Whistleblower retaliation suspected

What Congress should be looking into is does the FBI have an internal venue for escalating these issues and do they take action on them, i.e. the FBI should get first right to repair these problems and then the "whistleblower" program. If Youssef bypassed this system and went directly to the Congress without giving the FBI a chance, he is not a whistleblower, he is a disgruntled employee (a Scott McClellan so to speak). The 62 percent should be of concern. Mr. Youssef's evaluation of background and expertise is not his call.

Yes, the FBI does have an "internal venue for escalating these issues". Unfortunately, it is corrupted, and does not work. Secondly, the FBI has long had "first right to repair these problems", and upper management (to include Director Mueller) has steadfast held that the solution is not to fix the FBI, but rather to destroy the whistleblower. The retaliation against FBI whistleblowers takes the form of false accusations of misconduct, lower performance ratings, or trumped up fitness for duty claims. The system for FBI whistleblowers is broken inside the FBI, and Director Mueller sets the tone. FBI whistleblowers are the "canaries in the coal mine" for the FBI, but are isolated, punished, and retaliated against for trying to make the FBI a better agency. Agent Youssef did not "bypass" any FBI whistleblower program, because there is none. If you really want to see what the FBI does to their whistleblowers, look at what they did to Special Agent(s) Fred Whitehurst, Bassem Yousef, Colleen Rowley, Sibel Edmonds, Mike German, John Roberts, Jane Turner, Robert Wright, Gilbert Graham, and others. FBI managers who retaliated against whistleblowers were promoted to senior FBI management. Thank God for honorable men like Senator Charles Grassley, and Senator Patrick Leahy. They have endured much to champion the federal whistleblower. If we cannot protect the people who tell the truth, what is worth protecting ? The true heroes in this issue are really the ones standing up for truth, and justice; the whistleblowers and those that protect them. Not only Senator Leahy and Senator Grassley, but also an organization like the National Whistleblower Center in Washington D.C.. Truth always seems to come with a cost in life, but senior management in the FBI have made that cost very high indeed for an FBI whistleblower. A very high cost indeed for telling the truth in an organization whose whole purpose is to find the truth. An organization that is suppose to follow the rule of law, but instead feels it is above the law in handling whistleblower issues. And last put not least, please look up all the names mentioned above, and see that some spent years "inside" the system, trying to have serious issues resolved. It only resulted in abuse. Every FBI whistleblower gave managers inside the FBI many chances to repair or change the problems, to no avail. Read their stories, and see how broken the system is for FBI whistleblowers. The only real action taken by senior management officials for credible FBI whistleblower complaints (to include national security, EEO, and serious misconduct issues) is to destroy the whistleblower. That, for them, is taking care of the "problem". Again, I ask you, read each and every FBI whistleblower story (just google the names), and then let us talk about retaliation and reprisal at the FBI.