FBI Whistleblower Pushed Out Under Biden Wins Battle To Publish Documents That Ended His Career
By Daily Caller. A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who was forced out for refusing to sign off on a warrant into a right-wing “domestic extremist group” has won a fight to unseal documents related to that case.
Zach Schoffstall, a former supervisory agent in the FBI’s Salt Lake City division, was forced out of the FBI during the Biden administration for not going after the Patriot Front organization, the Daily Caller previously reported.
Empower Oversight, a group that represents whistleblowers, filed a motion to request the government unseal the warrant. After 90 days, the government finally acquiesced and released the document, Schoffstall said. The only information redacted was the name of the supervisory agent.
Thirty-one members of the group Patriot Front were arrested after protesting an LGBT event in Idaho and charged with conspiracy to riot in 2022.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) in Idaho and the FBI pressured Schoffstall to sign off on the warrant, but he refused. The government attempted to find agents who would comply, including one without knowledge of the investigation, he previously told the Caller. (Read more from “FBI Whistleblower Pushed Out Under Biden Wins Battle To Publish Documents That Ended His Career” HERE)
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FBI Whistleblower Charged with Disclosing Confidential Records After Accusing Agency of Political Bias
By Whistleblower Network News. Describing himself as one of the “most significant whistleblowers in FBI history,” 15-year veteran FBI Special Agent Johnathan Buma was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport on March 17, 2025, as he was attempting to board an outbound international flight. Roughly a day later, a criminal charge was filed in the California Central District Court claiming that Buma disclosed classified information about FBI investigations and confidential informants.
According to a court-filed affidavit, Buma had allegedly sent emails and messages that contained excerpts of a prospective book about his career at the FBI. Some of the sensitive information that Buma reportedly disclosed related to “the FBI’s efforts and investigations into a foreign country’s weapon of mass destruction (‘WMD’) program.” Buma had also purportedly given “authorization” to the recipients to share the restricted details.
During the first Trump Administration, Buma blew the whistle on alleged political bias by the FBI. In a 2024 interview with Business Insider, Buma revealed that in 2019, he provided different sets of unverified information to his supervisor at the FBI field office in Los Angeles for potential action. The first possible case involved Hunter Biden and potential criminal activity regarding the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. According to Buma, his supervisor was “interested and adamant about…transferring [the case] to the appropriate case agent right away.” In the same meeting, Buma offered potentially lucrative information about former Trump legal associate Rudy Giuliani, but his supervisor allegedly “shut [him] down immediately.” The information alleged that Giuliani had been compromised by Russian counterintelligence and organized crime operations.
After this, Buma claimed his work became more scrutinized, sometimes calling his workplace treatment “intolerable.” In January 2022, he filed a whistleblower complaint and testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, alleging “numerous acts of intelligence repression.” Buma then explained that “no actions were ever taken to correct ongoing reprisals and suppression of intelligence” and that he experienced even harsher repression once he filed to become a whistleblower. Additionally, he was reassigned from working with confidential human sources (CHS) to a surveillance squad, which he called “the Alaska of L.A.” due to its isolation and uncontroversial nature compared to Buma’s previous position. (Read more from “FBI Whistleblower Charged with Disclosing Confidential Records After Accusing Agency of Political Bias” HERE)
