hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in washington, d.c. with a gap between the reality of our post-january 6th politics and the republican party s alternate reality with its paranoid delusions about the deep state and the glorification of the capitol insurrection has never been wider. today s hearing on capitol hill by the so-called weaponization committee led by ohio republican jim jordan, involved, according to the republicans on that committee, fbi whistleblowers talking about supposed abuses at the bureau. that delusion was undercut by the reality before the hearing began. the washington post reported two fbi agents set to appear before a house subcommittee thursday had their security clearances revoked this morning over security concerns. that is according to a letter sent by the fbi to the house judiciary committee on wednesday and obtained by the washington post. those two witnesses are steven friend and marcus allen, and according to the new york times, quote, mr. all
for. now back to kash patel. i think that that helps tell the story for democrats about why they don t considered these disgruntled former and current fbi people to be whistleblowers. they re motivated by the perverse incentives. some of the testimony we heard today was very gripping. you had someone like garrett doyle who lost liss job and has to support his family and cried during the testimony and explained that s why he took the money from kash patel. but there is an element here to these claims being rewarded by political actors and incent sizing them to sort of cash out of these claims. steven friend has been working with kash patel as well. he said as much during his closed-door deposition if you read those transcripts, when democrats released their report
judiciary committee on wednesday and obtained by the washington post. those two witnesses are steven friend and marcus allen, and according to the new york times, quote, mr. allen s top secret security clearance was revoked after the bureau found he had, quote, expressed sympathy for persons or organizations that advocate, threaten or use force or violence. fbi investigators determined that allen sent ap e-mail from his bureau account to several colleagues months after the capitol attack urging them to, quote, exercise extreme caution and discretion in pursuit of any investigative inquiries or leads pertaining to the events of january 6th. this is steven friend according to his former employer the fbi. quote mr. friend whose security clearance was revoked tuesday had refused last summer to take part in a s.w.a.t. arrest of a january 6th suspect who was facing misdemeanor charges. friend had taken t
candidate and instead, they targeted all the resources and all their focus on the individual that they viewed to be the most problematic to the existing entemped forces that we have within our intelligence community and federal law enforcement that is beholden to these growing budgets we ve seen throughout the years as the mission creep has come home and the weapons of our federal government have been turned against the american population. quid pro whoa. fired from the fbi. the fbi run by christopher wray, who was a republican attorney in good standing and represented chris christie, chris christie passed his name to donald trump. donald trump s handpicked fbi agent. that s who mr. friend is maligning this week. he s being supported by a charitable organization and he s
not a charity, is a bombshell. the fbi has been exposed, actually it s mr. friend has been exposed. he s been exposed for taking money and providing his testimony as a paid agent, if you will, kash patel, who represents a right wing ideology, renary narrative and compounds an agenda that is inimical to constitutional democracy as we saw on january 6th. that s who this is. if anyone has been exposed and compromised it s not the fbi. it s mr. friend. what we do as a country when only one of the country s two parties and in the case it s the party of the minority, views the fbi suspending two individuals as a credible act, a justifiable act, what do you do if the house republicans and the majority then take and platform them and