Benjamin Krause | DisabledVeterans.org Despite a hold, nominee for VA Undersecretary for Benefits Joshua Jacobs will be confirmed Tuesday evening in a cloture vote. … But once the celebration is over, it could be that Jacobs requires a similar ethics hall pass to that of Kurt DelBene, VA’s current Chief Information Officer, albeit for slightly different …
Just the News Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and Ron Johnson (Wisc.) sent letters to the Justice Department demanding answers after a former FBI agent said he was forced to sign a nondisclosure agreement that did not include the legally required whistleblower exceptions allowing him to come forward to Congress. Whistleblower protections have been enshrined …
Benjamin Krause | DisabledVeterans.org Sen. Chuck Grassley accused the newest VA Undersecretary for Benefits nominee of giving “evasive answers” on a number of agency corruption questions. Joshua Jacobs is the newest nominee running into delays. At the core of the current delay is a denial Jacobs provided Sen. Grassley that appears evasive at best. Grassley wanted to know what …
Just the News The dramatic tit-for-tat between Alvin Bragg and Jim Jordan escalated Tuesday when the Manhattan District Attorney sued the House Judiciary Committee chairman, claiming Congress had no business investigating the New York State indictment of Donald Trump. But a modest expenditure of federally regulated funds by Bragg’s office may complicate his efforts to …
Office of Senator Grassley Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) bipartisan Administrative False Claims Act has been unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate. “The False Claims Act has clearly been the best tool to fight fraud against the government and recover lost taxpayer dollars. Tens of billions of dollars have been returned to the federal treasury since my updates 37 years …
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 …