DOJ Seeks Information from FBI Whistleblower

According to a report from the Washington Times, a leading FBI whistleblower has direct knowledge that illegal activities occurred in the highly controversial and top secret National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program. The whistleblower, Supervisory Special Agent Bassem Youssef, is the highest ranking Arab American agent employed in the FBI’s counterterrorism division. His earlier concerns, that top FBI terrorism managers lacked expertise and experience in terrorism matters, were documented in a highly controversial deposition in which the former head of the FBI’s Middle Eastern counterterrorsim program testified that he did not know the difference between Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims.