During emotional testimony before a GOP-controlled House committee on Thursday, a former FBI special agent stated that he was left destitute after he reported malpractice and malfeasance within the bureau, indicating that officials punished him for speaking out.

Garrett O’Boyle testified before the House Judiciary Committee during a hearing scrutinizing allegations of FBI political ‘weaponization’ against certain groups and American citizens that he had endured severe retaliation for his actions.

“The FBI allowed me to accept orders to a new position halfway across the country,” he told the panel. “They allowed us to sell my family’s home. They ordered me to report to the new unit when our youngest daughter was 2 weeks old.”

Then he stated, “On the first day of my new assignment, they suspended me, rendering my family homeless.”

Additionally, he stated that the FBI “refused to release our belongings, including our clothing, for weeks.” O’Boyle stated that he and his family were “stranded” in Wisconsin as winter approached, with no income, insurance, or belongings.

“It was horrible. It was a difficult time,” he said.

“The FBI will crush you. This government will crush you and your family if you try to expose the truth about things they are doing that are wrong,” he said.

“Too many in the FBI aren’t willing to sacrifice for the hard right over the easy wrong. They see what becomes of whistleblowers. How the FBI destroys their careers, suspends them under false pretenses, takes their security clearance and pay with no true options for real recourse or remedy,” O’Boyle added at another point during his testimony. “This is by design. It creates an Orwellian atmosphere that silences opposition and discussion.”

“I couldn’t knowingly and silently continue on this path without speaking out against the weaponization I witnessed,” he noted further. “All I wanted to do was serve my country by stopping bad guys and protecting the innocent. To my chagrin, bad guys have begun running parts of the government, making it difficult to continue to serve this nation.”
In response to his and other testimony by two more whistleblowers, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who sits on the committee, told Fox News it might be time to dramatically cut back on funding for the FBI.

His remarks also follow a damning report by special counsel John Durham, who stated that the FBI investigated then-GOP nominee Donald Trump for purportedly “colluding” with Russia to steal the 2016 election, despite the fact that there was never any evidence to support such a claim.

“We don’t throw people in jail in Congress that’s probably for good reason. We have to de-fang and defund the authorities that have been weaponized against the people, we have to get the FBI out of Washington D.C.,” he told Fox News’ Will Cain on Thursday.

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“Much of what you heard today is that there are good FBI agents and analysts all around this country and there is pressure that comes out of headquarters and out of the Washington field office to do things that are against the law and the Constitution,” he continued. CONTINUE READING…