Chairman Jordan: Politics is driving the agenda in federal agencies. If you don't believe me, just read the Durham report from three days ago. No probable cause. No predicate. No evidence whatsoever, but the FBI opened a case, took a dossier, a dossier they know was false, from a political campaign, from the Clinton campaign, to spy on a presidential candidate, and American citizens.

Chairman Jordan: Mr Friend [witness] raised concerns about using a SWAT Team to arrest someone who was willing to turn themselves in, the FBI takes his clearance.

Jordan warning the witnesses that the democrats are going to 'come after them'.

Plaskett: MAGA republicans are a threat to the rule of law in America.

Plaskett: My colleagues on the far-right are on a mission to attack, discredit, and ultimately dismantle the FBI. This is defund the police on steroids.

Plaskett attacking the witnesses in her opening remarks, "my colleagues have brought in these former agents, men who lost their security clearances because they were a threat to our national security, who, out of malice, or ignorance, or both, have put partisan agenda above the oath they swore to serve this country and protect it's national security."

Plaskett is absolutely involved in serious criminal activity.

Plaskett: When the FBI investigates conservative Christian white men who are actually threatening violence, suddenly my republican colleagues are rushing to defund the police.

Plaskett: What's clear from these hearings is that Donald Trump knows just as well as I do, that the danger to him, and his MAGA movement, is the rule of law.

[PANIC X 1000]

Garret O’Boyle [whistleblower; FBI]: The FBI destroys their [whistleblowers] careers, suspends them under false pretenses, takes their security clearances and pay with no true options for recourse or remedy.

Steve Friend [whistleblower; former FBI]: At each level of my chain of command, leadership cautioned that, despite my exemplary work performance, whistleblowing placed my otherwise bright future with the FBI at risk.

These whistleblowers are brave men. They should be made, at least, Special Agents in charge of Field Offices, or some similar position, in whatever future federal law enforcement agency is operational after the dust clears.