- An FBI veteran said his superiors suppressed investigations of Trump, Insider can exclusively reveal.
- “Are we going to do public corruption or not?” the whistleblower said to Insider.
- He said his boss ordered him to stop investigating Giuliani and the Trump White House.
A veteran FBI counterintelligence agent says his supervisor told him to stop investigating Rudy Giuliani and to cut off contact with any sources who reported on corruption by associates of former President Donald Trump, according to a whistleblower complaint obtained by Insider.
The agent, who served 14 years as a special agent for the bureau, including a long stint in Russia-focussed counterintelligence, claimed in a 22-page statement that his bosses interfered with his work in “a highly suspicious suppression of investigations and intelligence-gathering” aimed at protecting “certain politically active figures and possibly also FBI agents” who were connected to Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs.
Those figures, the statement claims, explicitly included “anyone in the White House and any former or current associates of President Trump.”
The statement, which was prepared for staffers of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was apparently leaked and posted in mid-July to a Substack newsletter. Insider has independently obtained a copy of the complaint and verified its authenticity but has not corroborated all of its claims.
In an interview with Insider, the whistleblower said he was motivated by a desire to improve the FBI, which he says is “essential, as imperfect as it is,” because of its sweeping power to hold “policymakers accountable, whether they’re on the left or the right.”
“This is a decision point,” he said. “Are we going to do public corruption or not?”
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