Washington, D.C. – Nearly eight years after the Justice Department first spied on members of Congress and staff, Empower Oversight is opposing the federal government’s latest move to keep hiding its supposed justifications for 5 years of non-disclosure orders (NDOs) following the initial subpoena for activity logs of the personal phone and email accounts of …
Empower Oversight has appealed the decision by the FBI to categorically deny the organization’s request for records related to the Whitey Bulger case. The request sought the following Items: To read the appeal, click here. To read the original FOIA request, click here.
Washington, D.C. – Following multiple lawsuits and years fighting for transparency, Empower Oversight has now obtained the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Report of Investigation entitled “Financial Conflict of Interest Allegations Against Former Corporation Finance Director William H. Hinman.” The ten-page report is dated December 9, 2024, 31 months after …
Washington, D.C. – Empower Oversight has filed an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit challenging Chief Judge James E. Boasberg’s decision to keep sealed the arguments used by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to obtain secret gag orders blocking notifications by Google to targeted members of Congress and congressional staff, …
WASHINGTON –Empower Oversight has released new details about several clients caught in the crosshairs of the politicization of the FBI, in particular the Bureau’s Security Division (SecD). In a letter to the FBI’s new General Counsel Samuel Ramer that the whistleblower organization is just now making public, it seeks justice from the new administration for …
WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight has filed a formal request to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to reconsider the revocation of Special Agent Garret O’Boyle’s security clearance—an action they argue was a retaliatory measure against a protected whistleblower. Empower Oversight represents O’Boyle along with the American Center for Law and Justice and Binnall Law Group. …
In a positive turn of events, an Idaho judge recently ordered the unsealing of numerous documents requested by Empower Oversight on behalf of a former FBI Supervisory Senior Resident Agent who was retaliated against for expressing concern about a search warrant written by lawyers in DOJ and the local U.S. Attorney office. The attorneys had purposefully excluded from the search …
WASHINGTON – The IRS special agents who made protected disclosures on the preferential treatment that the Biden administration was giving the president’s son, Hunter Biden, during an investigation into his tax returns, will be promote to leadership positions and become the senior advisors to the Secretary of the Department of Treasury. The announcement was made …
Empower Oversight has appealed the Department of Justice’s ruling denying Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seeking additional information about the agency’s retaliation against various FBI employees. Empower Oversight submitted a FOIA request on Sept. 9, 2024. The Justice Department denied the request on Nov. 26, 2024, asserting …
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit yesterday denied Hunter Biden’s “Motion for Summary Affirmance”—which would have ended IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler’s effort to intervene in Biden’s suit against the IRS. The case falsely accuses the whistleblowers of violating tax secrecy laws. Now the whistleblowers can proceed to …