The Texas Children’s Hospital whistleblower slammed the Biden administration for launching an investigation into him and employing tactics usually seen in what he called “third-world banana republics.”
Dr. Eithan Haim was the anonymous source for a story from activist Christopher Rufo in May that published documents showing that the Texas Children’s Hospital secretly provided transgender hormones to minors after publicly promising not to do so. Haim now works as a general surgeon in the Dallas area and went public this month to disclose that the Department of Justice had opened an investigation into him in apparent response to his whistleblowing.
Haim’s lawyers wrote a letter to Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Chip Roy (R-TX) Wednesday alleging several instances of overreach by the DOJ in its investigation. These allegations, based reportedly on phone calls with the lead DOJ prosecutor for the investigation, include a failure to review evidence, a misrepresentation of facts, and a threat to damage the career prospects of Haim’s wife.
The lead prosecutor on Haim’s investigation is Assistant U.S. Attorney Tina Ansari of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas. Haim’s lawyers said that Ansari admitted she never reviewed the purported evidence in the case before she signed off on a target letter in June 2023 — one month after the whistleblower story was published. Federal agents had allegedly subpoenaed records for the investigation without her review.
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