Just the News A federal committee that advises the government on “biological research that has the potential for misuse” met only once between 2017, when a 3-year moratorium on federal funding of gain-of-function (GOF) research was lifted, and 2022, according to its meeting schedule, leaving the panel largely dormant through the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, widely believed to have …
The Epoch Times The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General’s Office intends to interview former FBI special agent Steve Friend regarding allegations he has raised about the agency. … Friend further alleged that the FBI has departed from its everyday case management practices and has widely listed field offices around the country as the …
The Daily Caller The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (DOJ-OIG) has contradicted House Democrats’ claim about whistleblower and former FBI Special Agent Steve Friend, a group representing Friend announced in a March 15 press release. House Judiciary Democrats released a 316-page report early March challenging the credibility of whistleblowers who sat for transcribed interviews …
Just the News In a letter to Empower Oversight President Tristan Leavitt, DOJ Assistant Inspector General Sean O’Neill confirmed that the Inspector General’s office still intended to interview former FBI Special Agent Steve Friend, who has raised concerns about the FBI use of SWAT teams and how it handed cases related to the Jan. 6, …
New York Post Now that Democrats are in the minority in the House and unable to abuse their power as easily as they have for the last two years, they are resorting to shameless lies to sabotage oversight hearings and trash whistleblowers and other inconvenient witnesses. As queen of this disinformation operation, they have anointed a little-known …
The Washington Times Democrats owe the FBI, particularly the seventh floor of its Washington headquarters, a lot. Not surprisingly, as House Republicans took their first batch of transcribed testimony from FBI whistleblowers, Democrats immediately set out to sabotage them and Rep. Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, in the process. … Jason Foster, former chief investigative counsel for Sen. Charles …
New York Daily News The United States has a cherished history of protecting and advancing freedom of the press. It is a right enshrined in the Bill of Rights that has long been a beacon of our republic that has served as a model widely emulated abroad. While continuing to defend this traditional bedrock principle …
Sharyl Attkisson Empower Oversight’s President Tristan Leavitt has sent a letter to the Inspector General of the Department of Justice seeking confirmation that former FBI Special Agent Steve Friend’s concerns have not been “rejected” by the Inspector General’s office, contrary to mischaracterizations in widely trumpeted Congressional leaks attacking several whistleblowers. In Friend’s whistleblower complaint to …
Breitbart A whistleblower testified in a closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee in February that a major financial institution inappropriately data mined its customers’ bank information to aid the FBI in January 6 riot investigations. Retired FBI National Security Intelligence Supervisor George Hill, who was based in the Boston Field Office in 2021, said …
The Federalist House Democrats lied when they said an investigation into an FBI whistleblower’s claim of retaliation had been dismissed, according to a letter obtained exclusively by The Federalist. On the contrary, an investigation into Special Agent Steve Friend’s claims is ongoing. Last week, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee leaked a “staff report” that …