Just The News A watchdog group is seeking records from the Department of Justice and the FBI in connection with whistleblower claims an agent made asserting that the FBI was overusing SWAT teams and overreporting cases of domestic extremism. Empower Oversight filed two Freedom of Information Act requests, the first of which seeks documents in …
Sharyl Attkisson The watchdog group Empower Oversight…is suing for documents that could explain why the foreign broadcasting group Al Jazeera appears to have received favored treatment from the US Dept. of Justice. Al Jazeera, says Empower Oversight, has failed to register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), as required by US …
Sharyl Attkisson Last year, a whistleblower disclosed to Empower Oversight that the inspectors general (IGs) of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) had received salary payments in excess of the legal limits. As described in previous Empower Oversight FOIA requests to the NSA, NRO, the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and …
Washington Examiner THE BIG PROBLEM WITH THE JOE BIDEN DOCUMENTS STORY. This could be the shortest newsletter ever. The biggest problem with the Joe Biden documents story is this: We know only what Joe Biden’s lawyers have told us. And the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the case will make the problem worse. Now, some elaboration. The …
Just the News The federal officials most responsible for shaping COVID-19 origin narratives may have covertly contributed to a March 2020 research paper concluding that “SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct” and rejecting the plausibility of “any type of laboratory-based scenario.” … [Former NIH Director Francis] Collins himself was involved in answering FOIA requests, according to a March …
Substack A Florida FBI agent blows the whistle on a Bureau that’s stopped worrying about making cases, shifting resources to a vast new mission: domestic spying without predicate. Part one of a series. … Late on an October morning in a quiet neighborhood near Daytona Beach, Florida. FBI agent Steve Friend sits in his kitchen, …
Real Clear Politics “Full Measure” host Sharyl Attkisson speaks with FBI whistleblower Stephen Friend who says he wants to report politically motivated investigations and operations during the 2020 election campaign, including an alleged entrapment plot to kidnap Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer while she was running for re-election and investigating non-violent participants in the January …