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FBI punishes whistleblower in Tampa terror case.(INSIDER REPORT)
The FBI badly botched a terrorism investigation in Florida and then falsified documents to cover up the error and retaliated against an FBI whistleblower who tried to expose the wrongdoing. Those were the findings of a draft report by the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General (OIG), according to the New York Times, which obtained a copy of the yet-to-be-released report.
The whistleblower is Michael German, a 16-year FBI veteran and undercover operative who was pursuing ties between narcotics trafficking in Florida and the financing of terrorist networks. Mr. German sought protection as a whistleblower in September 2002, after his complaints were repeatedly ignored. He left the FBI in 2004, he alleges, because his superiors retaliated against him by excluding him from assignments he normally would have participated in. Among the findings of the OIG was that someone at the FBI had used correction fluid to alter the dates of FBI forms in an apparent effort to cover up violations of federal wiretap law.
Sen. Charles Grassley, (R-Iowa), a critic of the FBI and ardent defender of whistleblowers, said German is "in a long line of FBI ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, FBI punishes whistleblower in Tampa terror case.(INSIDER REPORT)