Major update and excellent exposé by Al Hunt on the
following main article here from The Hill with this headline:
“House
Republicans’ inauspicious start to Benghazi 2.0”
Introduction and key
parts:
House Republicans’
priority this year is investigations — and they are, as advertised, modeled
after the 1975 Church Committee. Except they will be the antithesis.
The current House panels,
starting with the weirdly named “Weaponization” subcommittee, are purely
partisan, carelessly staffed, and have two purposes: (1) to go after President
Biden and his family ahead of the 2024 election, and (2) to vindicate Trump
from his many well-documented transgressions (and pending criminal and civil
charges charges).
Both the Judiciary
Committee and its “Weaponization subcommittee” are chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan
(R-OH), who has promised “dozens and dozens of whistleblowers”
The third is the House Oversight
Committee, is chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-KY) with Jordan the ranking
Republican.
(Note: So far only there are only three such whistleblower
witnesses and evidence now shows that all three are 2020 election deniers, plus two of the three have testified that they
were paid thousands of dollars by Kash Patel (a former
Trump administration lackey) to act as whistleblower when in fact they do not
even meet the basic definition of being a whistleblower).
That part is explained in this short 3-minute video [click here to view]:
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The main article follows below and here (if also updated later):
The below story involves the GOP-run House now in charge of
the House committees plan to roll back logic and democracy as we have come to
live by those two strong premises by holding a bunch of totally insane hearing while
seeking some sort of revenge for Trump or so it seems.
Classic on-going revenge hearing is in the Judiciary Committee by Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and more so his new sub-committee with the title of the “Weaponization” of the FBI and other agencies against him and every conservative in Congress and all across ‘RED’ state America as well as “those proud Americans who acted within their rights on January 6.”
This fine article from SALON.com with this headline
addresses that topic – I suggest you have a barf bag handy:
“Dems warn Jim Jordan’s probe
of feds is a fascist power grab to evade accountability for January 6”
This is Jordan’s aim
and goal: He wants to investigate the investigators who wanted to
investigate and question him in the former House Select Committee, but he refused
their subpoena. But, now he wants to subpoena every DEM and official in sight about
what he perceives as abuse of power by the FBI and other Federal agencies against
“conservatives.” Wow – talk about his pathetic irony – that is it right in our
collective face:
Background: Jordan was considered a potential witness to the January
6 attack on the Capitol, but he refused to comply with former House
investigators' subpoenas. After the GOP midterm takeover of House, Jordan has
been appointed chairman of the newly formed House Select Subcommittee on the “Weaponization
of the Federal Government.”
Now the Main Point: Under Jordan, that subcommittee will
investigate allegations of anti-conservative bias many among many federal law
enforcement agencies.
As reported by The New York Times, the House resolution authorizing the
13-member subcommittee will allow Jordan to subpoena the DOJ about its
inquiries into Trump's failed bid to overturn the 2020 election and his
handling of the over 300 classified documents the FBI found at Mar-a-Lago.
If the committee is
granted access to records normally restricted to Congressional intelligence
committees, the GOP-majority panel could potentially have the authority to
investigate the Justice Department — even as the department investigates
lawmakers' actions concerning January 6.
The impact of this expressed
by DEMS (and I agree): “Jordan and that committee doesn’t care about
government “Weaponization” against Black & brown communities. They just
want access to investigations into them and their cult leader Trump. That means
in simple terms that this new House subcommittee is specifically set up and
designed to investigate ongoing investigations by the Justice Department and
FBI into Trump, Jordan, and others. That is dangerous and threatens accountability
and the rule of law. That cannot be accept this as normal.”
Former GOP House Minority Leader and now the Speaker, Kevin McCarthy (CA), and fellow Republican Reps. Scott Perry (PA), Jim Jordan (OH), Andy Biggs (AZ), and Mo Brooks (AL) all ignored subpoenas from the original January 6 House Select Committee and may face the ethics referrals.
More than 30 former House lawmakers in an open letter have also called for ethics investigations into lawmakers “who played a role in the rioting and the run-up to the attack.” To date all that is no-go under the GOP now in charge.
Also Related:
This NEWSWEEK article that shows how the
“new” GOP has more revengeful morons just like Jordan.
This other SALON article that is very
troublesome with this subject about Jordan using paid Trump allied
whistleblowers to testify, but note they are not really valid whistleblowers by
definition – most are 2020 deniers just like Trump and worse: They were paid to
come forth and testify.
And this from Vanity Fair extract same topic: As for the first three witnesses to testify behind closed doors to the newly formed subcommittee, a trio the GOP insists are brave whistleblowers with inside knowledge of a huge bias against conservatives within the government, Jordan may as well have picked up a few random folks at the gas station or Dunkin’ Donuts by his house on the way to work, for all they revealed. Oh, sure, the witnesses definitely thought they had the kind of damning information the committee has promised, but according to The New York Times, their collective testimony seemed to be less based on actual evidence than it was on crackpot conspiracies one can read about online.
My 2 Cents: The bottom line is that now Jordan wants to investigate
the investigators who were assigned earlier to investigate him.
Jordan is by all accounts and
his own actions and inactions, a rabid nutcase and a thug proven by his own
words and now these actions prove that beyond any doubt.
He refused a lawful
subpoena and now wants all others to be subpoenaed who were against him for
their subpoena for him to testify how much more pathetic can that be? Probably
a whole lot more.
Stay tuned.
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