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🧵1. The @SECgov has now turned over 324 pages of new documents in response to our crypto conflicts FOIA requests.

empowr.us/empower-oversi… 2. The latest batch of documents follows a May FOIA lawsuit brought by Empower Oversight in the District of Columbia.

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Lawful whistleblowing is the opposite of illegal leaking. Holding leaders accountable the right way is an American tradition worth preserving.

Lessons from America's 1st #whistleblower law:

1. 🧵 https://t.co/nrZLd9BMfNbit.ly/wb-patriot
2. Lawful whistleblowers should not be falsely smeared as illegal leakers & illegal leakers should not be falsely celebrated as lawful whistleblowers.

On July 30, 1778, the Continental Congress passed the world’s first whistleblower law.

Statement from Gary Shapley’s Legal Team on Biden Lawyer’s Letter to Congress Attacking a #Whistleblower

https://t.co/6fVASys3Hwempowr.us/statement-from…
twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Biden family lawyers have resorted to intimidation before—reportedly threatening federal prosecutors with “career suicide” if they charged Hunter Biden.

https://twitter.com/JsnFostr/status/1671972142320066574

Empower Oversight will fight any retaliation against this courageous #whistleblower tooth and nail—along with our co-counsel Mark Lytle.

https://twitter.com/CBSEveningNews/status/1648833504283619328

President @tristanleavitt and @empowr_us will work tirelessly to protect our client’s rights and honor the risks he has taken to inform Congress and other oversight authorities.

Empower Oversight asks Inspector General to Correct False Claim that his Office has Rejected FBI Whistleblower

empowr.us/empower-oversi… Empower Oversight transmitted a letter to the DOJ-OIG seeking confirmation that former FBI Special Agent Steve Friend’s concerns have not been “rejected” by his office, contrary to mischaracterizations in widely trumpeted congressional leaks.

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1. A primer 🧵for those interested in actually learning:

@HouseJudiciary Democrat attacks on @FBI witnesses that @empwr_us helped as not "real" #whistleblowers are wrong on the law and factually baseless.

https://twitter.com/tristanleavitt/status/1632442109855711233

2. Legally speaking, a whistleblower is someone makes a "protected disclosure." Period. Nothing else.

A "protected disclosure" generally means a good faith effort to properly report waste, wrongdoing, or a safety concern.

https://twitter.com/JsnFostr/status/1632525343239151618?s=20

“[George] Hill and [Steve] Friend both are being advised by former Senate investigator Jason Foster, the head of Empower Oversight, a whistleblower support nonprofit.”

justthenews.com/accountability… “[@JsnFostr], who worked for years under Sen. Chuck Grassley, said the whistleblowers have provided Congress with a portrait of the FBI that, ‘keeps feeding public suspicion that it's too focused on political narratives and not focused enough on fighting crime.’"

WATCH: @mirandadevine & @TuckerCarlson report on FBI Whistleblower Steve Friend’s protected disclosures about FBI misconduct in J6 cases. @EMPOWR_US has been helping him, but now that his identity is public, the retaliation will likely intensify. We have been working with him and providing legal counsel. We can only help truthtellers like Steve Friend through your generous donations. If you would like to help, please consider supporting our efforts.

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Empower Oversight secured important wins in its lawsuit against the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for its failure to respond to FOIA requests regarding COVID-19 genetic data deletion at the request of a Chinese researcher.

empowr.us/judge-rejects-… The judge ruled that because the names of the Chinese researcher and an NIH official had already been public, that they should no longer be under seal. This reverses a previous order that had prematurely granted the NIH request to seal the names.

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Empower Oversight Probes Allegation that FBI Ignored Evidence Related to Most Wanted Fugitive Whitey Bulger

empowr.us/empower-oversi… Empower Oversight received an allegation that while Whitey Bulger was one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives, the Bureau ignored a lead based on physical evidence reported by a local homicide detective in the area where Bulger was hiding.

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Empower Oversight Asks Judge to Set Aside Magistrate’s Erroneous Order to Seal Public Info in NIH Lawsuit

empowr.us/empower-oversi… On July 15, NIH requested that the name of a Chinese researcher and an NIH official be removed from filings, even though those names had been provided by NIH both in Empower Oversight’s litigation and in response to a previous FOIA request from another nonprofit years earlier.

“[NIH] is trying to convince a federal court to seal portions of those records and a litigant's filing that name the earlier Chinese researcher and his NIH handler, claiming it ‘inadvertently failed’ to redact them in...a [FOIA] lawsuit.”

justthenews.com/government/fed… “NIH disclosed the pair's names and actions 19 months ago to fulfill a public records request, also identifying multiple staffers who manage its Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and Chinese researchers who submitted sequences early in the pandemic.”

Empower Oversight Requests SEC-OIG Conduct Investigation into the Failure of the SEC’s Ethics Office to Prevent Cryptocurrency Conflicts of Interest by Senior Staff



#cryptotrading #crypto #Bitcoin $BTC $ETH $XRPempowr.us/empower-oversi… Empower Oversight sent a letter to the SEC-OIG requesting a comprehensive review of the SEC’s ethics officials to properly manage SEC official William Hinman’s potential conflict of interest regarding cryptocurrency issues.

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Empower Oversight Obtains Additional Documents Shedding Light on Potential Cryptocurrency Conflicts of Interest within the SEC

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#cryptotrading #crypto #Bitcoin $BTC $ETH $XRP Empower Oversight received about 200 pages of emails from the SEC responsive to its FOIA request for records that could shed light on allegations of conflicts of interest associated with the SEC’s selective enforcement actions involving cryptocurrencies.

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Empower Oversight Releases Research on NIH Deleting Coronavirus Data During the Pandemic

empowr.us/empower-oversi… The report details findings in 238 pages of NIH documents relating to the removal of genetic sequences from public view at the request of China’s Wuhan University.

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SEC Releases E-mails to Empower Oversight in Crypto Conflicts Lawsuit, Still Searching for More

empowr.us/sec-releases-e… After suing the SEC for documents related to potential conflicts of interest in its cryptocurrency-related enforcement decisions, Empower Oversight has obtained the first documents from the SEC as a result of this litigation under FOIA.

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Empower Oversight Sues @TheJusticeDept for Documents on Hiring of Durham Critic and Special Counsel Budget

empowr.us/empower-oversi… Empower Oversight sued to obtain documents related to the independence of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into wrongdoing in the origins of the Trump-Russia probe and the 2016 election.

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