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GOP Congressman Threatens FBI Director At House Hearing: ‘Your Day Is Coming, Mr. Wray!’

Members of the House Republican caucus are so out of control that they’re openly threatening federal law enforcement officials and anyone else who dares to disagree with them.

Today it was Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) who went on an extended and fact-free rant that he aimed at FBI Director Chris Wray.

Higgins began his questioning of Wray by suggesting that FBI agents had fueled the violence on January 6, 2021 that resulted in the storming of the U.S. Capitol building.

“Director Wray, last year, you may recall, sir, our exchange regarding the FBI’s involvement on January 6th and prior. I’m happy to jog your memory to quote, according to the record I asked you, ‘Did you have confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters positioned inside the Capitol on January 6, prior to the doors being open?’ You responded. I quote again, ‘I have to be very careful of what I say.'”

“We can’t get a straight answer, although we have a tremendous amount of evidence harvested and reviewed over the course of the last year which you will see in September,” Higgins continued.

The director replied, “Congressman, as we’ve discussed before, I’m not going to get into where we have or have not used confidential human sources. But what I can tell you…”

Rather than letting Wray complete his response, Higgins cut him off: “Okay, we will move on.”

When Wray noted that Higgins had asked for a “definitive answer,” the congressman haughtily told him, “We will move on, it is my time. You said no, you’re not going to answer, that’s cool we are watching.”

Next, Higgins began asking about what he called “ghost buses,” explaining what he meant by the term:

“Well, it’s pretty common in law enforcement, it is a vehicle that’s used for secret purposes. It’s painted over. There’s two buses in the middle here. There were the first to arrive at Union Station on January 6th, zero-five-hundred. I have all this evidence, I’m showing you the tip of this iceberg.”

When Higgins was told that his time had expired, he began ranting at Wray:

“I note that all the members across the aisle have been granted time, and I object to my question being closed. This is a very significant hearing, Mr. Chairman. And these busses are nefarious in nature and were filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters deployed onto our Capitol on January 6th and your day is coming Mr. Wray!”

Clay Higgins needs to either provide some facts to back up his claims of shut the hell up. Oh, and he also needs to loosen the tinfoil hat on his head.

 

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One Of Jim Jordan’s Anti-Biden ‘Whistleblowers’ May Have Lied Under Oath

If you’ve seen any of the hearings on the “weaponization” of the FBI that were led by House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) you may have seen former field agent Garret O’Boyle (the guy who looks like a villain in a Batman movie) making all sorts of dubious claims about why he was supposedly “silenced” by the agency.

In reality, the reason O’Boyle was reprimanded for failing to do his job, especially as it applies to defendants charged with crimes allegedly committed on January 6, 2021.

During his testimony, The Guardian reports, O’Boyle was asked about funding he had received from a former Trump administration official.

At one point, O’Boyle was asked by Democrat Dan Goldman whether Kash Patel, who held multiple roles in the Trump administration, is helping finance O’Boyle’s legal counsel. The witness replied: “Not that I’m aware of.”

The answer has raised eyebrows because, during a previous interview with the House of Representatives’ weaponisation subcommittee in February, O’Boyle disclosed that his legal fees are being paid by a nonprofit organisation called Fight With Kash, also known as the Kash Foundation and run by Kash Patel.

In other words, it appears that O’Boyle may have lied under oath, and that could get him criminally charged.

Congressman Goldman said he has contacted Jordan and made it clear he believes O’Boyle may have lied to Congress.

“Mr O’Boyle’s answers in the subcommittee hearing on Thursday appear to contradict his previous testimony in the transcribed interview with subcommittee staff. In order to ensure witnesses are truthful when they come before the subcommittee, Chairman Jordan must determine whether or not Mr O’Boyle lied under oath on Thursday.”

Kyle Herrig, executive director of the Congressional Integrity Project, echoed Goldman, noting, “Mr O’Boyle’s testimony in this week’s hearing should be investigated immediately by Chairman Jordan’s subcommittee. The fact that O’Boyle’s own lawyer has such deep ties to Kash Patel, a January 6 co-conspirator and close ally of Donald Trump, is already enough to call any of his testimony into question.”

According to Russell Dye, a spokesperson for Jordan, there’s no reason for Democrats to be upset: “Yet again the Democrats distorted the facts in their report on our brave FBI whistleblowers. Jesse Binnall is representing Mr O’Boyle pro bono.”

Distorted the facts? Sounds like what Jordan has been doing since he began lying to cover his ass when it came to light he had failed to report sexual abuse at Ohio State University while he was a coach on the OSU wrestling team.

 

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WATCH Ted Lieu DESTROY Republicans: It’s Not The FBI’s Fault ‘Trump Surrounded Himself With Criminals’

During a House hearing today with FBI Director Christopher Wray, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) absolutely destroyed Republican talking points that the agency and the Justice Department are out to get failed former president Donald Trump and those connected to him, many of whom have committed serious crimes.

When it was his time to question Wray, Lieu used one fact after another to make his point: That Donald Trump and those who are close to him have been investigated and charged because they broke the law.

Here’s a transcript of Lieu’s interrogation of the FBI chief:

REP TED LIEU: I’ll ask you a series of basic questions to get the facts out to the American people about our system of justice. Roger Stone was convicted in a federal court, correct?

FBI DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER WRAY: That’s my recollection.

LIEU: Trump donor Elliott Brady was convicted in a federal court, correct?

WRAY: Also, my recollection.

LIEU: The attorney general at the time for those two convictions was Bill Barr. Which president nominated Bill Barr for attorney general?

WRAY: President Trump.

LIEU: Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen was convicted on two separate occasions in federal court, correct?

WRAY: I believe that’s correct.

LIEU: The AG at the time of Cohen’s second conviction was Matthew Whitaker, which president appointed Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general?

WRAY: President Trump.

LIEU: Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort was convicted in a federal court, correct?

WRAY: Yes.

LIEU: Trump’s former deputy campaign manager Mr. Gaetz was convicted in a federal court, correct?

WRAY: That’s my recollection.

LIEU: Trump’s campaign foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos, was convicted in a federal court, correct?

WRAY: Yes, he plead guilty.

LIEU: The Attorney General at that time in those three cases was Jeff Sessions. Which president nominated Jeff Sessions for Attorney General?

WRAY: President Trump.

LIEU: Which president nominated you for FBI Director?

WRAY: President Trump.

And then Congressman Lieu knocked the proverbial ball out of the ballpark by noting, “What these facts show is we don’t have a two-tiered system of justice. We have one Department of Justice that goes after criminals, regardless of party ideology. It is not the fault of the FBI that Donald Trump surrounded himself with criminals. Donald Trump brought that down upon himself. Thank you for exposing the cesspool of corruption of these Trump associates.”

Boom! That’s how you shut down Republicans: With irrefutable facts.

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WATCH: Jim Jordan’s ‘Weaponization’ Witness Gets Humiliated When Asked About His Revoked Security Clearance

This hasn’t been a very good day for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

Jordan’s committee held a hearing this morning regarding the so-called “weaponization” of the Justice Department against failed and indicted former president Donald Trump, and his first “whistleblower” was quickly discredited with a line of questioning about why he lost his security clearance when he worked for the FBI.

The witness/whistleblower, Steve Friend, who served as an agent in the Miami FBI office was asked by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), “You … claim that your top secret security clearance was improperly revoked. Yet an independent investigation concluded that you demonstrated a number of security concerns, which included that you refused to execute a court-ordered arrest warrant, and when you downloaded documents from intelligence systems to an unauthorized removable flash drive.”

Friend said nothing, so Wasserman Schultz continued:

“The cherry on top could be your unauthorized recording of executive management, which, as I’m sure you know, violates Florida law, along with your unsanctioned interviews with Sputnik News, established by the Russian government in 2014 and fully owned by the Kremlin and Putin’s cronies.”

The congresswoman concluded her remarks by noting, “I think it’s clear who is weaponizing government.”

Jordan’s other witness, FBI agent Marcus Allen, also lost his security clearance because he refused to share information with fellow agents regarding January 6 suspects who were under investigation.

It’d be tempting to call Jordan’s bogus hearings a dog and pony show, but that would be an insult to dogs, ponies, and shows.

 

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WATCH Jim Jordan Have A Meltdown When A Democrat Calls Him Out For Trashing The FBI

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who may well be one of the most compromised members of the current U.S. Congress, proved again today that while he loves dishing out attacks on others, he cannot handle being criticized by anyone else.

During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the POLICE Act, which proposes to crack down on crimes by immigrants, Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) noted that committee should also take a long look at mass shootings.

“House Republicans have set their sights on defunding and abolishing federal law enforcement agencies,” Dean began. “This is a hypocrisy. It’s an oxymoron, what we’re participating here.”

She added, “Remember, Chairman Jordan has said he wants to use the power of the majority to cut funding for the DOJ and the FBI. Matt Gaetz, Mr. Gaetz, the gentleman from Florida, wants to abolish the ATF.”

The led Jordan to say that the FBI had targeted Catholics: “I do think we should evaluate how the American tax dollar going to that organization is being spent. That to me seems common sense.”

“So heck yes, this committee should look at that,” he added. “We have primary jurisdiction over the Justice Department. And we are doing that.”

Dean: “So it seems to me that it is very clear you support defunding the FBI.”

That’s when Jordan had a hysterical hissy fit.

“I didn’t say that!” he thundered. “I said we’ve got to look at, one of the things we do in this business, in this Congress, is you look at how you appropriate funds.”

“If you don’t want to, if you just wanna keep sending money to the FBI that’s spying on people in church, go right ahead and take that position,” Jordan added.

Gym is still angry with the FBI for carrying out a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago that led to the retrieval of dozens of classified documents taken illegally from the White House by convicted sex offender and former president Donald Trump.