Deep State's Savaging of Whistleblowers, Spying on Investigators Exposed by Empower Oversight
A unique window into how the administrative state targets its critics
Enemies of the Administrative State
Amid allegations from conservative lawmakers and activists that Washington, D.C.’s most powerful agencies have been weaponized against their critics, one organization has not only played a key role in helping marshal evidence of such malfeasance, but found itself at the center of an emerging government targeting scandal that would seem to only further substantiate the claims of administrative state critics.
That organization is Empower Oversight Whistleblowers & Research. It has represented whistleblowers at the heart of some of the most consequential and contentious congressional investigations in recent years, touching on matters ranging from the impeachment inquiry into President Biden, to alleged FBI inflation of the domestic terror threat.
In a perhaps telling response to these efforts, the nonprofits’ whistleblowing clients have faced not only alleged reprisals from their government employers but also condemnation from Democrats in Congress and skepticism from media outlets that have often uncritically supported whistleblowers.
Recently, evidence has come to light suggesting the Justice Department spied on one of Empower Oversight’s principals while he was serving as a congressional investigator tasked with probing DOJ malfeasance.
I’ve got the story on both one of the under-appreciated developments during the 118th Congress in the savage assault on GOP witnesses, and the slowly unraveling details of the DOJ’s targeting of those probing it during Russiagate/Spygate in a new piece at RealClearPolitics.
Read the whole thing here.