House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is skeptical of FBI election interference in the upcoming presidential contest after a report from Special Counsel John Durham eviscerated the agency’s effort to undermine voters in 2016.
On Thursday, Jordan sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding details about the extent of FBI involvement in a special counsel probe run by U.S. Attorney Jack Smith. In November, Smith was appointed special counsel to investigate whether former President Donald Trump violated federal laws related to the handling of presidential records. The appointment came after an FBI raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in which 30 plainclothes agents confiscated 15 boxes of material at Garland’s personal direction.
“The extent of the FBI’s bias and reckless disregard for truth, which Special Counsel John Durham laid out in painstaking detail, is nothing short of scandalous,” Jordan wrote Thursday.
Durham’s report found that “neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion” to implicate Trump nor any members of his campaign as Russian agents, yet the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane and peddled the Russia-collusion hoax for years.
On Thursday, Jordan sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding details about the extent of FBI involvement in a special counsel probe run by U.S. Attorney Jack Smith. In November, Smith was appointed special counsel to investigate whether former President Donald Trump violated federal laws related to the handling of presidential records. The appointment came after an FBI raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in which 30 plainclothes agents confiscated 15 boxes of material at Garland’s personal direction.
“The extent of the FBI’s bias and reckless disregard for truth, which Special Counsel John Durham laid out in painstaking detail, is nothing short of scandalous,” Jordan wrote Thursday.
Durham’s report found that “neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion” to implicate Trump nor any members of his campaign as Russian agents, yet the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane and peddled the Russia-collusion hoax for years.
