Jim Jordan tells DOJ to turn over details of Jack Smith's Trump investigation

[riversedge]

Source: raw story



Travis Gettys June 2, 2023, 10:51 AM ET




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The House Judiciary Committee chairman sent a letter Thursday to attorney general Merrick Garland seeking details about the FBI's involvement in special counsel Jack Smith's sprawling investigations of the former president, including his mishandling of classified documents found at his private residence at Mar-a-Lago, reported The Federalist.

"Explain whether any FBI employees who have worked on Special Counsel Smith’s investigation previously worked on any other matters concerning President Trump," Jordan wrote, "and explain whether Special Counsel Smith’s investigation relies on any information or material gathered exclusively by the FBI prior the Special Counsel’s appointment."

The Ohio Republican claimed congressional oversight authority to request a briefing by deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco on any changes made by the FBI to correct any failings cited by Trump-era special counsel John Durham, who recently submitted his final report following a years-long investigation.


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"It is clear that Congress must consider legislative reforms to the FBI, and the Committee has been engaged in robust oversight to inform those legislative proposals. In the interim, however, due to the FBI’s documented political bias, the Justice Department must ensure any ongoing investigations are not poisoned by this same politicization."

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/jim-jordan-fbi-2660803674/

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Jim Jordan is doing his best to continue to diminish trust in the FBI!! --
But he is also setting the table for Trump to claim Bias when he goes to trial or gets charged for the classifies doc scandal.

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[Duncanpup]

1. NO GYM

Pound sand traitor Raymond Hulser David Harbach will be coming for you as well.

[MayReasonRule]

29. That's Right! Hulser & Harbach et al Are Formidable Individually. Even More So As A Whole.

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Here is a roster of the prosecutors known to be working with Smith:

JAN. 6-RELATED PROBE

TOM WINDOM
Tom Windom has been a federal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Maryland for much of the past decade, working on an array of cases -- from financial fraud and domestic terrorism to public corruption and drug trafficking. Last year, as the Justice Department expanded its probes stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, siege on the U.S. Capitol, Windom took on a temporary role in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C., overseeing key parts of the department's investigative efforts. Earlier in his career, before joining the Justice Department, he once donated $750 in 2011 to the first congressional campaign of now-Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, and clerked for a Republican-nominated U.S. appeals court judge after graduating law school in 2005. In a profile last year, The New York Times called Windom "a little-known but aggressive federal prosecutor." Smith has described Windom as his "senior assistant special counsel."

JOSEPH "J.P." COONEY
Joseph Cooney is a long-time prosecutor from the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C., where he took over as chief of the office's fraud and public corruption section. Cooney has been involved in many high-profile and controversial cases, including the doomed conspiracy case against Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., in 2015, and the obstruction-related cases against former Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Roger Stone, who was later pardoned by Trump. In mid-November 2020, when then-attorney general William Barr issued a memo that seemingly encouraged prosecutors to investigate allegations of election fraud, Cooney urged Barr to rescind the memo, telling the attorney general it promoted "conspiracy theories" about election fraud and "eradicate[d] the Department's guardrails against improper political influence." In a private email at the time, a senior Trump-appointed Justice Department official described Cooney as a "nonpartisan career prosecutor" who is "focused on integrity."

MARY DOHRMANN
Mary Dorhmann serves in the U.S. attorney's office for the District of Columbia, prosecuting federal cases involving drugs, guns, bank robberies, and other crimes in the nation's capital. She took on Jan. 6-related cases and helped the Justice Department investigate efforts to overturn the 2020 election. She is one of the younger known members of Smith's team, having graduated from Columbia University's law school in 2015. After graduating law school, she clerked for U.S. District Judge Judge Beryl Howell, who, as the chief federal judge in the District of Columbia until March, supervised the grand juries being used by Smith and decided legal matters stemming from his investigations.

DAVID RODY
David Rody was a long-time Justice Department prosecutor and the head of the Violent Crimes unit in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York when he left the Justice Department in 2011 for private practice. Before Smith was announced as special counsel, Rody left his high-paid private job to rejoin the Justice Department, reportedly as an adviser on the widening Trump-related probes. According to a biography posted online, Rody's previous tenure with the Justice Department gave him "extensive trial and investigative experience" with matters such as insider trading, drugs, terrorism and murder. He also directed investigations of fraud, bribery, obstruction of justice, and many other federal crimes.

TIMOTHY "TAD" DUREE
Timothy Duree has been with the Justice Department for more than a decade, first prosecuting federal cases in the Western District of Texas and then joining the department's fraud section in Washington, where he's worked since 2016. Between 2017 and 2020, he donated a total of $210 to Democratic causes, including a small donation to support President Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign.

MATTHEW BURKE
Matthew Burke is a federal prosecutor based in the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia. He has often prosecuted fraud-related crimes, including pandemic-related fraud and the 2020 case against a former spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration who pleaded guilty to defrauding companies out of $4.4 million by pretending to be a covert CIA officer.

RAYMOND "RAY" HULSER
PHOTO: Ray Hulser, chief of the public integrity section with the U.S. Department of Justice, stands for a photograph at his office in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 19, 2015.
Ray Hulser, chief of the public integrity section with the U.S. Department of Justice, stands for a photograph at his office in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 19, 2015.
Bloomberg via Getty Images
Raymond Hulser has been a prosecutor with the Justice Department for more than two decades, starting in the Public Integrity Section of the department's Criminal Division, which investigates public corruption and other misconduct by government officials. In 2015, he became chief of the section, with Cooney as his deputy. At the time, NPR described Hulser as a "Mr. Fix It" within the Justice Department. "[T]his section is not going to be shy about bringing important and tough cases, and we're going to try those cases," Hulser told NPR.

DAVID HARBACH
David Harbach has a diverse career background. Early in his career, he was a private attorney and then an assistant district attorney in Houston. He eventually joined the Justice Department and between 2005 and 2019 he prosecuted public corruption and other federal crimes in New York, Washington, and Richmond, Virginia – with a short stint at the FBI working for then-FBI director James Comey. Reuters previously described him as a "veteran prosecutor of high-profile corruption cases," including the failed campaign finance case against former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., and the bribery case against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican. In 2019, Harbach joined the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor's Office at The Hague, working under now-special counsel Smith to prosecute war crimes. He then returned to private practice in late 2021, before joining Smith again.

JOHN PELLETTIERI
John Pellettieri has been with the Justice Department since 2009, serving as an attorney in the Criminal Division's appellate section. As part of Smith's team, Pellettieri has helped persuade federal judges to let investigators question Trump's attorney Evan Corcoran about his communications with Trump and to access a cellphone seized from Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., a pro-Trump lawmaker who was communicating with Trump administration officials in the run-up to Jan. 6, 2021.

JAMES PEARCE
James Pearce has been with the Justice Department for several years, prosecuting bribery and corruption cases as part of the department's Public Integrity Section and then working as a trial attorney in the Criminal Division's Appellate Section. Even before Smith's appointment, he was involved in some of the cases stemming from the Jan. 6 attack, which he described in court as "an act of domestic terrorism." Before joining the Justice Department, he worked with refugees in Turkey, Egypt and Sudan, and then earned a master's degree in human rights law from the American University in Cairo, according to Duke University's Law School, where he later graduated.

GREGORY BERNSTEIN
PHOTO: Gregory Bernstein, left, and FBI Special Agent Keith Custer walk outside the federal courthouse, in Greenbelt, Md., Oct. 11, 2018.
Gregory Bernstein, left, and FBI Special Agent Keith Custer walk outside the federal courthouse, in Greenbelt, Md., Oct. 11, 2018.
Michael Kunzelman/AP
Gregory Bernstein has been with the Justice Department for several years, including time prosecuting fraud cases in Maryland. More recently, he became a member of the Major Frauds Section in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles.

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS-RELATED PROBE

JAY BRATT
Jay Bratt has led the counterintelligence section in the Justice Department's National Security Division since 2018. He is a veteran Justice Department prosecutor. Axios wrote last year that he "has built his career going after convicted spies, Blackwater guards, Chinese companies and some of Trump's close associates," capitalizing on a "rare combination of litigation and leadership expertise." When the Justice Department first launched its investigation into hundreds of classified documents kept at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, Bratt not only oversaw the investigation as head of the counterintelligence section but also traveled to Florida to personally take part in elements of the case.

JULIE EDELSTEIN
Julie Edelstein has served as a federal prosecutor for the past 13 years and in 2018 she became Bratt's deputy in the Justice Department's counterintelligence section. She became involved in the Trump-related documents case even before Smith was appointed special counsel. As Bratt's deputy for the past five years, she has supervised cases across the country involving espionage, mishandling of classified information, unauthorized disclosures and other counterintelligence matters. She has also made "charging recommendations with respect to all counterintelligence cases, ensuring [a] consistent national approach to counterintelligence prosecutions," according to her LinkedIn page. While still in law school in 2005 and 2006, she interned for the House Homeland Security Committee, working with the top Democrat on the panel, Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi.

BRETT REYNOLDS
Brett Reynolds has been a trial attorney in the Justice Department's National Security Division for less than two years. Before that he served in the department's Criminal Division and in 2018 was tapped by then-attorney general Jeff Sessions to lead a team targeting certain drug cartels. "I investigated, indicted and obtained convictions against some of the most notorious international drug kingpins," including Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, Reynolds wrote on LinkedIn. Even before Smith was appointed special counsel, Reynolds was part of the Justice Department team investigating classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

Get 'em y'all!

[KS Toronado]

37. An impressive list.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

46. Impressive list of incorruptible legal eagles, led by Chief Inspector Smith, past prosecutor on

World Court.

Dream Team of Prosecution Counsel…versus…The Kraken! Or Nightmare Team, depends which side you on.

Justice will prevail.

[MayReasonRule]

56. Justice Will Prevail, Hence Reason Will Rule!!! Fuck Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

May reason rule!

[Duncanpup]

49. Thank you

[MayReasonRule]

54. For Sure Y'all! Happy Friday!

[Duncanpup]

59. Now I'll call Monday to Friday Scott Perry and Doug Mastriano offices.

And recite these names always voice messages they never answer.
And you have great weekend.

[MayReasonRule]

63. LoL! I Like The Cut Of Your Jib!!!

[Kennah]

2. He'll be allowed to look at his arrest warrant

[EndlessWire]

47. LOL! n/t

[MiHale]

3. The traitors are getting jumpy.

[GreenWave]

43. They could be next???

I can't remember who said to the House GOP "You are currently the majority." Perhaps something is coming, at long last.

[LiberalFighter]

4. Gym Creep is trying to obstruct justice.

[nature-lover]

5. When is Jordan going to be investigated for his role in Jan. 6? He has a vested interest in this.

[Duppers]

34. THIS ⬆⬆

[Bev54]

35. How do you know he is not being investigated?

[gab13by13]

39. He's a sitting Congressman

investigating him would be partisan. Even Scott Perry who had a key role in the fake documents scheme, according to perry's lawyer, is just a witness, not a target.

[Bev54]

66. Sitting congressmen get investigated and indicted all the time, there has been some over

the past few years even. One that is ongoing right now is Santos.

[JT45242]

6. Fox watching the hen house comes to mind

I sure hope that some of the lawsuits absolutely destroy him, the wrestling program, and everyone involved with covering up the sexual abuse scandal. I have little hope of that.

And I say that as a Buckeye fan -- the university needs to be held accountable for the sexual predators and enablers that it employed for LITERALLY DECADES.

[llmart]

53. OSU could follow the lead of U of Michigan.

I hope it eventually comes to that in Ohio.

[DFW]

57. And Fox is reporting on their observations of what is going on inside the hen house

Thy will make every effort to be as honest as China is small.

[Blue Owl]

7. True to form, it looks like Gymbo's looking the other way in that photo

[republianmushroom]

8. tell gym jim to sit on it.

28 months and counting

[Botany]

9. Isn't Jack Smith's investigation going in front of Grand Juries?

And as far as I know Gym Jordan will not be sitting on any of those Grand Juries so he can
see the results of special counsel's investigations after the G. J. is done and most likely indicts
Trump on a bunch of charges.

What Gym is really interested is if Smith and company have evidence of his work in order to help
the J-6th coup.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Separation of powers Dude.

Jack doesn’t need your “help”.

[C_U_L8R]

11. Send him a copy of the indictment

Let's do this, it's go-time.

[Marthe48]

12. gym has his head up his ass

I read that gym isn't legally allowed to see information about the investigation. And DOJ is under no obligation to share it.

Wish this turd would resign, or get arrested. He is a traitor, a syncophant, able to sacrifice any person, or his country, if he thinks someone will give him a pat on the back. Backstabbers don't pat, gym. Just look in a mirror.

[ShazzieB]

45. The nerve of this jerk.😠

I read that gym isn't legally allowed to see information about the investigation. And DOJ is under no obligation to share it.

I'm sure he's not allowed to see it. It's an ongoing investigation concerning highly sensitive matters, and providing inside information about it to random Congress members would jeopardize its success. (Which would no doubt please him greatly, but that's beside the point.)

Let the DOJ do its job, Gymrat!

[agingdem]

13. Good luck with that, Gymbo..

Garland appointed a Special Counsel specifically to insulate and isolate the investigations from traitorous weasels like you... as I recall late last year you and Kev requested the DOJ turn over all files pertaining to the January 6 /stolen documents investigations, and didn't Garland tell you politely to go fuck yourself and the MAGA horse you rode in on? I'm pretty sure he did ....Gymbo, you do know the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, right???

[Uncle Joe]

14. I would think this ought to fall under an obstruction of justice category

Thanks for the thread riversedge

[Comfortably_Numb]

15. Is this the sex-crime ignoring Gym Jordan? The Gym Jordan that ignored a lawful subpoena from the

Select Committee? That Gym Jordan? Earth’s only asshole that is bigger than a blue whale’s? Gym Jacketoff, among the dumbest fucks on earth? Is this the Gym that is interfering in a lawful investigation? Afraid they have the transcripts from those calls to drumph stain on the 6th that made him stammer like an idiot? He couldn’t fuck off enough for me, unless his buried himself alive in a pile of pig shit.

[rubbersole]

31. Why would you want to contaminate pig 🐖 shit?

[lastlib]

16. I think the consensus here is to tell Gym-Rat....

...to proceed with immediate self-fornication--with rusty barbed wire.

We'll send you a copy of the indictment pretty soon, tho, Gymmy. Maybe we'll even get to send you your very own indictment. Have patience.

[ashredux]

17. Is he really that stupid? Answer, absolutely.

[Autumn]

18. Oh how cute. Jungle Gym thinks he's in charge

Fuck that bastard.

[onetexan]

25. Ditto

[musclecar6]

19. Just

Another dumb ass that thinks he’s cool. Just like his idol Donny.

[Midnight Writer]

20. The GOP is the Party of Stunts. It is all they have.

Jordan is creating "controversies" for Hate Radio and FOX News and the rest.

I have to imagine that at least part of the Republican base will get tired of being "riled up" all the time over nonsense.

Is Jordan asking for details of the Pence documents investigation, which was just closed with no charges? I didn't think so.

[agingdem]

21. Gymbo is desperate to know what

the DOJ has on him as per January 6...

[Qutzupalotl]

22. Yeah, all those pot-smoking hippies at the FBI

are just waiting to pounce on Republicans because of “bias.”

WTF is he smoking that he expects people to believe this?

[Freethinker65]

23. Sorry. Can't comment on an ongoing investigation.

Though it would be fun if Garland submitted, in private only to Jordan, names of non-existent FBI members, or those not involved in the case, to watch how fast those names get vilified by other GOP legislators, GOP political/"journalist" surrogates, and Trump himself.

[intheflow]

24. The only one politicizing this is you, Douchebag Jordan.

I wish we could make this bootlicker go the fuck away.

[H2O Man]

26. Ha!!!!!!

Panic is setting in!

Recommended. Thank you for this!

[Mr. Ected]

27. Just playing to the MAGIOTS

He knows this demand is fruitless but remember, in MAGAland the insinuation is as important as the proof; the allegation is the crime; the criminal process excludes Democrats and is solely focused on Republicans, and law enforcement is replete with uber-liberals, particularly the FBI.

They know their audience well and trigger them daily to keep them enthralled.

[moreland01]

28. War room?

Wondering if the R's have set up a war room to kick around ideas on how to foment investigations into trump. They'll keep throwing shit out there until something sticks.

[UpInArms]

30. Ah, gym, just stfu

[LetMyPeopleVote]

32. Gym Jordan is too stupid to pass the bar exam

This is a stupid request. The DOJ/FBI will not release information on an pending investigation. Gym would know this if he passed the bar exam

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[oasis]

33. Grab yourself a comfy seat Jim., youre

gonna be waiting for many moons.

[MissMillie]

36. "legislative reforms to the FBI"?

While they ignore corruption in the SCOTUS....

[tavernier]

38. To him?

Why? I think they contain big words.

[LudwigPastorius]

40. I certainly hope Prosecutor Smith told Jordan to eat his ass.

[Kid Berwyn]

41. Since when do co-conspirators get to tell the prosecution what to do?

No wonder Gym "talked about" a pardon with traitor trumpass.

[yaesu]

42. Gym Jordan can go pee up a rope. nt

[ProudMNDemocrat]

44. Go fuck yourself. Gym....

You are not getting anything while an active investigation is going on.

SC Jack Smith has your number as well. Gumbo. Best watch your back.

[BaronChocula]

48. I just told the DOJ to do my laundry

Careful with my delicates. Thanks.

[Fullduplexxx]

50. Trump must be shtting his pants and barking orders

Errand boy Jordan

[Bird Lady]

51. Here's to the DOJ

Telling Gym Jordan, to go pound sand up his ass!

[turbinetree]

52. Gym oops Jim Jordan.....enough said

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/05/03/jim-jordan-was-deeply-involved-in-the-attempted-coup-to-overturn-the-2020-election/

[DFW]

55. I'd reply back to Jordan

"You, yourself, set the standard for responding to Congressional subpeonas. We will be follwing your guidelines to the letter."

[bucolic_frolic]

58. GYM JO is trying to vivisect the FBI politically

[greblach]

60. Would like to help but...

Existing members of Congress are under investigation. As this is an ongoing legal matter, we cannot divulge the information in advance of the legal process... (or words to that effect)

[Ford_Prefect]

61. Jordan is skating on very thin ice ATM.

His connections to Jan 6th are going to bite him yet.

He's also trying to disrupt or discredit anything which could yet steer in his direction

[electric_blue68]

62. Pffffttt.... Gymmie.

[RussBLib]

64. Obstruction, your Honor!

Sustained!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

65. For this thread

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[Historic NY]

67. Laughing out loud.

Its an active investigation (criminal) they are not entitled to anything except a not chance.

[JohnnyRingo]

68. Now Jordan is a defense lawyer.

Trying desperately to find a loophole, anything, that throws the whole case out. All the cases against DJT.

[Martin Eden]

69. Three Word Response

Go. Pound. Sand.

[riversedge]

70. "But it gets WAY worse.... The FBI and Justice department have purposely kept Jordan in the dark

It is a given that Jordan would run to Trump with any evidence.




BREAKING: House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan launches another Trump cover up, sends Attorney General Merrick Garland a bombshell letter demanding that Garland give him confidential details of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into Trump.

But it gets WAY worse….

The FBI and Justice department have purposely kept Jordan in the dark regarding their investigations in Donald Trump, because they know that he will surely once again run straight to Trump with whatever information he can gather — giving Trump a dangerous peek into the investigations against him. This will help Trump railroad the investigation with propaganda to cover up his crimes.

In the letter, Jordan demands that Attorney General Garland, “Explain whether any FBI employees who have worked on Special Counsel Smith’s investigation previously worked on any other matters concerning President Trump, and explain whether Special Counsel Smith’s investigation relies on any information or material gathered exclusively by the FBI prior the Special Counsel’s appointment."

Please RT and ❤️ to expose Jim Jordan’s sinister move — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a new Twitter competitor I created that is exploding in popularity because Elon Musk banned Tribel’s Twitter account — but he forgot to ban this link to download the new Tribel app: http://tribel.app.link/okwPIHYCIqb

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[OldBaldy1701E]

71. The F.B.I. response...

[Emile]

72. Jordan is guilty too and starting to sweat 💦.

[ificandream]

73. Jordan is playing Trump's dedicated soldier

Garland won't play his game. He already once told Jordan to fuck off asking about investigations. But, of course, when you're a Trumphead, you are hard of hearing when it comes to these things.


And hopefully, Garland's got a dossier at work on Jordan.

[cab67]

74. He can pound sand.

[housecat]

75. nice try knucklehead

[Rural_Progressive]

76. Awww Gym is just so cute when he tries to go all butch and stuff.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

77. I want to know the details of Gym Jordan's coverup of the OSU perv doctor