As Twitchy reported, FBI whistleblowers testified Thursday before the House Judiciary and Weaponization Committee about how the FBI had retaliated against them, including how one former special agent was transferred across the country only to be suspended on his first day; he testified that his family had to borrow coats because his family’s belongings were locked in an FBI-controlled storage facility.
Democrats beclowned themselves, with one confronting a former agent with a tweet about January 6 that was from the wrong Twitter account, and another calling the hearing “defund the police on steroids.”
The media was happy as always to give the Democrats an assist. Check out CNN’s spin:
Three self-described FBI whistleblowers, who are key to the Republican narrative that the FBI is weaponized against conservatives, testified at a House hearing Thursday. CNN's Sara Murray reports. Watch: https://t.co/m0dkp1dyWR
— CNN (@CNN) May 19, 2023
MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace said that the FBI whistleblowers were “guilty of insubordination.” We’d missed that MSNBC “expert” Frank Figliuzzi also weighed in on the “self-proclaimed” whistleblowers. Check out that chyron: “Dems Question Witnesses’ Credibility at Hearing on FBI.” Figliuzzi was kind enough to explain how none of the witnesses was an actual “whistleblower” in the technical sense of the word:
Frank Figliuzzi: To be officially designated whistleblowers, FBI employees must follow specific procedures. None of Rep. Jordan’s witnesses did so, thus, none of them was granted whistleblower status. https://t.co/H74BF6Y2ki pic.twitter.com/n4f5PYG6o6
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) May 20, 2023
And Those certain procedures state they must benefit democrats to be considered Whistle blowers
— The People's Cube (@ThePeoplesCube) May 20, 2023
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Anything to cover up the corruption!
— Gary Gower (@gary_gower) May 20, 2023
Tell that to a court. BTW, they are still blowing the whistle on @fbi’s unethical, and potentially illegal practices.
— S. Easland (@sdeasland1) May 20, 2023
And really, that is your defense? They didn’t follow bureaucratic procedure? Can’t deal with the substance of their allegations obviously.
— S. Easland (@sdeasland1) May 20, 2023
Has Frank always attacked whistleblowers……or is Frank just angry that these whistleblowers are exposing the FBI lie about wide spread white supremacy?
Something tells me Frank's opinions are not his own.
— Think tank (@DividedByLies) May 20, 2023
I didn’t have democrats denying the existence whistleblowers on my bingo card.
— MAGA Barbie 🇺🇸👱🏼♀️ (@stillunwoke17) May 20, 2023
@MSNBC you’re a disgrace to this country
— X 2.0 (@XLll_0U812) May 20, 2023
MSDNC has spoken.
— A Kazeni (@khazeni) May 20, 2023
Why are you not doing your jobs and investigating this?! Instead, you’re 100% political and it’s ugly.
— Solvix 🇺🇸 (@brent_yager) May 20, 2023
Maybe do some journalism and look into the “self-proclaimed” whistleblower’s claims? Were they telling the truth? Has the FBI been politically weaponized? We know from the Durham report that it has, without question.
Adam Schiff made up his whistleblowers. What did you report on that? Nothing!
— ARP (@templebuilder72) May 20, 2023
If they aren't whistle blowers why are active investigations open based on their claims?
— Matthew Johnson (@mdj1279) May 20, 2023
MSNBC is just a dangerous media outlet. Are you justifying retaliation against whistle blowing??
— CJ (@SeeRighthruyou) May 20, 2023
Official policies and procedures like not maintaining a government email server at home? 🤔🤔🤔
— real_mBrane (@real_mBrane) May 20, 2023
If that’s true then maybe they aren’t protected from retaliation but that doesn’t mean they are lying which is really what matters
— FREEDOMS NOT FREE (@kevinrph) May 20, 2023
So, coming before Congress and telling a story of corruption within the FBI that has already been validated TWO attorneys and one IG report means these guys are not whistle blowers. Add to the dismissal of Comey and McCabe for bringing false information to a FISA court. PLS MSNBC
— Jon Jerret (@Spookey2th) May 20, 2023
It’s MSNBC time… pic.twitter.com/EiZV6dcN7A
— Mr. Johnny Rebeck (@StillinSaigon) May 20, 2023
This is just sad and pathetic. When the MSM demonizes those coming forward to tell the truth about a government agency that is rotten to the core, and the people agreeing with it, is equally disgusting.
— MiddleClassWOMAN (@mom_of_2_MEN) May 20, 2023
MSNBC could look into their claims, but their angle instead was to cover the Democrats calling their claims into question (with bogus tweets). The Twitter Files already showed how chummy the FBI was with Twitter 1.0, and MSNBC wouldn’t want to risk the FBI not leaking information to them.
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Related:
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace declares FBI whistleblowers ‘guilty of insubordination’ https://t.co/d4amVBXH7K
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 18, 2023
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