Phoenix68
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The Office of Special Counsel has for nearly 50 years been the US government’s one-stop shop for whistleblowers and alleged ethics violations, a federal watchdog created after Watergate with the lofty mandate “to end government and political corruption.”
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Now it appears to be facing its biggest test yet, as insiders and independent watchdogs raise alarms that the historically nonpartisan agency has been “captured” by loyalists from the very administration it’s supposed to police.
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In their eyes, a difficult situation got even worse a few weeks ago when Presidunce Spanky nominated Paul Ingrassia to lead the agency. Ingrassia, a self-described “true MAGA loyalist,” has embraced calls to crack down on the supposed anti-Trump “deep state” within the federal workforce."
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"Following the 2020 presidential election, Ingrassia called for Trump to declare martial law and called for secession, if efforts to overturn the election failed. He denounced Sebastian Gorka for rebuking a post that called for vice president Mike Pence—whom Ingrassia has compared to well-known traitors Marcus Junius Brutus and Judas Iscariot—to be arrested and hanged..
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Ingrassia has advocated for the far-right political pundit Nick Fuentes, describing him in a post on Substack as among several "dissident voices" who should be integrated within conservative politics. He has called for reparations from the descendants of slaves to slave owners."
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