Global Courant 2023-05-19 00:00:12
Fox news
Judiciary Jim Jordan (R-OH) repeatedly denied The Democrats’ requests to receive the testimony of one of the GOP’s self-described “whistleblowers” at Thursday’s House hearing on the FBI’s “arming,” which Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) to confront him about the actual rules.
Needless to say, Jordan was less than pleased.
At this latest hearing pushing the GOP narrative that the FBI is gunning down conservatives, Jordan told Democrats that “you don’t get the testimony” of FBI personnel operations specialist Marcus Allen, claiming that the minority party has no right to all of the collected evidence from whistleblowers.
‘These are not whistleblowers’ Ranking member Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) exclaimed. “The law has not defined them as whistleblowers. His lawyer only claims that.”
Later at the hearing, after being initially shut down by Jordan, Goldman requested a point of order to establish the rules, noting that transcripts should be made available to all members of committees.
“Where is the whistleblower exception to the rules?” Goldman wondered.
An animated Jordan said it was “the prerogative of the committee to decide” before adding, “We have the whistleblower’s testimony. The whistleblower doesn’t want it made available to the Democrats at this point!”
Goldman quickly fired back that “the whistleblower doesn’t make commission rules” before Jordan tried to move on to another commission member, eventually arguing with Goldman some more.
This isn’t the first time Goldman and Jordan have sparred during the subcommittee’s “armaments” hearings. In February, the New York congressman interrogated the chairman claims he had “dozens” of whistleblowers lined up, pointing out that the Democrats had not received statements from any of these individuals.
Democrats, meanwhile, have doubted its credibility van Allen as a whistleblower, noting that his FBI security clearance had been revoked after he declared his support for the U.S. Capitol uprising on January 6. In addition to peddling conspiracies on Jan. 6, the other so-called whistleblowers also received thousands of dollars from Kash Patel, a former Trump administration official, during Thursday’s hearing.
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