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The Rich Zeoli Show

House Hearing: FBI Leadership Targeted Whistleblowers

The Rich Zeoli Show

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4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1:

  • On Thursday, several Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) whistleblowers testified before a House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The hearing addressed alleged abuses of power by leadership within the FBI. In his opening statement, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) warned the FBI whistleblowers that following their testimony before Congress they would likely be improperly targeted by elements of the federal government—citing Matt Taibbi as an example of what could happen. Four days after testifying before Congress, Internal Revenue Service officers alarmingly showed up to the home of independent journalist Matt Taibbi.
  • During Thursday’s House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, Rep. Chris Stewart applauded the FBI whistleblowers for their bravery and condemned the bureau’s leadership for being overtly politicized.
  • While testifying before a House Select Committee, former FBI agent turned whistleblower Steve Friend stated that the bureau retaliated against him after he questioned statistics being used to determine that domestic extremism was a dire threat.
  • Robert Bork Jr.—President of the Antitrust Education Project & head of the Bork Group, a public affairs agency—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss the left’s recent attacks on Justice Clarence Thomas and, subsequently, the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. Bork notes that while progressives have spent considerable effort and time unjustly questioning Justice Thomas’ “morals”, Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor refused to recuse themselves from cases involving organizations they were affiliated with, like Harvard University and Penguin Random House books.

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Now on Talk Radio 1210 W-P-H-D, Rich, Z-O-L.

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A really shocking, shocking hearing today.

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The weaponization on government committee today.

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FBI, accused of rot and retaliation.

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This is an agency that is so rotten to the core

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and retaliated against these whistleblowers, brave adrients, who came forward

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to speak about what they saw about agency corruption.

0:47.0

Welcome to the show. Glad you're here today.

0:49.0

What a busy, busy Thursday with this hearing this morning.

0:53.0

I listened to a lot of it and we've got a ton of audio for you.

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855-839-1210 on Twitter at Rich, Z-O-L.

1:00.0

We have a lot of audio. Got some great guests coming up.

1:03.0

We have some real important local issues to talk about as well.

1:06.0

So we're going to discuss all these things with you

1:09.0

throughout the course of the show.

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But obviously as we begin this hour, clearly the big takeaway is

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the FBI is completely and utterly corrupted in Washington, D.C.

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