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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. "National security retaliation is huge for so many whistleblowers."

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