{"id":1945075,"date":"2023-06-06T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-mccarthy-backs-house-oversight-holding-fbi-director-wray-in-contempt\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T09:51:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T13:51:19","slug":"kevin-mccarthy-backs-house-oversight-holding-fbi-director-wray-in-contempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-mccarthy-backs-house-oversight-holding-fbi-director-wray-in-contempt\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy supports holding FBI Director Wray in contempt by House Oversight."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fkevin-mccarthy-backs-house-oversight-holding-fbi-director-wray-in-contempt%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=1945075&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 Speaker Backs Contempt Proceedings Against FBI Director<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cEverybody on that committee has a responsibility of oversight,\u201d the speaker said. \u201cHe needs to supply it to everybody on the committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is supporting the House Oversight Committee\u2019s decision to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt after he failed to comply with a subpoena issued against him last month. The Oversight Chairman, James Comer (R-KY), announced on Monday that he would be moving forward with contempt proceedings against Wray after the FBI director failed to provide access to a form that allegedly details a criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden during the Obama administration. McCarthy backed that move, arguing the document was crucial to the committee\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<h3>ESG Emerges as Sleeper Issue in the 2024 Presidential Campaign<\/h3>\n<p>Comer issued the subpoena in conjunction with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on May 3, demanding access to an FBI-generated FD-1023 form they say details an exchange of money between Biden and a foreign national who may have influenced U.S. policy decisions. The two Republicans were tipped off about the document\u2019s existence by a whistleblower, although it remains unclear what wrongdoing Biden is being accused of conducting.<\/p>\n<p>Wray met with Comer and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking member of the committee, on Monday to view the document in a secure facility. However, the FBI has yet to hand the document over to the full committee for review, prompting Comer to threaten contempt proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI has previously declined to make the document available, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-mccarthy-backs-house-oversight-holding-fbi-director-wray-in-contempt\/\" title=\"McCarthy supports holding FBI Director Wray in contempt by House Oversight.\">citing national security risks<\/a>. Instead, the agency initially responded to the subpoena by sending the committee a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comer-demands-access-to-biden-document-after-fbi-fails-to-comply-with-subpoena\/\" title=\"Comer requests Biden document access after FBI ignores subpoena.\">letter describing background information<\/a> and \u201cprogrammatic issues related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-dismisses-comers-comments-on-fbi-biden-briefing-as-yet-another-fact-free-stunt\/\" title=\"White House rejects Comer's remarks on FBI Biden briefing as a 'baseless move'.\">confidential human source reporting<\/a>,\u201d according to Comer.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI has pushed back against the contempt proceedings, and House Democrats have decried the move as an unwarranted action. Raskin also condemned the decision, accusing Comer of \u201cweaponizing the powers of this committee to hold Director Wray in contempt as part of MAGA Republicans\u2019 efforts to discredit and ultimately \u2018dismantle\u2019 the FBI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The subpoena is the latest development in the House Republicans\u2019 investigation into the president\u2019s family and its business dealings, which became a focal point of the party&#8217;s agenda after taking control of the lower chamber earlier this year. Many of these investigations have focused specifically on the president\u2019s son, Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The matter first took prominence during the 2020 election as the GOP sought to determine whether then-candidate Joe Biden benefited financially from his son\u2019s transactions, pointing to national security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The Oversight Committee has made that a high priority in recent months, with Comer leading investigations into the Bidens\u2019 business dealings \u201cto determine if the Biden family has been targeted by foreign actors, if President Biden is compromised, and if there is a national security threat,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The panel has obtained thousands of documents detailing the family\u2019s financial records and business transactions, including one report that showed the Bidens\u2019 received more than $1 million from a Chinese company through a third party from 2015 to 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grassley Raises Concerns About Political Bias Affecting High-Level Investigations at the FBI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has also raised concerns about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comer-says-he-knows-what-country-is-at-the-center-of-bidens-alleged-criminal-scheme-but-is-not-at-liberty-to-disclose-yet\/\" title=\"Comer Says He Knows What Country Is at the Center of Biden\u2019s Alleged Criminal Scheme But \u201cIs Not at Liberty\u201d to Disclose Yet\">political bias affecting high-level investigations<\/a> at the FBI, especially after the release of special counsel John Durham&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n<p>The Durham report detailed the FBI\u2019s investigation into alleged links between the Russian government and then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election. The report ultimately concluded the investigation was inherently flawed as there was no proper basis to conduct it in the first place, and it also found that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign played an outsize role in pushing collusion claims to the media and to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">here<\/a> to read more from the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Oversight Committee&#8217;s subpoena was ignored by FBI Director Christopher Wray. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) supports this decision. The Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) declared on Monday that he will proceed with contempt proceedings against Wray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1945076,"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":[7074,6350,5591,4611,3653,3663,5618,9787,16521],"class_list":["post-1945075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-contempt","tag-director","tag-fbi","tag-holding","tag-house","tag-mccarthy","tag-oversight","tag-supports","tag-wray"],"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\/1945075","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=1945075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1945076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}