Whistleblower: GOP Investigators Didn't Want to Hear Allegations of Russian Influence Over Rudy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/whistleblower-johnathan-buma-impeachment-biden-giuliani-jim-jordan/
House Republicans really dont want to hear from Rudy Giuliani.
Though their impeachment crusade grew out of the former New York City mayors anti-Biden machinations, the GOP-led House Oversight Committee spent much of Thursdays impeachment inquiry hearing voting down repeated efforts by Democrats to subpoena Giuliani and Lev Parnas, his former sidekick.
But Republican attempts to limit what they hear about Giulianis activities apparently go further than a few committee votes, according to an FBI whistleblower. In a memo obtained by Mother Jones, Johnathan Bumaan FBI agent who says he conducted foreign influence investigations alleges that investigators working for House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan told him in June that they were not interested in what he knew about Giuliani potentially being compromised by Russian intelligence while working as Donald Trumps personal lawyer.
The memo suggests that Republican investigators privately imposed the same fact-finding limitations Democrats highlighted on Thursday: GOP lawmakers say they want to investigate allegations about Joe Biden, but they appear reluctant to scrutinize the origin of their own probe or turn up details that undermine their preferred narrative. Judiciary Committee staff dispute Bumas allegations, telling Mother Jones that his account of his interactions with House investigators isnt accurate. (The Judiciary and Ways and Means Committees are working on the Biden investigation with the House Oversight Committee, which held Thursdays hearing.)
As Insider, the New Yorker and others have previously reported, Bumawho originally filed a whistleblower complaint with the FBI last yearsubmitted a statement to the House Judiciary Committee in April 2023. He sent another statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee in July. (Here is Bumas full statement to the House committee, which recently became public.)
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