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   >Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH)   
      
   Is that the same Jim Jordan who enabled pedophilia at his college?   
      
      
   Inside Jim Jordan’s Disastrous Search for a ‘Deep State’ Whistleblower   
   Trump officials and GOP lawmakers are working together to deliver on   
   Jordan's promise to reveal an anti-Trump conspiracy. So far, they've   
   produced a 'dumpster fire'   
   By Kara Voght, Adam Rawnsley, Asawin Suebsaeng	   
   March 2, 2023   
      
      
   In early February, Republicans brought an FBI veteran to Capitol Hill whom   
   they hoped would expose a “deep state conspiracy” among Democrats and   
   their accomplices in the intelligence community. The GOP witness was part   
   of a network of “whistleblowers” — funneled to congressional Republicans’   
   new Weaponization of Government panel by allies of Donald Trump — to   
   reveal covert attacks on the former president and broad, anti-conservative   
   discrimination.   
      
   But before the interview was over, it was the GOP witness who was failing   
   to answer difficult questions — and Democratic committee staff doing the   
   asking.   
      
   In the interview, the witness, former FBI supervisory intelligence analyst   
   George Hill, had admitted he had little or no firsthand knowledge of   
   alleged “deep state” scandals. Instead, he brought baggage of his own: a   
   history of inflammatory commentary on social media. Democratic staff had   
   found a tweet in which Hill claimed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-   
   Calif.) had “blood on her hands.” In a since-deleted tweet found by   
   Rolling Stone, Hill wrote “Cancer! GO FASTER!” in response to a tweet from   
   Rep. Lauren Boebert claiming that President Biden had been diagnosed with   
   cancer.   
      
   According to portions of transcripts reviewed by Rolling Stone and sources   
   familiar with the exchange, Hill repeatedly declined to respond to the   
   questions and cited his First Amendment rights. (He’d later go on a   
   conservative talk show to accuse Democrats of trying to paint him as a   
   “right-wing nut job” because they couldn’t handle his message.) As the   
   exchange went on, Hill’s attorney, Jason Foster, begged the Democratic   
   counsel to stop asking about his client’s tweets.   
      
   Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the chair of the new House Judiciary’s   
   “weaponization” subcommittee, opened its first hearing vowing that he’d   
   heard from “dozens and dozens” of whistleblowers about “the political   
   nature at the Justice Department.” Indeed, powerful players from Trump’s   
   orbit have invested in recruiting intelligence community veterans, hoping   
   to produce bombshell revelations and must-see TV to rival the results of   
   the Jan. 6 committee.   
      
      
   But so far, Republicans have brought only three of those whistleblowers to   
   Capitol Hill for questioning, and have not scheduled any additional   
   interviews after completing the most recent in mid-February. In the   
   interviews conducted to date, witnesses have offered contradictory   
   responses, maintained fringe and violent online presences that undermine   
   their credibility, and failed to demonstrate first-hand knowledge of   
   alleged FBI wrongdoing.   
      
   The results have left Democrats gleeful and even some Republicans deeply   
   unimpressed. A “dumpster fire,” is how one Democrat with knowledge of the   
   at-times combative interactions terms the proceedings. “Clearly there is   
   room to grow and improve before [more] public hearings,” a Republican   
   familiar with the process tells Rolling Stone. But the work so far, the   
   Republican says, has been “very much amateur hour,” adding that airing   
   this “stuff on live television would make us look like morons.” (Sources   
   spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly about the sensitive   
   matters.)   
      
   “It is beyond disappointing, but sadly not surprising, that Democrats   
   would leak cherry-picked excerpts of testimony to attack the brave   
   whistleblowers who risked their careers to speak out on abuses at the   
   Justice Department and FBI,” a GOP House Judiciary spokesperson tells   
   Rolling Stone.   
      
   But if the whistleblowers aren’t able to produce what Jordan has promised,   
   it will be a serious blow to Republicans’ plan to use control of the House   
   to refocus the public away from Trump’s proximity to an insurrection and   
   onto an alleged anti-conservative conspiracy.   
      
   The whistleblower pipeline comes from a collaboration between Jordan,   
   other MAGA lawmakers, and top officials in Trump’s orbit. Whistleblowers   
   have received payments and legal counsel through this loose network; one   
   whistleblower, Stephen Friend — a former FBI agent who brought concerns   
   about the agency’s questioning of Jan. 6 protesters to Republicans — even   
   received a job.   
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   The three whistleblowers who have been interviewed by committee staff have   
   done so with the assistance of aides to former President Donald Trump and   
   the conspiracy-curious Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a loose network that   
   provides money and legal assistance to the GOP witnesses. Hill and Friend   
   are both represented by Foster, a former GOP chief counsel for the Senate   
   Judiciary Committee. From his perch under then-chair Grassley, Foster   
   masterminded an aggressive assault against the FBI in the midst of special   
   counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump. Foster has since   
   founded Empower Oversight, a self-described nonpartisan government and   
   corporate accountability organization. Friend said in an interview with   
   Russia Today that Jordan’s office had “attached” him to Foster. Dan Meyer,   
   listed as a member of Empower Oversight’s Whistleblower Advisory Panel, is   
   also an attorney for Friend.   
      
   Regarding Hill’s combative interview, Foster wrote: “Foster wrote in an   
   email to Rolling Stone that “It’s irresponsible and a violation of the   
   assurances witnesses were given for Committee staff to leak excerpts of   
   closed door interviews to attack whistleblowers rather than actually doing   
   their job to investigate their allegations regarding the FBI.”   
      
   Garret O’Boyle, a third FBI whistleblower who spoke with committee staff,   
   is represented by Jesse Binnall, former Trump campaign attorney who worked   
   to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Nevada; Binnall now acts as   
   one of Trump’s go-to attorneys for Jan. 6-related litigation. O’Boyle told   
   staff he’d been connected to Binnall through Kash Patel, a former Trump   
   administration official and one of Trump’s most vocal defenders in his   
   post presidency. Both O’Boyle and Friend said they received payments from   
      
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