of the
0:48.5	Transome.com daily newsletter. And I'm inviting you to join a conversation every week. It's the
0:53.4	Ben Dominic podcast. Subscribe and listen now by going to Fox News Podcasts.com.
1:23.4	It wants to know and they heard today from people claiming to be whistleblowers on various
1:29.1	subjects. There are three witnesses today who say that they're whistleblowers for the FBI.
1:35.6	They were FBI employees for several years. Fox News correspondent David Spont was covering
1:40.7	the hearing. He speaks to us from the Justice Department in Washington. One's name, Marcus Allen,
1:46.8	former Marine who lost his security clearance two weeks ago officially. It was revoked though it
1:52.0	was suspended in January 2022. And he claims that he was suspended for his beliefs,
2:01.3	for his political beliefs and for basically his thoughts and beliefs in the way that he held
2:09.5	himself. He said today in a hearing and I'm reading a quote from him and then I'll get to the
2:14.4	others. He said that this is outrageous and insulting. It's based on unsubstantiated accusations
2:20.2	that I hold conspiratorial views regarding the events of January 6th. The reason that he brought
2:25.9	up January 6th is because Fox News obtained a letter from the FBI that went to Capitol Hill.
2:33.6	And the letter was from the FBI. The FBI has no comment. But the letter reads on September 29th,
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