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The Department of Justice rejected a request by the House Judiciary Committee to reveal information related to the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort last August for alleged classified documents.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) had sent a letter to the DOJ on June 6 requesting information about the classified documents seized by the FBI, including communications between the FBI’s Washington Field Office and the U.S. Secret Service.
But the DOJ rejected that request on Friday, claiming it couldn’t provide privileged information about an “ongoing criminal investigation and prosecution by a Special Counsel.”
“Protecting the confidentiality of non-public information regarding investigations and prosecutions preserves the American people’s confidence in the evenhanded administration of justice by guarding against the appearance of political pressure or other improper attempts to influence Department decisions,” Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte wrote in a letter to Jordan.
“Special Counsel matters are subject to specific regulations regarding the Special Counsel’s appointment and independence,” Uriarte continued. “Additionally, the Special Counsel regulations establish procedures for disclosing certain information to Congress at the onset and conclusion of a Special Counsel investigation, including an explanation of any instances in which the Attorney General concluded that a proposed action by the Special Counsel should not be pursued because it was so inappropriate or unwarranted under established Departmental practices.”
Jordan outlined in his letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland concern about the DOJ and FBI’s conduct, citing former Washington Field Office Assistant Director in Charge Steven D’Antuono, who played a key role in the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid, coming forward to claim the FBI’s raid was illegally conducted.
This also comes on the heels of damning findings made by Special Counsel John Durham showing the years-long Russia collusion allegations against Trump was a frame-up contrived by the Hillary Clinton campaign with the help of none other than the DOJ and FBI.
Jordan will likely file a subpoena the requested documents in response to the DOJ’s rejection, according to Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who also sits on the House Judiciary Committee.
“It has been the policy of Chairman Jordan, and Chairman Comer for that matter, to attempt to get voluntary compliance through negotiation. If he is unable to get it, I have little doubt but that he would be forced to use subpoena power,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said last week.
The rejection fits a pattern of hostility to transparency by the DOJ amid an ongoing dispute between House Republicans and the FBI over a whistleblower form alleging a foreign bribery scheme involving Joe and Hunter Biden.
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