WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has reached settlements with a group of current and former FBI agents who have said they were disciplined for invoking personal and political views, including about the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and the coronavirus vaccine, and for clashing with supervisors about approaches to investigations, their lawyers said Tuesday. Empower …
Ten FBI whistleblowers punished by the Biden administration for reporting instances of “political weaponization” within the bureau will receive lump sum payments for damages as part of settlement agreements made with the Justice Department, officials announced Tuesday. “These 10 whistleblowers’ brave actions were met with intense bureaucratic blowback that caused severe financial and emotional hardship,” Sen. Chuck …
It’s been an interminably long slog, but all 10 longstanding FBI whistleblower disputes being handled by Empower Oversight have now been resolved with the Department of Justice. The firm announced the welcome resolution on X and shared a letter addressed to Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) regarding the settlements. The letter to Grassley, penned by Empower Founder and …
An off-the-record media spokesman for former FBI Director James Comey acknowledged the “not normal” nature of his job with the bureau when pressed by congressional staffers, according to a transcript of the call published Thursday. Columbia University Professor of Law Daniel C. Richman — revealed in documents declassified Tuesday to have acted as Comey’s confidant …
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made his first visit to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as the acting commissioner Thursday, days after President Trump ousted Billy Long from the position. Bessent, who is the tax agency’s seventh commissioner this year, met with the leadership during which he discussed the modernization of the information technology systems within the IRS, a Treasury Department spokesperson …
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made an impromptu visit to the IRS Thursday, six days after commissioner Billy Long was ousted by the president for unexplained reasons, the sixth tax chief to bite the dust this year. In his first visit as acting commissioner, Bessent spent 45 minutes in the building to reassure the troops that he …
n the same week that Hunter Biden burst back onto the public stage to play the victim and lash out at Democrats, we also heard from his one-time protector-turned-reluctant nemesis, special counsel David Weiss, with similarly self-serving and disingenuous testimony to Congress. Weiss, the former US attorney in the Bidens’ home state of Delaware who presided …
In the same week that Hunter Biden burst back onto the public stage to play the victim and lash out at Democrats, we also heard from his one-time protector-turned-reluctant nemesis, special counsel David Weiss, with similarly self-serving and disingenuous testimony to Congress. Weiss, the former US attorney in the Bidens’ home state of Delaware who presided …
It was worse than we thought. The January 6, 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment concluding that Russian President Vladimir Putin “developed a clear preference” for Donald Trump and “aspired to help his chances of victory” is revealed in a report released this morning by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to have been based on four pieces of evidence. One …
The hits keep coming. Amid controversies surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and Tulsi Gabbard’s Trump-Russia investigation, an odd new window was thrown open Monday into the FBI’s ill-fated “Midyear Exam” investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley R-Iowa) announced the declassification of a classified appendix to Justice DepartmentInspector General Michael Horowitz’s 2018 …