“They’re not political, they’re just right,” Jordan said of Barr’s DOJ, citing the D.C. Circuit’s Wednesday order to dismiss the case against Flynn.
“I mean, the very day—you almost have to laugh at this, the very day you have a hearing going after the Barr Justice department and alleging that there’s politics involved there—the very day we get the order from United States Court of Appeals,” Jordan said.
“Attorney General Holder said he was Obama’s ‘wingman.’ The Obama-Biden Justice Department attacked investigative journalists,” Jordan added.
“The politics was in the previous administration. Bill Barr is doing the Lord’s work trying to clean it up so that it doesn’t happen again,” Jim said and silenced Jerry Nadler.
From Fox News:
A House Judiciary Committee hearing focused on oversight of the Department of Justice was marked by searing accusations and explosive interruptions from the very beginning, as Democrats and witnesses accused Attorney General Bill Barr and his agency of putting politics over the rule of law.
In his opening statement, Committee Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., excoriated Attorney General Bill Barr — who was not at the hearing, but is set to testify next month — accusing him of a “clear and dangerous pattern of conduct” of shielding President Trump’s associates and undermining cases stemming out of the Russia investigation.
Nadler cited the DOJ’s motion to dismiss Michael Flynn’s criminal case, but ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, pointed out in his opening statement that earlier in the day the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that Flynn’s case should be dismissed and ordered Judge Emmet Sullivan to toss the case.
Jordan also defended Barr for speaking out against actions that took place under the Obama administration during the Russia probe. He noted that Nadler would not call DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz to testify before the committee after Horowitz wrote in a lengthy report that FBI officials made significant omissions and inaccurate representations to the FISA court in seeking a warrant to monitor a former Trump campaign adviser.
Nadler also brought up the DOJ’s sudden decision to recommend a lighter sentence than originally suggested for former Trump associate Roger Stone. Andrew Zelinsky, a prosecutor who resigned from the case after being overruled by DOJ superiors, testified at the hearing that the recommendation to go below the traditional sentencing guidelines was politically motivated.
#ICYMI: Watch @Jim_Jordan's opening statement from today's Judiciary Committee hearing.— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) June 24, 2020
Attorney General Barr is getting to the truth. Democrats are scared to see what he finds. pic.twitter.com/1s8HWFbUvT
Rep. @Jim_Jordan: "The politics was in the previous administration. Bill Barr is doing the Lord's work." pic.twitter.com/rYfx7llqjg— The Hill (@thehill) June 24, 2020
