With more than two decades of experience conducting oversight and investigations on Capitol Hill, Jason Foster has represented four different congressional committees in hundreds of disputes with the Executive Branch over access to documents and witnesses in a broad array of contexts over the years.

As Chief Investigative Counsel to then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Foster helped whistleblowers expose some of the biggest scandals of the Obama and Trump administrations. Including Fast and Furious, the gun-walking scheme that armed the murderers of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent, and the partisan funding behind the infamous Steele dossier, which initially remained hidden from the public for 11 months.

While working for Senator Grassley, he helped create the Senate’s bipartisan Whistleblower Protection Caucus and pass the FBI Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2016 and the Inspector General Empowerment Act of 2016. He also helped negotiate policy concessions to ensure access to Executive Branch information for all Members of Congress. In addition, in response to a controversial Justice Department legal opinion, Grassley sent a pivotal letter to President Trump as a Judiciary Committee chairman defending the rights of Senators in the minority. Grassley also moved to block his nominee to the Office of Legal Counsel until the dispute was resolved.

After leaving the committee staff in 2018, Foster advised the investigations and litigation support practice, helping clients tackle legal and regulatory challenges through strategic research and advice.

Foster has written extensively about the importance of oversight in government, including in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Washington Examiner, and The Hill.