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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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Dec 14 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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
May 14 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
🚨New @JusticeOIG memo on the @FBI's failure to follow the law when suspending security clearances in retaliation for #whistlelbower disclosures.

I can confirm that one of the cases the OIG describes in detail w/o naming him is our client #MarcusAllen.

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oig.justice.gov/sites/default/…Image
May 2 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Highlight 🧵for our motion to intervene and unseal @TheJusticeDept arguments for hiding its broad subpoenas for phone and email logs of attorneys advising congressional oversight committees. ⬇️ Image In 2017, when @TheJusticeDept and @FBI were resisting aggressive congressional oversight of FISA abuses, they secretly launched what looks like a broad retaliatory effort to target attorneys for their congressional oversight committees. Image
Feb 27 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
NEW FOIA: Two weeks ago, we sought documents on the @FBI's #whistleblower retaliation against Marcus Allen by denying him the ability to work while suspended w/o pay—for the last two years

Now, we are seeking documents on @FBI's claim that his family is not allowed to accept charitable contributions from the public to meet basic living expenses.

Press Release:
Full Request PDF:

🧵1. Highlights below...👇 cc: co-counsel, @ACLjohnempr.me/4bTP7sQr
empr.me/49sJbp6Image
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Image 🧵2. A successful @GiveSendGo campaign raised thousands of small-dollar donations to help the families of Marcus and other @FBI #whistleblowers like @GOBactual.

But, a politically motivated #WarOnWhistleblowers pressured @TheJusticeDept and @FBI to block the charity.

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Jan 23 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
New Filing: FBI is Breaking the Law in its 2 Years' of Retaliation Against FBI #Whistleblower Marcus Allen

Press release:

New complaint to @JusticeOIG and OPR:
(full PDF)

🧵1. ...with highlights below. empr.me/48Nezyi
empr.me/4b5FnLD
🧵2. The @FBI has forced Marcus Allen's family to deplete their retirement savings by suspending him without pay for the last two years while it delays any resolution with every trick in the book.

Yanking his clearance violates PPD-19.

Yanking his paycheck violates 5 USC 2303. Image
Dec 5, 2023 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
🧵1. Highlights from the 77-page report released today by the House Judiciary, Ways & Means, and Oversight Committee
Image 2. Early examples of preferential treatment. Just to open a case and start investigating, there was a higher bar than for the average person.

By the time investigators were ready to start interviewing witnesses, President-elect Joe Biden's transition team got tipped off.
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Oct 25, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
True. Not just me, but also other House and Senate staffers, both Democrat and Republican.

An outrageous fishing expedition to gather intel on the comms of attorneys for cmtes doing DOJ oversight.

Here's the grand jury subpoena @Google provided. The red redaction is mine.
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Sep 27, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
A link to all new IRS #whistleblower docs the House cmte voted to release today is below along with @tristanleavitt's highlight thread. 2. The first one listed on the cmte website is an affidavit from IRS #whistleblower Joseph Ziegler.

It summarizes all the other new documents he provided and the cmte released.

gop-waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/upl…
Sep 8, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Outrageous.
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Aug 31, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🙄 Solution below ⬇️🧵…

Do this *now*, @Jim_Jordan, @RepJamesComer, @RepJasonSmith, @SpeakerMcCarthy, @HouseGOP

Before any contempt votes, so that the threat of contempt has some teeth.

Before any funding for the next fiscal year is considered in Sept….

1/ Simple solution.

No executive branch agency or court could stop you.

The Senate can’t stop you.

House rules are none of their business.

No one can make you consider any bill in order that funds the salary of officials defying your subpoenas. Period.

And why would you?

2/
Aug 21, 2023 • 14 tweets • 8 min read
1🧵Nothing in the Constitution grants prosecutors or “special” or “independent” counsels immunity from congressional oversight.

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Image 2🧵 @tristanleavitt and I personally led congressional probes related to ongoing law enforcement matters and obtained info on pending criminal matters.
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Aug 1, 2023 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
House Ways & Means Cmte Chair @RepJasonSmith Opposes Biden Lawyers' Attempt to Seal IRS #Whistleblower Materials

Biden family lawyers continue to smear the IRS WBs w/ false claims that their protected disclosures were criminal.

Full filing here:

1/🧵 https://t.co/rLAwjIIvtyempr.me/456PITK

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Image 2/ IRS SSA Gary Shapley and Hunter Biden case agent Joe Ziegler made protected disclosures to Congress. Congress voted to release them to the public and filed copies with the court considering the Hunter Biden plea.
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