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Feb 2 9 tweets 6 min read
The @FBI stripped @RealStevefriend of his paycheck with no due process, w/o any investigation. He remains an FBI employee in a leave w/o pay status.
Then the @FBI refused to provide @RealStevefriend’s records to him as required by the Privacy Act, which hinders his ability to look for other work.
After that, the @FBI denied @RealStevefriend permission to work another job to bring in some money while waiting for the FBI and @JusticeOIG to finish their investigations.
This is the classic @FBI #whistleblower squeeze play. Crush the employee financially before they have had any due process so that they have to give up and quit in order to provide for their families.
The @FBI opens up multiple retaliatory investigations targeting the #whistleblower. Meanwhile, there are zero investigative resources devoted to looking into the improper conduct and waste of resources @RealStevefriend reported.
The @FBI yanked @RealStevefriend off of child exploitation cases to chase Jan 6 dead ends and keep cases open—artificially goosing domestic violent extremism stats cited by the Attorney General.
If @JusticeOIG fails to probe how, to what extent, and why the @FBI de-prioritized child exploitation cases, ditched normal protocols, and engaged in risky, unneeded SWAT ops, then it falls to Congress. @ChuckGrassley, @Jim_Jordan.
The retaliation against @RealStevefriend should stop and serious investigation of his disclosures should begin.

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Jan 5
THREAD: Stop listening to people who repeat ad nauseam that nothing else can happen until after a Speaker is elected.

#1 & #10 below means that a block of 1/5th of the Members (87 out of 435) could force other business.

The House does not have to be paralyzed.
#1 The Constitution requires a recorded vote if sought by 1/5th.

#10 Members-elect can make motions and propose resolutions.

So any Member could seek recognition and move that, for example, the Clerk be empowered to swear-in Members-elect. Then 1/5th (87) could force a vote.
If a majority supported the motion, the Clerk could then swear-in Members-elect.

By the same procedure, other basic business could be conducted to temporarily organize the body, alter procedures/timing for the Speaker's election, even pass key legislation.
Read 4 tweets
Aug 29, 2022
"Mr. Grassley told The Times on Monday that Mr. Thibault’s departure from the FBI would not resolve questions about his political bias impacting federal investigations."
"Mr. Thibault’s blatant partisanship undermined the work and reputation of the FBI. This type of bias in high-profile investigations casts a shadow over all of the bureau’s work that he was involved in...
..., which ranged from opening an investigation into Trump based on liberal news articles to shutting down investigative activity into Hunter Biden that was based on verified information,' Mr. Grassley said in a statement to The Times."
Read 4 tweets
Aug 29, 2022
My latest @FDRLST column, exploring why the @FBI has lost so much public trust.

thefederalist.com/2022/08/29/the…
The FBI’s recent history of mishandling controversial investigations into Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has undermined public trust and polarized views of the Bureau along political lines.
Following the unprecedented FBI raid of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, Vice President Harris said she had “full confidence that the Department of Justice will do what the facts and the law requires.”

Why? Nearly half the country is much more skeptical, and with good reason.
Read 7 tweets
Aug 11, 2022
New Questions for the Record for @FBI Dir. Wray, from @ChuckGrassley...

grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

1. You can't find what you won't look for. The @FBI sought no warrant for the Clinton laptops. Instead it negotiated and agreed not to look at the most important stuff.
2. What's the basis for the warrant? Let's see the affidavit. Is there a filter team to segregate things not related to a narrowly scoped investigation negotiated with the target's attorneys—as was done with Clinton?
3. Why the runaround on the Qs about Biden/foreign gov't bank records and the declassified Crossfire Hurricane documents?
Read 4 tweets
Aug 10, 2022
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
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Jul 28, 2022
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.

THREAD 1:
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/…
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