{"id":1982381,"date":"2023-07-25T15:47:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T19:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wray-gives-house-judiciary-fbi-documents-on-school-board-memo-after-contempt-threat\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T15:50:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T19:50:04","slug":"wray-gives-house-judiciary-fbi-documents-on-school-board-memo-after-contempt-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wray-gives-house-judiciary-fbi-documents-on-school-board-memo-after-contempt-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Wray hands over FBI files on school board memo to House Judiciary following contempt warning."},"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\">30<\/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%2Fwray-gives-house-judiciary-fbi-documents-on-school-board-memo-after-contempt-threat%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=1982381&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>The FBI Provides\u2062 Documents to House Judiciary Committee<\/h2>\n<p>The FBI \u200chas delivered a collection of documents to\u2063 the House \u2062Judiciary \u200cCommittee following a \u2063warning\u200d from committee \u2062Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) that he\u200c would hold FBI Director Christopher \u200cWray in \u2064contempt of Congress if\u2062 the materials were not provided. The \u2064documents, \u200boutlined in a letter obtained by \u2064the\u200b Washington Examiner, \u2063primarily address \u200ca\u200b Department \u2062of Justice \u2062directive issued in October 2021, which called for the FBI to address an alleged increase in threats against \u200cschool administrators. They also touch on a now-retracted internal FBI assessment that linked certain traditional Catholics to domestic \u2063violent \u200bextremism.<\/p>\n<h3>Contempt of Congress Proceedings<\/h3>\n<p>Jordan had subpoenaed Wray for various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-trump-under-criminal-investigation-for-raffensperger-phone-call-report\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Trump Under Criminal Investigation For Raffensperger Phone Call: Report\">records related<\/a>\u200c to these issues and expressed\u200d his intention to initiate contempt of Congress\u2063 proceedings \u2063in a\u2063 letter\u200d to Wray last week. Jordan cited Wray&#8217;s &#8220;refusal to produce documents\u2062 responsive to the Committee\u2019s subpoenas\u2014months after the return dates&#8221; as the reason for his\u2064 decision. While the FBI had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/catholic-archbishops-will-discuss-denying-biden-communion-in-june-until-then-most-are-staying-quiet-about-it\/\" title=\"Catholic Archbishops Will Discuss Denying Biden Communion In June. Until Then, Most Are Staying Quiet About It\">previously provided<\/a> redacted records to\u2062 Jordan on a rolling\u2064 basis, it had not fully met all of\u2063 his requests. However, Jordan has indicated that he is currently\u2063 satisfied with\u200b the FBI&#8217;s latest response.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Jordan stated, &#8220;We&#8217;re not\u200d moving forward with contempt of Wray on Thursday. We&#8217;re reviewing the documents the\u200b FBI provided \u200ctoday, and everything remains on the table.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>FBI&#8217;s Response and \u200bAccommodations<\/h3>\n<p>In its response, the FBI highlighted \u2064the extensive nature of \u200bJordan&#8217;s requests, \u2062noting that he had sent 14 letters and \u200dthree subpoenas\u2062 on \u2064various subjects since the beginning of the\u2064 year. The bureau \u200calso mentioned that \u2063Jordan had requested testimony from over two dozen\u200b FBI officials. Christopher Dunham, FBI acting assistant director, stated \u2063that the bureau had\u200c already \u2064produced\u2064 a \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-please-create-an-executive-order-and-have-2020-ballots-and-images-audited-in-select-states-using-jovan-pulitzer-method\/\" title=\"President Trump PLEASE CREATE AN EXECUTIVE ORDER and Have 2020 Ballots and Images Audited in Select States Using Jovan Pulitzer Method\">significant amount<\/a> of responsive material. He included\u2062 additional requested documents, \u2063some of which were sensitive or\u2064 had been\u2062 previously provided in a\u2063 more redacted form. Dunham also provided an appendix listing the dates on which the FBI had\u200b made efforts \u200bto comply \u2062with the committee&#8217;s requests.<\/p>\n<p>Dunham\u2062 wrote, &#8220;We believe\u200d the \u200cextensive \u2063ongoing document productions, transcribed interviews, \u2063and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wray-gives-house-judiciary-fbi-documents-on-school-board-memo-after-contempt-threat\/\" title=\"Wray hands over FBI files on school board memo to House Judiciary following contempt warning.\">upcoming briefing constitute significant accommodations<\/a> to the Committee\u2019s stated concerns and questions regarding both the\u200c Attorney General\u2019s Memorandum and the January 23rd Domain \u200cPerspective.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Jordan&#8217;s Investigation and Concerns<\/h3>\n<p>Jordan&#8217;s\u2063 requests are part of \u200cthe committee&#8217;s broader\u2063 investigation into the \u2063&#8221;FBI\u2019s weaponization of\u200c its \u200claw-enforcement\u200d powers against\u200d Americans who exercise their First Amendment rights.&#8221;\u2063 He has\u200c expressed concerns \u200cthat the\u2064 FBI may have \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-enterprise-institute-endorses-j6-committee-by-honoring-liz-cheney-at-constitution-day-event\/\" title=\"American Enterprise Institute Endorses J6 Committee By Honoring Liz Cheney At Constitution Day Event\">violated civil liberties<\/a> by inappropriately\u200d monitoring innocent \u2064parents of students during the heightened tensions between parents \u2063and school \u2063boards in 2021. These tensions arose due \u2064to issues such as forced \u2063masking\u2062 and transgender policies. Jordan has also criticized\u200c the retracted assessment about certain Catholics, which contained proposals that he believes \u200cundermine religious \u200bliberty, including the idea of planting sources in\u200b specific churches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI handed over documents to the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, following a warning from Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) that FBI Director Christopher Wray could face contempt of Congress charges if he failed to provide the materials. The enclosed documents, obtained by the Washington Examiner, mainly focused on a Department of Justice directive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1982382,"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":[],"class_list":["post-1982381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1982381","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=1982381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}