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BumRushDaShow

(129,701 posts) Fri Mar 1, 2024, 10:11 AM Mar 1

Justice Department pushes back against House Republicans' demands for testimony in Hunter Biden investigation

Source: NBC News

March 1, 2024, 8:31 AM EST

The Justice Department is resisting subpoenas from the House Judiciary Committee for the testimony of four government attorneys involved in the criminal investigation of Hunter Biden, in the latest impeachment probe showdown between the Biden administration and congressional Republicans.

In a letter to Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, obtained by NBC News, the DOJ’s assistant attorney general for congressional affairs said the subpoenas, which have not previously been reported, were neither justified nor constitutional.

The targets of the subpoenas are not named in the DOJ letter, but people familiar with the matter said that they are Matthew Graves, U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C.; Lesley Wolf, a former Delaware federal prosecutor who was involved in the Hunter Biden investigation; and two line attorneys in the DOJ’s tax division.

The subpoenas are part of the House impeachment investigation into President Joe Biden, which included an examination of whether he “abuse[d] his power as President to impede, obstruct, or otherwise hinder investigations (including Congressional investigations) or the prosecution of Hunter Biden.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/justice-department-pushes-back-house-gop-subpoenas-hunter-biden-rcna141325

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Justice Department pushes back against House Republicans' demands for testimony in Hunter Biden investigation (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Mar 1 OP

Toilet Paper yankee87 Mar 1 #1

Wow, really!? ScratchCat Mar 1 #2

Oh, Snap, this is going to get political. republianmushroom Mar 1 #3

Political!? The cow's dried up and the hens won't lay. This is serious. jaxexpat Mar 1 #4

Note that Matthew Graves, the U.S. Attorney for D.C., is the one whose office is prosecuting all the January 6 cases. BumRushDaShow Mar 1 #5

You know how it is, people have to do with what they have. jaxexpat Mar 1 #6

IOW BumRushDaShow Mar 1 #7

Affectionate Facts? coprolite Mar 2 #8

Or Affectatious Facts? BumRushDaShow Mar 2 #9

yankee87

(2,183 posts)

1. Toilet Paper

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Mar 1, 2024, 11:56 AM

Mar 1

When you base your case on Russian and Chinese spies, maybe let it go.

ScratchCat

(2,010 posts)

2. Wow, really!?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Mar 1, 2024, 12:15 PM

Mar 1

the letter concludes, adding that a demand that the attorneys testify without DOJ lawyers in the room advising them “means the subpoenas lack legal effect and cannot constitutionally be enforced.”

They are demanding that career employees be subject to secret interviews without legal counsel. You can't make this shit up, folks. Glad to see they are finally saying "no".

republianmushroom

(13,763 posts)

3. Oh, Snap, this is going to get political.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Mar 1, 2024, 12:17 PM

Mar 1

jaxexpat

(6,864 posts)

4. Political!? The cow's dried up and the hens won't lay. This is serious.

Reply to republianmushroom (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 1, 2024, 12:22 PM

Mar 1

BumRushDaShow

(129,701 posts)

5. Note that Matthew Graves, the U.S. Attorney for D.C., is the one whose office is prosecuting all the January 6 cases.

Reply to jaxexpat (Reply #4)

Fri Mar 1, 2024, 12:41 PM

Mar 1

Not sure what he has to do with Hunter Biden or anything with the Bidens.

The failed primary, but now-indicted witness of the bogus "impeachment", came out of California, not D.C. (and Hunter lives in California). Seems they want to go back to insinuations (that were fact-less) that people in D.C. were trying to keep Weiss from investigating.

jaxexpat

(6,864 posts)

6. You know how it is, people have to do with what they have.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 1, 2024, 01:18 PM

Mar 1

They want facts, they don't have facts. They got insinuation, they use insinuation and affectionately call it "facts".

This entire election season was originally part of a script for the TeeVee show, "Green Acres". It was never aired. Probably because CBS thought it was too "over the top"...........and yes, I made that up, but everyone has my permission to insinuate the hell out of it.