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Inside Jim Jordan’s Disastrous Search for a ‘Deep State’ Whistleblower
Trump officials and GOP lawmakers are working together to deliver on 
Jordan's promise to reveal an anti-Trump conspiracy. So far, they've 
produced a 'dumpster fire'
By Kara Voght, Adam Rawnsley, Asawin Suebsaeng	
March 2, 2023
 

In early February, Republicans brought an FBI veteran to Capitol Hill whom 
they hoped would expose a “deep state conspiracy” among Democrats and their 
accomplices in the intelligence community. The GOP witness was part of a 
network of “whistleblowers” — funneled to congressional Republicans’ new 
Weaponization of Government panel by allies of Donald Trump — to reveal 
covert attacks on the former president and broad, anti-conservative 
discrimination.

But before the interview was over, it was the GOP witness who was failing 
to answer difficult questions — and Democratic committee staff doing the 
asking.

In the interview, the witness, former FBI supervisory intelligence analyst 
George Hill, had admitted he had little or no firsthand knowledge of 
alleged “deep state” scandals. Instead, he brought baggage of his own: a 
history of inflammatory commentary on social media. Democratic staff had 
found a tweet in which Hill claimed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-
Calif.) had “blood on her hands.” In a since-deleted tweet found by Rolling 
Stone, Hill wrote “Cancer! GO FASTER!” in response to a tweet from Rep. 
Lauren Boebert claiming that President Biden had been diagnosed with 
cancer.  

According to portions of transcripts reviewed by Rolling Stone and sources 
familiar with the exchange, Hill repeatedly declined to respond to the 
questions and cited his First Amendment rights. (He’d later go on a 
conservative talk show to accuse Democrats of trying to paint him as a 
“right-wing nut job” because they couldn’t handle his message.) As the 
exchange went on, Hill’s attorney, Jason Foster, begged the Democratic 
counsel to stop asking about his client’s tweets.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the chair of the new House Judiciary’s 
“weaponization” subcommittee, opened its first hearing vowing that he’d 
heard from “dozens and dozens” of whistleblowers about “the political 
nature at the Justice Department.” Indeed, powerful players from Trump’s 
orbit have invested in recruiting intelligence community veterans, hoping 
to produce bombshell revelations and must-see TV to rival the results of 
the Jan. 6 committee.
 

But so far, Republicans have brought only three of those whistleblowers to 
Capitol Hill for questioning, and have not scheduled any additional 
interviews after completing the most recent in mid-February. In the 
interviews conducted to date, witnesses have offered contradictory 
responses, maintained fringe and violent online presences that undermine 
their credibility, and failed to demonstrate first-hand knowledge of 
alleged FBI wrongdoing.

The results have left Democrats gleeful and even some Republicans deeply 
unimpressed. A “dumpster fire,” is how one Democrat with knowledge of the 
at-times combative interactions terms the proceedings. “Clearly there is 
room to grow and improve before [more] public hearings,” a Republican 
familiar with the process tells Rolling Stone. But the work so far, the 
Republican says, has been “very much amateur hour,” adding that airing this 
“stuff on live television would make us look like morons.” (Sources spoke 
on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly about the sensitive 
matters.)

“It is beyond disappointing, but sadly not surprising, that Democrats would 
leak cherry-picked excerpts of testimony to attack the brave whistleblowers 
who risked their careers to speak out on abuses at the Justice Department 
and FBI,” a GOP House Judiciary spokesperson tells Rolling Stone.

But if the whistleblowers aren’t able to produce what Jordan has promised, 
it will be a serious blow to Republicans’ plan to use control of the House 
to refocus the public away from Trump’s proximity to an insurrection and 
onto an alleged anti-conservative conspiracy.

The whistleblower pipeline comes from a collaboration between Jordan, other 
MAGA lawmakers, and top officials in Trump’s orbit. Whistleblowers have 
received payments and legal counsel through this loose network; one 
whistleblower, Stephen Friend — a former FBI agent who brought concerns 
about the agency’s questioning of Jan. 6 protesters to Republicans — even 
received a job.
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The three whistleblowers who have been interviewed by committee staff have 
done so with the assistance of aides to former President Donald Trump and 
the conspiracy-curious Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a loose network that 
provides money and legal assistance to the GOP witnesses. Hill and Friend 
are both represented by Foster, a former GOP chief counsel for the Senate 
Judiciary Committee. From his perch under then-chair Grassley, Foster 
masterminded an aggressive assault against the FBI in the midst of special 
counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump. Foster has since founded 
Empower Oversight, a self-described nonpartisan government and corporate 
accountability organization. Friend said in an interview with Russia Today 
that Jordan’s office had “attached” him to Foster. Dan Meyer, listed as a 
member of Empower Oversight’s Whistleblower Advisory Panel, is also an 
attorney for Friend.

Regarding Hill’s combative interview, Foster wrote: “Foster wrote in an 
email to Rolling Stone that “It’s irresponsible and a violation of the 
assurances witnesses were given for Committee staff to leak excerpts of 
closed door interviews to attack whistleblowers rather than actually doing 
their job to investigate their allegations regarding the FBI.”

Garret O’Boyle, a third FBI whistleblower who spoke with committee staff, 
is represented by Jesse Binnall, former Trump campaign attorney who worked 
to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Nevada; Binnall now acts as 
one of Trump’s go-to attorneys for Jan. 6-related litigation. O’Boyle told 
staff he’d been connected to Binnall through Kash Patel, a former Trump 
administration official and one of Trump’s most vocal defenders in his post 
presidency. Both O’Boyle and Friend said they received payments from Patel 
through Fight with Kash, a nonprofit organization Patel established to 
provide “veteran and law enforcement financial support,” according to 
Patel’s website. Friend received $5,000, he told congressional 
investigators; O’Boyle declined to share the amount.

Friend said Patel also helped connect him with the Center for Renewing 
America, the Trump-aligned think tank led by former Trump budget director 
Russ Vought, where Friend is now employed as a fellow. (Patel, too, is a 
CRA fellow, according to the organization’s website.) His security 
clearance was suspended by the FBI.

In a statement sent to Rolling Stone, Patel wrote that his nonprofit, The 
Kash Foundation, had made assisting FBI whistleblowers one of its “main 
areas of focus” and “will continue to assist veterans, law enforcement, 
education, and other matters outlined in our Mission First approach.”

But for all the effort spent to find whistleblowers, they so far haven’t 
delivered.

Friend had been suspended from the FBI since the fall, when he refused to 
participate in investigations related to the Jan. 6 insurrection, according 
to a declaration he shared with GOP lawmakers. The 12-year agency veteran 
described the FBI’s work on the matter as “marred by politicization and 
ambition” — “this is their 9/11,” he said on an appearance of Roger Stone’s 
Rumble show in January.

In a statement, Friend’s attorney, Meyer, claimed that his client blew the 
whistle on the Bureau’s alleged failures to follow its own rules and “got 
what most FBI whistleblowers get: retaliation, isolation, and financial 
pressure designed to push Special Agents out of law enforcement with no 
formal wrongdoing accusation, no due process, and lots of harmful error.” 
He added, “This is not really about January 6th, it is about the broken 
system of FBI oversight.”

Friend first made contact with staffers for Grassley, Johnson, and Jordan 
shortly after he issued his declaration; his contact with Jordan helped 
inform the Judiciary chairman’s 1000-page FBI whistleblower report from 
November 2022. In his interviews for the weaponization committee, Friend 
has claimed the FBI has been manipulating its case-file management system 
to falsely inflate threats of domestic terrorism, but prosecutions tell a 
different story. Studies by agencies like the Government Accountability 
Office and the University of Syracuse have shown sharp rises not just in 
investigations of terrorism-related cases but prosecutions of them as well. 

Hill is a now-retired FBI intelligence analyst who had been based in the 
agency’s Boston office at the time of the Jan. 6 attack. He, like Friend, 
has made several media appearances claiming Bank of America had unlawfully 
provided the FBI with a list that cross-referenced company data on gun and 
travel purchases to identify Americans who made purchases in Washington, 
D.C., on Jan. 6 and owned firearms. Hill chose to retire in 2022 after a 
30-year career in the FBI with an active security clearance.

But under questioning, Hill said he’d never actually seen the list — only 
the electronic communication used to bring it into the FBI’s case 
management system — and had learned about it only through secondhand 
chatter from colleagues, according to the interview transcript reviewed by 
Rolling Stone. Foster, Hill’s own attorney, clarified that Hill, given his 
role, wouldn’t even have been aware of such a request — a response that 
further undermined Hill’s authority on the subject. In his media 
appearances, Hill has downplayed the Democrats’ line of questioning. “They 
were more interested in my social media profile and had very little in the 
way of substantive questions,” Hill told conservative commentator Howie 
Carr last month.

O’Boyle had been an agent based in the Wichita office and was en route to a 
new assignment in Virginia when the FBI suspended him in 2022. He’d first 
spoken to congressional Republicans in November 2021 and had more than 20 
communications with Jordan’s staff over the last 15 months. “I believe, and 
likely cannot be swayed from the position, that the FBI retaliated against 
me for being a whistleblower,” he wrote in a now-private Substack 
newsletter. 

O’Boyle also repeated his belief that he’d been suspended by the FBI for 
his contact with Congress. When Democratic counsel asked O’Boyle to share 
his suspension notice to prove that, however, O’Boyle refused. He also 
refused to share his pay suspension notice, which would also have likely 
listed a reason, as well as the estimated 50 documents he had previously 
shared with congressional Republicans. In a statement to Rolling Stone, 
Binnall wrote: “My client has served his country admirably, in the 
military, the FBI, and now as a whistleblower. It is an honor to represent 
him. The confidential information he provided to Congress was done so with 
discretion, as provided for by law. He did not release that information to 
Democrats on the committee because he knew that they would leak it to the 
media; a concern that has proven justified. He is a whistleblower on 
extremely serious government misconduct and unlawful retaliation. He 
provided that information to people who would take it seriously.”

After Jordan and his cohorts concluded their first “Weaponization” hearing 
last month, several figures in the right-wing media elite — who are 
staunchly loyal to Trump and the GOP and already primed to just run with 
the party’s claims and supposed bombshells — reacted with head scratches. 
“I’m sick of these hearings,” Jesse Watters, a Fox News host and a buddy of 
Trump’s, complained on-air after the inaugural House Weaponization of the 
Federal Government subcommittee hearing. “Make me feel better, guys. Tell 
me this is going somewhere. Can I throw someone in prison? Can someone go 
to jail? Can someone get fined?”
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One well-known conservative media host tells Rolling Stone that after that 
hearing, this person reached out to their “contacts on the [panel]” to 
express their baffled disappointment with the offerings. This source says 
their criticism amounted to scolding the committee, and saying something 
akin to: “Come on, guys, you have to do fucking better than that!”

This story has been corrected to reflect that Steven Friend’s security 
clearance was suspended and George Hill retired of his own volition.