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Senator Blackburn and witness discuss FBI politicization after Crossfire Hurricane and Arctic Frost

Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn asks former FBI special agent Christopher O'Leary at a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights hearing to compare the Arctic Frost investigation if he was okay with the FBI being weaponized to go after conservatives, asking if that suits him and if he thought that was a justifiable use of taxpayer money and time, with O'Leary responding absolutely not and politics in the FBI workspace are absent. Blackburn then asks Margot Cleveland of The Federalist what she had to say about that, with Cleveland responding it was laughable, absolutely laughable that it had no place after everything they saw with Crossfire Hurricane and what they are starting to see in Arctic Frost from the prohibitive files. Cleveland argued it might be that O'Leary worked with the very few who are not political but it was replete everywhere, citing Ray Holzler who wrote an op-ed after he was fired complaining about being fired for no reason but was the one who refused to investigate the Clinton Foundation and turned over to the US attorney an abbreviated summary that hid all of the DOJ and FBI protection and what they were doing to stop the investigation. Cleveland stated it was laughable to say there was no politicization of the FBI, or maybe there was not any more because they fired the groups that were doing it.
Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn asks former FBI special agent Christopher O'Leary at a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights hearing to compare the Arctic Frost investigation if he was okay with the FBI being weaponized to go after conservatives, asking if that suits him and if he thought that was a justifiable use of taxpayer money and time, with O'Leary responding absolutely not and politics in the FBI workspace are absent. Blackburn then asks Margot Cleveland of The Federalist what she had to say about that, with Cleveland responding it was laughable, absolutely laughable that it had no place after everything they saw with Crossfire Hurricane and what they are starting to see in Arctic Frost from the prohibitive files. Cleveland argued it might be that O'Leary worked with the very few who are not political but it was replete everywhere, citing Ray Holzler who wrote an op-ed after he was fired complaining about being fired for no reason but was the one who refused to investigate the Clinton Foundation and turned over to the US attorney an abbreviated summary that hid all of the DOJ and FBI protection and what they were doing to stop the investigation. Cleveland stated it was laughable to say there was no politicization of the FBI, or maybe there was not any more because they fired the groups that were doing it.
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March 24, 2026
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