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@JsnFostr
Aug 10, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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More recent historical context for current events.

According to @Newsweek, the "road to the raid" on a former President's home began with NARA and National Archivist David Ferriero.

I have some experience dealing with him.🧵

1. newsweek.com/exclusive-info… Image
2. He sidelined NARA's independent watchdog on paid admin leave for 2 years, a needless waste of taxpayer money that also ensured less oversight of his agency at the time.

govexec.com/management/201…
3. Here is Mr. Ferriero's letter to @ChuckGrassley from September 2015 responding to Qs about what he did (or didn't do) about Hillary Clinton's secret, offsite email server.

archives.gov/files/press/pr… Image
4. Mr. Ferriero did *not* take a muscular approach to retrieving those federal records, "deferring to the State Department review" instead.

"We do not believe that it is appropriate or necessary at this time for NARA to request that the Attorney General initiate an action." Image
5. And under Mr. Ferriero, NARA had never conducted an inspection of the State Department's records system because it did not "warrant an inspection." Image
6. Clinton's lawyer had a thumb drive containing classified material from her server.

But, hey, no big deal. No warrant. No raid. No team of FBI agents.

After all, his "law firm is taking 'appropriate measures' to secure the files."

politico.com/story/2015/07/… Image
7. The Archivist of the U.S. serves indefinitely (no fixed term). It has not been considered a partisan position before. But, based on Mr. Ferriero’s statements upon resigning earlier this year, it seems he saw his role in partisan political terms. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fer… Image

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Mar 19
🆕 Filing on behalf of FBI whistleblower @GOBactual, seeking full restoration of his security clearance. Highlights: 🧵⬇️ Image
We outline 18 legally protected whistleblower disclosures @GOBactual made.

Many were to Congress and already got lots of public attention. But look at #17.

It was an internal report, not on a high-profile politically charged issue.

But was it the catalyst for what came next? Image
@GOBactual An ambush criminal interview, followed by stranding his family without their belongings and blowing up his life in the middle of a cross country move?

This feels like more than just typical FBI CYA on something politically embarrassing.

This feels personal. Image
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Feb 27
🚨New 83-page Filing at the @USMSPB

How about some justice for the IRS Whistleblowers at long last? 🧵⬇️ Image
Proven high performers before they blew the whistle on the @TheJusticeDept taking a dive in the Hunter Biden case.

Everything changed. Isolated. Frozen out of career advancement. Scrutinized relentlessly, looking for anything to hang them with. Work life became hell. Image
The double standard was there from the very beginning. Just to open the case, the bar was higher "for a political family like" the Bidens.

The protected disclosures internally within the IRS started from the very beginning too. Image
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Feb 13
The FBI's recent pearl-clutching "purge" narrative is bizarro world backwards. Its purge targeted our clients long ago, and they still suffer.

When you know their stories, holding the culprits accountable is no purge; it's a little overdue justice.

@bhweingarten explains... 1/🧵Image
2/ 🧵 via... @RCInvestigates

realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/…
3/🧵Don't just take our word for it. We provided ample evidence to Congress about weaponization of the security clearance process to target the employees for political beliefs rather than legit security risks. The @JusticeOIG has testified about it. Image
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Feb 9
Nor does the constitution or any statute say anything restricting “political appointees” from accessing information about the operations of an agency.
Permanent bureaucrats have zero authority to hide information about the operation of their agencies/how they spent taxpayer money from officials acting on behalf of any duly elected president or congress.

That’s a clear neutral principle that should be obvious to all.
This is not about the balance of power between Congress and the President. Both have democratic legitimacy in our constitutional republic.

It is about the imbalance of power between career bureaucrats and our elected leaders in the two politically accountable branches.
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Feb 5
Look who just got vindicated. Again. The IRS whistleblowers, who:

1. Got the search warrant that authenticated the Hunter Biden Laptop *before* the 51 former intel officials lied about it.

2. Reported the Garland DOJ to Congress for taking a dive. 🧵⬇️ Image
After 20 long months, the staff at @US_OSC told us that the IRS could not support its decision to remove IRS SSA Gary Shapley and SA Joe Ziegler from the Hunter Biden case.

That removal happend, of course, shortly after the IRS learned that they were blowing the whistle to Congress.Image
Their work life has been changed ever since. Look how far the IRS management will go.

One recently altered the date on document to hide slow walking on another ongoing law enforcement operation, apparently trying to falsely paint Shapley in a bad light.

One of many examples. Image
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Jan 30
What are Senators Schiff and Booker hiding?

They seemed to think they knew of something damning in Patel’s secret grand jury testimony but their questioning was incoherent.

Did Jack Smith’s prosecutors feed the Senators some half-baked smear that they failed to land?

Bizarre.
x.com/jsnfostr/statu… x.com/jsnfostr/statu…
I can tell you from personal experience—nothing chaps the hide of a Member of Congress or VIP more than being exposed as a fool by a lowly staffer.

Kash Patel did that to Schiff spectacularly when working for Nunes on House Intel

Schiff is obviously never going to get over it.
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