The House Judiciary Committee has been trying to get answers for a while on many cases involving actions by the Biden FBI.
They previously subpoenaed Biden FBI for documents in multiple cases and have now subpoenaed the new Bureau, headed up by Director Kash Patel.
The new team responded to the subpoena a week before the deadline given to them by the Committee.
The FBI produced hundreds of pages of subpoenaed material to the House Judiciary Committee related to Republicans’ past investigations after committee members said they never received them from the Biden administration.
An FBI assistant director wrote in a letter obtained Monday by the Washington Examiner to the Republican-led committee that the tranche of documents was related to the FBI’s inquiries into threats to school administrators, the pipe bombs discovered near the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and violent extremists’ alleged ties to a faction of Catholicism. They also included material related to the FBI’s engagement with social media companies about foreign interference in the 2020 election.
That’s going to be fascinating to root through those, particularly to see what they were doing in regard to the pipe bomber and the alleged targeting of parents and Catholics. There were some big questions being raised about government behavior in those matters, so there may be some big things to find in there.
FBI Assistant Director Marshall Yates wrote to the Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) that turning over the documents was about “restoring trust” and being transparent. Yates also appeared to indicate they would be providing more information in the future. The Committee spokesperson Russell Dye expressed his thanks and said they would have more updates. The Committee is likely to get a lot more cooperation from Patel than he got from Christopher Wray. Hopefully, the sea change in personnel changes the way things have been operating.
This comes following a big hullabaloo over the Epstein documents when Attorney General Pam Bondi said she would be releasing the files. Then what they released turned out to be old stuff that had already been released. She said she found out that she hadn’t been provided all the documents by the NY FBI office. It is now believed that the NY FBI field office has turned over all the documents to the Department of Justice in that matter and they are being combed through. Bondi described it on March 3 as a “truckload” of information being turned over. She said they would go through everything as fast as they could, taking care to protect the names of the victims.
Presumably that means we will see them soon, but when it comes to those documents, I never take bets on what anyone says. I’ll believe it when I see it, when and if they finally release things. It’s probably a lot of information to cull through.
But it’s long since past time that all that information was released and action taken to hold people accountable who were involved.
