Sunday, November 6, 2022

The problem(s) with Jordan’s report on DOJ, FBI ‘politicization’

Obviously, the public is supposed to see the number of pages as evidence of merit. "Well, Judiciary Committee Republicans must've found a ton of incriminating information," Americans are apparently expected to say. "After all, just look at all of those pages!" 
There is, however, a small problem. As Talking Points Memo explained, "All but about 50 pages of the 1,050-page report are old letters Republicans already sent to the Biden administration. In one instance, they attached a five-page letter they'd previously sent to all U.S. attorneys 93 times."… 
"The other 50 pages are a who's who of Fox News-flavored grievances and conspiracy theories, dinging the FBI for everything from the "unprecedented raid" of Mar-a-Lago to going easy on Hunter Biden to supposedly targeting parents for resisting "a far-left educational curriculum" to inflating domestic violent extremism stats. Many of their gripes and allegations are old — that Hillary Clinton was given "kid-glove treatment" in comparison to Donald Trump — and animated by perpetual, ongoing right-wing complaints, including that "big tech" is censoring conservative viewpoints."


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