A Biden DOJ official is blocking a Democrat-led inquiry into Trump's election fraud crusade -- why?

[UCmeNdc]

A top Department of Justice career official thwarted a Democratic-backed Senate Judiciary probe into Trump's effort to overturn the election, arguing that the ambit of the committee's inquiry was far outside the legal limit.

Official transcripts released by the Democrat-led committee on Thursday reveal that DOJ lawyer Bradley Weinsheimer made "a dozen" attempts to curtail the investigation, even when the Biden administration has promised heightened transparency for the proceeding.

In one exchange, Weinsheimer effectively pulled the plug on multiple lines of inquiry with Byung Pak, the former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. Pak abruptly resigned from his post back in January, later telling the Senate Judiciary Committee in August that he would have been fired by Trump for failing to back Trump's claims of election fraud in Georgia.

https://www.rawstory.com/doj-trump-election-fraud/

[Xoan]

1. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Announces Bradley Weinsheimer to Replace ....

Departing Associate Deputy Attorney General Scott Schools.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-announces-bradley-weinsheimer-replace-departing-associate

[The Magistrate]

2. There Must, Sir, Be a Broom-Closet Somewhere

Perfect accommodation for someone charged with halting the drain of paper-clips without authorization from an office manager. Serious stuff, that needs a top man's full attention....

[BlueLucy]

3. Trump hold overs need to go.

[JohnSJ]

4. This is how we lose our country

[stillcool]

5. One article, in one publication says he was opposed to one question

don't know how good, or how bad that is. Don't know the guy at all, except that he's worked in the Dept. of Justice for over 20 years. That hardly matters I'm sure, but I don't like ambient pissed-offed-ed-ness. I want my pissed off self only go for those worthy.

For example, when senators tried asking Byung Pak, a former U.S. attorney from the Atlanta area, whether Trump officials had actually given him any proof to back up their claims about thousands of felons improperly voting in Georgia, Weinsheimer immediately intervened.

"You're getting into specific investigations that don't have anything to do with specific pressure put on Mr. Pak, and so I would object," he said, according to transcripts obtained by Politico.

This drew the ire of Sara Zdeb, chief oversight counsel for Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-IL).
"It seems to me that it is inherent in understanding … whether there were particular things that [White House chief of Staff Mark Meadows], the President thought that Mr. Pak's office ought to be looking into that they were not looking into," she replied.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

6. I read twelve questions total, mostly from Republicans

But now it has been posted at least three times from various site aggregators to attack Garland, by people who obviously didn’t bother to read the actual article.

[stillcool]

8. Yeah, I think there was one question cited

and reference to others that were considered outside the scope. Sounds like the guy is calling balls or strikes. Sometime he may get it wrong, but if I'm not watching, what do I know?

[BeckyDem]

7. Bookmarking.

K&R

[niyad]

9. Hey, rawstory, why is this career (20 years) person labeled a "BIDEN DOJ" official?