James Comer Loses It After DOJ Rejects His Biden Fishing Expedition

Home Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) misplaced it after DOJ rejected his request for the Biden/Hur interview audio.

CBS News reported:

]t is essential for the Division to grasp why the Committees imagine they’ve a remaining want for the data in these information,” Assistant Lawyer Normal Carolos Uriarte wrote in his letter.

He wrote the Justice Division had “worked diligently” to answer congressional requests and argued that on account of these efforts, the committees had already “received an extraordinary amount of information—and quickly.”

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Uriarte stated the Justice Division was “concerned” that Jordan and Comer’s requests for the audio model of the interview — regardless of having already reviewed a transcript — was meant to “serve political purposes that should have no role in the treatment of law enforcement files.”

Releasing the audio information to Congress, he wrote Monday, risked “chilling” future investigations if witnesses feared that audio variations of their interviews is perhaps launched.

The DOJ response precipitated Comer to blow a gasket and principally accuse President Biden of a cover-up:

🚨STATEMENT🚨

The Biden Administration doesn’t get to find out what Congress wants and doesn’t want for its oversight of the chief department.

The American folks deserve to listen to the precise audio of President Biden’s solutions to Particular Counsel Hur.

Full statement👇 pic.twitter.com/voeewim2Pz

— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) April 8, 2024

DOJ was right. Jordan and Comer don’t have any legislative goal for requesting the audio. The Oversight and Judiciary Committees have already got the transcripts and the testimony of Robert Hur earlier than the Home Judiciary Committee. There’s lower than zero purpose for the DOJ to show over the audio to Jordan and Comer.

The audio doesn’t match with scope of the Biden impeachment investigation, and it could actually make different witnesses much less trusting of federal legislation enforcement in the event that they thought that their interview can be turned over to Congress and broadcast to the whole world.
Biden impeachment is dead, and Comer and Jordan acquired referred to as out by the DOJ for making an attempt to abuse their oversight energy for a political stunt.

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