FBI Director Christopher Wray told House lawmakers Wednesday that a security questionnaire asking about employees’ political beliefs was not created by a bureau official.
The FBI Security Division officials’ investigation of an employee included questions about political and personal beliefs, according to whistleblower disclosures recently sent to the inspector general.
“Director Wray is hiding the ball on this,” Tristan Leavitt, president of the nonprofit whistleblower law firm Empower Oversight, wrote on X.
He added, “Another whistleblower to Empower Oversight a registered Democrat and supervisor from within the FBI’s Security Division disclosed to the DOJ IG and to Congress that these kinds of questions were asked all the time in interviews, even if they weren’t typed up in outlines ahead of time.”