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Whistleblowers: FBI Purging Bureau of Religious Conservatives, Military Vets, Trump Supporters

Multiple FBI whistleblowers have stepped up in recent days to tell the House Judiciary Committee that high-ranking FBI officials are targeting conservative agents—particularly those with military backgrounds—and are trying to force them out of the Bureau.

Last week, at least three FBI whistleblowers told lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee that security clearances were revoked from personnel based on religious or politically conservative beliefs, according to the Washington Times’ Kerry Picket.

One of the whistleblowers reportedly told Congress that FBI executives targeted current employees associated with former FBI employees who were interviewed in the documentary “Police State.”

The movie, co-created by conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza and produced by talk radio host Dan Bongino, features former FBI agents Kyle Seraphin and Steven Friend and accuses Democratic Party leaders, and top officials in the FBI, CIA and Justice Department, of censoring, harassing and imprisoning their political opponents.

The whistleblowers allege that officials in the FBI’s security division (known as SecD) reportedly “assigned agents from field offices to conduct security clearance investigations of employees suspected of communicating with or providing information to people involved with the movie.”

SecD recently attempted to recruit 100 to 300 special agents to conduct these internal investigations temporarily, according to the whistleblower information.

Another SecD employee said Mr. Seraphin’s security clearance investigation did not follow the policy of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Mr. Seraphin was subjected to a security clearance investigation, according to the disclosure, after his field office notified FBI official Dena Perkins that a police officer who was out of his jurisdiction confronted him about practicing his firearm shooting at a range/shooting area.

“The minor allegations against Seraphin had no national security nexus. An administrative misconduct investigation would have likely resulted in, at most, a letter of censure or written counseling,” the disclosure states. “However, Seraphin had previously refused to take a Covid vaccine, which was an obvious indication to SecD that an employee is politically conservative.

“There were approximately 300 FBI employees who refused to take the Covid vaccine and were communicating with each other about the FBI Headquarters’ discriminating against conservative Christian employees and others who refused the vaccine for political reasons,” the disclosure to lawmakers read.

One of the whistleblowers said a special agent in the Miami field office was temporarily assigned to conduct security clearances of associates to Mr. Friend.

The disclosure claims FBI executives violated the Security Executive Agent Directive 4 (SEAD 4), the “national security guideline for allowing intelligence community agencies to conduct security clearance adjudications.”

The whistleblowers named names.

“Specifically, SecD Section Chief Section Matthew Nagle, Deputy Assistant Director Lawerence Buckley, and Assistant Section Chief Dena Perkins have caused security clearance investigators to adjudicate security clearances in a manner that is contrary to the SEAD IV guidelines,” the disclosure said.

SecD is “intentionally misinterpreting the SEAD IV guidelines so that it can deny, suspend and revoke security clearances of FBI employees because of political affiliations and beliefs.”

The disclosure said these security division officials have been exaggerating single incidents of alleged misconduct to be substituted for multiple incidents of misconduct while using security clearance investigations to substitute for internal misconduct investigations.

When an internal investigation finds minor misconduct incidents, the penalty typically ranges from oral or written reprimands to performance counseling, according to the whistleblowers’ account.

“Nagle, Buckley, and Perkins have been expanding the scope of security investigations in a manner that violates ODNI’s rules and policies,” the disclosure states. “The basis for security revocations are specifically enumerated by ODNI.”

According to one SecD employee, Perkins, who has been in her job since 2018, retaliated against an employee who reported her to the office of Attorney General Merrick Garland. The day after the complaint was filed, Perkins suspended the...