Emily Bazelon

And so the FBI gives Grassley emails about this report about the Chinese and the 2020 election.

And in one of the emails, an FBI employee wrongly identified Tanya as the official who had ordered this report to be withdrawn.

And so then she meets with Dan Bongino.

And the next afternoon, she was placed on administrative leave.

Then there's going to be an internal investigation of this whole field report and why it was withdrew.

The FBI's inspection division contacted me.

She's interviewed twice.

They polygraph her.

And then she gets called in to discuss her options.

And she asks, well, what did this review find?

And she's told that the review found no misconduct, not by her or anything related to the report.

So then she says, well, OK, if the refuse found that I did nothing wrong, can I have my job back?

Right.

And then they say, well, you're a senior executive, and so your position is at the discretion of the director, meaning of Patel.

And then she's told, no, she cannot have her job back.

She's going to be transferred somewhere else to another field office.

She's going to be demoted.

Ultimately, I decided to leave.

And so she left the agency.

Taking with her a whole career's worth of experience, this is someone at a very high level who had spent her entire work life at the FBI.