Politico: Three former Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) staffers — Jason Foster, Beth Levine and Dean Zerbe — have launched a 501(c)(3) to advocate for whistleblowing, Empower Oversight. The team also includes two of the whistleblowers who testified in the Operation Fast & Furious gun-running scandal, Peter Forcelli and John Dodson.
Group is led by former chief investigator for Sen. Chuck Grassley, supported by successful whistleblowers and law enforcement officials. A group of veteran investigators, attorneys, and law enforcement leaders on Friday launched a new nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog dedicated to strengthening public integrity and aiding “patriotic whistleblowers” across the county. The Empower Oversight Whistleblowers & Research …
Wall Street Journal: WHISTLEBLOWERS get new organizational support from a team of former staffers to Sen. Chuck Grassley and law-enforcement agencies. The new nonprofit, Empower Oversight, is run by Jason Foster, the former longtime counsel to Grassley, the Iowa Republican who has made whistleblower protections a focus of his decades in the Senate. The organization …
Jason Foster, a former Grassley staffer who interviewed employees in the housing agency’s inspector general office before the CIGIE investigation, said in a statement that White House inaction against Wertheimer “is a disservice to the whistleblowers who spoke up years ago.” Further, he said, it “undermines public confidence in the President’s willingness to enforce basic …