{"id":2033661,"date":"2023-09-15T16:38:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T20:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-biden-impeachment-gives-gop-power-to-dig-deeper\/"},"modified":"2023-09-15T16:40:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T20:40:47","slug":"analysis-biden-impeachment-gives-gop-power-to-dig-deeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-biden-impeachment-gives-gop-power-to-dig-deeper\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden impeachment empowers GOP to delve further."},"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\">14<\/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%2Fanalysis-biden-impeachment-gives-gop-power-to-dig-deeper%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=2033661&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>News Analysis<\/h2>\n<p>The impeachment inquiry launched \u200bby House Republicans against President Joe Biden gives them broader subpoena power that is \u200bhelpful to surfacing \u2063additional information and breaking\u2063 through \u200dgovernment stonewalling.<\/p>\n<p>House \u2062Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced the inquiry on Sept. 12, laying \u200cout the \u2063findings made by several House \u200ccommittees so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly $20 million in alleged payments from foreign\u2062 sources to the Biden family and associates<\/li>\n<li>Communications during the Obama\u200c administration between then-Vice President\u2062 Biden and his son Hunter Biden about his\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-secret-service-intervened-in-hunter-biden-gun-incident-lied-on-background-check-form-report-says\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Secret Service Intervened In Hunter Biden Gun Incident; Lied On Background Check Form, Report Says\">overseas business dealings<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Whistleblower allegations that the \u2062Department of\u200c Justice\u200d (DOJ) gave special treatment to\u200b the Biden family<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The inquiry \u2062is\u2064 led by the chairs of the \u2064three\u2064 committees already probing the matter:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rep. James\u2063 Comer (R-Ky.), who chairs the House Oversight \u2064committee<\/li>\n<li>Rep. Jim\u200d Jordan (R-Ohio),\u2062 head of the House Judiciary Committee<\/li>\n<li>Rep. Jason\u200c Smith (R-Mo.), head of\u200c the \u200bHouse \u200dWays and Means Committee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The three will now have expansive subpoena authority, explained former House Speaker Newt\u200c Gingrich.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhen you go to an official impeachment inquiry, your ability to compel the \u200dexecutive branch \u2064to \u2062provide documents, to testify under \u200coath, and to\u2063 be \u200cavailable goes up very dramatically,\u201d he \u2064told The Epoch \u200dTimes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr.\u200d Gingrich expects the GOP efforts to quickly escalate.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI suspect \u2062they\u2019ll bring in more investigators,\u200b I suspect \u2064they will \u200blay out a\u200c timeline\u200c of things they want to \u200dknow,\u201d \u2062he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Republicans are likely to subpoena the\u2063 National Archives to turn over emails from \u200dpseudonym addresses used by President Biden, \u200dhe opined. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-biden-impeachment-gives-gop-power-to-dig-deeper\/\" title=\"Biden impeachment empowers GOP to delve further.\">expects credit \u200bcard companies<\/a> will\u2062 get subpoenas\u2064 for cards used by \u200bPresident Biden and phone carriers will be subpoenaed \u2062for records of phones used by President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Kash Patel,\u2064 former national security prosecutor, congressional \u2063investigator, and chief of \u200dstaff to the acting defense \u200csecretary\u2063 under President Donald Trump, agreed\u200d the\u2062 impeachment gives House investigators more power,\u2063 but doubted that the president is the most urgent target.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAt this time, I would have prioritized the impeachment\u2063 of [FBI Director] \u200dChris Wray, [Attorney General] Merrick Garland,\u201d he told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThose \u2062two individuals are responsible\u200b for the lack\u2064 of justice, or the two-tier system of justice,\u201d\u200d he said, pointing to what he considers\u200d a lenient treatment of matters related to President Biden compared to their aggressive treatment of\u2063 President \u200dTrump.<\/p>\n<p>They key is \u2063whether the lawmakers \u200dwill \u2064be willing to use \u2064the powers at their disposal, \u200che noted.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf they&#8217;re going down this route, I hope\u2063 they use\u2063 that\u200c subpoena power \u200dextensively,\u2063 to\u200d subpoena Garland and Wray, and the documents that have till today been withheld by Garland and Wray, in\u200c violation of prior congressional \u2063subpoenas. And if Congress isn&#8217;t willing to act to enforce\u2063 them,\u2062 it doesn&#8217;t matter who you impeach.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He outlined three\u2062 ways Congress can \u2063enforce a subpoena, regardless of \u200bimpeachment:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Hold in contempt violators and task the Capitol Police to arrest the individual. That\u2019s been virtually unheard of and the House is unlikely to go down that road.<\/li>\n<li>Hold the individual in contempt and refer the matter\u2064 to the DOJ for prosecution. But the chance \u2062President Biden\u2019s own DOJ\u200b would decide to prosecute it is \u2064slim, \u2064in his view.<\/li>\n<li>Sue over the subpoena in civil court\u2014a\u2063 process \u2064that could\u200d take years to play out, though here the impeachment would \u200dmake the subpoena more difficult to\u200c quash.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Mr. Patel suggested an indirect route of tying subpoena compliance with funding.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhen you \u200cwithhold\u200b partial funding, not entire funding, for certain pockets \u2062of\u200d money, for instance, Chris Wray\u2019s private G-V government-funded\u200c jet, you&#8217;d be amazed at the documentation that starts showing up the next day,\u201d\u2062 he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt requires the speaker of the House to consent, and Congress is in charge\u200c of\u200c the money and the\u2064 Republicans are in charge of the money right now. And the budget \u200cdeal, as \u2063you know,\u200b is front and\u200b center right now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m not saying to defund whole \u2064agencies\u2014of course not. But there&#8217;s definitely government waste occurring and\u2063 there&#8217;s government boondoggles that we can shut down\u2062 until these agencies and departments comply with at\u2062 least \u200cproducing documents \u200dso we can see the \u200devidence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Patel wasn\u2019t particularly optimistic about the GOP\u2019s zeal \u200din pursuing the impeachment, given that the lawmakers haven\u2019t used a \u200dsingle one of the enforcement mechanisms he listed.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHow is\u200b this Congress going to do something in an\u200d impeachment of Joe Biden\u200c and get a different result? You\u200c know,\u2064 we&#8217;ll have to\u2064 wait and see,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Gingrich, however, praised Mr. McCarthy\u200b for what he called as a steady approach.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think he&#8217;s \u200creally trying to be\u200c very methodical,\u200d very careful,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He saw it \u200bas a sign of the speaker trying\u2062 to avoid the mistakes of the Clinton impeachment.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe didn&#8217;t \u2062go slow enough and weren&#8217;t careful enough for the American people to believe it so decisively \u2062that they \u2063would help bring pressure on the\u2063 Senate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think it&#8217;s \u200dvery important, in this case, to be really serious about it. Everything has to come out in \u200dpublic. American\u200d people have to have time\u200c to digest it. They\u200d have to decide that, in fact, it&#8217;s unacceptable to have a person who&#8217;s done this\u200d kind of stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The inquiry will probably last several months, he predicted.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe other side&#8217;s going to use every legal tool\u200b to slow it down,\u201d \u200che said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, new discoveries \u200cmay open new, unforeseen avenues of inquiry.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think we&#8217;re going\u200b to\u200c learn\u2062 a great deal in the next few months,\u201d \u2062he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He would\u2063 expect the \u200dinquiry\u200b to conclude by March next year.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI would\u2062 urge them not to rush to\u200d judgment.\u2062 Keep an open mind,\u2063 be determined to surface the facts and \u200clet the \u200dfacts lead you where they \u200clead you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAnd \u200dif they lead you to clearing\u2064 Biden,\u200b then clear him. If they lead\u2064 you to conviction, that he did things that\u200b are so\u200d unacceptable, that\u200d he could actually be convicted by the Senate, then \u200cimpeach him, but\u2063 don&#8217;t do it as a shallow political act.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\"><em>Lawrence\u2062 Wilson contributed to \u2062this report.<\/em><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> \u2063What methods can Congress employ to hold violators of subpoenas accountable<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u2062 News Analysis: Impeachment Inquiry Gives House Republicans\u2063 Broader Subpoena Power <\/p>\n<p>The impeachment inquiry initiated\u200c by House Republicans against President Joe Biden has granted them expanded subpoena power, which will be instrumental in uncovering additional information and\u200c breaking through government stonewalling. \u200cHouse Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced the\u2063 inquiry on Sept. 12, highlighting the findings made by several House\u200d committees thus far. These include alleged payments of\u2063 nearly $20 million from foreign sources to the Biden family and associates, communications \u200bbetween then-Vice President Biden and his son Hunter about overseas business dealings during the \u200bObama administration, and whistleblower allegations of special \u200btreatment given to \u2062the \u200cBiden family by\u200b the\u2064 Department of \u2062Justice (DOJ).<\/p>\n<p>The inquiry is being \u2064led\u200c by the chairs\u2062 of \u200dthe three committees\u200d that were already investigating \u2064the matter: Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), and Rep. Jason \u2062Smith (R-Mo.). As former House Speaker Newt Gingrich explains, these committee chairs now \u200chave expansive subpoena authority, enabling them to compel the executive branch to provide\u200d documents, testify under oath,\u200c and be available for questioning. Gingrich expects the \u2064GOP&#8217;s \u200defforts to intensify, with the addition of more investigators and the establishment of a clear timeline for their \u200dinquiries.<\/p>\n<p>It is likely that \u200dRepublicans\u200c will subpoena the National Archives\u200d for \u2064emails from pseudonym addresses used \u200dby President Biden. They may also issue subpoenas to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-us-households-say-they-are-worse-off-than-a-year-ago-new-york-fed\/\" title=\"More US households report being worse off than last year: NY Fed.\">credit\u2063 card companies<\/a> for records\u200d of cards used by the President \u2063and to phone carriers\u2064 for records of phones used by him. Kash Patel, a former national security \u200cprosecutor\u2064 and congressional investigator,\u2063 believes that the impeachment\u2063 gives House investigators \u2063more power, but he suggests that targeting FBI Director Chris Wray and Attorney General\u2063 Merrick Garland should be prioritized, as\u200d they are responsible for what he deems a two-tier system of\u2064 justice.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the effectiveness of the impeachment inquiry hinges on whether lawmakers are willing to \u200cutilize\u200b the powers at their disposal. Patel asserts that if Congress \u200bchooses to enforce subpoenas, particularly against Garland and Wray, it would demonstrate a commitment to upholding the law regardless of impeachment. He outlines\u2063 three methods Congress can employ to hold\u200d violators accountable: holding them in contempt and tasking the\u2064 Capitol Police with arresting them, referring the matter to the DOJ for\u200d prosecution, or suing over \u200bthe subpoena in civil court. Patel also suggests leveraging funding as a means of \u2062securing\u2063 compliance,\u2064 withholding partial funding for specific \u2062areas\u2063 until agencies and departments produce \u200cthe necessary documents.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Patel&#8217;s reservations regarding the GOP&#8217;s enthusiasm in pursuing the impeachment, he sees potential \u200bin using\u2062 funding\u2064 as leverage, as Republicans currently\u2063 hold the \u200dpurse strings. By\u200c withholding funding for certain areas, such as Chris Wray&#8217;s private government-funded \u2064jet, Patel believes\u2064 that documentation\u2062 will start to emerge. However, he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Republicans&#8217; impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden grants them more subpoena power, aiding in uncovering crucial information and overcoming government obstruction. 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