Two FBI agents who recently had their security credentials revoked by the government gave testimony to a House committee about alleged abuses at the agency and punishment for flagging issues.

Garret O’Boyle, Steve Friend, and Marcus Allen spoke before the committee; Republicans on the House weaponization committee are characterizing them as whistleblowers in their inquiry into alleged bias and discrimination inside the FBI.

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Who are Garret O’Boyle, Steve Friend, Marcus Allen?

Marcus Allen is an an FBI staff operations specialist, Garret O’Boyle and Steve Friend and Special FBI agents.

The three self-described FBI whistleblowers, who are crucial to the Republican narrative that the FBI is used as a weapon against conservatives, are testifying at a House hearing this Thursday. This is the most recent development in Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan’s investigation into claims of bias and discrimination within the FBI.

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In his opening remarks, O’Boyle claimed that his special agent status with the FBI had been unfairly terminated. He gave specifics about his prior service to the US, which included time spent in the Army and then as a police officer.

In his closing remarks, O’Boyle described how the FBI suspended him when he took orders in a different region of the country. Additionally, he stated that as part of the FBI’s reprisals for his disclosures, the organization “refused to release our [his family’s] household goods, including our clothes, for weeks.”

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Stephen Friend, a suspended FBI SWAT Team member, was another testimony in front of the committee. In his testimony, Friend claims that about the investigations assigned to his field office on January 6, he voiced whistleblower concerns to his direct supervisor inside the federal organization.

Marcus Allen, a now-suspended Staff Operations Specialist who worked in the Charlotte field office, claimed the FBI retaliated against him because he questioned the official account of what happened on January 6.