Another FBI agent is claiming retaliation after flagging, internally, what he saw as inaccurate testimony by FBI Director Christopher Wray about the January 6, 2021 pro-Trump rally at the Capitol and the violence that followed.
In a whistleblower complaint, Agent Marcus Allen is asking the Inspector General to investigate whether the FBI wrongly suspended his security clearance in retaliation for him speaking up.
According to a letter filed by the whistleblower advocacy group Empower Oversight, Allen was suspended after informing a supervisor that Director Wray was not being forthright in his testimony about January 6 and the status of federal infiltration of some groups blamed in the violence.
The FBI has acknowledged it had agents and sources working in the crowd on January 6, but has not answered Congressional questions about the role the agents and sources played.
Wray has provided inaccurate testimony to Congress in the past.
Allen is an honorably-discharged Marine who worked as an intelligence analyst before being hired by the FBI in 2015. He works out of the agency’s Charlotte, North Carolina offices.
Several other FBI agents have stepped forward to blow the whistle on what they see as the agency’s improper or corrupt practices.
Agent Stephen Friend says he was retaliated against and fired after he refused to take part in what he saw as inappropriately heavy-handed SWAT raids on non-violent January 6 suspects with no criminal history who had allegedly committed no more than a misdemeanor trespass charge.