House GOP Drops Plan to Hold FBI Director in Contempt

[applegrove]

House GOP Drops Plan to Hold FBI Director in Contempt

June 7, 2023 at 10:54 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 66 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2023/06/07/house-gop-drops-plan-to-hold-fbi-director-in-contempt/

"SNIP........

“The Republican-led House Oversight Committee on Wednesday dropped its plans to advance a measure holding FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress,” Axios reports.

.........SNIP"

[chicoescuela]

1. What a bunch of dumb bastards.

[lastlib]

2. But I still hold the Oversight Committee in contempt of the American people.....

Ditto the Gym Jordan Karn Evil Sub-committee....

[fierywoman]

18. Thank you!

[KentuckyWoman]

3. They never intended to.

Got the press hype out of the announcement so the grift can kick up. That was the purpose.

[Bev54]

19. The old Trump trick, just say you are doing it, you don't have to really do it.

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. Buncha losers.

Would have backfired directly on these losers.

[WarGamer]

5. According to the Axios article you linked...

The FBI caved and is allowing access to the documents in question.

The 4 people above me didn't even read the article.

[Indykatie]

6. The Poster Probably Didn't Read It Either Since They Didn't Mention This Important Detail

[applegrove]

7. Sometimes I don't read the whole article. I read the first paragraphs

and if that is important I might post the whole thing. So I'm not one to blame others. I really should be less zippy on the internet. I'm Dyslexic so I don't always get all the themes if I read the whole thing. I read non fiction books the same way too. I read the first part where the author goes into the history of how they think the way they do and skip the treatese in the other 3/4 of the book. Ideas about the topic in general will sit in the right context in my brain as it is the history of the topic. I would not remember the treatese. It is repetitive in its presentation which I hate. How I cope with reading. I see meta. I see patterns not details. I have a different perspectives. If it hits my gut as salient, and moving us along to clarity, I go for it.

[BWdem4life]

8. Comer says "The FBI caved"

It's a pretty sketchy article, light on details and I don't think Comer is someone I'm gonna believe on that one. Maybe conditions set by FBI were finally agreed to by Rs. Who knows.

[SunSeeker]

16. Sounds more like Comer caved.

The FBI is not turning over its files. The FBI disclosed the contents of just one document: a nonthingburger FD-1023 form. It's a FD-1023 from 2020 about allegations against Biden. FD-1023 forms are used to collect unverified reports from the FBI's confidential human sources, but do not necessarily constitute proof of wrongdoing.

Comer and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin received a briefing on the document on Monday. Raskin said in a statement today the FBI told him Trump Justice Department officials evaluated the allegations in early 2020, but shut the assessment down later that year without further action. "As Republicans’ investigation into President Biden has uncovered no evidence of wrongdoing, they continue to attempt to discredit and dismantle the FBI to help prop up Donald Trump's poll numbers," Raskin said. https://www.axios.com/2023/06/08/james-comer-christopher-wray-fbi-contempt

It's basically a face-saving gesture for Comer, so he has an excuse to call off his farce of a contempt proceeding.

[SunSeeker]

11. The FBI is not turning over "documents." It's one document: a nonthingburger 2020 FD-1023 form.

It's a FD-1023 from 2020 about allegations against Biden. FD-1023 forms are used to collect unverified reports from the FBI's confidential human sources, but do not necessarily constitute proof of wrongdoing. Comer and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin received a briefing on the document on Monday. Raskin said in a statement today the FBI told him Trump Justice Department officials evaluated the allegations in early 2020, but shut the assessment down later that year without further action. "As Republicans’ investigation into President Biden has uncovered no evidence of wrongdoing, they continue to attempt to discredit and dismantle the FBI to help prop up Donald Trump's poll numbers," Raskin said. https://www.axios.com/2023/06/08/james-comer-christopher-wray-fbi-contempt

It's basically a face-saving gesture for Comer, so he has an excuse to call off his farce of a contempt proceeding. It sure looks like Comer caved, not the FBI.

The Axios article didn’t say the FBI caved. Comer is the one saying the FBI caved. Why are you repeating Comer's bullshit talking points?

[sheshe2]

9. They have screaming WRAY WRAY WRAY for weeks now.

Mad Madge has led the charge on twitter every day. A dozen times a day...now it is 'never mind'.

You can't make this shit up!

[applegrove]

12. Same exact thing is happening in Canada only the Conservative opposition

leader was asked if he wanted government security clearance to look at the classified intelligence and he said no. He wants a public inquiry on classified intelligence. In other words he wants a scandal that can't be solved. Give me my scandal!! Waaaaah

[SunSeeker]

13. What happened to all those "whistleblowers" Comer was going to produce?

[sheshe2]

15. Whistling in the wind?

[GenThePerservering]

20. I thought they were all in jail

or disappeared or whatever - or is that another batch of whistleblowers these goons swear they have?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. He still hasn't dug them out of his ass

[usonian]

10. Political Wire is clickbait.

They say almost nothing and link to axios.

I so hate parts of the internet.

So, it's easy to pick up a tidbit and miss the larger context.

Seriously, posts on DU quote more than that one paragraph, and we are quite limited.

And most posters here try to squeeze as much context into 4 paragraphs as possible.

Maybe they got their writing lessons from "A River Runs Through It".

Refine, refine, refine some more.

[applegrove]

14. I post so much Political Wire links that I don't feel I should skip over what

they put up. I feel I owe their site some traffic. People can click straight through to the original article with the link in the body of the text.

[emulatorloo]

22. See also "Raw Story."

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. Comer could not get all of the House Republicans to vote for this stupid motion

[Scrivener7]

21. Assholes.

[Mad_Machine76]

23. Well

it was obviously a dumb idea to begin with.