The Justice Dept.’s inspector general opens an investigation into any efforts to overturn the election. A Justice Department watchdog has opened an investigation into whether any current or former officials tried improperly to wield the powers of the department to undo the results of the presidential election, his office announced on Monday.
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© Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times Michael E. Horowitz, the Justice Department inspector general, testifying before Congress in 2019. The announcement by the office of the inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, followed a New York Times article that detailed efforts by Jeffrey Clark, the acting head of the Justice Department’s civil division, to push top leaders to falsely and publicly assert that ongoing election fraud investigations cast doubt on the Electoral College results. That standoff prompted President Donald J. Trump to consider replacing the acting attorney general at the time, Jeffrey A. Rosen, and install Mr. Clark at the top of the department to carry out that plan.“The inspector general is initiating an investigation into whether any former or current D.O.J. official engaged in an improper attempt to have D.O.J. seek to alter the outcome of the 2020 presidential election,” Mr. Horowitz said in a statement.
The investigation will encompass all allegations concerning the conduct of former and current department employees, though it would be limited to the Justice Department because other agencies do not fall within Mr. Horowitz’s purview. He said he was announcing the inquiry to reassure the public that the matter is being scrutinized.
On Saturday, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, urged Mr. Horowitz to open an investigation, saying that it was “unconscionable that a Trump Justice Department leader would conspire to subvert the people’s will.”
This is the second known investigation into the actions of top Justice Department officials during the final weeks of the Trump administration. Earlier this month, Mr. Horowitz opened an investigation into whether Trump administration officials improperly pressured Byung J. Pak, the U.S. attorney in Atlanta, who abruptly resigned after it became clear to Mr. Trump that he would not take actions to cast doubt on or undo the results of the election, according to a person briefed on the inquiry.
Separately, the Senate Judiciary Committee said this weekend that it has initiated its own oversight inquiry into officials including Mr. Clark.
Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the top Democrat on the committee, sent a letter to the Justice Department saying that he would investigate efforts by Mr. Trump and Mr. Clark to use the agency “to further Trump’s efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election.”
Mr. Durbin asked the acting attorney general, Monty Wilkinson, to preserve documents, emails and messages related to meetings between top Justice Department officials, the White House and Mr. Trump, as well as any communications related to Mr. Pak’s resignation.
Obama turned teh DOJ and FBI into his personal political arm of political repression - and fiden and his cabal are right back to the same tricks and repression.
They will cover up the voter fraud - and any individual with a different opinion on teh election will be prosecuted for sedition.
The fiden cabal has its' ways of stifling any and all dissent, and with their lapdog agencies -cover up teh election donations crimes, the graft and corruption with Ukraine adn
china - among many others, - and put people in dungeons to protect their criminal enterprise.
marxist repression is here - and fiden had best be careful - once installed - harris will take over and install her' marxist paradise' in America
Fiden repression will not end with the silencing of republican 'enemies of the state' - it will extend to engulf all citizens of the formerly free America the marxist DPST/ccp party hates with a 'Holy Stalinist Passion"!
Midnight knocks on teh door by fiden's secret PC police are imminent. And AOC is drooling at the prospect of millions of 'dissenters' in her re-education camps to dispose of up teh Omar/Tlaib chimneys.
fiden's 'Unity" means 'Obey or go to the re-education camps!
