Judiciary Oversight on FBI
By Renee Parsons
As the paradigm shift predicted some years ago, there was a massive societal, political, cultural upheaval coming our way – and even with the forewarning, there was no sufficient amount of preplanning that could have anticipated the full depth of institutional and political corruption that has, to date, been revealed.
Central to that upheaval are several House Committees; such as the House Judiciary Committee which has long historic roots established by the US House of Representatives in June, 1831when Andrew Jackson was President with John C. Calhoun as Vice President. House Judiciary was born with a responsibility to determine whether policy objectives of Congress are being implemented by the government, and analyze national and international problems facing the United States that might require a federal response.
While the Committee has only just begun to dig in and investigate, deep levels of corruption have already surfaced as malicious criminal forces within the Federal government are intent on forcing a profound realignment of every basic tenet in American society upon which the United States was created.
On Wednesday, July 12th at 10 am, the House Judiciary Committee will hold an Oversight hearing to examine the “politicization of the nation’s preeminent law enforcement agency under the direction of FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland”. FBI Director Christopher Wray will be testifying.
As Rep. Emmanuel Cellar (D-NY), former Chair of the House Judiciary Committee for eleven Sessions, the longest in Congressional history saw the Judiciary Committee as holding a sacred trust: “The power to investigate is a great public trust.”
As House Committees proceed to issue a bevy of legalese letters warning of subpoenas and requesting attendance for depositions or Congressional hearings, the Shift has revealed a major flaw, a pre-existing conundrum in the Congressional process when dealing with a more recalcitrant bureaucracy who openly defy Congressional authority as a never-before experience in US history.
While threatening subpoenas or resorting to a ‘compulsory process” may make the headlines, what is the strategy when Federal agencies thumb their nose and refuse to cooperate or comply with a Congressionally-imposed deadline to provide documents as Federal agencies inevitably ignore – knowing they are immune from any serious Congressional follow up.
Here is the dilemma:
The House Oversight Committee experience is one example of how powerful the Federal government’s administrative state has grown. The FBI continues to refuse to provide a non-redacted copy of its unclassified FD-1023 form to Congress. It was that 1023 which informed Congress of the truth of Biden Team’s financial negotiations with a foreign national in exchange for influence on US policy. Under threat of a Contempt of Congress citation, members of the Committee were allowed to view a redacted version in a SCIF environment without being able to take notes.
The reality is that if the Committee decided to proceed in its attempt to obtain an unredacted 1023, the issuance of a Contempt citation would require a full Committee vote followed by a House floor vote. Assuming that House vote is successful, it would be the DOJ’s responsibility to serve and then to prosecute Wray. Is there any real expectation that the DOJ under AG Merrick Garland and Democratic control will honor DOJ’s responsibility to legally proceed forthwith against its own FBI?
The truth is that Congressional ‘oversight’ has little real meaning when an unelected embedded SES administrative level of personnel are largely shielded from any serious repercussions for their immoral, even unlawful behavior. How exactly can any Committee deal with SES bureaucrats who have no real commitment to a Constitutional Republic with little real morality or conscience as they knowingly flaunt their ‘amnesty’ from justice?
The obvious answer would be to pursue criminal prosecution (where appropriate) or a charge of treason against those malefactors who would use their administrative positions to destroy the divinely inspired experiment in self-government that began almost 250 years ago.