{"id":1932795,"date":"2023-05-17T16:11:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T20:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comer-wont-be-intimidated-by-liberal-groups-call-for-investigation-says-house-oversight-committee\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T16:11:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T20:11:09","slug":"comer-wont-be-intimidated-by-liberal-groups-call-for-investigation-says-house-oversight-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comer-wont-be-intimidated-by-liberal-groups-call-for-investigation-says-house-oversight-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Comer \u2018Won\u2019t Be Intimidated\u2019 by Liberal Group\u2019s Call for Investigation, Says House Oversight Committee"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fcomer-wont-be-intimidated-by-liberal-groups-call-for-investigation-says-house-oversight-committee%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=1932795&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>The House Oversight and Accountability Committee is pushing back against Facts First USA\u2019s call for an investigation into Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), describing the liberal advocacy group\u2019s efforts as \u201ctheatrics\u201d meant to intimidate.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cDark money organizations are attempting to intimidate congressional investigators who are shining a light on the Biden family\u2019s shady business schemes,\u201d a House Oversight Committee spokesperson told The Epoch Times on May 16 in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier that day, Facts First USA sent a letter to U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves, contending that Comer may have violated the law in a May 14 Fox News interview, during which he said his committee had been unable to \u201ctrack down\u201d an informant linked to allegations that President Joe Biden was involved in a quid-pro-quo bribery scheme.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cRepresentative James Comer recently revealed that the \u2018informant\u2019 he is relying on for his unsubstantiated allegations against President Biden cannot be located,\u201d Facts First USA co-chairs Maria Cardona and David Jolly wrote. \u201cIn truth, there is a strong possibility that the \u2018informant\u2019 that Representative Comer has been speaking about does not exist. This would explain why Representative Comer never produces the evidence he says demonstrates criminal conduct on the part of the Biden family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Under 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 1001, it is unlawful to knowingly make any \u201cmaterially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation\u201d regarding a matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the United States.<\/p>\n<p> For the Legislative Branch, the law only applies to administrative matters and congressional investigations or reviews.<\/p>\n<p> Citing that law, Cardona and Jolly called on Graves to investigate, contending: \u201cIf there is a whistleblower who concocted a story about an informant, doing so violated Section 1001. Alternatively, it is Representative Comer who violated the law by lying to the American people about the existence of an informant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> However, the Oversight Committee noted that the whistleblower who had spoken with Congress about the bribery allegations against Biden was not the informant Comer had been referring to in his statements.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cChairman Comer has been clear that the whistleblower who has provided detailed information regarding the FBI\u2019s evidence of a criminal bribery scheme involving Joe Biden is alive and well,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cWe won\u2019t be intimidated by these groups\u2019 theatrics and antics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  With a poster of a New York Post front-page story about Hunter Biden\u2019s emails on display, Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) announces a recess because of a power outage during a hearing before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee at Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 8, 2023. (Alex Wong\/Getty Images) Facts First USA Although Facts First USA touts itself as a bipartisan organization, the group has been candid about its opposition to the Republican<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Oversight and Accountability Committee is pushing back against Facts First USA\u2019s call for an investigation into Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), describing the liberal advocacy group\u2019s efforts as \u201ctheatrics\u201d meant to intimidate. \u201cDark money organizations are attempting to intimidate congressional investigators who are shining a light on the Biden family\u2019s shady business schemes,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":1932796,"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":[543],"tags":[7734,4384,4056,3653,27000,3976,5206,5618,4324],"class_list":["post-1932795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-comer","tag-committee","tag-groups","tag-house","tag-intimidated","tag-investigation","tag-liberal","tag-oversight","tag-wont"],"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\/1932795","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\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}