An FBI agent who was once the handler for tech billionaire Peter Thiel, and who later criticized the bureau for allegedly suppressing investigations into ties between Rudy Giuliani and Russian intelligence assets, was arrested this week on charges of illegally disclosing classified information, according to court records filed Tuesday.
Johnathan Buma, who has worked for the FBI for 15 years, allegedly printed copies of confidential FBI documents and messages and later shared the material with associates as part of a draft of a book he was writing on his time in the bureau.
He was arrested Monday at a departure gate at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York as he was waiting to board an international flight, court records said.
An attorney representing Buma did not immediately return an emailed request for comment.
Last year, Headline USA obtained a whistleblower disclosure Buma made to the DOJ Inspector General, but didn’t report on it at the time because this reporter was pursuing other projects, including an ongoing investigation into the Trump assassination attempts. Given that Buma’s disclosure directly addresses the allegations against him, Headline USA is publishing the disclosure here for the first time: […]
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