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@JsnFostr
Jul 28, 2022 • 15 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
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Who is the other official #whistleblowers identified, along with Thibault, as being "deeply involved" in launching DOJ's "false-electors scheme" criminal probe?

Richard Pilger, Director of the Election Crimes Branch, who has a history with Lois Lerner & IRS targeting.

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2. Here are key pages from the 2014 Congressional report, at republicans-oversight.house.gov/wp-content/upl…

Pilger contacted Lerner in 2013 asking to coordinate with the IRS on an idea from @SenWhitehouse for DOJ to "piece together false statement" cases against certain nonprofits. ImageImage
3. You remember Lois Lerner.

She's the IRS official held in contempt of Congress.

And yet, @TheJusticeDept refused to even present the contempt citation to a Grand Jury, as required by statute.

politico.com/story/2015/04/…
4. Just as it refused to present the Eric Holder contempt citation to a Grand Jury.

washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-che… Image
5. Back to Lerner and Pilger.

According to a Lerner email, Pilger told her:

"DOJ is feeling like it needs to respond."

...to the marching orders of a Democrat Senator. Image
6. ...and the press. A @nytimes article that "the IRS assisted in preparing" becomes the catalyst for @FBI to start Hoovering-up confidential tax filings (pun intended). Image
7. Then Pilger sets-up a meeting with Lerner to coordinate and discuss how to get access to nonprofit donor lists and tax info to do some "6103 fishing."

26 U.S.C. § 6103 is supposed to protect the confidentiality of your tax returns from political abuse. Image
8. Lerner and Pilger worked together "to arrange for the transmittal of 1.1 million pages of non-profit tax return information to the FBI." ImageImage
9. Although @TheJusticeDept initially claimed the information was public, it later conceded that the data dump from the IRS to the FBI "did, in fact, contain confidential taxpayer information protected by federal law." Image
10. So there's the history on how Richard Pilger, DOJ's Director of the Election Crimes Branch, helped the FBI collect a "massive database" of confidential tax information from the IRS about Americans engaged in "lawful political speech," according to the Congressional report.
11. Pilger quit (temporarily) in a huff over his disagreement with Attorney General Barr about whether law enforcement agents should be able to interview witnesses and pursue leads about ballot fraud in the 2020 election without Pilger's permission.

cnn.com/2020/11/09/pol…
12. NPR thought it was a big deal, and published his resignation email. But, he resumed his previous position in February 2021 under the Biden administration.

npr.org/sections/live-… Image
13. More on Pilger from the October 2021 @SenJudiciaryGOP Majority Staff Report

judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/… Image
14. Under Pilger's leadership, the Election Crimes Branch asserted the authority to veto investigative steps to uncover ballot fraud, although it lacked any authority to do so.

In reality, "the AG gets to make that call." Image
15. Pilger resigned when Barr insisted that, actually, the AG is in charge. Then the press pretends (when it suits them) that the career bureaucrat is the one with the authority.

This is how the permanent bureaucracy dictates policy w/o accountability to your elected leadership. Image

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Dec 14
“Mr. McCabe lied about his own leaking and should have been prosecuted for it, according to the Obama-appointed Justice IG [Horowitz], but wasn’t. …Now that this fishing expedition into the communications of congressional attorneys has been confirmed by the same IG, the new administration needs to finally hold people accountable.”
“And [Foster] said agents and prosecutors withheld from the DC magistrate judge who approved the subpoenas and non-disclosure orders the fact that the targets were congressional attorneys.”
“They misled the court,” he said. “They left out the key fact we were all congressional attorneys. They claimed over and over, with no basis, that we were flight risks or would ‘destroy evidence.’”
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You learned that Hillary Clinton & the DNC funded the phony Steele Dossier b/c @ChuckGrassley, me, @DevinNunes, and Kash Patel did our jobs.

Fired-@FBI Dir. Comey later pretended not to know while somehow keeping a straight face. Here's the story... [long tweet]

Many in the press suspected it all along, and some provided me with tidbits suggesting it, but no one could report it—not until a House subpoena forced the information onto the public record.

At the Senate Judiciary Cmte, we received a tip that #FusionGPS was an alias for "Bean, LLC" which actually held bank accounts under that legal entity name. We also received the account number and the bank name for at least one of the accounts.

Senate Judiciary cmte rules were designed to enhance bipartisan cooperation and Minority party rights. But, there was no hope of bipartisanship on this.

After all, the true source of the money was a secret that only one political party in DC desperately wanted to keep.

The rules required either agreement from Ranking Member Feinstein or a full committee vote, which would mean public notice and weeks of debate before issuing a subpoena. We could not share our basis for the subpoena with the other side without betraying the confidential whistleblower and press sources who had tipped us off.

However, the House had granted its Chairmen, including Intel Cmte Chairman Nunes, unilateral subpoena authority.

So, Chairman Nunes issued the subpoena, and after some court battles, Kash Patel got to go through #FusionGPS's bank records.

In the process, the world learned the democrats involved had "lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year" as even a @nytimes reporter put it.

So, no doubt that many institutionalists at the @FBI hate the thought of Kash Patel as Director b/c far too many of them put loyalty to the Bureau ahead of loyalty to the Constitution—which requires being accountable to democratically elected oversight authorities in both the Legislative and Executive Branches.

The @FBI is not and should never be "independent" of answering to the people's duly elected leaders. Just as the military must submit to civilian control in our constitutional system, so must federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

Anyone who suggests otherwise is an imminent threat to your liberty—and definitely not at all into "preserving our democracy."

Kash Patel was a key part of an epic pantsing of the @FBI.

He helped Congress expose the @FBI's shameful abuse of the FISA process to spy on an outsider political campaign for the party in power.

We did our jobs, methodically and professionally, through classified letters and aggressive, independent oversight. They called us crazy conspiracy theorists. They launched hit pieces trying to discredit Members and staffers like Kash Patel and me.

Eventually, enough was declassified that everyone could see what we had seen—what their government had been hiding from them.

An Obama-appointed Inspector General verified all of it and Mueller shuffled away, leaving the scene not with a bang, but a whimper.

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cc: @kash_patel

Classic @ChuckGrassley throwback: "The Jig Is Up" On "Snake Oil" Russia Collusion Narrative

This video viral after it was re-tweeted by Rep. Devin Nunes, who called it "Perhaps the best @ChuckGrassley clip of all time..."

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Sep 6
Here is Chief Judge Boasberg's opinion:

We think he was wrong to treat it as a grand jury secrecy issue. These are court filings required by statute and should be public under the First Amendment—especially in a closed case.

Highlights... ⬇️🧵 dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/file…

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"...the Court need not concern itself with
common law or constitutional rights of access."

Well, that's a disturbing sentence from a judge in the United States of America.

Gag orders are required by statute to only be granted when justified by specific facts.Image
The public has a First Amendment right—and Congress has a constitutional need—to know what it's government is claiming in federal court to justify gag orders to hide its seizing comms records of Cong oversight cmte attys.

W/o those facts, no one knows if DOJ followed the law. Image
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Aug 27
New Lawsuit: Last fall, @Google told me @TheJusticeDept forced it to secretly turn over my comms records in 2017. Since then, @empowr_us filed 5 demands for related docs under FOIA. DOJ ignored all 5. So today, we sued.

Full PDF+Exhibits:

🧵⬇️empr.me/gag-FOIA-suitImage
In 2017, I led the Sen. Judiciary Cmte oversight and investigations unit through the height of the #Russiagate hysteria for then-Chairman @ChuckGrassley.
After @Google notified me in October 2023, I confirmed that DOJ/@FBI had also targeted a dozen or so other Capitol Hill attorneys’ personal accounts—from both political parties.
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Aug 8
New filing:

Explains why the IRS's #wierd position is wrong—opposing #whistleblowers help to defend their actions at issue in Hunter Biden's frivolous lawsuit against the IRS.

Highlights... ⬇️ empr.me/2024-08-07-rep…

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Normally a defendant in a baseless civil suit wants it dismissed as soon as possible. Not the IRS. Not in this case, according to @TheJusticeDept.

Very odd. 🤔 Image
It makes perfect sense for Biden to oppose. His lawyer, Abbe Lowell, has been hurling personal insults and false accusations at the #IRSWhistleblowers (and their attorneys) with reckless abandon.

But the IRS? Why block us & lay out the red carpet for plaintiffs suing the IRS?Image
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Jul 24
The improper “Trump supporter” and “COVID vaccine” questions on that FBI Security Division outline that we exposed were NOT an “isolated incident.”

@FBI Director Wray is not telling Congress the truth. ⬇️🧾
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