Chuck Grassley: “today, I am here to again speak about the New York Times' anti-whistleblower reporting. Obviously, it is very…”

“today, I am here to again speak about the New York Times' anti-whistleblower reporting. Obviously, it is very misleading. On January 18, 2026, Glenn Thrush, Alan Feuer, and Adam Goldman gave another big, wet kiss to their fired friends from the Biden Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and they did so in an effort to intimidate, to smear, and to discredit brave and patriotic whistleblowers. This has now become a pattern of conduct by the New York Times, dating back to articles starting in 2023. On January 30, 2025, Alan Feuer and Adam Goldman mischaracterized my and Senator Johnson's Arctic Frost disclosures by saying 'messages showed that FBI investigators took normal bureaucratic steps and precautions' when opening the case. Now, was this supposed to be an opinion piece on behalf of terminated FBI agents or a real news article? Normal steps weren't taken. As I noted in my February 3, 2025, floor speech about FBI agent Thibault: Does the New York Times [truly] believe that it is normal for an Assistant Special Agent in Charge to prepare case predication for the opening of an investigation and then feed it to a street agent? Is it normal for an Assistant Special Agent in Charge responsible for the most sensitive political investigations in the FBI to be forced to resign for partisanship on the job and then be found to have violated the Hatch Act for that same partisanship?”