{"id":1945053,"date":"2023-06-06T09:29:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/raskin-says-holding-fbi-director-in-contempt-part-of-gops-war-on-law-enforcement\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T09:31:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T13:31:25","slug":"raskin-says-holding-fbi-director-in-contempt-part-of-gops-war-on-law-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/raskin-says-holding-fbi-director-in-contempt-part-of-gops-war-on-law-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Raskin claims GOP&#8217;s contempt for FBI director is part of their &#8216;anti-law enforcement&#8217; campaign."},"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\">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%2Fraskin-says-holding-fbi-director-in-contempt-part-of-gops-war-on-law-enforcement%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=1945053&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--><h2>House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Vows to Fight Contempt Charges Against FBI Director<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAny Republican who describes himself or herself as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stay-out-of-our-state-desantis-warns-rioters-left-wing-portland-thugs-in-presser\/\" title=\"\u2018Stay Out Of Our State\u2019: DeSantis Warns Rioters, Left-Wing Portland Thugs In Presser\">pro-law enforcement<\/a> will be in a very strange position to be putting the FBI director in contempt for doing his job,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Jamie Raskin (D-MD)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has pledged to fight contempt charges against FBI Director Christopher Wray. Raskin plans to persuade as many Republicans as possible to join Democrats on the committee in opposing the charges.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters after votes on Monday, Raskin criticized Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) for his pledge to hold Wray in contempt of Congress. Raskin called the move \u201cabsolutely ridiculous\u201d and stated that the FBI has complied with everything the committee has asked them to do.<\/p>\n<h3>The Subpoena and Contempt Charges<\/h3>\n<p>In early May, Comer subpoenaed an FBI-generated FD-1023 tip sheet that he says alleges then-Vice President Joe Biden partook in a $5 million bribery scandal with a foreign national. The FBI briefed and made the document available to both Comer and Raskin on Monday but refused to release it to the whole committee, which Comer said violated the subpoena. Comer pledged to hold Wray in contempt of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has stated that the full House will take up the contempt charges after the Oversight Committee approves them, setting up a potentially historic vote to hold the director of the FBI in contempt of Congress.<\/p>\n<h3>Raskin&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<p>Raskin compared Comer&#8217;s attempt to hold Wray in contempt to members refusing to testify in front of the Jan. 6 Select Committee after they received a subpoena. Raskin stated that the Democrats will \u201cembarrass\u201d the Republicans on the committee for making \u201ca vast mountain range out of a tiny molehill\u201d if a contempt vote is brought to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-jordan-calls-out-big-tech-cancel-culture-in-antitrust-hearing\/\" title=\"Rep. Jordan calls out Big Tech cancel culture in antitrust hearing\">full committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Raskin said the Justice Department had already looked into and discredited this tip, saying it relates to the information former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani provided the department in 2020 regarding Joe Biden and Hunter Biden\u2019s business dealings in Ukraine. But Comer said the FBI confirmed Monday that the document is being used in an active investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Wray could turn over the document to the full committee and avoid contempt proceedings. On Monday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he would allow the full House Foreign Affairs Committee to view the Afghan dissent cable after Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) said he would hold a hearing on contempt charges later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the House Oversight Committee&#8217;s ranking member, plans to persuade as many Republicans as possible to oppose contempt charges against the FBI director. Raskin aims to work with Democrats to prevent the charges. He made the statement after the votes on Monday, responding to Oversight Chairman James Comer&#8217;s (R-KY) pledge to hold FBI Director accountable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1945054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[26790,4087,4856,7074,6350,5052,5591,4743,6022],"class_list":["post-1945053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-anti-law","tag-campaign","tag-claims","tag-contempt","tag-director","tag-enforcement","tag-fbi","tag-gops","tag-raskin"],"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\/1945053","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1945054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}