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Jason Foster Profile picture
@JsnFostr
Jun 8 • 7 tweets • 6 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
IRS guidance to its employees should not pretend that the laws protecting the right to blow the whistle to Congress do not exist.

@DannyWerfel needs to comply with the law and provide complete, accurate info, per @ChuckGrassley and @SenRonJohnson:

grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/… ImageImage
Context:

Senators Grassley and Johnson also wrote to @JusticeOIG and @TIGTA, the internal oversight authorities that should be helping Congress ensure that the DOJ & IRS follow the law.

Federal dollars come with strings attached. You can't muzzle #whistelblowers.

grassley.senate.gov/news/news-rele…
Here's their letter to the IG's:

grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/… ImageImageImage
What will House and Senate Appropriators do about this?

These restrictions Congress placed on appropriated funds are routinely ignored by DOJ, and now the IRS.

grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/… ImageImageImage
Will Congress let the bureaucrats who run the permanent government do whatever they want—even when it blatantly violates the law on how tax dollars may be used?

@HouseAppropsGOP, @AppropsDems, @SenateApprops Dems, @AppropsGOP?

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Mar 5
...and the @washingtonpost also issued a correction (much more professional than @RollingStone, thank you @McDanielJustine).

The @HouseDemocrats hit job on @FBI #whistlelbower @RealStevefriend caused a lot of confusion about the facts—precisely what it was designed to do.
The half-truths and deceptively edited sections of leaked transcripts presented the media scribes trying to quickly summarize it for their readers a lot of material for a political narrative, but not much context or guidance for understanding the facts.
On @realstevefriend's protected #whistleblower disclosure about unnecessary SWAT operations, a @WashingtonPost story originally claimed:
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Feb 2
New FOIAs to @FBI and @JusticeOIG on #whistleblower retaliation against @RealStevefriend
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.
Read 9 tweets
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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.
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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
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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
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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?
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