According to court documents, FBI agents and whistleblowers dating back to President Trump's first term were arrested at JFK airport this week and charged with illegally disclosing Intel, which was classified when he distributed the draft book.
Jonathan Buma, who worked for anti-intelligence, was taken into custody on Monday while trying to jump on an international flight, and was slapped on charges the following day, claiming that he printed confidential documents from the FBI and shared a trobe with his associate in 2023, authorities said.
“Book Draft contained information that Buma gained through his position as a special FBI agent in relation to the FBI efforts and investigation of the Foreign Weapons of Mass Destruction (“WMD”) program,” argued by some of the affidavit files.
Buma's future book focused on his career as an FBI agent, including his job as a whistleblower, the affidavit states.
According to court documents, the 15-year-old FBI veteran who worked in a California field office has printed about 130 files from the agency's internal network, including some of the most well-known protected and other protected documents.
Once he obtained the materials, he took leave in October 2023, authorities said.
Before that, Buma opposed the FBI and filed a complaint from a whistleblower who claimed “major information suppression practices” in January 2022 that linked to foreign intelligence reporting agencies.
The complaint also alleged that he was being retaliated for airing his charges, the accusation documents say.
Buma Talking to Business Insider September 2023 When he presented information to a supervisor at the Los Angeles Field Office about potential criminal activity between former President Biden's son, Hunter, and a Ukrainian energy company four years ago, he was working with “adamant” on the lawsuit.
However, he said that at the same meeting of former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his boss quickly shut him down when he tried to argue that Russia's anti-impact operations might have been compromised.
The following month, the Buma house was attacked by allegations of mishandling information that had been seized and classified as a report from the time.
Scott Horton, the lawyer representing Buma after the attack; I insisted on Business Insider At the time, no classified information was found.
Buma will be released on $100,000 bail during a hearing in Brooklyn federal court, and his case will be processed in federal court for California.
The lawyer who represented Buma in court this week did not immediately return a request for comment.
Additional reports by Joe Marino and Kyle Schnitzer.
