ACLJ Takes on Biden FBI Targeting of Whistleblower

We just filed a formal request to the FBI to reconsider the revocation of Special Agent Garret O’Boyle’s security clearance – an action we argue was a retaliatory measure against a protected whistleblower. The ACLJ represents O’Boyle along with Empower Oversight and Binnall Law Group.

The legal request presents in excruciating detail a point-by-point rebuttal to a series of FBI abuses in its targeting of O’Boyle, a decorated Army veteran and former local law enforcement officer. O’Boyle was indefinitely suspended without pay following a surprise interview at his new duty station in Virginia in September 2022. He had just completed a cross-country move with his family – including a newborn child – when his security clearance was suddenly suspended, leaving the family homeless and without income.

O’Boyle’s ordeal is one in a long list of egregious retaliatory actions by FBI bureaucrats over the last several years. The politicization of the FBI’s Security Division is now well-documented thanks to numerous whistleblowers who have outlined abuses by leadership in retaliation for legally protected whistleblower disclosures that put the agency in a bad light.