Republican Rep. Jim Jordan announced that the House Judiciary Committee is investigating reports that the DOJ spied on members of Congress and their staff.
This comes as Sen. Chuck Grassley also looks into allegations the DOJ spied on his former chief counsel.
“We now know that they spied on congressional staffers,” Jordan said. “We want to know, how far does it go? Were they spying on members? Were they spying on other staffers? Keep this in mind, Liz: We know they spied on President Trump’s campaign. We know all that from the FISA Court and what they did with Carter Page and Papadopoulos—everything else. Now we’ve learned that they spied on one of Sen. Grassley’s staff members, Jason Foster.”
Jordan sent letters to tech company CEOs and the Attorney General requesting information on the DOJ’s alleged attempts to obtain private communications of congressional members and staff.
As Judiciary Committee chair, Jordan has made investigating allegations of DOJ weaponization under Biden a priority.
“We want to know, does it go further?” he said. “So we’ve sent letters not only to the Department of Justice but to all these carriers that the Department of Justice worked with to get the phone and email records from congressional staffers like Mr. Foster. How far does this go? Were they spying on members and other staff?”
“The Justice Department’s efforts to obtain the private communications of congressional staffers, including staffers conducting oversight of the Department, are wholly unacceptable and offend fundamental separation of powers principles as well as Congress’s constitutional authority to conduct oversight of the Department,” the letter read.
“These revelations strongly suggest that the Justice Department weaponized its law-enforcement authority to spy on the entities seeking to hold it accountable,” the letter added.
The committee is also probing claims of political interference in the Hunter Biden investigation.
Separately, Jordan and James Comer renewed their impeachment inquiry of President Biden over an official White House statement suggesting Biden knew in advance that Hunter would defy congressional subpoenas, raising concerns over obstruction of Congress.
“In light of an official statement from the White House that President Biden was aware in advance that his son, Hunter Biden, would knowingly defy two congressional subpoenas, we are compelled to examine as part of our impeachment inquiry whether the President engaged in a conspiracy to obstruct a proceeding of Congress,” the White House stated.
“The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability (Oversight Committee) and the House Committee on the Judiciary (Judiciary Committee, and with the Oversight Committee, the Committees) are investigating whether sufficient grounds exist to draft articles of impeachment against President Biden for consideration by the full House. Along with House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, we set forth in a September 27, 2023 memorandum the evidence justifying the inquiry and the scope of this impeachment investigation. On December 13, 2023, the House of Representatives directed the Committees to continue this investigation,” the statement read.
“In light of an official statement from the White House that President Biden was aware in advance that his
son, Hunter Biden, would knowingly defy two congressional subpoenas, we are compelled to examine as part of our impeachment inquiry whether the President engaged in a conspiracy to obstruct a proceeding of Congress,” it read.
The statement added, “The Committees issued subpoenas to Hunter Biden for a deposition to be conducted on December 13, 2023. In correspondence with Mr. Biden’s attorney prior to the scheduled date of the depositions, the Committees addressed and rejected Mr. Biden’s justifications for not complying with the terms of the subpoenas, as well as Mr. Biden’s demand for special treatment from the Committees.”
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