{"id":1529235,"date":"2022-06-27T11:04:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T15:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529235"},"modified":"2022-06-27T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T15:04:47","slug":"exclusive-former-white-house-staffer-confirms-jan-6-committee-lied-about-doj-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-former-white-house-staffer-confirms-jan-6-committee-lied-about-doj-attorney\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Former White House Staffer Confirms Jan. 6 Committee Lied About DOJ Attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-former-white-house-staffer-confirms-jan-6-committee-lied-about-doj-attorney%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529235&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/jan6committeeday5.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Over the weekend, former Department of Justice lawyer Ken Klukowski called on the Jan. 6 Committee to release the full transcript of his deposition testimony to correct the lies they told about him to the American public. Now The Federalist has exclusively obtained a statement from a former White House staffer confirming Klukowski\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday, the Jan. 6, 2021 show trial continued, with the Democrat-stacked committee presenting testimony concerning a draft letter Jeff Clark, a former assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice, proposed sending to the Georgia legislature. <\/p>\n<p>That draft letter, dated December 28, 2020, stated the Department of Justice was investigating the 2020 election and recommended the Georgia legislature convene a special session to \u201cevaluate the irregularities in the 2020 election including violations of Georgia election law,\u201d and \u201cdetermine whether those violations show which candidate for President won the most legal votes in the November 3 election.\u201d The draft letter then suggested the General Assembly could appoint an alternative set of electors based on its findings.<\/p>\n<p>The draft letter\u2019s signature line included spaces for Clark, Acting Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen, and Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue. But when Clark pitched the idea of sending the letter to Georgia officials, Rosen and Donoghue rejected the idea out of hand, because it was \u201cnot the department\u2019s role to suggest or dictate to state legislatures how they should select their electors,\u201d and \u201cfor the department to insert itself into the political process this way,\u201d Donoghue told the committee, \u201cmay very well have spiraled us into a constitutional crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donoghue was blunter with Clark in person, with Donoghue testifying he told Clark, \u201cWhat you are doing is nothing less than the United States Justice Department meddling in the outcome of a presidential election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While last Thursday\u2019s hearing by the Jan. 6 Committee centered on Clark and his efforts to have the letter sent to the Georgia legislature, the committee connected another DOJ attorney to Clark\u2019s efforts, Klukowski\u2014and did so by blatantly lying to the American public.<\/p>\n<h2>The Jan. 6 Committee Is Lying<\/h2>\n<p>Klukowski called out the Jan. 6 Committee\u2019s fraud over the weekend in a <a href=\"https:\/\/ia601509.us.archive.org\/9\/items\/ken-klukowski-public-statement-of-6-25-22\/Ken%20Klukowski%20Public%20Statement%20of%206-25-22.pdf\">public statement<\/a> that began: \u201cThe January 6 Committee falsely accused me on Thursday of being a go-between in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. That accusation is false both in its broad outlines and its details. Since the Committee first contacted me, I have cooperated without hesitation, provided it with hundreds of documents, and sat for many hours of recorded depositions. The information produced from those efforts fully contradicts the Committee\u2019s statements regarding my actions, yet the Committee has chosen to keep such information to itself rather than share it with the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former DOJ lawyer then detailed in his public statement four false accusations levied against him by the Jan.6 Committee. First, Klukowski exposed Rep. Liz Cheney\u2019s false portrayal of him as being sent by John Eastman to work under Clark. While Cheney fraudulently told the country that Klukowski \u201cwas specifically assigned to work under Jeff Clark,\u201d Klukowski provided the committee documents establishing that his transfer to \u201cthe Civil Division of the DOJ was in the works since July 2020, long before Jeff Clark was the acting head of that Division.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Federalist over the weekend, Klukowski stressed that during questioning by the Jan. 6 Committee\u2014which exceeded more than 12 total hours\u2014he made clear that he had been working on the transfer since mid-summer, hoping to move to the DOJ civil division to obtain more litigation experience, and that the transfer had been preliminarily approved in September 2020. Klukowski added that he also provided the committee detailed information that would allow them to confirm his testimony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told the committee that I spoke with Camellia Delaplane, then a DOJ liaison to the White House who handled personnel placement, and provided the House Committee the date, September 10, 2020,\u201d Klukowski told The Federalist. \u201cI also suggested the committee review our email exchanges confirming my testimony, since they clearly had access to that information.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Evidence Backs Up Klukowski\u2019s Statements<\/h2>\n<p>Klukowski added that even before he met with Delaplane he sat down in July with the White House staffer responsible for coordinating senior DOJ appointments, Andrew Kloster. Klukowski told The Federalist that he shared with Kloster his desire to move to the DOJ civil division.<\/p>\n<p>When reached by telephone yesterday, Kloster confirmed these details, adding even more texture to Klukowski\u2019s recollection of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a part of my oversight over the senior legal hires, I reached out to Ken, because I knew he had been one of our best at the Office of Management and Budget. Ken told me that he wanted to pivot to conservative public interest litigation, so rather than heading to be an agency deputy general counsel or general counsel in a Trump term two, I pushed to move him to DOJ\u2019s Civil Division,\u201d Kloster told The Federalist. Kloster added, \u201cthat meant a lot of back end process that took time, including speaking with Klukowski\u2019s boss, with other White House officials, and with the Department of Justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKen\u2019s transfer had nothing to do with the election,\u201d Kloster confirmed, telling The Federalist his discussions with Klukowski occurred months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Kloster then took aim at the House committee: \u201cThe January 6th investigation is all about attacking mid-level and senior staff like Ken, to ensure that we don\u2019t have a farm team in 2024, no matter who\u00a0the president is. This isn\u2019t about truth, but about making it impossible for conservatives to successfully enter and leave government.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Public Record Confirms Klukowski\u2019s Account<\/h2>\n<p>Not only did Kloser confirm Klukowski\u2019s account, as did the various documents accessible to the Jan. 6 Committee concerning the timing and purpose of the transfer, the public record confirms Klukowski sought litigation experience in the civil division. Specifically, in the brief 36 days that Klukowski served in the civil division\u2014a fact Cheney presented as suspicious\u2014Klukowski argued and won <a href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/vasquez-de-munoz-v-wilkinson\">two<\/a> federal appeals (completely unrelated to election issues) in the Ninth Circuit, including a complex and important <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leagle.com\/decision\/infco20210224125\">case<\/a> involving abstention.<\/p>\n<p>Klukowski also denounced the committee for falsely suggesting he was working with Eastman to convince Vice President Mike Pence that Pence had the power to reject electors from various states based on \u201congoing disputes\u201d over the election. The committee spun that narrative by highlighting \u201can email recommending that Mr. Klukowski and Dr. Eastman brief Vice President Pence and his staff,\u201d apparently on that theory.<\/p>\n<p>However, as Klukowski detailed in his public statement, he \u201cnever briefed or advised Vice President Pence, or his staff, regarding any matter, including the 2020 election or the January 6 joint session of Congress,\u201d and any \u201coutside suggestion that [he] do so was not made with my involvement.\u201d Klukowski went further, though, noting that \u201chad anyone, including the Vice President, asked, I would have expressed my view that I disagreed with John Eastman\u2019s theory on the powers of the Vice President at the January 6 joint session of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During his weekend interview with The Federalist, Klukowski countered the Eastman theory, stating that \u201cthe opinion of Justices Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas in <em>Bush v. Gore <\/em>explains what the Constitution has to say about how electors are appointed in presidential elections. Consistent with that opinion, my view has always been that December 14, 2020, was the deadline for appointing all such electors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the statement Klukowski issued in response to the committee\u2019s Thursday hearing, he stressed that he had told the committee those views in his \u201csworn testimony,\u201d and had provided the committee \u201cdocuments reflecting my expression of such views.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>A Mountain of Lies<\/h2>\n<p>Klukowski also took issue with the committee\u2019s portrayal of him as an author of the letter, when in fact his role as Clark\u2019s \u201csubordinate was to commit his dictations and outline to writing and fill in legal citations at the direction of my then-boss over the course of a single day.\u201d Klukowski said he had no knowledge that any of the statements included in the letter were false, nor that Rosen and Donoghue did not intend to sign the letter.<\/p>\n<p>Nor was there anything in the content of the letter that suggested it represented part of a plan to execute Eastman\u2019s theory to reject the electors. Again, Klukowski stressed that he \u201cprovided all of this information to the committee during [his] depositions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was concerned the committee might make cynical assumptions during its investigation of January 6,\u201d Klukowski told The Federalist, \u201cbut, I was stunned that the committee would make claims about me for which it had a mountain of evidence establishing, for certain, those statements were false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Klukowski added that his deposition testimony\u2014which easily ran in the hundreds of pages\u2014would fully expose the committee\u2019s presentation as fraudulent. Klukowski, however, told The Federalist that he does not have a copy of the transcript, which is why he called on the Jan. 6 Committee to release it to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The Federalist contacted Cheney\u2019s office to inquire whether the committee would release the full transcript of Klukowski\u2019s deposition testimony, as requested, or if not, why not. The Federalist also asked whether she disputed any aspect of Klukowski\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ia601509.us.archive.org\/9\/items\/ken-klukowski-public-statement-of-6-25-22\/Ken%20Klukowski%20Public%20Statement%20of%206-25-22.pdf\">statement<\/a>, which when compared to the Jan. 6 Committee\u2019s Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/06\/23\/1106700800\/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript\">proceedings<\/a> leaves but one conclusion: The committee fraudulently portrayed an innocent DOJ attorney as complicit in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election, and did so with malice.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney\u2019s spokesman did not respond to The Federalist\u2019s questions. House Republicans, however, should not let the atrocious slurs spun by Cheney and the committee go unanswered, especially since the immunity provided by the Speech and Debate Clause prevents Klukowski from obtaining any sort of recompense from those who slandered him.<\/p>\n<p>Republican leaders in the House should demand that the Jan. 6 Committee immediately release the full deposition transcripts for all witnesses\u2014because if they fabricated Klukowski\u2019s role in the alleged conspiracy, they likely lied about what other witnesses said as well.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Margot Cleveland is The Federalist&#8217;s senior legal correspondent. She is also a contributor to National Review Online, the Washington Examiner, Aleteia, and Townhall.com, and has been published in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. <\/p>\n<p>Cleveland is a lawyer and a graduate of the Notre Dame Law School, where she earned the Hoynes Prize\u2014the law school\u2019s highest honor. She later served for nearly 25 years as a permanent law clerk for a federal appellate judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Cleveland is a former full-time university faculty member and now teaches as an adjunct from time to time. <\/p>\n<p>As a stay-at-home homeschooling mom of a young son with cystic fibrosis, Cleveland frequently writes on cultural issues related to parenting and special-needs children. Cleveland is on Twitter at @ProfMJCleveland. 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