Momentum is building to prevent the confirmation vote for VA nominee Tanya Bradsher until she answers questions about both the VA’s failure to discipline unethical staff and protect sensitive information. Senator Charles Grassley has been stonewalled for more than two years in his quest to learn more about a wife-and-husband / bureaucrat-lobbyist tandem exposed by …
WASHINGTON — Empower Oversight co-signed a joint letter (pdf) with other Make It Safe Coalition (MISC) members to the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee expressing support for whistleblowers within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and calling on the committee to investigate the claims made by those whistleblowers. MISC is a collection of groups that coordinate on …
“In an October 7, 2022, meeting at the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office, U.S. Attorney David Weiss told six witnesses he did not have authority to charge in other districts and had thus requested special counsel status. Those six witnesses include Baltimore FBI Special Agent in Charge Tom Sobocinski and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Ryeshia …
“It is my understanding that the House Committee on Ways and Means (‘Committee’) has now made public the transcript of my May 26, 2023 interview with both its Majority and Minority Staff concerning my supervision of the investigation into Hunter Biden. “As I have always stated, my goal of coming forward as a whistleblower was …
WASHINGTON — Empower Oversight submitted letters to the Department of Justice Inspector General (DOJ-OIG – pdf) and Congress (pdf) along with sworn statement by a supervisory Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) employee who witnessed FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate threaten the jobs of any employees who criticized the Bureau’s response to January 6th whistleblowers. While the affiant …
WASHINGTON — Empower Oversight submitted a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS – pdf) documenting the agency’s failure to provide substantive answers to a FOIA request from more than a year-and-a-half ago. On December 9, 2021, Empower Oversight filed a FOIA request with the DHS regarding the agency’s contract and subsequent grant proposals awarded to EcoHealth Alliance. …
WASHINGTON — Last week, Empower Oversight sent a letter co-signed by Whistleblowers of America to Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman John Tester and Ranking Member Jerry Moran about the pending nomination of Tanya Bradsher—the current Chief of Staff to the Secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department—to become Deputy Secretary. In the letter, the groups detail evidence that Bradsher …
WASHINGTON — Empower Oversight submitted two letters concerning protections for whistleblowers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), one to Chairman Jim Jordan of the House Judiciary Committee (pdf), and another to the Department of Justice (DOJ, pdf). In his letter to Chairman Jordan, Empower Oversight President Tristan Leavitt proposed specific amendments to the law …
WASHINGTON — Today, Empower Oversight President Tristan Leavitt testified alongside Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) whistleblower clients before the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on Federal Government Weaponization. The full opening statement from Leavitt can be read here and watched here. Leavitt explained to Members of Congress how the FBI has abused the security clearance process to circumvent whistleblower protections …
WASHINGTON — Empower Oversight filed a new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC – pdf) requesting communications about its referral of evidence to the Inspector General (IG), pointing to ethical violations and related litigation. The FOIA request seeks records of communications about the group’s May 2022 referral to …