The Biden administration waged war on truth-telling FBI agents for four long years.
But justice was coming whether they liked it or not.
And Kash Patel just handed 10 FBI whistleblowers one surprise that left Biden’s cronies scrambling.
Justice finally arrives for America’s bravest FBI agents
Ten FBI whistleblowers who faced the full wrath of Biden’s weaponized bureau will receive lump sum settlements after years of bureaucratic revenge.
These weren’t your typical government employees looking to cash in on a technicality.
These were seasoned agents who watched their own leadership turn the FBI into a political weapon – and had the guts to speak up about it.
The settlements, announced by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), represent a stunning vindication for agents who sacrificed their careers to expose the rot within Biden’s Justice Department.
"These 10 whistleblowers’ brave actions were met with intense bureaucratic blowback that caused severe financial and emotional hardship," Grassley stated. "Their lives were upended for years, but I never stopped fighting until things were made right."
The senator made sure to credit the Trump administration’s new leadership team for making this happen.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Deputy Director Dan Bongino all worked to bring closure to cases that Biden’s people tried to bury forever.
The revenge campaign that backfired spectacularly
What Biden’s FBI did to these whistleblowers reads like something out of a banana republic.
They demoted loyal agents, stripped security clearances, and forced them onto indefinite unpaid administrative leave – collectively stealing over 12 years of their lives.
The legal nonprofit Empower Oversight represented the whistleblowers and detailed the "reprisal" and "improper targeting" they faced in a March letter to the FBI’s general counsel.
But now the tables have turned completely.
Special Agent Stephen Friend got suspended without pay after he objected to sending a SWAT team after a January 6 defendant charged with a misdemeanor.
Think about that for a second.
Friend knew the guy they wanted to arrest had been working with the FBI all along.
His reward? Getting sent home and recorded as going AWOL.
Special Agent Garret O’Boyle faced accusations of leaking case information to Project Veritas – accusations that turned out to be completely bogus.
The investigation found that O’Boyle "simply provided information about Project Veritas to another FBI employee and had only accessed FBI files as part of protected whistleblowing to Congress beginning in 2021."
But Biden’s FBI doubled down anyway, revoking his clearance over claims he mishandled classified materials when shipping work files.
Supervisory Special Agent Zachery Schoffstall warned that an investigation into the white supremacist group Patriot Front appeared politically motivated.
When he refused to sign a search warrant affidavit because he knew about exculpatory information, FBI executives tried to force him out entirely.
The smoking guns Biden’s FBI tried to hide
Each case reveals a different facet of how Biden’s team corrupted federal law enforcement.
FBI employee Monica Shillingburg exposed "gross mismanagement" and "gross waste of funds" in how the bureau processed gun background check appeals.
When she warned that changes would "increase the backlog" and raise the "likelihood of an improper gun sale," they punished her – even though she was proven right.
Special Agent Michael Zummer reported prosecutorial misconduct when a district attorney charged with sex crimes got a sweetheart plea deal.
The conflicts of interest were so obvious that the DA "was allowed to plead guilty to harassing a witness with a three-year maximum sentence when DOJ had authorized charging him with RICO and several other charges related to his sexual bribery and obstruction of justice."
They even deleted most of the sexual abuse from the factual basis to hide it from the public.
When Zummer tried to report these conflicts to the court, they suspended and revoked his security clearance.
Here’s what this really means for the Deep State
Look, this isn’t just about money changing hands or bureaucratic housekeeping.
This is about sending a crystal-clear message that the days of weaponizing federal law enforcement against political enemies are over.
For four years, Biden’s people ran the FBI like their personal Gestapo, punishing anyone who dared question their methods or motives.
These whistleblowers didn’t just lose paychecks – they lost their careers, their reputations, and their faith that doing the right thing would be rewarded.
But here’s what makes this victory so sweet.
The settlement agreements don’t require any resignations, all include lump sum payments for damages, and three cases – O’Boyle, Friend, and Schoffstall – require the FBI to put these agents back to work.
That means Biden’s cronies have to watch as the very people they tried to destroy come back stronger than ever.
Chuck Grassley, who never stopped fighting for these agents, deserves massive credit for keeping this story alive when the mainstream press wanted it buried.
And Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, Pam Bondi, and Todd Blanche proved that Trump’s second administration means business when it comes to cleaning house.
Empower Oversight’s Jason Foster and Tristan Leavitt made it clear that this is just the beginning: "For each of these cases where whistleblowers finally received at least some measure of justice for the retaliation they faced just for telling the truth about wrongdoing, there are many more who still need a remedy."
The work to combat weaponization and whistleblower retaliation is far from over.
But for the first time in years, the good guys are winning.
And the Deep State bureaucrats who thought they could destroy patriotic Americans for speaking truth to power just learned a very expensive lesson.
Justice delayed isn’t always justice denied – sometimes it’s just justice with compound interest.
¹ Victor Nava, "10 FBI whistleblowers – who warned of ‘political weaponization’ and faced retaliation from Biden admin – reach settlements with DOJ," New York Post, August 27, 2025.
