Special Agent Buma's Resignation Letter from the DOJ, and Comments on His Arrest

The charging affidavit is not clear that he is actually guilty of what is being alleged, but there is probable cause

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It’s hitting all over the news, after an ABC scoop that former Special Agent Johnathan Buma has been arrested.

The charging documents were docketed this morning, and you can read them here:

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ABC’s reporting is not clear that they have either seen the charging documents, or the drafts of the manuscript Buma was preparing. I have seen several chapters of the draft manuscript, and as of this morning have read the charging documents. The charging affidavit does not allege that material from the 130 documents Buma allegedly printed actually ended up in his manuscript. And of the chapters I have read, they are more memoir-like, and his work for the Bureau is described in more general terms. So nothing I know would indicate that necessary connective tissue is there.

The charging affidavit was sworn to by Special Agent Steven Deck, and it seems to me that he is right that there is probable cause for an arrest. However, as someone with I think one of the closest views of SA Buma’s reporting, whistleblowing, and subsequent retaliation, who has been in contact with multiple confidential human sources (CHS) with whom he was working and have identified themselves, I’ll say I have no special knowledge that would indicate he is actually guilty of the crime he is accused of. If he had written specifics about his CHSs, I would very much have been in a position to check with the sources themselves.

There is a lot of murkiness in this, but here’s how I would explain some of the legal issues at play. It is forbidden for the FBI to disclose the identity of a CHS. However, a CHS can identify him or herself, which is what happened in the case of Charles Johnson. In the case of CHS Johnson identifying Peter Thiel, he is not a government employee and therefore has not given up his speech rights, and Charles is the one who recruited him.

So the overall picture here is that there is a parallel reconstruction going on, in which there is one investigation going on within the bureau’s channels, but the same matters are being discussed on what is called an open-source basis. There is no evidence I’m aware of that Buma pressured or encouraged his sources to go public, and plenty to indicate he was displeased with their decision to do so. And in the case of Johnson at least, his decision to go public was certainly shaped by distrust as to whether the FBI would hold accountable the various Israeli bad actors involved in these intrigues.

Another inescapable aspect of this is that Buma was subject to retaliation from likely Israeli asset Everett Stern. When it comes to publishing companies in the Big Bagel, we could reasonably expect them to be threatened, cancelled, or otherwise harmed by agents of Zionist power over a book which would reflect poorly on the state of Israel, because they have done it in the past, and Buma’s sources are also nervous given the FBI’s unwillingness to apply the law where Israeli foreign influence is concerned. Nobody really knows how to handle this situation.

So Buma himself has been kept in a kind of limbo for years while they bleed him white. His choice is, either settle with the DOJ, permit his book to be written with all the Israeli angles removed, and walk away intact except in the sense of his balls being in the hands of Benjamin Netanyahu, or fight it. The only way he’s going to get what he wants is by confronting the Israelis, because they manage these whistleblower narratives to a great extent.

Here is Buma’s resignation letter, sent to the DOJ on Sunday. My suspicion is he resigned and then they confected a basis to arrest him the next day:

Naturally, Kyle Seraphin, and a number of other conservative influencers, like Sean Davis, are suggesting this is about something else. If there wasn’t a bit of a recruiting problem at the FBI, a guy like Seraphin, who doesn’t seem very smart, probably wouldn’t have been an agent in the first place.

But the overall picture here is yet another example of the pattern in which public employees who are disfavored by the genocidal regime of Benjamin Netanyahu are harmed with no recourse to remedy the violation of their rights. And in the meantime, from the politicals in government, this vile and unmanly unwillingness to actually talk to critics of the Israelis persists.