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Push to Boost Diversity Backfires on FBI

Whoops—bureau's website features fired whistleblower agent

By M. Morris, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 27, 2009 12:13 PM CDT

(Newser) – Luckily for the FBI, photos can't talk. The bureau's website promotes its American Indian/Alaskan Native diversity program with a picture of an agent who says she was fired in retaliation for blowing the whistle about racial insensitivity, "In the Loop" columnist Al Kamen reports for the Washington Post. Sen. Chuck Grassley has called on the Justice Department to look into the agent's allegations of workplace bias.

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) wants the inspector general of the Justice Department to look into an FBI agent's allegations of bias and retaliatory firing. (AP Photo)

FBI Director Robert Mueller speaks during a news conference at the FBI headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo)

FBI Director Robert Mueller, right, talks with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy as he arrives for the committee's oversight hearing regarding the FBI on Wednesday. (AP Photo)

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