Ex-FBI Leader Advises DOJ To Resist House Inquiry Into Biden Documents Scandal

House Republicans should not demand information from the Justice Department about its investigation into President Obama. Joe Biden‘s handling of classified documents, said a former FBI leader.

Andrew McCabe, who served as deputy director and acting director of the FBI between 2016 and 2018, said he would advise the Justice Department to take a “very hard line” against cooperating with the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee.

“There is a clear precedent here of not sharing information from an ongoing criminal investigation with Congress. And I think the DOJ is in a very strong position to resist on those grounds,” McCabe said Friday on CNN.

“Who knows what comes of that resistance?” he added. “Maybe DOJ leadership starts getting subpoenaed. And ultimately, that fight will end up in the courts. And that could drag things out. That’It will be an additional distraction for DOJ. But it shouldn’t disrupt the actual conduct of the investigation. So, that’s a — it’ll be a separate but related set of stressors that DOJ has to deal with.”

After a turbulent end to his long career at the FBI, McCabe was hired by CNN as a law enforcement analyst.

McCabe was fired from his position as Attorney General by Jeff Sessions, citing an Inspector General Report that stated McCabe had been terminated. McCabe “lacked candor” When discussing disclosure of information to The Wall Street Journal regarding an FBI investigation into Clinton Foundation, we met with investigators.

McCabe recommended McCabe’s recommendation regarding the Biden documents inquiry, after stating that there was no such inquiry. “a lot of concern” The duration of the probe. He noted Biden’s attorneys have stressed the president is cooperating with authorities, McCabe stated that the whole effort would take just a few months. Trump has been openly hostile towards a separate DOJ inquiry In his handling of documents.

Merrick Garland, Attorney General, announced Thursday that he appointed Robert Hur, former U.S. AG, has been appointed special counsel to investigate Biden in connection with classified documents that were found in his Washington, D.C. office and at his Wilmington, Delaware, home. The documents date back to Biden’s time as vice president. The first batch of documents was discovered in November, just days before the 2022 midterm elections. However, it wasn’t made public until last week.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R.OH) is the current leader of the House Judiciary Committee. sent a letter Friday to Garland seeking documents and communications about Biden’s “mishandling of classified documents, including the apparently unauthorized possession of classified material.”

One of the demands by the panel was for documents and communications regarding Hur’s appointment. “The circumstances of this appointment raise fundamental oversight questions that the Committee routinely examines,” The letter states.

Some Republicans, including ex-Rep. Devin Nunes (R–CA), are raising concerns about Hur because of his role in drafting A Justice Department letter addressed to the House Intelligence Committee Republicans, urging them to not release a memo Surveillance abuses in Trump-Russia Investigation – claims that disclosure could cause harm to national security

“Hur looks like a fixer for the Democrats and the Deep State,” Nunes told The Washington Free Beacon.

McCabe claimed his firing in 2018 was a means for the Trump administration to tarnish then-special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. McCabe played an integral role in the FBI’s inquiry into alleged links between former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia, which was later wrapped into Mueller’s endeavor. McCabe was sued for wrongful termination, and he received his pension back in a settlement last year.