EXCLUSIVE: Special Agent Buma's FIRST Memo to Congress About the FBI Protecting Giuliani
A new, earlier memo from Special Agent Johnathan Buma to Congress has emerged. A number of bureaucrats in the FBI protected Giuliani and Trump more than we knew.
The public was, reassuringly, very interested in the story of FBI Special Agent Johnathan Buma’s brave disclosure about how the Trump enterprise was protected for so long within the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It explained a lot of how the profanity of the Trump years came to pass.
I have now received a new document that the media has never reported on - SA Buma’s first memo to Jim Jordan’s committee, dated April 20, 2023.
I have read the memo in great detail, and it is one of the most terrifying reports I have ever read.
The FBI not only deprived Americans of the enforcement of their laws during the Trump Administration. According to SA Buma’s first-hand account, the FBI went on to deprive the Biden Administration and America’s allies of vital intelligence during wartime after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
After you read this memo, I’m sure you will agree that this matter needs to have an immediate hearing in Congress - and I pray that you will call - not write, telephone - your representatives immediately to ask for this to be made public.
Full memo can be downloaded here. My notes and interpretation, which are mine alone, follow.
The FBI lost its “moral hegemony” and “credibility”
Special Agent Buma is an extremely thoughtful man who is both direct and deeply felt in both his admiration for and criticism of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This is the kind of person you want to have our country’s back. Despite his love for the institution, SA Buma has taken an extreme risk (more than just his career, I’m sure) to warn us all about the crumbling moral and professional edifice that he witnessed. The moral rot progressed to the point that, in his words, the FBI lost its morality and credibility - and needs to earn it back.
Please read that phrase “selective suppression of intelligence reporting.” I cannot stress enough how dangerous and dire such a practice would be. Intelligence is as much art as science. Everyone who practices it for real knows that they are only ever getting a tiny piece of the puzzle, especially in the collection and analysis phase. You cannot know what other analysts will produce, and you cannot always know which piece of information is superfluous and which is critical to life and limb, sometimes for years. “Selective suppression” is thus extraordinarily lethal. It means someone is deciding to blind internal analysts, the customers of the intelligence, and our allies—all for reasons only they know, none of which are less than totally evil.
Moreover, Buma backs this up by saying that he can support his public statements in a classified setting. That means the information which supports this is a national secret, the disclosure of which would gravely harm the national interest, and that he knows where it is. His cards are on the table for the seniors at the FBI and DOJ.
SA Buma makes a stunning point: the FBI is irreplaceable because while some other agencies can protect national security, no other agency can handle public corruption. This means that NSA, NGA, and CIA might catch terrorists, but only FBI can catch your mayor taking bribes from child traffickers. He's absolutely right.
And please note that, like most intelligence professionals, SA Buma doesn’t argue against Republicans—the crisis is politicization. And if this state of affairs—protecting Russian oligarchs, TRUMP, and GIULIANI - is allowed to stand—then any party could take over the FBI, and America as we knew it will be gone.
I do not think that’s an overstatement.
I think most civilians do not understand the term “national security” well enough. It is a phrase that is bandied about in some of the more substantive publications and public discussions. However, many people fail to realize that national security deals with making sure that nuclear and ballistic missile technology does not fall into Russian or Iranian hands, which is part of SA Buma’s resume. National security needs to be prioritized because it is not an exaggeration to say that the alternative is dictatorships committing mass murder and our cities laid to waste and glowing.
Further to this, note that SA Buma’s responsibilities involved being a liaison to the CIA, Dept. of Defense, and U.S. Treasury. Sidelining his work affected nearly every corner of the national defense apparatus.
Around 2017, SA Buma reportedly shifted into the confluence of foreign counterintelligence (FCI), Transnational Organized Crime (TOC), and public corruption (PC).
(Hey, so did I! Trump’s election had very serious implications for those of us in this business, unfortunately.)
As such, SA Buma transferred to the Global Counterintelligence squad of the FBI Los Angeles Field Office, home of some of the terrorist preparations for September 11, the Israelis stealing nuclear triggers, the Cartels, Iranians…it’s a huge gig. It was there that he went to work catching and recruiting some of the Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs who supported Donald TRUMP. As such, SA Buma worked with Robert S. MUELLER III’s Special Counsel’s Office. Not surprisingly, he became one of the most important agents in all of the FBI.
While he does not specify who had to resign, given the circumstances, I might guess that SA Buma’s investigations led to the resignation of Peter STRZOK and possibly the now-convicted Charles MCGONIGAL. (*If a couple more indictments drop nearby, I’ll explain just why I think that is.)
Not only did SA Buma’s work explain just why Eastern Ukraine was so important to the Russian Mafiya, it also explained how they used that territory to launder money into the United States and other nations for “active measures” against our democracy - as far away as the Midwest.
I love this part - SA Buma was so good at his job that he quickly became a problem for management.
First, because they couldn’t keep up. Next…for what appears to be much darker reasons.
This does not get enough attention: Johnathan Buma was one of the first, if not the first FBI Special Agent to break the story of Hunter BIDEN and BURISMA at the unclassified, source-derived level. AND he was taking down GIULIANI simultaneously.
You might wonder why the Republicans haven’t embraced SA Buma as their valiant champion! But then, perhaps there is more to Hunter BIDEN’s story, like him being a Federal informant, and there’s more to GIULIANI’s story, which is that he’s an even bigger traitorous monster, and the GOP just isn’t all that interested in either complete story.
Here we go. SA Buma busted the top Russian gangsters—the ones who conspired directly with the GOP.
Pavlo FUKS is a serious bad guy, but you may have heard of Andrei TELEZHENKO’s pals - he worked with Senators Ron JOHNSON and Chuck GRASSLEY directly to attack the 2020 election.
SA Buma was directly behind the takedown of IHOR KOLOMOISKY—who is represented by Missouri’s John ASHCROFT stateside—and who has laundered money all over the U.S. to fund intelligence operations against us. Still, SA Buma apparently got pushback on his reporting…because the subject was so close to GIULIANI.
The “Foreign Influence Task Force” appears to be a structure they put in place because the regular FBI procedures were catching foreign influence too effectively. I guess that is both good news and bad news.
On the bad news side, someone was very treacherous. But in the good news department, the FBI is still very capable at doing counterintelligence—so much that they had to be sabotaged. On balance, we can recover from that.
Otherwise, it’s very clear that Rudy GIULIANI’s Russian Mafiya network was still interfering with the FBI, even after traitor Charles MCGONIGAL left the Bureau.
This is where things get ugly. Apparently, once SA Buma had put together the story of just how deep the Russians were into our government…the FBI forbid him from connecting the Russian Mafiya to public corruption.
That is reeeeeally, really bad.
It gets worse. The repression of SA Buma’s reporting on Russian intelligence operations increased once they invaded Ukraine. And the FBI’s top management…covered up for Putin. And covered up for our local traitors.
The above can be, vomitously, summed up as “You can report on the Russians, but not the Americans they bribe.”
Not good.
The “FITF” choosing to “believe” the NSA over SA Buma’s reporting requires a bit of knowledge of intelligence to really understand.
The NSA is an incredibly powerful agency—probably more capable than anybody knows outside of the Puzzle Palace—but it cannot produce high-confidence-interval intelligence products just from its output. The NSA needs human intelligence (HUMINT) agents to put everything into context. The NSA grabs the intercepts; the CIA and FBI say what it really means. So brushing aside experts for the NSA is something that the NSA wouldn’t even agree with.
And the “FITF” did this…while Ukraine was being invaded by Russia. It is unconscionable.
Note the dates. The FBI was still failing to such a critical degree well into the Biden Administration. And the better SA Buma did at busting the Russians…the more the FBI punished him.
You see why this needs a full, televised public hearing?
Treating our most dedicated public servants like this is disgraceful.
In the face of such attacks, some people, justifiably, leave to succeed elsewhere. Some others, such as SA Buma, choose to stay and fight even while the institution is attacking them.
For SA Buma, it’s because he believes that America could fall if he did not stay.
That’s dedication.
Demand public hearings now
You’ve read enough. I’ve read enough. The rest of America needs to know what happened to the FBI.
Through the compromise of a hopefully-few selfish bureaucrats, the world’s premier law enforcement agency nearly cost us this Republic.
We need the FBI and the world needs America living up to its espoused standards.
We can do it. We have to.
Now, get Special Agent Johnathan Buma in front of Congress. Tomorrow, if possible. And put it on television.