Inside Track
Whistleblower Details FBI Retaliation
On September 25, former FBI Staff Operations Specialist Marcus Allen told the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government that the FBI retaliated against him for attempting to give the agency a complete picture of what occurred at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The New York Post reported that Allen — a former Marine who served in Iraq — said the FBI “questioned my allegiance to the United States, suspended my security clearance, suspended my pay, and refused to allow me to obtain outside employment or even accept charity” for more than two years. Allen testified that he and his wife had to take “early withdrawals from our retirement accounts to survive” and keep their home, and concluded that the “FBI, with endless resources, was trying to destroy me financially so that I would give up.”
Allen’s ordeal began on September 29, 2021, when he emailed colleagues at the bureau about confidential FBI informants being present at the January 6 protest. The FBI immediately started a security clearance probe under the rubric of “allegiance to the United States.” Because of that email regarding the informants, as well as text messages in which he said the FBI is wrongfully prosecuting protesters, the bureau concluded that Allen might be an “insider threat.”
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