{"id":1806529,"date":"2023-01-15T14:04:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T19:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1806529"},"modified":"2023-01-15T14:05:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T19:05:04","slug":"jim-jordan-gives-update-on-fbi-whistleblowers-teases-public-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-jordan-gives-update-on-fbi-whistleblowers-teases-public-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Jordan Gives Update On FBI Whistleblowers, Teases Public Hearings"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fjim-jordan-gives-update-on-fbi-whistleblowers-teases-public-hearings%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=1806529&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-->\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jim-jordan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Jordan<\/a> (R-OH), provided a glimpse Sunday at how the GOP controlled House might escalate investigations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/fbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/whistleblower\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whistleblower<\/a> There are allegations of politicization in the agency.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan is the head of the House Judiciary Committee in this new session of Congress. A subcommittee was also created to investigate. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/house-republicans-to-start-committee-on-weaponization-of-the-federal-government-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The \u201cweaponization\u201d The federal government<\/a>This gives him greater authority and more powerful tools such as subpoenas to conduct inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Bartiromo, host of Fox News\u2019s \u201cSunday Morning Futures,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6318723257112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The congressman was pressed<\/a> On whether it is possible to call in FBI whistleblowers to testify before the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working with them,\u201d Jordan spoke of whistleblowers after raising concerns regarding retaliation at the Justice Department. \u201cWe think many of them are in fact going to be willing to sit for a deposition and be willing to testify in a public hearing. So we\u2019re working on that as we speak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans on Judiciary Committee requested information from law enforcement officials and intelligence leaders last year. However, they did not have subpoena power. <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/legacy_files\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/HJC_STAFF_FBI_REPORT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A report was released<\/a> In November, we summarize the allegations of politization in the Justice Department (and FBI) that were made by \u201ca multitude\u201d for whistleblowers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhistleblowers describe how the FBI has abused its law-enforcement authorities for political purposes, and how actions by FBI leadership show a political bias against conservatives,\u201d According to the report.<\/p>\n<p>These include allegations against the FBI \u201cartificially inflating statistics about domestic violent extremism\u201d in the United States,\u201d and \u201cabusing its counterterrorism authorities to investigate parents who spoke at school board meetings.\u201d Additional details included claims of FBI surveillance abuses resulting from the 2016 presidential elections, which was an attempt to \u201cpurge\u201d FBI employees who hold conservative views \u201cpolitical meddling\u201d This hinders criminal investigations.<\/p>\n<p>The federal law enforcement agency reacted to one whistleblower allegation. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JudiciaryGOP\/status\/1572020677087236096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Judiciary Republicans<\/a> Unnamed FBI whistleblower said that agents were being moved from child sexual abuse investigations to pursue other political inquiries, especially those that focus on the Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>An FBI spokesperson made a lengthy statement. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/fbi-responds-to-whistleblower-saying-child-abuse-cases-being-dropped-in-favor-of-jan-6_4743151.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Epoch Times<\/a> the bureau\u2019s \u201ccommitment\u201d To combat one specific threat to the American people \u201cdoes not come at the expense of another.\u201d The representative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fbi-labeled-veteran-disaster-organization-terror-group-government-criticism-whistleblower\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stressed the FBI \u201cnot investigate ideology\u201d<\/a> Only \u201cinvestigates individuals who commit or intend to commit violence and other criminal activity that constitutes a federal crime or poses a threat to national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jordan revealed that 19 whistleblowers came forward to speak to legislators on Sunday. This is five more than the 14 figures he disclosed last year. \u00a0\u201cFBI agents \u2014 take whistleblower status, come talk to us,\u201d Jordan stated.<\/p>\n<p>The House Judiciary Committee is also investigating President Joe Biden\u2018s handling of classified documents, which began with the sending of a letter Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/house-judiciary-committee-launches-investigation-into-biden-documents-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For more information<\/a> Merrick Garland, Attorney General.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) offered a glimpse Sunday into how the GOP-controlled House may ratchet up investigations into FBI whistleblower allegations of politicization within the agency. In this fledgling session of Congress, Jordan heads the House Judiciary Committee as well as a new subcommittee charged with investigating the \u201cweaponization\u201d of the federal government, giving him &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1806532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6202,5591,8052,6239,4356,3799,5728,5002,14982,6195],"class_list":["post-1806529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-daily","tag-fbi","tag-hearings","tag-jim","tag-jordan","tag-public","tag-teases","tag-update","tag-whistleblowers","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806529","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1806532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}