An anti-Trump FBI agent has been arrested and charged with disclosing confidential information while writing a memoir.
Johnathan Buma, a 15-year FBI veteran who vehemently opposed President Donald Trump during his first term, was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City while attempting to board an international flight on March 17. Buma is being accused of “printing about 130 files of classified FBI documents and messages and later sharing the material with associates for a book he was writing about his career at the bureau,” according to reporting from Fox News.
BREAKING: Johnathan Buma, the outspoken anti-Trump former FBI counterintelligence officer, has been arrested for leaking confidential/classified information. pic.twitter.com/WAQZYJJXlI
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 21, 2025
Court documents in this case allege that Buma’s draft of his memoir contained information that he “obtained through his position as an FBI Special Agent that relates to the FBI’s efforts and investigations into a foreign country’s weapons of mass destruction (‘WMD’) program.”
The anti-Trump FBI agent also sent an email in November 2023 to several “personal associates assisting him in negotiating a book deal with a publishing company.”
Buma was also caught sharing excerpts from his memoir on social media that contained some of the confidential information he allegedly stole.
Regarding his actions at a Los Angeles field office on October 27, 2023, the FBI affidavit against Buma states that he “printed approximately 130 files from the FBI’s internal network, several of which summarized information provided to the FBI by CHSs, some of which was clearly marked with warnings that made clear that the information was to be protected.”
“Buma also printed nine text-file documents which contained text that had been copied and pasted from reports which were marked in such a way that made clear that the information must be protected, and which summarized information provided to the FBI by CHSs,” the affidavit continues. “Buma also printed out screenshots of messages he exchanged with an FBI CHS via an encrypted messaging application.”
The affidavit went on to note that Buma suspiciously “emailed FBI supervisors about his intent to go on leave without pay” almost immediately after printing those confidential materials, then “left the FBI office.”
Buma was one of the many Russia Hoax peddlers during the first Trump administration, and even claimed in a September 2023 interview with Insider that his FBI superiors had shut him down when he made (clearly false) allegations that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was serving as an attorney for Trump at the time, may have “been compromised in a Russian counter-influence operation.”
ABC reporting that Jonathan Buma has been arrested for printing off internal FBI documents for personal gain and writing a book about his time as an FBI Agent.
His story has ALWAYS been bizarre, and his public interviews seemed strange to me. I said so when they went public pic.twitter.com/NYCNkHgiNA
— Kyle Seraphin (@KyleSeraphin) March 20, 2025
While smearing Trump and his allies and accusing the FBI of covering up their supposed crimes, Buma was at the same time insisting that the FBI had not slow-walked or covered up investigations into Hunter Biden, according to Just The News.
