{"id":1899081,"date":"2023-03-16T10:12:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T14:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-panel-advances-archivist-nominee-accused-of-abusive-behavior\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T10:13:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T14:13:21","slug":"senate-panel-advances-archivist-nominee-accused-of-abusive-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-panel-advances-archivist-nominee-accused-of-abusive-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Panel Advances Archivist Nominee Accused of Abusive Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fsenate-panel-advances-archivist-nominee-accused-of-abusive-behavior%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=1899081&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-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0316\/3fe4e7ac-464b-45fc-8b0f-e75afec68b9a\/audio.mp3?length=3431565&#038;duration=286\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>After allegations that Dr. Colleen Shoga had used political power in partisan manners, the Senate Homeland Security Committee voted to nominate her as Archivist of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Shogan, who previously served at the\u00a0Congressional Research Service (CRS), has faced criticism over the content of her Twitter posts and reported abuses of power.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat-majority panel approved the nominee with an 8-4 vote of party-line votes.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) led the opposition to Shogan&#8217;s nomination,\u00a0explaining that he had &#8220;deep reservations&#8221; Shogan&#8217;s nomination.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4645331\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) Speaking during the Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee of Emerging Threats &#038; Spending Oversight at Capitol Hill, Washington on Aug. 3, 2022. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Accused of \u2018Abusive&#8217; and \u2018Partisan&#8217; Conduct<\/h2>\n<p>Hawley expressed one such reservation citing a whistleblower&#8217;s report that Shogan was being investigated &#8220;abusive&#8221;  &#8220;partisan&#8221; During her time with CRS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whistleblower alleges that Dr. Shogan engaged in a pattern of abusive, retaliatory, and partisan conduct during her time at the Congressional Research Service, where she directly supervised the whistleblower,&#8221; Hawley wrote a March 8 letter (D-Mich.) to Chairman Gary Peters<\/p>\n<p>Shogan, for example, was allegedly made to look like a whistleblower. &#8220;unsolicited statements of support for political candidates in the workplace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whistleblower \u2026 alleges that Dr. Shogan failed to remain non-partisan and objective,&#8221; In a March 8 letter, Hawley explained. &#8220;Rather, she engaged in abuse, retaliation, and persecution. She allegedly suppressed reports requested by Congress, undermined the whistleblower&#8217;s promotion applications, and attempted to demoralize the whistleblower in an apparent effort to run her out of CRS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The whistleblower, who Hawley reported was disabled, said that\u00a0as &#8220;part of this effort [to run the whistleblower out of CRS], Dr. Shogan allegedly colluded with others in the office to force the whistleblower, a woman with a disability, to take a detail assignment that worsened her mobility and health.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another whistleblower claimed that Shogan tried organizing signing events for her private book on federal property while working.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whistleblower alleges that Dr. Shogan attempted to organize signing events for her own book on federal property during work hours, for commercial gain, in violation of existing policies,&#8221; Hawley wrote.<\/p>\n<p>This allegation is not specific. Shogan wrote several books and articles, including one that attacked the modern Republican Party. &#8220;anti-intellectual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Accused of \u2018Lying to the Committee&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Hawley noted at the end of the hearing that Shogan made untrued statements to the committee regarding her tweets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a pattern from this nominee of stonewalling this committee, misleading this committee, and now she&#8217;s faced some very disturbing whistleblower allegations,&#8221; Hawley stated, citing Shogan&#8217;s past appearances before the same panel.<\/p>\n<p>The now-retired Senator. Rob Portman (R.Ohio), discovered that Shogan had posted inflammatory and partisan messages to her Twitter account. Shogan had already made her Twitter page private by the time she appeared before this panel. This meant that only Shogan approved users could view the tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Shogan denied Portman access to the posts when he requested it.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley requested access to the tweets in the same month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During your testimony, several Senators raised concerns about public\u00a0posts you made on Twitter,&#8221; Hawley spoke at the time. &#8220;You have since locked your Twitter\u00a0account. Please provide copies of all posts you have ever made\u00a0public on Twitter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shogan replied to Hawley by stating that she had not posted anything controversial to her Twitter account, but refused Hawley&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My personal Twitter account is comprised of posts about my\u00a0mystery novels, events at the White House Historical\u00a0Association, Pittsburgh sports teams, travels, and my dog,&#8221; Shogan replied. &#8220;It was\u00a0made private months ago. before I was nominated as Archivist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hawley stated that this claim is true. &#8220;is not true.&#8221; Portman&#8217;s investigation revealed that he had made comments about Senator Republicans and supporters of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She can say whatever she wants on Twitter, what she cannot do is lie to this committee,&#8221; Hawley spoke.<\/p>\n<p>Shogan was unable to be reached for comment, but she maintained that the Senate should not take these allegations seriously and should proceed with her confirmation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> &#8230;..<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> Continue reading more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/senate-panel-advances-archivist-nominee-accused-of-abusive-behavior_5126430.html?utm_source=partner&#038;utm_campaign=conservnewsd\">Senate Panel Approves Archivist Nominee for Abusive Behavior<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Homeland Security Committee on March 15 advanced the nomination of Dr. Colleen Shogan to be the Archivist of the United States amid allegations that the official had abused political power in partisan ways. Shogan, who previously served at the\u00a0Congressional Research Service (CRS), has faced criticism over the content of her Twitter posts and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1899082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[11255,4029,6173,21876,4385,4904,8636,3740],"class_list":["post-1899081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-abusive","tag-accused","tag-advances","tag-archivist","tag-behavior","tag-nominee","tag-panel","tag-senate"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899081","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1899082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}