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  • FBI whistleblower wins settlement from agency, including restoration of pay, security clearance

    06/04/2024 3:47:24 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 15 replies
    Just the News ^ | June 4, 2024 12:00pm Updated: June 4, 2024 3:03pm | Madeleine Hubbard and John Solomon
    The FBI reached a settlement with whistleblower Marcus Allen after he was suspended without pay and had his security clearance pulled after he made protected disclosures regarding the testimony of Director Christopher Wray concerning the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Nonprofit watchdog Empower Oversight announced the settlement Tuesday after it filed an appeal on behalf of Allen in October 2023. The settlement includes 27 months of back pay and benefits that the FBI withheld from Allen since he was suspended in February 2022. Separately, the FBI also restored his security clearance.House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said the FBI's...
  • Whistleblower organization seeks to compel DOJ to disclose why it spied on congressional staff

    05/02/2024 4:24:32 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 16 replies
    Just the News ^ | May 2, 2024 4:32pm Updated: May 2, 2024 5:41pm | John Solomon and Steven Richards
    A whistleblower organization has initiated a court action to force the Department of Justice to disclose why it spied on congressional staff, setting up a landmark legal battle on an issue that has rankled both Republicans and Democrats.Last fall, several current and former congressional oversight staff were belatedly informed that the Justice Department seized phone and email records in 2017 in an internal investigation, raising concerns about separation of powers between two branches of government.Jason Foster, who is now the founder and chair of Empower Oversight, the group which sued in court this week to unseal the court documents in...
  • Effort to spread discredited Russia collusion theory welcomed by McCain Senate panel, memos show

    09/24/2021 5:22:33 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 9 replies
    https://justthenews.com ^ | By John Solomon and Lee Smith Updated: September 23, 2021 - 11:52pm
    Armed Services panel secretly fought court battle this summer to quash subpoena seeking records of contacts with ex-FBI official Daniel Jones and liberal-funded The Democracy Integrity Project nonprofit. ================================================================================= The efforts to disseminate a now-discredited theory that the Trump campaign had secret computer communications with the Kremlin extended beyond the FBI, CIA, and State Department to the U.S. Senate. Under the late Sen. John McCain, the Armed Services Committee engaged a former FBI official and his progressive-funded nonprofit to produce a report on the matter, according to court records obtained by Just the News. The Senate committee, now under Democrats'...