Special Agent Johnathan Buma's Whistleblower Retaliation Complaint Was Shut Down Last Week
Where are Republicans on this? Hello! Transmission from planet reality!
You know who likes it when America’s best spy hunters get shut down? Enemy spies. In this case, especially the criminal Russian-Israeli faction with a dominant influence in the Republican Party.
Special Agent Johnathan Buma’s attorney was informed last Thursday by the Department of Justice that his whistleblower retaliation complaint with the DOJ Office of the Inspector General had been closed, though his complaint through the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity Affairs remains ongoing.
Here is the letter:
One of his attorneys is Nekeisha Campbell, here in DC, who seems great. I’m told he’s also working with Mark Geragos, who is supposedly behaving himself, but I’m less sure about.
Buma has reached out to Brian Richardson of the University of North Texas to discuss the retaliation he has experienced, though he declined to comment to me for IRB reasons.
One of Buma’s attorneys who was instrumental in getting him in front of Senator Whitehouse’s office was Scott Horton. This sort of thing is why God created libertarians.
The whistleblower retaliation complaint, dated February 5, 2024, claims that his superiors, Sussana Iljazi and Richard Smith began messing with him in late June 2021. Smith allegedly pressured Iljazi to begin subjecting him to random drug testing, and “a campaign of harassment that included intensely scrutinizing and micromanaging my work after SSA Iljazi rated me as an ‘exemplary performer’ just two months prior in my mid-year review.” This allegedly affected his ability to cultivate his CHSs.
His initial whistleblower complaint was filed with the FBI's Inspection Division and Assistant Director in Charge Kristi Johnson on January 7, 2022, which Buma believes was never acted upon.
In November 2023, an investigation was opened into Buma which led to his house being raided on the 13th, and his security clearance was suspended, along with his employment, on November 29.
While the EEOA complaint offers a chance for Buma to vindicate himself, where I would disagree with the DOJ about the dismissal of the whistleblower retaliation complaint is that it seems like yet another instance of the DOJ being unable to recognize Israeli threats to national security.
Everett Stern, a man with deep ties to Israel whom Buma describes as an extremist with ties to foreign intelligence in his complaint, which is no doubt true, provided the pretext for raiding his home with his family present. With Israel and the U.S. pulling apart in the absence of any kind of formal alliance and an increasingly extremist and unstable government, there’s every reason to consider a guy like Stern an enemy spy, especially when he’s going after a whistleblower who was looking into Russian issues around Rudy Giuliani.
The deeply curious thing about this is everyone in Congress, especially on the Republican side, is looking around at each other pretending not to have noticed it.
Arthur, fyi, that's The Other Scott Horton, human rights lawyer from Columbia U and Harper's. A good guy. Sincerely, the Institute, Antiwar.com one