Just The News The National Institutes of Health deleted information about COVID-19 genetic sequencing during the pandemic at the request of researchers in Wuhan, China, a move that created consternation in science circles, according to emails obtained by a nonpartisan whistleblower and government oversight group. The emails obtained by the Empower Oversight group show a …
Just The News The State Department’s in-house watchdog and congressional Republicans have very different appraisals of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the government-run news agency responsible for broadcasting America’s message to the world. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) shrugged at concerns by USAGM’s first Senate-confirmed CEO, Michael Pack, that it had routinely …
Just The News A recently resigned Veterans Affairs Department executive violated ethics rules in dealings with her husband’s employer, according to an internal investigation that corroborated a whistleblower’s allegations to Congress. The VA inspector general, acting on a complaint from Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, concluded this week that Charmain Bogue, the ex-executive director of the …
Whistleblower Network News March 16 is Freedom of Information Day, a day during Sunshine Week which specifically celebrates the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the key role it plays in promoting good government. FOIA is of the utmost importance to Whistleblower Network News, both in the way it supports whistleblowers and their truth telling …
Tennessee Star A government watchdog Tuesday took the next step in its battle to expose Chinese connections to the National Institute of Health (NIH). “Empower Oversight filed an amended complaint today against the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation for documents related to a request by Chinese researchers to remove …
“To Senator Grassley’s credit, his primary investigator, Jason Foster, was a bulldog. … It took him four years, but he finally got the key document that proved what I said was right.” — Mike German
The Federalist A government watchdog is suing the Department of Justice (DOJ) over the agency’s refusal to comply with a pair of records requests mandated under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). On Wednesday, the nonprofit group Empower Oversight filed its lawsuit to compel the release of documents shedding light on the DOJ’s commitment to …
Just The News A nonprofit watchdog group on Wednesday sued the Justice Department, seeking to force the release of documents related to Special Counsel John Durham’s inquiry into wrongdoing during the FBI’s now-discredited Trump-Russia investigation. Empower Oversight’s lawsuit seeks to enforce two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from last summer that sought records detailing …
Sharyl Attkisson The following information is from Empower Oversight. Empower Oversight recently filed an administrative appeal challenging the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) claim that “no responsive records exist” in several categories of Empower Oversight’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. In August 2021, Empower Oversight filed a FOIA request regarding any conflicts of interest with cryptocurrencies at the SEC, …
POLITICO … GRASSLEY ALUMS SQUEEZE DOJ OVER SILENCE ON AL JAZEERA’S FARA OBLIGATIONS: A whistleblower and oversight advocacy group formed by former staffers to Senate Judiciary ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) launched a new push over the weekend for documents from the Justice Department relating to the department’s reported letter of determination that Qatar-based Al Jazeera’s digital news …