Press Release

WASHINGTON – Multiple Federal Air Marshal whistleblowers represented by Empower Oversight shared new information through protected disclosures to Congress about the Quiet Skies program run by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Empower Oversight helped the whistleblowers disclose years of ineffectiveness and wasted resources while urging elected official to protect the whistleblowers and probe the TSA …

WASHINGTON – The IRS whistleblowers who revealed the preferential treatment given to Hunter Biden as the president’s son are still fighting to have their voices heard in Biden’s lawsuit against the IRS, which falsely accuses Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler of violating tax secrecy laws. Despite the obviously meritless basis for the frivolous suit against …

WASHINGTON – The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has opened a “leak” investigation into the release of information regarding eight flights on which Air Marshals surveilled former presidential candidate and member of Congress Tulsi Gabbard, Empower Oversight has learned. The move improperly targets Federal Air Marshals (FAMs) who blew the whistle on the wasted resources and …

WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight is pressing the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General to immediately conduct oversight of Federal Air Marshals Service surveillance programs, as it revealed another whistleblower had come forward more than two years ago to express concern about the programs. In July 2021, a Federal Air Marshal, represented by …

WASHINGTON – Today Empower Oversight announced its representation of a recently retired Secret Service special agent in his whistleblower retaliation case against the agency. The case is before the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, where it was recently remanded for a hearing on the merits. In early 2018 the Secret Service whistleblower disclosed to his …

WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight has disclosed to Congress yet another example of the politicization of the FBI’s Security Division (“SecD”). In a letter to Chairman Jim Jordan, Empower Oversight wrote that a whistleblower within SecD with first-hand knowledge reports the FBI knew its allegations against an agent who had testified before the House Judiciary Committee …

WASHINGTON – In a new court filing, Empower Oversight is pushing back on the government’s attempt to permanently hide its sealed claims to a federal court that supposedly justified secretly collecting the communications records of a bipartisan group attorneys for congressional committees conducting oversight of the executive branch. This week, Empower Oversight filed a reply …

WASHINGTON – Empower Oversight is pressing the Office of the Inspector General at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC-OIG) to release a report on conflicts of interest by senior Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) officials and the agency’s selective enforcement decisions on cryptocurrencies.  SEC officials had indicated the OIG was “in the final stages of …

Tristan Leavitt, president of Empower Oversight, made the following statement after the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, and the information that has been revealed in the aftermath of the shooting.  “Yesterday’s attempted assassination of former President Trump exposed obvious security failures. This issue should not become a partisan one, because it’s essential that …