U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland became visibly upset after a House lawmaker pressed him about the FBI producing a memo earlier this year that labeled so-called Radical-Traditional Catholics as potential domestic terrorists.
During a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Garland faced a barrage of questions over the Biden Administration&#8217;s actions over the last two years.
But when Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) asked about the Department of Justice and FBI persecuting traditional Catholics, the question triggered an enraged response from the attorney general.
&#8220;I have no idea what &#8216;traditional&#8217; means here,&#8221; Garland said.
&#8220;Catholics that go to church,&#8221; Van Drew replied. &#8220;Yes or no?&#8221;
&#8220;The idea that someone with my family background would discriminate against any religion is so outrageous — is so absurd,&#8221; Garland said.
&#8220;Mr. Attorney General,&#8221; Van Drew interrupted. &#8220;It was your FBI that did this. It was your FBI, and we have the memos and emails [sic] sending undercover agents into Catholic churches.&#8221;
Earlier this year, FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin first published in UncoverDC, an unclassified intelligence document out of the bureau&#8217;s Richmond field office that targeted traditional Catholics who are &#8220;racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists in radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology.&#8221;
Seraphin wrote in his piece for UncoverDC that the intelligence document shows a permissive tolerance within the bureau for left-leaning ideological actors that furthers the weaponization of the FBI against conservative Americans and could lead to &#8220;investigations into Americans in violation of their God-given, First Amendment-protected civil liberties.&#8221;
Almost immediately after the document leaked, FBI authorities purged the ant-Catholic memo from its system, saying the bureau would &#8220;never conduct investigative activities or open an investigation based solely on First Amendment protected activity.&#8221;
During the Wednesday hearing, Garland said that the memo &#8220;appalled&#8221; both him and FBI Director Christopher Wray.
&#8220;Are they extremists or not — I&#8217;m asking a simple question,&#8221; Van Drew said. &#8220;Say no, if you think that was wrong?&#8221;
&#8220;Catholics are not extremists, no,&#8221; Garland admitted.
When Van Drew asked if federal officials fired anyone for producing the memo, Garland said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;
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Garland, who is Jewish, said during his opening statement at the hearing that his family fled antisemitism and persecution in Eastern Europe in the early 1900s.
&#8220;This country took her in, and under the protection of our laws, she was able to live without fear of persecution,&#8221; Garland said of his grandmother.
&#8220;Repaying this country for the debt my family owes for our very lives has been the focus of my entire professional career,&#8221; he later said.

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Garland Visibly Upset After Lawmaker Presses Him On Anti-Catholic FBI Memo

Watch: AG Garland Visibly Upset After Lawmaker Presses Him On Anti-Catholic FBI Memo

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Christopher Wray

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Merrick Garland

A former senior FBI official told House lawmakers the bureau conducted an internal audit after losing track of how many informants and other sources were involved in the January 6 U.S. Capitol breach.
Steven D&#8217;Antuono, former assistant director-in-charge of the Washington Field Office, told the House Judiciary Committee during a closed-door testimony in June that his office learned there had been confidential human sources (CHS) from various field offices, as well as other informants who went to the nation&#8217;s Capitol on their own accord, according to a Tuesday <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-09-19-jdj-to-wray-re-chs-follow-up.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> sent to FBI Director Christopher Wray about the bureau&#8217;s use of confidential sources.
When asked by Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) during a hearing on June 7, 2023, if D&#8217;Antuono knew about the sources and that the FBI knew ahead of time they would be present among the crowd of thousands of protestors, he responded with &#8220;that is my belief, yeah.&#8221;
&#8220;D&#8217;Antuono explained that due to the large number of CHSs present at the Capitol, the [Washington Field Office] asked FBI Headquarters &#8216;to do a poll or put out something to people saying w[ere] any CHSs involved&#8217; so the FBI could try to ascertain how many CHSs had been in attendance,&#8221; the letter reads.
D&#8217;Antuono said his office &#8220;started getting responses back&#8221; after contacting the bureau&#8217;s headquarters.
The committee disclosed one example from D&#8217;Antuono, who recalled that a source from the Kansas City Field Office had allegedly been in contact with his &#8220;handler&#8221; while &#8220;they were in the crowd, I think, saying that they were going in. They were trying to stop some of the action happening, and they left or whatnot.&#8221;
&#8220;This new information is extremely concerning,&#8221; Jordan wrote in the letter. &#8220;It suggests that the FBI cannot adequately track the activities and operations of its informants, and that it lost control of its CHSs present at the Capitol on January 6.&#8221;
&#8220;These revelations reinforce existing concerns, identified by Special Counsel Durham, about the FBI&#8217;s use of, and payment to, CHSs who have fabricated evidence and misrepresented information,&#8221; he added.
A spokesperson from the FBI National Press Office declined to comment when asked about the testimony by The Daily Wire.
House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/sep/19/steven-dantuono-fbi-ex-official-confirms-lawmakers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Washington Times that the FBI&#8217;s alleged involvement in the Capitol breach could have likely contributed to the events unfolding that day.
&#8220;They just knew or should have known that what was going on, and one or more of those people in order to keep their cover, could well have been part of the reason that this got so far out of hand,&#8221; Issa said. &#8220;Because the FBI won&#8217;t admit that they had 20,30 or 40 individuals on their payroll and or informants, they also certainly won&#8217;t admit how many came into the Capitol, or how many who participated in some way in promoting this illegal activity.&#8221;
House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) asked U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland during a hearing on Wednesday how many agents and assets were present on January 5 and January 6.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know the answer to that question,&#8221; Garland responded.
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MASSIE: “How many agents or assets of the government were present on January 5th and January 6th.. Can you answer that now?”
GARLAND: “I don&#39;t know the answer to that question.”
MASSIE: “I think you may have just perjured yourself that you don’t know if there were any” <a href="https://t.co/a04nkeBGm9">pic.twitter.com/a04nkeBGm9</a>
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Speculation over the number of FBI informants present during the Capitol breach comes as the Department of Justice has charged more than 1,100 people with January 6-related federal crimes — of which over 650 have pleaded guilty, more than 600 sentenced, and half received terms ranging from three days to 22 years.
Former FBI official George Hill, who worked as a supervisory intelligence analyst for the Boston Field Office, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-fbi-official-tells-house-republicans-bureau-denied-agents-j6-riot-footage-to-protect-assets-informants-present-at-u-s-capitol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> earlier this year the bureau denied his office&#8217;s agents access to 11,000 hours of U.S. Capitol video footage on January 6 out of fear that it would reveal the identities of possible undercover officers and confidential informants present that day.
Former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund said the FBI had at least 18 undercover agents in the January 6 crowd, in addition to the paid informants, and another estimated 20 authorities from the Department of Homeland Security, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/fbi-lost-count-of-number-of-informants-at-capitol-on-jan-6-ex-official/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The New York Post.
The outlet reported the bureau spends an average of $42 million annually in payments to its Confidential Human Sources, according to the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General.
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) asked FBI Director Christopher Wray at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing last year if the bureau had any confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters during the Capitol riot.
Wray stonewalled the direct question and denied FBI informants were in the crowd on January 6.
&#8220;To the extent that there&#8217;s a suggestion, for example, that the FBI&#8217;s confidential human sources or FBI employees in some way instigated or orchestrated January 6, that&#8217;s categorically false.&#8221;

Trump supporters storm Capitol building in Washington

Former FBI Official Says Bureau Lost Track Of How Many Sources, Other Informants Were Involved In Capitol Breach

Former FBI Senior Official Says Bureau Lost Track Of How Many Sources, Other Informants Were Involved In Capitol Breach

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Jim Jordan

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Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland">Merrick Garland</a> testified on Wednesday that President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Joe Biden</a> never told him to indict former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>.
The denial came during a House Judiciary Committee hearing amid a line of questioning by Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/adam-schiff">Adam Schiff</a> (D-CA) about what the congressman said were &#8220;false claims&#8221; made by Trump.
Schiff, who is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/adam-schiff-will-run-for-dianne-feinsteins-senate-seat">running for a Senate seat</a> in California, referenced <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/transcripts/full-transcript-read-meet-the-press-kristen-welker-interview-trump-rcna104778">a recent interview Trump</a> did with NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; in which the former president bemoaned how he is facing &#8220;Biden political indictments&#8221; and claimed Biden told the attorney general to indict him.
&#8220;Mr. Attorney General, I want to give you a chance to respond. Was the president telling the truth or was he lying when he said that President Biden told you to indict him?&#8221; Schiff asked.
&#8220;No one has told me to indict and in this case the decision to indict was made by the special counsel,&#8221; Garland replied.
Upon being pressed again about whether Trump made a false statement, Garland refused to directly address the point about truthfulness and again stated that he never was told to pursue any indictments.
Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed by Garland, has secured indictments against Trump and some of his allies in two cases: one that relates to the former president&#8217;s handling of sensitive documents after leaving office and the other focused on alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
Trump, who is also facing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-trumps-trial-schedule-lines-up-with-the-2024-election-calendar">two other indictments</a> in New York and Georgia, has denied any wrongdoing, pleaded not guilty to the charges he faces, and claims that politically motivated prosecutors are conducting a “witch hunt” against him.
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During the hearing on Wednesday, Garland also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/garland-testifies-he-cant-recollect-contact-with-fbi-hq-about-hunter-biden-probe">faced questions</a> about the criminal investigation into the criminal investigation of Hunter, the son of the president.
Garland insisted that he has maintained his independence and refrained from political decisions as attorney general.
&#8220;As the president himself has said — and I reaffirm today: I am not the president&#8217;s lawyer,&#8221; he said.
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Biden and Trump are both running 2024 campaigns seeking a second term in the White House.
Although a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/29/us/trump-pac-legal-fees.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">great deal of resources</a> are being spent on helping Trump combat four criminal indictments, he remains the frontrunner for the GOP nomination contest with more than 55% support among a <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/2024_republican_presidential_nomination-7548.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">large field of competitors</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/latest-2024-presidential-polling-trump-rises-above-biden-again">edges out Biden</a> in a hypothetical 2020 rematch, as shown in the RealClearPolitics average of polls with a little more than 400 days left before the next presidential election.

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Garland Denies Biden Told Him To Indict Trump

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Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland</a> said he cannot recall whether he spoke with anyone at the FBI&#8217;s headquarters about the criminal investigation of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a>, the son of the president.
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) pressed Garland on that question during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepMikeJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMikeJohnson</a>: &quot;Have you had personal contact with anyone at FBI headquarters about the Hunter Biden investigation?&quot;
GARLAND: &quot;I don&#39;t recollect the answer to that question.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/RepMikeJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMikeJohnson</a>: &quot;You don&#39;t recollect whether you talked to anyone at FBI headquarters about an… <a href="https://t.co/Z1ZMFYKSF6">pic.twitter.com/Z1ZMFYKSF6</a>
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&#8220;Have you had personal contact with anyone at FBI headquarters about the Hunter Biden investigation?&#8221; Johnson asked.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t recollect the answer to that question but the FBI works for the Justice Department — ,&#8221; Garland said in reply.
&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry,&#8221; Johnson interjected. &#8220;You don&#8217;t recollect whether you talked to anyone at FBI headquarters about an investigation into the president&#8217;s son?&#8221;
Garland responded, &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe that I did.&#8221;
The exchange took place early in the hearing. The X account for the Judiciary GOP responded to the exchange with a <a href="https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704505198092099866" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> that asked, &#8220;What are they hiding?&#8221;
Garland also insisted that he &#8220;kept&#8221; his promise to not interfere in the investigation and made clear that U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who is leading the Hunter Biden inquiry, had the authority to bring cases that he believed to be appropriate.
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But Garland refused to budge on the question of whether he had any contacts with Weiss.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepMikeJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMikeJohnson</a>: &quot;Under oath&#8230;your testimony is &#8211; you have not had any discussions with Mr. Weiss about this matter?&quot;
GARLAND: &quot;I do not intend to discuss internal Justice Department deliberations, whether or not I had them.&quot;
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&#8220;Under oath &#8230; your testimony is — you have not had any discussions with Mr. Weiss about this matter?&#8221; Johnson asked.
&#8220;Under oath, my testimony today is that I promise the Senate I would not intrude in his investigation. I do not intend to discuss internal Justice Department deliberations, whether or not I had them,&#8221; Garland said.
After a plea deal fell apart, Garland <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/appointment-special-counsel-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">granted</a> Weiss special counsel status last month, giving the U.S. attorney broader authority to bring charges outside of his own district. Hunter Biden has since been charged on federal gun charges and his lawyer says he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-to-plead-not-guilty-to-federal-gun-charges-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plans to plead not guilty</a>. The first son may also soon face an indictment on tax evasion charges.
Though whistleblowers have claimed that officials slow-walked the inquiry in a way that may have precluded more serious charges in the years-long probe, Garland testified on Wednesday that there was nothing &#8220;cumbersome&#8221; about the process Weiss had to go through.
Garland also said he expects Weiss to deliver a report at the end of his investigation that will explain decisions when it comes to prosecutions.

Garland Testifies He Can’t ‘Recollect’ Contact With FBI HQ About Hunter Biden Probe

Garland Testifies He Can't 'Recollect' Contact With FBI HQ About Hunter Biden Probe

Congress

House Republicans announced on Tuesday an inquiry into the treatment of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/whistleblower" target="_blank" rel="noopener">whistleblowers</a> who raised concerns about the criminal investigation of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a>, the son of the president, being <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/plurality-of-americans-lack-confidence-in-dojs-hunter-biden-inquiry-poll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slow-walked by top officials</a> in a way that could have precluded serious charges.
A trio of committee chairmen sent <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-09-12-jdj-js-jc-to-garland-re-defense-atty-obstruction.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a letter</a> to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding records that could reveal communications between the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a> (DOJ) and Biden&#8217;s legal team by September 25, the latest in a wave of missives seeking information about the conduct of the probe.
They cited a letter that attorney Abbe Lowell sent to Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) in late June &#8220;asserting without evidence&#8221; that IRS agents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-fbi-agent-says-irs-whistleblower-was-right-bidens-were-tipped-off-during-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler</a> had violated federal law with their whistleblower disclosures. Also mentioned by the GOP chairmen was a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/us/politics/inside-hunter-biden-plea-deal.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times report</a> that said Biden&#8217;s legal team telling the DOJ that the whistleblowers broke the law and should be prosecuted.
&#8220;Hunter Biden&#8217;s legal team is engaged in a brazen effort to intimidate and harass the brave Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblowers who exposed numerous apparent irregularities in the Department&#8217;s investigation of Hunter Biden,&#8221; the letter said.
The GOP chairmen also defended the whistleblowers, saying they &#8220;followed the appropriate process by raising their genuine concerns about how the Department conducted its investigation into Mr. Biden.&#8221;
After Congress received testimony from the whistleblowers earlier this year, the DOJ and Biden&#8217;s legal team settled this summer on a plea agreement involving tax evasion and gun charges emerged that could have kept the first son out of prison. But the agreement — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1774-hunter-s-sweetheart-plea-deal-and-the-continuing-biden-coverup3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dubbed a &#8220;sweetheart plea deal&#8221;</a> by Republicans — fell apart under scrutiny by a judge who raised concerns about an immunity clause.
The DOJ indicated last week that special counsel David Weiss intends to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-special-counsel-david-weiss-to-indict-hunter-biden-filing-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seek an indictment</a> against Biden on gun charges by the end of the month, while Biden&#8217;s attorney Lowell <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/us/politics/hunter-biden-indictment-gun-charges.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> in a statement that a pre-trial diversion agreement &#8220;remains valid and prevents any additional charges from being filed.&#8221;
Smith was joined by Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) in signing the new letter to Garland. House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mccarthy-announces-formal-impeachment-inquiry-against-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> earlier on Tuesday that the three committee leaders would work together in spearheading an impeachment inquiry against Hunter&#8217;s father, President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>, which could embroil the entire Biden family.
The Daily Wire reached out to the DOJ and Lowell&#8217;s firm seeking comment on the new letter.

GOP Investigators Probe Alleged Effort By Hunter Biden’s Lawyers To Punish IRS Whistleblowers

GOP Investigators Probe Alleged Effort By Hunter Biden's Lawyers To Punish IRS Whistleblowers

Impeachment

Top lawmakers on the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations are asking for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a> to provide unredacted documents on Saudi Arabia’s “role” in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/9-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9/11</a> as numerous records on the subject have remained classified.
In a <a href="https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/services/files/4A131859-DDBB-4A6D-8D88-EA7A76631F14" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron Johnson</a> (R-WI) ask for unredacted documents so they can better understand <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/saudi-arabia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saudi Arabia</a>’s connection to 9/11.
“No one was more affected by these attacks than the families of those whose lives were lost on that day, and who have struggled to obtain accountability ever since. Our inquiry into Saudi Arabia’s attempts to influence U.S. affairs has underscored, yet again, the need for transparency, particularly regarding Saudi Arabia’s connection to the 9/11 attacks,” the senators wrote on Sunday, one day before the 22nd anniversary of the terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people. 
The senators said that they had previously asked in July for “the U.S. government finally provide full transparency into what it knows about the attacks, particularly as it relates to Saudi Arabia’s involvement,” but had not yet heard back. 
They said that they asked again on August 8 for an unredacted copy of a record on “Operation Encore,” but had not yet received a single document from the FBI or the DOJ. &#8220;Operation Encore&#8221; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/11/senate-sept11-saudi-arabia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was</a> the name given by the FBI to describe links between Saudi nationals and the terrorists who crashed the planes on 9/11. 
“Your failure to respond to our letter only adds to our concerns about the U.S. government’s longstanding refusal to provide full transparency to the American public, and particularly for the families of 9/11 victims, about Saudi Arabia’s role in the 9/11 attacks,” the senators wrote. 
Blumenthal and Johnson said that if the federal entities did not respond to their new call for unredacted documents, they could turn to other methods to ensure compliance with their request. 
Families and survivors of the 9/11 attacks have long pushed for more U.S. officials to press Saudi Arabia on the terrorist attacks. Ahead of President Joe Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia in July 2022, the families and survivors asked Biden to discuss the attacks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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“Please stand where no other President since 9/11 has stood, with the September 11 community in our pursuit for justice, and prioritize a full and complete discussion of the Saudis’ continued denial of their complicity in the attacks,” the families said in a <a href="https://911familiesunited.org/9-11-families-president-biden-must-demand-saudi-accountability-for-the-september-11-attacks/">letter</a>.
Although Biden has released some 9/11 documents, they have remained heavily redacted and lawmakers and victims have continued to push for more information.

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Senators Push For ‘Transparency,’ Unredacted Documents On Saudi Arabia’s ‘Role’ In 9/11

Senators Push For 'Transparency,' Unredacted Documents On Saudi Arabia's 'Role' In 9/11

9/11

Richard Blumenthal

Ron Johnson

Saudi Arabia

House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan demanded on Tuesday that the Biden Administration disclose details about its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-counsels-office-met-with-top-aide-for-jack-smith-fbi-agent-weeks-before-trump-indictment-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meeting</a> with Special Counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s office and an FBI agent two months before Smith indicted former President Donald Trump in the classified documents case.
&#8220;This new information raises serious concerns regarding the potential for a coordinated effort between the Department and the White House to investigate and prosecute President Biden&#8217;s political opponents,&#8221; Jordan wrote in a duplicated <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-08-29-jdj-to-zients-re-bratt-wh-meetings.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Attorney General Merrick Garland and White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients.
Smith indicted Trump on June 8 in the classified documents case that the Justice Department had appointed him to oversee as special counsel. The visitor logs don&#8217;t provide details about the meeting between Smith&#8217;s aide, the White House counsel&#8217;s office, and the FBI. Trump pleaded not guilty to 40 counts relating to his handling of classified documents seized during the FBI raid of Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on August 8, 2022.
Smith&#8217;s top aide, Jay Bratt, met with Caroline Seba, deputy chief of staff for the White House counsel&#8217;s office, on March 31, according to White House visitor logs — as first reported by The New York Post. Danielle Ray, an FBI agent in the Washington, D.C., field office, also joined Bratt and Seba at the meeting.
A spokesman for the special counsel told the Post that Bratt was at the White House for a &#8220;case-related interview,&#8221; and the FBI declined to comment on the meeting.
Bratt also reportedly met with an advisor to White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain in September 2021 and a second time two months later with other Biden officials related to &#8220;national security,&#8221; according to Jordan&#8217;s letter.
Jordan requested federal authorities disclose all relevant documents on Bratt&#8217;s three known meetings or other visits to the White House or the Executive Office of the President&#8221; and those &#8220;between the Executive Office of the President and the Department of Justice referring or relating to the investigation and/or prosecutions of Special Counsel Jack Smith.&#8221;
Two months before the August FBI raid on Trump&#8217;s Florida compound, Bratt reportedly visited and interacted with the former president.
According to The Washington Post, Bratt then pushed for a warrant for the unannounced raid on Trump&#8217;s property. Bratt&#8217;s temper flared during the meeting when he told FBI agents they could no longer trust the former president or his lawyers.
Bratt allegedly also &#8220;improperly pressured&#8221; a lawyer representing a Trump employee &#8220;to induce the lawyer’s client to cooperate with the Department’s prosecution&#8221; of the former president, according to the letter.
The letter claims Bratt told the lawyer believed the lawyer &#8220;would do the right thing&#8221; because he wasn&#8217;t a &#8220;Trump guy&#8221; and appeared to bribe him by saying his application for a D.C. judgeship would be received more favorably if he cooperated with the prosecution.
&#8220;These facts reinforce the serious concern that Mr. Smith is not running an impartial and unprejudiced investigation and prosecution,&#8221; Jordan&#8217;s letter reads.
Smith also indicted Trump on additional felony charges for his alleged role in seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election, pointing to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot as an &#8220;unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy.&#8221; Smith was appointed special counsel in both the classified documents case and the 2020 election case by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

House Judiciary Committee On Oversight Of Department Of Homeland Security

Jordan Demands Details On WH Counsel’s Meeting With Jack Smith Aide, FBI Agent Ahead Of Trump Indictment

House Republicans

Jack Smith

Mar-a-Lago

The Department of Justice has appointed Federal Prosecutor David Weiss as Special Counsel so he can oversee the botched Hunter Biden investigation run by Federal Prosecutor David Weiss. David Weiss’s meandering years-long investigation allowed the statute of limitations to run out on major charges against Hunter before resulting in a sweetheart plea deal that immediately imploded on cursory examination in court and now David Weiss has been assigned to oversee David Weiss to make sure David Weiss didn’t get up to some kind of funny business. Because Federal Prosecutor David Weiss is a federal employee answerable to Hunter’s father Joe Biden, DOJ regulations require the special counsel overseeing Federal Prosecutor David Weiss should be someone outside the federal government, like Federal Prosecutor David Weiss.
Attorney General Merrick “Joey Bananas” Garland says he appointed David Weiss to oversee David Weiss in hopes of restoring the public’s diminishing trust in the integrity of the DOJ through a blatantly cynical cover-up that will spit a phlegm-gob of unbridled power and corruption in the public’s eye thereby blinding them to the blatant cynicism, unbridled power and corruption that have diminished public trust in the DOJ.
Special Counsel David Weiss is said to have already begun his oversight of Federal Prosecutor David Weiss by having David Weiss question David Weiss in an old dark house that looms behind the DOJ building on Pennsylvania Avenue, where witnesses say they have heard two distinct voices engaging in the interrogation.
Special Counsel David Weiss, speaking in a high-pitched voice, said: “Listen to me, boy, I won’t have this sort of corruption going on in my Justice Department.”
To which Federal Prosecutor David Weiss replied, “Oh my God, Mother. Blood! Blood!” 
Congressional investigators later determined this to be an obscure and overly elaborate &#8220;Psycho&#8221; joke that most of the audience won’t get but is still too funny to cut out.
The investigators then went down to the root cellar where they found a preserved corpse sitting in a rocking chair and returned him to the White House.
Addressing the Hunter Biden investigation, President and Venal Houseplant Joe Biden said there was not a single shred of evidence that he himself had participated in his son’s influence peddling schemes aside from his repeated calls on speaker phone during the course of Hunter’s meetings, lunches and dinners with shady foreign nationals, the fact that Hunter paid his father’s bills out of his ill-gotten gains and then gave him 10% of the take, and of course repeated emails to Biden accounts with suspicious fake names like Doddering Corrupto at Gmail.com and Surly McVenal at AOL.com.
The President made his remarks on the island of Maui where he awoke suddenly to find himself making a speech to a group of people who looked kind of sad for some reason. Assuming his famed role of empathetic comforter-in-chief, the president said,“What’s everyone so down about? Come on, put on a happy face, Bidenomics is working. And hey, what’s all this mess everywhere? I thought Hawaii was supposed to be nice but this place is a dump.”When told that there had been a horrific once-in-a-century fire and hundreds of local people might never see their loved ones again, the president added,“You think that’s bad? I once had a kitchen fire that could have spread and damaged my ‘67 Corvette. After all, a Hawaiian is only a Hawaiian, but a good Corvette is a drive.” 
The president then dozed off again because, he said, he finds sad people sort of boring.
The absolutely fair-minded news media welcomed word that the totally honest Special Counsel David Weiss would be overseeing the also totally honest Federal Prosecutor David Weiss during his completely unbiased investigation of the thoroughly innocent President Biden’s totally unsuspicious dealings with an influence peddling crack cocaine addict who was selling Joe&#8217;s name for millions of dollars and sending him 10% of the take. Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, where Democracy dies in the ideological corruption of Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, said, “When I look at Joe Biden I see a loving father and strong leader because I am blinded by my ideological corruption.”
Robinson was immediately appointed Special Counsel to oversee Special Counsel David Weiss.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland Announces Special Prosecutor In Hunter Biden Case

Merrick Garland Appoints Federal Prosecutor David Weiss To Oversee David Weiss

Andrew Klavan

Readers Pass

Satire

It’s back to the drawing board in the Department of Justice’s ongoing obfuscation and cover-up of the Biden Brand influence peddling scandal that is now threatening not just Joe Biden’s electoral chances, but his presidency itself.
The mendacity of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s latest move, finally appointing Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss as special counsel into the investigation of Hunter Biden, is both myriad and shocking.
Let’s start with Weiss himself, this is the same prosecutor who authored the sweetheart plea deal that nearly put this scandal in the rearview mirror of the White House for good, with its watered down misdemeanors and uncharged crimes.
But even worse than the lackluster charges themselves was the absurdly broad immunity to future prosecution that the deal offered, had Judge Maryellen Noreika not smelled a rat and quashed the bargain, Hunter Biden would have been permanently in the clear for almost all of his duplicitous dealings.
Prosecutors claim that they never intended to grant such sweeping immunity, but as Hunter’s lawyer Abbe Lowell put it in on Sunday, no experienced defense team would allow their client to plead guilty to a misdemeanor on a Monday when they knew a felony charge was coming on Wednesday.
Let us also note that Weiss has already allowed the statute of limitations run out on potential tax charges against Hunter from 2014-2015 and now runs the risk of doing the same thing with Biden scion’s pending gun charge.
Flailing Biden defenders are clinging to the technically true point that Weiss was a Trump appointee, but as Sen.Ted Cruz put it, Weiss “was personally selected by the two Democrat senators from Delaware, Tom Carper and Chris Coons. For five years, the investigation has gone nowhere other than to protect Hunter Biden and Joe Biden.&#8221;
Where is the lie?
And somehow, it only gets worse, not only has Garland let the fox run the henhouse in choosing Weiss, the ongoing nature of the investigation is clearly a tool that will be used to stonewall congressional investigations.
Rep. James Comer’s House Oversight Committee investigation, in a mere seven months, has produced whistleblowers alleging special treatment, Hunter associate Devon Archer confirming that influence was being sold, and a cavalcade of bank records to the tune of $20 million foreign bucks in Biden bank accounts.
Both Garland and Weiss were set to testify before Congress in the fall to address the whistleblower allegations, but now the stage is set for these so-called Justice officials to gravely shake their heads and intone, “I cannot comment on an active investigation.”
It’s not good enough, and it also contradicts claims from Garland that Weiss had total charging authority, in any jurisdiction, if that was the case, then why would Weiss ask to be made special counsel? 
Why would he ask for authority he supposedly already had, why does he need it in writing now, instead of just from the lips of Merrick Garland?
If you are starting to get the sense that this whole investigation stinks to high heaven then that is precisely because it does, and the coverup would have worked too, if it wasn’t for those pesky whistleblowers.
Congressional Democrats did all they could to demonize the brave men who stepped forward to testify, under penalty of perjury, about how the DOJ was protecting Hunter and Joe Biden, clearly they deserve an apology — equally clearly, they won’t get one.
This scandal and the shambolic probe into it are fast growing into one of the darkest clouds to ever hang over a president of the United States, but if there&#8217;s a silver lining to it, it is that congressional Republicans have no intention of letting up.
Already today, based solely on what the committee has uncovered so far, we know that Hunter Biden was selling access and influence, this isn’t in dispute anymore, even Biden sycophant Rep. Dan Goldman says the “illusion of influence” was up for sale.
Already we know that Joe Biden was actively involved in the influence peddling scheme with his phone calls and dinners with Hunter’s crooked crowd.
Either Joe was a willing participant or a dupe having his chain yanked by his drug addict son.
Pressure is mounting for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to announce an impeachment inquiry, and this latest move by the DOJ to continue smothering the scandal will only bring that pressure to a bursting point.
Even without cooperation from a Justice Department that has dragged its feet on every document the committee wants to see an ocean of damming material has been unearthed, that isn’t going to stop.
What a difference a month makes, Joe Biden and his family brand were minutes away from getting away with it all, more or less scot-free in that Delaware courthouse, now they are reaping the whirlwind.
How long before Democrats start falling out of line, how long before they grow a spine, say enough is enough and demand that their party’s leader explain his behavior, behavior which even the Washington Post editorial board now says was “not spotless”?
Just when the president thought he was out of all this, they sucked him back in, and a sandbagging Department of Justice isn’t getting him off the hook this time.
Congress and the American people will not go gentle into Merrick Garland’s dark night of endless investigation, the truth is coming to light, and there is nothing Joe Biden can do to stop it.

Hunter Biden Special Counsel

The Hunter Biden Special Counsel Is A Joke, But Joe Is Still In Big Trouble.

Opinion

White House

House Judiciary Committee Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH) announced on Thursday subpoenas against the leaders of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice (DOJ)</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> as part of his investigation into alleged government collusion with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/big-tech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Big Tech</a> companies.
Cover letters sent to <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-08-17-jdj-to-doj-re-subpoena-cover-letter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Attorney General Merrick Garland</a> and <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-08-17-jdj-to-fbi-re-subpoena-cover-letter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI Director Christopher Wray</a> faulted their agencies with &#8220;woefully inadequate&#8221; responses to past requests for communications with private companies and other third-party groups.
&#8220;Numerous documents that have been made publicly available reflect the weaponization of the federal government’s power to censor speech online directly and by proxy,&#8221; Jordan said in each letter attached to a post to X on the &#8220;Censorship Investigation Over Big Tech Collusion.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: Chairman <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Jim_Jordan</a> subpoenas FBI and DOJ in Censorship Investigation Over Big Tech Collusion
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The chairman stressed that it is &#8220;necessary for Congress to gauge the extent to which&#8221; DOJ and FBI officials &#8220;have coerced, pressured, worked with, or relied upon social media and other tech companies to censor speech.&#8221;
&#8220;The scope of the Committee’s investigation includes understanding the extent and nature of&#8221; the DOJ’s and FBI&#8217;s &#8220;involvement in this censorship,&#8221; he added.
Though the subpoenas themselves were not disclosed in the release, Jordan&#8217;s letters said he demanded the committee&#8217;s &#8220;highest priority documents and information&#8221; while citing rules in Congress governing oversight that relates to protecting civil liberties.
Jordan&#8217;s letters make reference to an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-scores-victory-against-order-blocking-contact-with-social-media-companies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ongoing Missouri v. Biden</a> case brought by GOP state attorneys general over alleged collusion between the federal government and social media companies to censor speech in violation of the First Amendment.
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He said the DOJ and FBI have only so far produced a single document in response to his requests from April seeking voluntary cooperation for information on content moderation discussions: a publicly available transcript of a civil deposition of FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Elvis Chan from Missouri v. Biden.
&#8220;Through its investigation, the Committee has uncovered evidence that contradicts several statements in Agent Chan’s deposition, particularly as they relate to his communications with social media platforms,&#8221; Jordan noted.
&#8220;This production is woefully inadequate and omits voluminous responsive material, including communications between FBI and tech companies, internal communications, and communications between FBI and other executive branch entities,&#8221; Jordan wrote.
The Daily Wire reached out to the DOJ and FBI seeking comment.
&#8220;The Department, including the FBI, does not censor content on social media platforms,&#8221; a DOJ spokesperson said in response. &#8220;Private companies have the sole authority to make decisions to protect their platforms and users. As with all the Committee’s various requests, the Department remains committed to working with the Committee to fulfill their informational needs.&#8221;
“The FBI remains committed to cooperating with the committee in good faith. The FBI does not censor content on social media,&#8221; the FBI said in a statement. &#8220;We are a law enforcement and intelligence agency responsible for working with companies in a lawful way to protect our communities from child predators and terrorists, as well as hostile foreign countries like China, Russia, and Iran who are looking to exploit social media platforms to commit crimes or threaten national security. When the FBI identifies information that a hostile foreign actor is behind a social media account, we share that information with the company. Social media companies independently decide what, if any, action to take on their own platforms for their own customers.”
Jordan has already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-subpoenas-big-tech-executives-in-collusion-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">subpoenaed</a> the heads of Big Tech companies Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft seeking documents and communications “relating to the federal government’s reported collusion with Big Tech to suppress free speech.&#8221;
Last month, the chairman began <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-unleashes-the-facebook-files-social-media-giant-censored-americans-because-of-biden-white-house-pressure" target="_blank" rel="noopener">releasing</a> internal Meta documents that he said were evidence of the White House improperly pressuring Facebook and Instagram into censoring posts, dubbing the disclosure &#8220;The Facebook Files.&#8221; The fourth installment explored how Chan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/facebook-docs-reveal-fbi-agent-made-completely-false-congressional-statements-involving-hunter-biden-laptop-jordan-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly made “completely false” statements</a> during a congressional deposition about the FBI&#8217;s role in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story on social media platforms during his November 2022 deposition.
A White House official <a href="https://apnews.com/article/social-media-protected-speech-lawsuit-injunction-148c1cd43f88a0284d5a3c53fd333727" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told the Associated Press</a> that the Biden administration &#8220;has promoted responsible actions to protect public health, safety, and security when confronted by challenges like a deadly pandemic and foreign attacks on our elections.&#8221;

Jordan Subpoenas DOJ And FBI Leaders In ‘Big Tech Collusion’ Probe

Jordan Subpoenas DOJ And FBI Leaders In 'Big Tech Collusion' Probe

Big Tech

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mar-a-lago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mar-a-Lago</a> property manager Carlos De Oliveira pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to federal charges related to the prosecution of former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> over his alleged mishandling of classified documents. 
De Oliveira <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-personal-aide-plead-not-guilty-to-new-charges-in-us-documents-superseding-indictment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was named</a> a co-defendant in the classified documents case for allegedly hiding security camera footage from federal investigators. He is also accused of helping Trump aide Walt Nauta move boxes of classified material around Mar-a-Lago after the Department of Justice issued a subpoena seeking the materials.
The property manager is <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/carlos-de-oliveira-mar-a-lago-property-manager-classified-documents-case-fort-pierce-court/#textHe20faces20one20count20ofand20representations20during20a20voluntary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> with allegedly altering, destroying, mutilating, or concealing an object; corruptly altering, destroying, mutilating or concealing a document, record or other object; conspiracy to obstruct justice; and making false statements and representations during a voluntary interview with federal investigators, according to CBS News. 
De Oliveira, represented by Donald Murrell, pleaded not guilty to the charges before U.S. Magistrate Judge Shaniek Mills Maynard.
The charges follow an investigation from special counsel Jack Smith who was tasked by Attorney General Merrick Garland to look into Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents. 
The property manager is accused of asking another Mar-a-Lago employee to delete “the server” at the property to get rid of security footage. 
Last week, both Trump and Nauta pleaded not guilty to new federal charges in the classified documents superseding the indictment brought by Smith. Trump faces 40 criminal charges in the case, including possession at Mar-a-Lago of information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries and U.S. nuclear programs. 
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Trump has denied all wrongdoing and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/department-of-injustice-trump-takes-aim-at-biden-doj-in-first-post-indictment-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the prosecution is politically motivated. 
“The ridiculous and baseless indictment of me by the Biden administration’s weaponized department of injustice will go down as among the most horrific abuses of power in the history of our country,” the former president said in his first speech after the document indictment against him was announced. “Many people have said that; Democrats have even said it. This vicious persecution is a travesty of justice.”
President Joe Biden is also being investigated over alleged mishandling of classified documents, including the storage of classified documents at a Washington, D.C.-based think tank and the garage of his Delaware home. 
No charges or conclusions have yet been made on the investigation by special counsel Robert Hur into the Biden document investigation.

Mar-A-Lago Worker Goes To Court As More Charges Are Filed In Trump Documents Case

Mar-a-Lago Property Manager Pleads Not Guilty In Trump Documents Case

classified documents

Courts

Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy dismissed the special counsel investigation into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> as a “sham” on Friday.
McCarthy, who led the prosecution of terrorists behind the 1993 World Trade Center attack, said Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland</a>’s decision to appoint <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/delaware" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Delaware</a> U.S. Attorney David Weiss as special counsel violated Justice Department (DOJ) guidelines. Weiss, as a top official in the DOJ, does not have the requisite independence from the U.S. government to credibly prosecute a case involving the president’s son, McCarthy said.
“This is a sham. There is no special counsel investigation, and there is no Biden investigation,” McCarthy said on Fox News on Friday. “What makes a special counsel special is that you’re a lawyer who’s brought in from outside the United States government – not just outside the Justice Department, outside the government.”
“This is the Biden Justice Department’s vehicle for maintaining control of an investigation that they are not pursuing. They’ve had the case for five years. They’ve never indicted it. They’re strategically allowing the statute of limitations to run to the point that the 2014 and 2015 conduct, which covers most of the $21 million that the congressional investigation report showed this week, that’s already time barred. And it’s time barred because David Weiss himself decided to let those charges die rather than bring an indictment,” McCarthy continued.
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Garland announced Weiss’ appointment to special counsel on Friday, a shocking twist to a case that was stopped just short of a resolution last month when a judge questioned the terms of a plea deal that prosecutors acknowledged had no precedent. Garland said Weiss requested the designation last week, and the attorney general granted it because of the case’s “extraordinary circumstances.”
The special counsel appointment has raised skepticism among Republicans who have long called for a special counsel in the case. Biden’s defense team is also doubtful of the need for a special counsel.
Republicans do not trust Weiss, and they see his appointment as a possible attempt to shield the U.S. attorney from testifying to Congress about his investigation into Biden.
“This action by Biden’s DOJ cannot be used to obstruct congressional investigations or whitewash the Biden family corruption,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) <a href="https://twitter.com/speakermccarthy/status/1690049403824807939" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X. “If Weiss negotiated the sweetheart deal that couldn’t get approved, how can he be trusted as a Special Counsel?”
Biden defense attorney Abbe Lowell appeared on CBS News over the weekend and said that after a five-year investigation, there is no chance Weiss uncovers evidence that has not already been considered.
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“If anything changes from his conclusion, which was two tax misdemeanors and a diverted gun charge, the question should be asked: What infected the process that was not the facts and the law?” Lowell said. Biden’s failed plea deal included two misdemeanor tax charges, as well as a felony gun charge that Biden would have the opportunity to expunge if he completed a diversion program.
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Hunter Biden&#39;s attorney Abbe Lowell says while U.S. attorney David Weiss has been appointed special counsel, &quot;he&#39;s the same person he&#39;s been for the last five years.&quot;
&quot;If anything changes from his conclusion&#8230;what infected the process that was not the facts and the law?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/uQANuFDdm2">pic.twitter.com/uQANuFDdm2</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1690758821000482818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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