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Jason Foster
@JsnFostr
Founder, Empower Oversight (@EMPOWR_us), formerly Chief Investigative Counsel @SenJudiciary for @ChuckGrassley. RT ≠ ♥️| https://t.co/AECu3CMUh4
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Jul 31 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Why do supposedly professional investigators make snap judgments about what to pursue (Steele Dossier) v. what not to pursue (Clinton E-Mail probe/Clinton Plan Intel)?

It's not the Federal Bureau of Gut Feelings or What Feels True.

How about investigating stuff? Try that. From the declassified Durham annex... Image
Apr 7 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
🚨 New Filing:

Our appeal of Judge Boasberg's order keeping secret the DOJ's arguments for hiding its collection of my and my Capitol Hill colleagues communications records a secret for more than six years—even after the probe that supposedly justified it was closed. Image DOJ attorneys targeted the communications records of attorneys for the oversight committees in Congress probing DOJ's misconduct in the Carter Page FISA application. Image
Mar 19 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
🆕 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
Feb 27 • 22 tweets • 8 min read
🚨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
Feb 13 • 13 tweets • 9 min read
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/…
Feb 9 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Feb 5 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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
Jan 30 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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…
Jan 26 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
You should sit this one out @NormEisen.

Remember when you orchestrated the firing of an IG for a buddy of Pres. Obama and made false statements to Congress about it after your effort to intimidate the IG into quitting failed? Image
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Jan 20 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Acting FBI Director Image whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…
Dec 19, 2024 • 22 tweets • 8 min read
Here's the full response to Abbe Lowell's request to throw out the $20 million defamation lawsuit against him by the IRS agents who blew the whistle on Biden's DOJ tanking the Hunter Biden case....

empowr.us/wp-content/upl… highlights...⬇️ x.com/EMPOWR_us/stat…Image Here's what it's all about. If whistleblowers can be defamed w/o consequence, there will be no whistleblowers. Image
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Dec 14, 2024 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
“Mr. McCabe lied about his own leaking and should have been prosecuted for it, according to the Obama-appointed Justice IG [Horowitz], but wasn’t. …Now that this fishing expedition into the communications of congressional attorneys has been confirmed by the same IG, the new administration needs to finally hold people accountable.” “And [Foster] said agents and prosecutors withheld from the DC magistrate judge who approved the subpoenas and non-disclosure orders the fact that the targets were congressional attorneys.”
Dec 1, 2024 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
You learned that Hillary Clinton & the DNC funded the phony Steele Dossier b/c @ChuckGrassley, me, @DevinNunes, and Kash Patel did our jobs.

Fired-@FBI Dir. Comey later pretended not to know while somehow keeping a straight face. Here's the story... [long tweet]

Many in the press suspected it all along, and some provided me with tidbits suggesting it, but no one could report it—not until a House subpoena forced the information onto the public record.

At the Senate Judiciary Cmte, we received a tip that #FusionGPS was an alias for "Bean, LLC" which actually held bank accounts under that legal entity name. We also received the account number and the bank name for at least one of the accounts.

Senate Judiciary cmte rules were designed to enhance bipartisan cooperation and Minority party rights. But, there was no hope of bipartisanship on this.

After all, the true source of the money was a secret that only one political party in DC desperately wanted to keep.

The rules required either agreement from Ranking Member Feinstein or a full committee vote, which would mean public notice and weeks of debate before issuing a subpoena. We could not share our basis for the subpoena with the other side without betraying the confidential whistleblower and press sources who had tipped us off.

However, the House had granted its Chairmen, including Intel Cmte Chairman Nunes, unilateral subpoena authority.

So, Chairman Nunes issued the subpoena, and after some court battles, Kash Patel got to go through #FusionGPS's bank records.

In the process, the world learned the democrats involved had "lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year" as even a @nytimes reporter put it.

So, no doubt that many institutionalists at the @FBI hate the thought of Kash Patel as Director b/c far too many of them put loyalty to the Bureau ahead of loyalty to the Constitution—which requires being accountable to democratically elected oversight authorities in both the Legislative and Executive Branches.

The @FBI is not and should never be "independent" of answering to the people's duly elected leaders. Just as the military must submit to civilian control in our constitutional system, so must federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

Anyone who suggests otherwise is an imminent threat to your liberty—and definitely not at all into "preserving our democracy."

Kash Patel was a key part of an epic pantsing of the @FBI.

He helped Congress expose the @FBI's shameful abuse of the FISA process to spy on an outsider political campaign for the party in power.

We did our jobs, methodically and professionally, through classified letters and aggressive, independent oversight. They called us crazy conspiracy theorists. They launched hit pieces trying to discredit Members and staffers like Kash Patel and me.

Eventually, enough was declassified that everyone could see what we had seen—what their government had been hiding from them.

An Obama-appointed Inspector General verified all of it and Mueller shuffled away, leaving the scene not with a bang, but a whimper.

empr.me/dnc-dossierImage cc: @kash_patel

Sep 6, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
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…

Image "...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
Aug 27, 2024 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
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.
Aug 8, 2024 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
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…

Image 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
Jul 24, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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. ⬇️🧾
Jul 23, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
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. 🧵⬇️

Jul 18, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
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…

Image 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
Jun 11, 2024 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Forcing employees to rat out their co-workers for expressing political opinions the bosses don't like is unAmerican. Full letter to @JusticeOIG and documents are available here: empr.me/FBISecDQs
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May 22, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Chairman Smith: “New documents provided by the whistleblowers show that Hunter Biden repeatedly lied to Congress in his February deposition to distance his involvement in what should be considered a clear scheme to enrich the Biden family.” gop-waysandmeans.house.gov/chairman-smith… Image