{"id":1632764,"date":"2022-09-04T19:04:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T23:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1632764"},"modified":"2022-09-04T19:04:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T23:04:17","slug":"grassley-warns-ag-retaliation-against-fbi-whistleblowers-talking-to-congress-is-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grassley-warns-ag-retaliation-against-fbi-whistleblowers-talking-to-congress-is-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassley Warns AG Retaliation Against FBI Whistleblowers Talking to Congress Is Illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgrassley-warns-ag-retaliation-against-fbi-whistleblowers-talking-to-congress-is-illegal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1632764&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) sternly warned Attorney General Merrick Garland in a Sept. 1 letter that retaliation by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-department-of-justice\">Department of Justice<\/a> (DOJ) officials against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-fbi\">FBI<\/a> whistleblowers or any other federal employee talking to Congress is a violation of numerous federal laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you are aware, the department and FBI have a reputation for retaliating against whistleblowers that provide information to Congress. Accordingly, I\u2019d like to remind the department that, as a basic matter of law, all employees of the U.S. Government have a right to petition Congress or furnish information to Congress,\u201d Grassley told Garland in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/grassley_to_doj_-_garland_memo.pdf\">letter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grassley reminded Garland that 5 U.S.C.,\u00a0\u00a77211 requires that \u201cthe right of employees, individually or collectively, to petition Congress or a Member of Congress, or to furnish information to either House of Congress, or to a committee or Member thereof, may not be interfered with or denied,\u201d Grassley wrote.<\/p>\n<p>This important fact was not included by Garland, Grassley noted, in his Aug. 30 internal memorandum to all DOJ employees that said all communication to Congress must receive prior approval through the department\u2019s Office of Legislative Affairs (OLA). The OLA typically is run by a presidential political appointee.<\/p>\n<p>Garland acknowledged in his memo that whistleblowers are protected, but failed to describe how deeply such protections are embedded in federal law. Grassley worries the attorney general was seeking to prevent any more FBI or DOJ employees from talking to members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNotably, your memo arrived on the heels of those whistleblower disclosures to me from department and FBI employees about the blatant politicization of the Trump and Hunter Biden\u00a0investigations. Even with your whistleblower caveats, and due to the timing of your memo, I remain concerned about the chilling effect it may have on whistleblowers who wish to approach Congress with information relating to fraud, waste,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) sternly warned Attorney General Merrick Garland in a Sept. 1 letter that retaliation by Department of Justice (DOJ) officials against FBI whistleblowers or any other federal employee talking to Congress is a violation of numerous federal laws. \u201cAs you are aware, the department and FBI have a reputation for retaliating against [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}