Posted on 01/21/2023 6:42:41 PM PST by SeekAndFind
One of the promises that Speaker McCarthy made as the new House GOP majority was being seated this year was that there were going be investigations taking place. Lots of investigations, particularly into subjects that the Democratic majority had curiously shown little interest in. One of those areas was the political weaponization of the FBI and other elements of the Department of Justice and the intelligence community against Joe Biden’s political opponents. But before they could even begin the process, the DoJ sent a letter this week to Jim Jordan, the new head of the House Judiciary Committee that would be conducting the investigation. In the letter, Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte informed Jordan that there would be “limits” on how much cooperation the committee could expect to receive. This seems like a rather shady maneuver from a group of public servants who are supposedly not doing anything wrong. (CBS News)
The Justice Department told House Republicans there would be strict parameters limiting its ability to fully cooperate with congressional probes into the department’s work.
In a letter Friday to the new House Judiciary Committee chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan, the department cited the need to safeguard ongoing investigations.
“Consistent with longstanding policy and practice, any oversight requests must be weighed against the Department’s interests in protecting the integrity of its work ,” Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte wrote. “Longstanding Department policy prevents us from confirming or denying the existence of pending investigations in response to congressional requests or providing non-public information about our investigations.”
The letter may have come from Carlos Uriarte, but you know he didn’t make that decision without getting a green light from Merrick Garland and, by default, the White House. The last thing they want to see is any sort of scrutiny over how the FBI has treated people labeled by Biden as “mega MAGA” conservatives when compared to significant Democratic Party donors and supporters. When the GOP begins serious investigations into Hunter and Jim Biden’s business dealings, there will almost certainly be more talk of “limits” like this.
The claim being made by the DoJ seems as thin as tissue paper. Uriarte is saying that the DoJ can’t release information that might cause “interference in ongoing investigations .” Their policy supposedly only allows such congressional oversight in “extraordinary circumstances.” But with all of the bizarre and shady things going on in the executive branch these days, nearly everything they’re doing should qualify as an extraordinary circumstance.
It’s true that federal law enforcement typically won’t comment to reporters about ongoing investigations. (Though they break that rule also when it’s convenient to them.) And there are cases where public knowledge could cause problems during an investigation. But if Congress wants to know what they’re up to, the testimony could be moved to a closed session with no press access. And while we’re on the subject, I don’t recall the January 6 committee having any trouble getting people to come in and feed them information, do you? We didn’t hear any talk of “limits” over the past two years.
This morning, I had CNN on my television in the background while working and the usual suspects were already providing cover for Garland and company. The GOP-led investigations are “clearly political in nature” and “messaging sideshows.” (They’re directly parroting statements already put out by the White House with that last one.) McCarthy needs to push back hard on this nonsense coming from the DoJ. The voters decided to narrowly give Republicans in the House the power to move their agenda forward. Merrick Garland and Joe Biden don’t get to stand in the way of that just because they’re afraid the public will find out what they’ve really been up to.
Ping
Didn’t the new House rules reinstate the ability for the House to cut funding or eliminate individual positions or roles within federal departments or government agencies ?
Every one of those DOJ Nazis need to recuse themselves. The DOJ should not be weaponized against the GOP and used to defend those sorry far-left bass turds.
That friggin’ little Nazi Merry Garland should be in jail. Worthless POS.
The Democrats of Justice is not real big on transparency.
“the DoJ can’t release information that might cause “interference in ongoing investigations”
Yet the DOJ continually leaked to the Washington post about Trump’s documents at Mar a Lago.
Make sure there are limits on the DOJ budget next year if hey do not cooperate.
Make sure there are limits on the DOJ budget next year if hey do not cooperate.
It's called the "phallic symbol" response...
And in a world full of unicorns and rainbows, it *might* happen. In this world? Not a chance.
Start issuing the arrest warrants.
Yep, that was quite precisely the point i was about to make. That’s why i read these threads before posting (mostly).
There are “limits” on our cooperation with your investigations... oh, well alright then there will be limits to our funding of your organization. Starting with YOUR POSITION.
DEFUND THESE ARROGANT SOBS.
So who is going to arrest them?
They and we need to find a way to crack this egg
Good time to show the DoJ how funding operates and release their own investigation documents.
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