All posts tagged "Whistleblower"

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has come under fire over an explosive whistleblower complaint and allegations that she is protecting the Trump family — and that she even planted a mole to obstruct the investigation, according to an analyst Thursday.

Salon's Jesselyn Radack described multiple problems and conflicts of interest that have surfaced around Gabbard's alleged mismanagement of the complaint, which are tied to claims that President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner influenced the president over Iran. The complaint itself was apparently "locked in a safe," according to a Wall Street Journal report last month.

"We don’t know the substance of the intelligence report underlying the whistleblower complaint, but the government claims it is 'exquisitely' classified, which raises an immediate problem: That’s not a real classification level," Radack wrote. "The report apparently involves an intelligence service intercepting a conversation between two foreign nationals about Iran and Jared Kushner’s influence on his father-in-law, the president. At the time, the Trump administration was considering a strike on Iran, which in fact occurred at the end of June 2025."...

Sen. Chuck Grassley's (R-IA) celebration of "National Whistleblower Day" drew massive condemnation on social media following the Emil Bove hearings in which the Iowa senator refused to allow three Department of Justice whistleblowers to testify.

In addition to the whistleblowers who accused Bove of encouraging attorneys under him to ignore court orders, more than 75 former federal and state judges and more than 900 former Department of Justice attorneys publicly called for lawmakers to block his nomination.

In the end, Bove was confirmed to a lifetime judgeship on Tuesday by just one vote....

Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said the reliance of House Republicans on a fugitive charged criminal with links to the Chinese Communist Party as a “whistleblower” poses a threat to national security.

Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) has promoted Gal Luft as a source of potentially damaging information in connection with the Hunter Biden probe.

The Department of Justice on Monday announced that Luft, a dual U.S.-Israelis citizen, has been charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent, trafficking in arms, violating U.S. sanctions against Iran, and making false statements to federal agents....

Purported whistleblowers put forth by Republicans were questioned about their stances on conspiracy theories on Thursday.

As House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) prepared to roll out public hearings for "whistleblowers" at the FBI who claimed to have evidence of political interference at the agency, new reports came out showing that two of them, Marcus Allen and Stephen Friend, were stripped of security clearance for a number of alleged misconduct and security risk issues, including that both of them sympathized with the January 6 Capitol insurrectionists.

According to a Washington Post analysis, this revelation set the tone of today's hearing, with Democrats hammering the witnesses over their record, and putting them on the defensive....

Ireland has refused to extradite alleged terrorist recruiter Ali Charaf Damache to the United States over fear that he may receive inhumane treatment if he ends up in Colorado's supermax prison. Damache has been accused of using online chat rooms to lure American women into terrorist cells operating in the U.S. and Europe.

Within hours of the U.S. government's unprecedented release last week of a trove of Medicare billing data, a small fraternity of lawyers who specialize in representing whistleblowers in healthcare fraud cases began to mobilize.