Biden DOJ Panics, Tells Jim Jordan His Ongoing Oversight Investigations Must Be Kept Quiet

MediaRightNews.com ^ | JANUARY 21, 2023 | KAY WILLIAMSON

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Shortly after it was made public that Joe Biden was embroiled in a classified document scandal, that the Department of Justice seemed to handled quite differently than they had with former President Donald Trump; U.S. House Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, announced he was launching an investigation into the Biden classified document scandal.

“We are conducting oversight of the Justice Department’s actions with respect to former Vice President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, including the apparently unauthorized possession of classified material at a Washington, D.C., private office and in the garage of his Wilmington, Delaware, residence,” Jordan wrote in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland.

“On January 12, 2023, you appointed Robert Hur as Special Counsel to investigate these matters. The circumstances of this appointment raise fundamental oversight questions that the Committee routinely examines. We expect your complete cooperation with our inquiry.”

Jordan has received a letter from the Office of the Assistant Attorney General in response to his letter.

This letter (which was obtained by Politico) from the DOJ signaled they were unable to share information with the Judiciary Committee as it is an ongoing investigation.

House Judiciary GOP tweet in response to the letter:

“Why’s DOJ scared to cooperate with our investigations?”

[ryderann]

Anytime there is secrecy there is abuse of some kind.

[SgtHooper]

Get real chummy and agree to keep it secret. Then leak it all at a later date. EFF em!

[Eleutheria5]

HoHoHo! said Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant in unison.

[KingLudd]

Theater. The secrets are safe. Jordan is one person and sadly, his side is full of commies.

[Fester Chugabrew]

. . . seemed to handled quite differently . . .

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May I please serve and be renumerated as a poofter reader?

[Bullish]

Jim Jordan will be completely shut out of any and all evidence. Obviously this rancid AG and the completely corrupted DOJ thinks they can threaten their way to a total cover up here. I wonder what would have happened if Bill Barr had tried this tactic to aid Donald Trump. Anyone on either side who thinks this is ethical or even legal is a total idiot.

Jim Jordan should go on any and every news program that will have him and tell the American people how much we’re being hosed.

[no-to-illegals]

What …. the first bribe offer was refused ?

[Golden Eagle]

Call Hur to testify before the government weaponization committee, if they haven’t already.

Not to discuss his ‘investigation’ of Biden, but his role in the attempted coup of Trump.

[Bratch]

DOJ Tells Republican Congress Not to Expect Cooperation and Thank You

January 20, 2023 | Sundance | 227 Comments

The U.S. Dept of Justice (DOJ) has sent a five-page letter to congress, copying Politico for the public distribution therein.  [SEE pdf HERE]

The snarky and passive aggressive Lawfare tone inside the letter is rather remarkable in its sanctimony and condescension.  Essentially, Main Justice is telling congressional oversight, specifically House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, not to expect any timely responses because there’s a lot going on.

Additionally, as the letter directly implies, Republican oversight is not in the favor of the current administration or DOJ and, well, in general terms, get over it – they aren’t complying.  However, feel free to initiate the formal negotiation process that will likely take several years.

From the letter to Jim Jordan,

“Your January 17 requests—made now in your position as Chairman—initiate the constitutionally mandated accommodation process. Under this process, the Legislative and Executive Branches have a constitutional obligation to negotiate in good faith to meet the informational needs of Congress while protecting the institutional interests of the Executive Branch. We look forward to beginning this process in response to your January 17 letters.” (link)

(Via Politico) –

[…] The letter, addressed to Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), acknowledges the GOP’s multiple requests for information during the last Congress but doesn’t divulge any new information. Instead, Uriarte outlines how he hopes DOJ could have a “productive relationship” with Republicans in the new Congress, as Jordan had in previous letters accused the DOJ of “stonewalling” their requests, raised the possibility of a subpoena and said the committee could resort to “compulsory practices” to obtain the requested information and documents.

It’s an early marker of DOJ’s position as Republicans pledge to probe President Joe Biden’s administration over a laundry list of issues, including with a select subpanel that has a broad mandate to investigate the federal government. Conservatives have hinted they would use that panel to try to look into certain ongoing law enforcement investigations. (read more)

I think at this point everyone outside the professional political class in the Legislative Branch knew this was going to happen.  However, the Republicans in Congress will likely pretend to be stunned by this development, Fox News Sean Hannity will be outraged by it, and then the RNC and RCCC will dispatch fundraising campaigns citing the refusal of the DOJ.   

Win, win, win… wash – rinse – repeat.

Predicting this approach was exactly why CTH said the House Subcommittee on Weaponized Government should not waste time looking for assistance, documents and or internal support from the various DC silos.  Instead, the oversight committees need to go through the formal request process (blah, blah, blah) but focus their efforts at getting documents from the private sector collaborators outside the DC silo system.

If it seems like the Democrats always know how to use power more effectively than Republicans, you would be absolutely correct.  However, few people really understand the reason for it.  So, I will repeat.

The Republicans want money.  The Democrats want power.  The Republicans use power to get money. The Democrats use money to get power.  The ideology of the Democrats drives their donor funding.  The donor funding of the Republicans drives their ideology.

This core truism carries forward beyond electoral politics and into the realm of legislative battles and oversight conflicts.  Republicans want money as their primary objective.  If the Biden administration wants to get an ideological bill passed, the Democrats simply buy the votes of Republicans (especially Senators).

As an additional outcome, Republicans in congress have no core values, no core objectives, no goals to achieve.  After all, their structural goal is money.

Give Republicans power and they don’t know what to do with it, because the voters essentially boosted the dog to catch the car… now what?

What you see in the outcome of elections is that Republicans do not have any plan for power, because it’s not the issue that takes up their intellectual time.  That’s reserved for deep analytical thoughts about how to make money from (XXX).

The Democrats know this, they know the main mission of Republicans.  Ergo, the Lawfare DOJ pats the Republicans on the head and waits for the frustrated voters to get sick of the GOP doing nothing again, and the Democrats simply wait them out.

We have been in this repetitious abuse cycle for about two decades.

Battered Conservative Syndrome is a very real thing.

There are an enormous amount of codependent enabling voters in this process.  I call them Seagull Republicans because they are voters who will fly down and defecate over anyone who complains about this reality – then they fly up to their high perches and look down their noses.

In case you missed it, the Seagull Republicans are currently aligned to support Harmeet Dhillon and Ron DeSantis.

One UniParty consisting of two wings, the RNC and the DNC.  One bird, two wings.

The GOPe priority around money is the one constant on the right wing.  But don’t worry, because the Seagulls are promising that Ron DeSantis will protect us from teh geys.

[old curmudgeon]

The solution is simple, if not easy.

Cut the DOJ’s funds by 40% unless they cooperate in every detail.

Period.

The man who writes the checks is always in control, if he wishes to be.

[silent majority rising]

An independent Prosecutor needs to be assigned.

[Lurker]

They’re not scared. They’re telling you to GFY.

L

[JustaTech]

No cooperation?
No funding.
We out here in the meat of the country can do just fine without the highly politized FBI/DOJ.
If a Fed needs to be arrested they have the US Marshal.
No more pussyfootin’, we don’t have time for that.

[Openurmind]

“Jim Jordan will be completely shut out of any and all evidence.”

Absolutely right on the money. This is exactly why the DOJ jumped on op of the situation right away with an investigation. When under investigation no one can interfere with that investigation or get evidence from that investigation, not even Congress.

“Under Investigation” locks it all up tight for as long as they like.

[indthkr]

Corrupt DOJ - bump for later...

[TBP]

DOJ needs to be put out of business.

[cpdiii]

May I please serve and be renumerated as a poofterreader?

Look up the definition of poofter and you will be amused at your post, LOL

[elpadre]

“... Jordan is one person and sadly, his side is full of commies....”

Don’t forget the rebel twenty. They will hold his feet to the fire and there are even more MAGA types in Congress.

[VeniVidiVici]

In case you missed it, the Seagull Republicans are currently aligned to support Harmeet Dhillon and Ron DeSantis. One UniParty consisting of two wings, the RNC and the DNC. One bird, two wings. The GOPe priority around money is the one constant on the right wing. But don’t worry, because the Seagulls are promising that Ron DeSantis will protect us from teh geys.

And your solution is ...