On the heels of the Durham Report, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has written Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding answers about an ongoing special counsel investigation into former President Donald Trump.
“The speed and manner in which the FBI opened and investigated Crossfire Hurricane during the presidential election season based on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence also reflected a noticeable departure from how it approached prior matters involving possible attempted foreign election interference plans aimed at the Clinton campaign,” Durham’s report reads.
Smith’s investigation also touches on Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents from his presidency, which led to the FBI’s raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
“It is clear that Congress must consider legislative reforms to the FBI, and the [Judiciary] 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,” Jordan’s letter reads.
The congressman requested details on the case, including the number of FBI agents participating in the investigation and “whether any FBI employees who have worked on Special Counsel Smith’s investigation previously worked on any other matters concerning President Trump.”
Republican concerns about the politicization of the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies during the Trump era inspired the name of the Judiciary subcommittee that Jordan chairs: the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
GOP 2024 presidential hopefuls have also vented their rhetorical fury on the FBI and its current leadership.
The Epoch Times has contacted the Judiciary Committee and the FBI for comment.
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