FBI agent who testified for Republicans was suspended over leaked sensitive information

[demmiblue]

Source: NBC News

WASHINGTON — Garret O’Boyle, an FBI agent who was presented in a public hearing by House Republicans as a whistleblower, was suspended by the bureau because internal investigators had concluded that he leaked sensitive investigative information to the right-wing group Project Veritas, according to a bureau official.

House Democrats are now accusing O'Boyle of lying to the committee and are referring the matter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, according to a letter obtained by NBC News.

Lawmakers learned about the reason for O'Boyle's suspension, which was previously unreported, in testimony that Jennifer Moore, executive assistant director of the FBI for human resources, provided to the House Judiciary Committee's Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Portions of her testimony are included in a letter that top Democrats on the Judiciary and Weaponization panels wrote to Garland, alleging that O’Boyle lied to the committee about leaking information prior to his suspension.

In the letter, Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-Virgin Islands, detail several instances of O'Boyle, in interviews with committee staff and in the panel’s public hearing, denying that he had leaked FBI information to the media.

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[hibbing]

1. Again, all for THAT guy n/t

[yankee87]

2. FBI destroyed by TFG

I still can not believe how much damage TFG did to this country.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. NOT destroyed. Get real. It's been written off by the 15 percent trumpanzees but not the nation

[JohnSJ]

13. I think it is more like 20-25%. The same who thought President Obama wasn't an

American Citizen.

Problem is it is difficult to really know.

Polls of republicans indicate a significant majority of republicans not only support trump, but even more republicans seem to believe trump is being unfairly treated.

If I understand the national polls, which include Democrats, republicans, and independent, the numbers seem to be 60% against trump, 40% for, which if valid still is a significant large number of people, and the way Presidents are elected by states with the electoral college, not the popular vote, anything can happen.

[RandySF]

3. Why do they all look like tv villains?

[William Seger]

4. Because they're Fox News heros (nt)

[groundloop]

5. All these damned tRump sleepers need to be weeded out.

There should be a sense of urgency in getting these bastards out of our government, they're gonna' be doing damage for years to come.

[AllaN01Bear]

6. that includes the entire suprime court.

[Cha]

8. Here's to George O'Boyle Getting

what he deserves.

[Lonestarblue]

9. I keep wondering how many FBI agents still follow the beliefs of J. Edgar Hoover.

He used FBI agents to spy on people like MLK and promoted white supremacy. How many of today’s agents bought into Trump’s strong-arm tactics and still actively support him, even after January 6?

“But Hoover’s legacy has aged about as well as Gone With the Wind’s. He was notorious for strong-arm tactics, political manipulation and disregard for civil liberties. He used the FBI’s extensive intelligence-gathering capabilities to monitor political dissidents, civil rights leaders and other groups he deemed a threat to national security.

President Harry Truman, alarmed by Hoover nosing into Americans’ sex lives, warned: “We want no Gestapo or secret police. The FBI is tending in that direction.” Biographer Beverly Gage has called him “the 20th century’s single most effective foe of the American left”.

Martin now delivers a fresh perspective. In an elegantly written book, The Gospel of J Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism, he makes a persuasive case that Hoover was a white Christian nationalist and convenient ally for evangelicals, embedding race and religion in the foundations of the national security state – and allowing white supremacy to fester to this day.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/21/the-gospel-of-j-edgar-hoover-lerone-martin

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. To give him his due, I wouldn't call Project Veritas "media", but "ratfuckers" or "fraudsters" (nt)

[LoisB]

11. Suspended, not fired and arrested?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. But it's Project Ferret Ass

That makes him a good guy in GOP eyes.