{"id":1626837,"date":"2022-08-30T11:04:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1626837"},"modified":"2022-08-30T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:04:18","slug":"rep-jordan-demands-doj-inspector-general-provide-info-over-alleged-involvement-in-fbi-seizure-of-congressmans-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-jordan-demands-doj-inspector-general-provide-info-over-alleged-involvement-in-fbi-seizure-of-congressmans-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Jordan Demands DOJ Inspector General Provide Info Over Alleged Involvement in FBI Seizure of Congressman\u2019s Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Frep-jordan-demands-doj-inspector-general-provide-info-over-alleged-involvement-in-fbi-seizure-of-congressmans-phone%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=1626837&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--><p>Rep.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-jim-jordan\">Jim Jordan<\/a>\u00a0(R-Ohio) is leading a Republican House Judiciary Committee probe into Justice Department (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz\u2019s alleged\u00a0involvement in the FBI seizure of\u00a0the cell phone of Congressman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-scott-perry\">Scott Perry<\/a> (R-Pa.).<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JudiciaryGOP\/status\/1564426334973169665\/photo\/3\">letter<\/a> dated Aug. 29, Jordan, who serves as the Ranking Member of the\u00a0House Judiciary Committee, said the move\u00a0\u201ccreates a serious conflict of interest for the OIG [Office of Inspector General] in reviewing the Department\u2019s actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker went on to raise concerns over the\u00a0OIG\u2019s independence regarding the seizure, noting that its \u201cdecision to assist the FBI in this politically charged matter demands a full and complete explanation about your unusual actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further states that the OIG \u201cused its laboratory in Northern Virginia to assist the FBI in conducting a forensic review\u201d of Perry\u2019s phone, which was then \u201cimaged after the search\u201d to create a forensic copy of the contents, including \u201cprotected\u201d communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe OIG\u2019s assistance to the FBI in imaging Representative Perry\u2019s phone, in addition to posing questions about why the nation\u2019s top law enforcement agency cannot perform this task itself, raises serious concerns about why you would be willing to sacrifice the OIG\u2019s independence to assist the FBI in advancing such a politically charged matter,\u201d Jordan wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan asked that\u00a0Horowitz hand over all relevant documents\u00a0and communications relating to the seizure of the cell phone dating back from January 2021 to the present.<\/p>\n<p>He also called on Horowitz to provide a \u201ccomplete and detailed\u201d timeline of those communications, along with a\u00a0\u201ccomplete and detailed explanation of the decision\u201d by the DOJ\u2019s Office of Inspector General to assist the FBI in its seizure of the phone, including whether or not they had considered other \u201cless intrusive\u201d means of pursuing their inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, he asked for a thorough explanation as to whether or not employees at the OIG had suggested<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep.\u00a0Jim Jordan\u00a0(R-Ohio) is leading a Republican House Judiciary Committee probe into Justice Department (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz\u2019s alleged\u00a0involvement in the FBI seizure of\u00a0the cell phone of Congressman Scott Perry (R-Pa.). In a letter dated Aug. 29, Jordan, who serves as the Ranking Member of the\u00a0House Judiciary Committee, said the move\u00a0\u201ccreates a serious conflict of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}