Ex-FBI agents say bureau used internal probes to punish whistleblowers

The FBI has a longstanding pattern of using its internal review processes to dissuade whistleblowers, a former special agent told Fox Digital.What started in 2021 as a workplace conflict for Special Agent Valentine Fertitta snowballed into a years-long dispute when Fertitta escalated concerns about his treatment, his wife said. Emily Fertitta, who also served in the bureau under the Biden administration, believes that’s emblematic of a larger problem. "A very simple equal employment opportunity case has grown into this huge whistleblower case that has implications for everybody," she said. "Na