Posted on 02/05/2025 5:47:31 PM PST by CFW
The federal whistleblower protection agency has concluded the IRS wrongly retaliated against two agents who blew the whistle on political interference in the Hunter Biden criminal investigation and may have violated federal law by trying to gag the agents from disclosing wrongdoing, according to correspondence to Congress made public Wednesday.
The Empower Oversight whistleblower center, which represented one of the agents, Gary Shapley, disclosed the findings of the Office of Special Counsel in a letter sent to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.
Empower Oversight had filed a complaint with OSC in May 2023 alleging that Shapley and his colleague, IRS agent Joseph Ziegler, had been removed from the Hunter Biden case for blowing the whistle and later had received communications prohibiting them from further communicating concerns about wrongdoing and political meddling in the case.
Those concerns were validated by OSC, Empower Oversight President Tristan Leavitt wrote Grassley.
“OSC confirmed in a December 30, 2024 email to counsel for the whistleblowers that it found the IRS issued illegal gag orders and improperly removed them from the Hunter Biden investigation as reprisal for their protected disclosures,” Leavitt wrote.
You can read the letter here.
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
Since there’s a new boss in town, can the people who retaliated against the whistleblowers be fired?
Rather than saying “the IRS” may have violated federal law, the article should say that “certain agents” may have done so. So, who, specifically, took the agents off the case, issued gag orders, misused the protected disclosures, or otherwise retaliated? Who were their managers? Who were the HR people who were supposed to ensure the protected disclosures were protected, etc? Names. All of them. Criminal charges.
Any agents who violated the law should face criminal charges. In addition to firing.
Bump!!!
Bttt.
5.56mm
“ Since there’s a new boss in town, can the people who retaliated against the whistleblowers be fired?”
They can be imprisoned as per their handbook.
I hear GiTMO is nice this time of year.
Time to put those two whistleblowers in upper management of the IRS.
” found the IRS issued illegal gag orders”
No, the IRS didn’t issue gag orders. That was done by a human, a person with a name.
Who was it? Say the name!
No names of the impeeders?
“Classified for their safety.”
We could go take a look at the bidetpedophile pardons list and use the process of elimination.
The IRS can’t issue anything. Someone at the IRS made these decisions and I bet they are on the short list.
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