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| John Huber's FBI-Justice Department probe shrouded in mystery |
| 2018-10-26 |
| [Wash Times] Roughly one year after U.S. Attorney John Huber was appointed to investigate whether accusations that the FBI and Justice Department abused their powers during the 2016 election season merit prosecution, his work remains shrouded in mystery. Likely witnesses tell The Washington Times that they haven’t heard from him, though they are eager to tell what they know. Nor has Mr. Huber kept congressional overseers in the loop on his activities. "I would just like to know what he’s doing," Rep. Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, told The Times. "I’ll take anything. All I know is that we haven’t heard a single thing about what he’s doing." Mr. Jordan, a member of the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees, said those panels have not received any reports or updates from Mr. Huber since his appointment. He and Rep. Mark Meadows, North Carolina Republican, sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week asking for an update. Mr. Meadows told The Times it is imperative that Mr. Huber appear before Congress to detail what he has been doing. "I have not seen a lot of evidence that Mr. Huber has done anything other than be appointed by Jeff Sessions," he said. "It’s been portrayed that he’s making great progress, but I’m not sure there is a whole lot to show for it other than rhetoric right now. I’m not aware of any substantial work that he’s doing." Mr. Sessions secretly picked Mr. Huber last fall to dig into whether the FBI misused its power when it obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. He also is supposed to be reviewing whether the FBI mishandled investigations into 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Mr. Sessions didn’t reveal the appointment until the spring, when he was under pressure to name a special counsel to investigate those issues. He said there was no need for such a step because the department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, was already looking into the matters. He also revealed that Mr. Huber, the U.S. attorney in Utah, was performing his own evaluation. The benefit of Mr. Huber, the Justice Department said, is that as a U.S. attorney he could use grand jury subpoena powers to obtain documents and witness statements that the inspector general might not. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 The government would create a cabinet post with a large bureacracy to oversee a one-person parade. A Department of Agriculture bureaucrat was down in the dumps with his head hung somewhere down around his jockey shorts. One of his co-workers asked: "Why so glum and down-in-the-dumps?" He replied, "I don't know what I'm going to do! My farmer died." Is DOJ the same way as Agriculture? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-10-26 11:11 |
| #3 I hope it's the Trunk's "October Surprise". |
| Posted by: Bobby 2018-10-26 10:25 |
| #2 It is rather remarkable that there are no leaks. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2018-10-26 09:33 |
| #1 Is the probe 'shrouded in mystery' or simply secrecy ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-10-26 04:28 |