By Miranda Devine
NY Post (Feb. 5, 2025)
https://nypost.com/2025/02/05/opinion/even-as-trump-scores-numerous-victories-in-white-house-return-dont-forget-the-whistleblowers/During the previous administration, these are the heroes and truth-tellers who came forward to warn America about the corruption of Joe Biden, the FBI and DOJ. They and their families have gone through living hell as a result. Here are a few who need help.
Gary Shapley and Joe ZieglerThe IRS whistleblowers got good news recently when the US Office of Special Counsel found, after a 20-month investigation, that the IRS had issued illegal gag orders to stop them from testifying to Congress about the corruption of their inquiry into Hunter Biden, and improperly removed them from the investigation after the IRS learned they were blowing the whistle.
But they remain in no man’s land, marginalized, frozen out of promotions, and under constant threat of losing their jobs, all because they did the right thing and angered their cowardly bosses.
There would be nobody better than Shapley to take over as head of IRS Criminal Investigations, with Ziegler at his side. They have demonstrated integrity and competence under fire....
Gal Luft
The Israeli-American professor languishes in a Cyprus jail after the DOJ piled on a bunch of spurious charges of being an unregistered foreign agent, on top of what he says are bogus arms-trafficking charges to stop him from testifying about Hunter and Jim Biden....
Devon ArcherHunter Biden’s former best friend in business has been in limbo for eight years with a prison sentence hanging over him for a fraud conviction in a joint business venture with Hunter that went wrong. The Teflon former first son escaped unscathed while Archer took the bullet. He and his family have endured death threats and intimidation after he made the courageous decision to testify against the Bidens to Congress. Just before he testified last year, the Manhattan US Attorney’s office sent US Marshals to his home on a Saturday to get him to report to prison in what he took as an attempt to intimidate him....
FBI heroesFormer agent
Steve Friend is not the only man of integrity who stood against the weaponization of the FBI against conservatives, but he was the first to go public, and did so in these pages. He blew the whistle on the FBI’s use of the Jan. 6 investigation to harass Trump supporters and violate their constitutional rights. He revealed that the Washington, DC, FBI field office was cooking the books to exaggerate the threat of domestic terrorism...
His friend,
Garret O’Boyle, also part of an FBI whistleblower group who call themselves The Suspendables, was treated even more shabbily. In 2022, after the FBI transferred O’Boyle from Kansas to Virginia, he sold his home and relocated his family, including his pregnant wife. But when he turned up to work, the FBI suspended him without pay, mistakenly alleging he had leaked information about a criminal investigation to Project Veritas....
