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Jason Foster Profile picture
@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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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
Read 5 tweets
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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.
Read 14 tweets
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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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Jul 23
New #Whistleblower Disclosure:

Early in @GOBactual's 22-month suspension, the FBI determined through voice analysis he was not the source in a @Project_Veritas video, but the @FBI:

1. withheld that key fact from Congress,
2. kept O’Boyle in limbo without pay, and
3. recently revoked his clearance anyway on the eve of new congressional hearings.
🧵⬇️

Our @FBI Security Division (SecD) client, a registered Dem, is blowing the whistle on the cover-up of @GOBactual's innocence of the false charges used as pretext for yanking his clearance and paycheck.

@RepJerryNadler and @StaceyPlaskett tried to weaponized the false claims. Image
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Jul 18
Our new court filing opposing @TheJusticeDept's effort to impose permanent secrecy on how it sought to hide the collection of my phone and email logs—along with the records a dozen other attorneys for oversight committees in Congress. ⬇️🧵
empowr.us/wp-content/upl…

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1. Did @TheJusticeDept fail to alert the court the phone and email logs it sought belonged to Congressional oversight attorneys?

2. Did it also fail to alert the court that sought to renew the gag orders on @Google even after the leak probe that supposedly justified the subpoenas was closed?Image
How could gag orders possibly be justified long after the case is closed? It's reasonable to suspect it was to hide from the public the extent of its secret collection of Congressional communications records and the abuses committed in the process.

Unless the court unseals the records, you are not allowed to know.Image
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