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DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—An Obama-appointed judge may have violated federal law by greenlighting a Biden Department of Justice effort to secretly secure Republican senators’ private cellphone data, legal experts say. Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court James Boasberg signed orders in 2023 preventing cell phone carriers from notifying 11 Republican members of Congress about special counsel Jack …

The IRS agents who came forward with allegations of misconduct in the Hunter Biden tax case are going to receive significant compensation to settle their illegal retaliation cases against the IRS and Department of Justice. IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler gained compensation for damages and a requirement for new training for federal prosecutors …

In violation of a court order, a high-ranking Department of Education official during the Biden administration continued to investigate schools that banned gender-confused males from women’s spaces, a whistleblower alleged in a complaint made public last week. Now, a watchdog organization is calling on the department to “finalize and release” an investigation on the matter. …

Minimal details are included in former FBI Director James Comey’s indictment, but it doesn’t necessarily signal a lack of evidence. Though prosecutors face legitimate challenges to securing a conviction, some legal experts have cautioned that it is too early to really assess the strength of the government’s indictment, which charged Comey with two counts for allegedly obstructing a congressional proceeding and making …

Empower Oversight president Tristan Leavitt joined Sandy Rios on her American Family Radio podcast, 24/7, to discuss several whistleblower client cases being worked on. Leavitt specifically talked about the weaponization of the Quiet Skies program and the whistleblowers who came forward to reveal the details. Leavitt also spoke about IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joe …

The Trump administration is bolstering the National Human Trafficking Hotline and partnering with a new contractor after the longtime administrator of the hotline faced allegations of mismanagement. The Department of Health and Human Services’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF) announced Monday a five year, $35 million grant agreement with Compass Connections to become the new operator …

A watchdog group says the U.S. Department of Education ignored a federal court order on the Biden administration’s expansion of Title IX protections and is dragging its feet on a report about it. Empower Oversight said a whistleblower came forward showing the Department’s Office for Civil Rights continued to process complaints involving gender identity and …

The FBI has reinstated an agent who raised concerns about lenient treatment of a Louisiana district attorney accused of sexual assault and lost his job over it. FBI agent turned whistleblower Mike Zummer said he feels a weight has been lifted after the agency reversed its nine-year-old decision to suspend him without pay indefinitely. Zummer …

In this episode, we honor brave whistleblowers of the FBI as we hear from three remarkable individuals: Marcus Allen, Mike Zummer, and Monica Shillingburg. Each of them shares their harrowing journeys of standing up for the truth and the significant personal costs they endured. From stripped security clearances to years of retaliation, their stories reveal …