FBI agent who pushed for scrutiny of Giuliani arrested for illegal disclosure of confidential info
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/fbi-agent-who-pushed-scrutiny-giuliani-arrested-illegal-disclosure
An FBI agent who has alleged Rudy Giuliani might be compromised by Russia and who has downplayed any FBI slow-walking of the Hunter Biden investigation was arrested as he was about to board a flight out of the United States.
An FBI agent who had publicly alleged that Trump ally Rudy Giuliani may have been compromised by Russia and who had denied that the FBI had mishandled its investigation of Hunter Biden was arrested this week for the illegal disclosure of confidential information.
The agent, Johnathan Buma, who had handled confidential human sources (CHSs) for the bureau and whose home had been raided by the FBI back in 2023, was arrested at JFK Airport in New York City on Monday night.
He was about to board an international flight, new court filings reveal. A criminal complaint from the Justice Department was issued on Wednesday charging Buma with violating federal laws surrounding the disclosure of confidential information.
For a number of years, Buma had made allegations that the FBI was mishandling a variety of sensitive investigations, claiming his efforts to scrutinize former Giuliani, also a former New York City mayor, were blocked. Buma had also argued the FBI did not slow-walk its investigations of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.
Fifty-one former intelligence officials released an October 2020 letter attempting to discredit New York Post stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop, with the ex-spies baselessly arguing that the Russians were involved with the laptop.
It was later revealed that former acting CIA Director Michael Morell wrote the laptop letter after being “prompted” by future Secretary of State Antony Blinken to do so, and that the debunked laptop letter was written to give Joe Biden a “talking point” in his debate with Trump ahead of the November 2020 election.
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