Posted on 11/03/2024 11:39:37 AM PST by John Semmens
IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley who testified to Congress about his superiors' intention to let Hunter Biden's tax evasion slide has been notified that he must resign or be demoted. The punitive action was sparked by the publication of an interview Shapley had with journalist Catherine Herridge in which he discussed how he had been denied expected promotions since his whistleblowing testimony.
A spokesperson for IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel explained that "Shapley did not have permission to testify to Congress. The fact that he went ahead and did it anyway was an act of insubordination. Naturally, this disobedience made him ineligible for promotion. He failed to gracefully accept this warranted punishment. Instead, he upped the ante by complaining to a reporter. This further insubordination merits a second round of disciplinary action. He will either learn his proper place or be punished until he does or leaves the IRS."
Tristan Leavitt, the lawyer representing Shapley, said "the Whistleblower statute was enacted to protect government employees from being punished for exposing the misdeeds of their superiors. Without this law corruption and abuse of authority by our government would have no internal checks or balances. The special treatment my client's superiors attempted to grant to President Biden's son is the type of misdeed that the Whistleblower statute is designed to discourage. Punishing Mr. Shapley for having the courage to report this misdeed to Congress is an abuse of power that must not be allowed to stand."
It appears that IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel has no idea how our Constitutional government works. But he obviously understands how to operate in a tyrannical dictatorship.
Whistleblowers are by definition insubordinate because they are telling on their superiors and thus the reason for the legal protections. But guess with this administration those protections are only afforded to those who blow the whistle on Republicans. Those who are trying to demote or fire this individual should be fired themselves for violating the law.
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