Do you support Trump? Do you have skepticism over the COVID vaccine? Have you been to a gun rights event? Inside the odd FBI questions to get a security clearance

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A longtime FBI employee's Top Secret security clearance was revoked after his pro-Trump, pro-gun and personal concerns over COVID vaccines were revealed, says his attorney. 

During the background check process to renew his clearance, friends and family confirmed the 12-year FBI employee did support Trump and attended a Second Amendment and the January 6 rally. 

His security clearance was later revoked by the FBI, according to his lawyer Tristan Leavitt, who provided internal Department of Justice (DOJ) documents revealing the political questions DailyMail.com.

Leavitt, who has represented multiple government whistleblowers in the past, subsequently sent a letter to the DOJ's inspector general asking why such political questions were necessary for the security clearance - and whether that process has been tainted.

'Instead of limiting its investigation to legitimate issues, [the FBI's security division] acted as if support for President Trump, objecting to COVID-19 vaccinations, or lawfully attending a protest was the equivalent of being a member of Al Qaeda or the Chinese Communist Party,' Leavitt said. 

Tristan Leavitt, who represents the former FBI employee, said the agency asked questions about the worker's political beliefs and stance on COVID vaccines and gun rights. The memo above shows the hand-written notes from FBI investigators probing the former employee 

The review allegedly came after the former employee told his bosses that he had been at the January 6 rally. 

Leavitt runs Empower Oversight, a nonprofit which specializes in whistleblower cases, and he told the outlet that the questions are tantamount to internal FBI political bias against conservatives. 

He also claimed that the former FBI employee he represents did nothing illegal on January 6.

Further, memos revealed by Empower Oversight show that FBI Security Division workers conducted multiple interviews to ascertain the politics of the employee who self-disclosed his January 6 attendance.  

Those memos show witnesses were asked whether the employee ever vocalized 'support for President Trump' and whether he voiced 'objections to Covid-19 vaccination.' 

The documents also show some workers were asked whether the FBI employee 'attended the Richmond Lobby Day event,' which is a gun-rights event. 

The memos show the notes taken by FBI investigators during multiple interviews of the former employees colleagues. They all asked about Trump, COVID vaccines and the employee's attendance at gun rallies and the January 6 protest

The former FBI employee proactively told his employers about his attendance at January 6, saying he did not partake in any criminal activity. Still, his clearance was revoked

'The FBl's intentions are made clear by the questions it chose to put in black and white on a government document,' Leavitt said. 

He called the revocation of his client's clearance 'shocking' and an 'abuse of authority and a violation of our client's rights under the First Amendment,' in his letter to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz. 

Sources familiar with the matter told Just The News that multiple instances of politically motivated clearance reviews have occurred, indicating that Leavitt's client is not the only who has faced repercussions for his stances on Trump, vaccines and guns. 

The letter to Horowitz details how the former FBI employee received positive performance reviews and monetary compensation for his work. 

The witnesses who were interviewed for this former employee's clearance told investigators that though he expressed Republican views he did not pose a threat.

The former FBI employee was a staunch Donald Trump supporter

The former employee also repeatedly expressed skepticism over the COVID vaccines

One investigator wrote down during an interview the former FBI employee: 'Very significantly supported [Trump], would listen to talk shows. Trump did not lose. Dems stole it. Militant point of view. Never implied would do anything aggressive/physical.'

Another investigator noted in a different witness interview that the former employee 'had right wing views' adding 'nothing extreme.'

Those interviews also noted the FBI employee was against masking and vaccines. 

Though, at the time of these interviews in April 2022,  mandatory vaccine requirements were facing legal hurdles - and the federal government at the time was not allowed to enforce such requirements on FBI employees.

And other interviews with witnesses revealed that though the former FBI employee was a 'gun nut' that 'went to all 2nd Amendment gatherings'  he did not display a 'promotion of violence.'

The FBI revoked the employee's security clearance after discovering he was a Trump supporter and that he had attended the January 6 protest

'I write today to formally disclose to you on our client's behalf shocking documents in [the FBI Security Division's] investigative file that evidence an abuse of authority and a violation of our client's rights under the First Amendment,' Leavitt's letter said.

'The documents appear to demonstrate [the FBI Security Division's] political bias and abuse of the security clearance process to purge the FBI of employees who expressed disfavored political views or concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine requirement.'

Leavitt concluded his letter asking Horowitz to open an investigation into the matter, which would provide insight to the public on whether political preference and personal health decisions play a role in FBI agent's security clearance screenings.