Dem Senator PROD PATEL to acknowledge the Federal Investigation Office, coordinates with the White House on employees

It is a simple point at this moment – as leaders of the federal government that they are preparing to investigate the “left” and Journalists -But Senator Richard Bluomantal (D-CT) today received the FBI director Cash Patel to confirm the main details about the collapse of the traditional protection wall between the Ministry of Justice and the White House.

Blumenthal pressed Patel during a Senate hearing on Tuesday about the political shooting clearly for the FBI employees who worked in the investigation on January 6, among others, earlier this year. Patel evaded the answer to the question at the beginning, but he finally offered that the White House was in contact with the decisions of the FBI employees. This, as he claimed, was only a budget issue.

It is clear that this is not exactly some of the smoking weapons, and what Patel gives under the oath before the Judicial Committee of the Senate is illogical compared to the daily evidence that we see in the FBI and the Ministry of Justice that provides President Trump’s bids. But another factor contributes to the unprecedented moment that we are, as the officials of the Ministry of Justice do not try to hide the continuous erosion of the independence that was present between the Ministry of Justice and the White House.

Here is a copy of the first part of the stock exchange:

Blumentel: I confirmed to one of my colleagues that you will honor the internal review process at the FBI. I will not deal with words. I lied to us. There is increasing evidence that these revenge extinguishing was the result of the direction of the White House. Did anyone from the White House called you about employee decisions?

Patel: I do not fully agree to your assumption that I lied or created at the FBI. If you are, the results announced today, by the FBI men and women – the historical records we are doing to maintain the integrity of this country will not be possible. The FBI men and women respond to our leadership and priorities of this administration. The only way to end people at the FBI is if they fail to meet the mobilization and duties of the job, and this is where I will leave. And you accuse me of lying is something that I do not eat lightly, but I will not enter with you.

Then Blumentel pressed him again to answer his question, and asked me if anyone from the White House had contacted him about the employee decisions.

“In general, we are always discussing with OMB for the White House during the budget process, the number of employees we need, and who we need,” Patel said.

“The answer is yes – Have you been directed to shoot people and agents, because they participated in the president’s investigations?” Blumentel request.

He said: “Any termination in the FBI was a decision I made based on the evidence that I am as director of the Federal Investigation Office.” “It is my job, I will not be ashamed of it. As I mentioned, these are allegations, and this is the continuous litigation, so they will have their day in court.

Senator Adam Chef also pressed Patel to participate in any details about whether the FBI employees have been separated as part of Trump’s Crusade. So far this year, at least 18 years have been launched in the January 6 case and seven additional prosecutors were reduced on January 6. Beyond that, the Ministry of Justice Until the investigation was launched In the use of prosecutors for the obstruction system used in the case.

When Chef tried to weaken this matter, the FBI director twice was an answer that was a clear void of the question. Exchange:

“Do you express today that you have not finished anyone at the FBI completely or partially because of the mission of a previous issue?” Chef asked.

“No one at the FBI has been terminated for the case tasks alone,” Patel said.

“Mr. Patel, are you completely or partially the end of anyone at the FBI because they worked in Trump’s investigation, or because they worked on January 6?”

Patel reiterated, “No one at the FBI has been terminated for the mission of the cases alone.”

Battle empties Trumpan Vitriol on Schiff

The Batel’s mood in responding to Senator Adam Chef (D-Ca) has risen to confirm the president who is unavoidable on Chef, as the FBI director described Senator California as a “political clown at best” in response to one of the Chef questions about Glycerin Maxwell and Epsin files.

“We have proven that you are a liar in Russia, on January 6. You are the biggest fraud to sit in the Senate in the United States, you are a shame for this institution and absolute cowardice,” Patel said. “You are not surprised that you are still lying from your bumper and putting it on a offer so that you can raise money for your axis. You are a political clown at best.”

The Republican Party campaign on the autonomy of the capital

Republicans in the House of Representatives acknowledged two of a series of bills on Tuesday in an attempt to reform the criminal justice system in Washington, DC, and the provisional rule declined.

One of the bills aims to reduce the age by which the minor can experience as an adult of some criminal crimes – including killing and sexual assault, first -class and robbery, armed theft and assault with the intention of committing any of these crimes – from 16 to 14.

“These are not bills are the dangerous efforts to address public safety in the Washington, DC,” the minority commander in the House of Representatives, Hakim Jeffrez, said at a press conference on Tuesday before the votes.

In the final outcome, the first draft law was supported by eight Democrats supporting it, while a Republican voted against it. The second was 31 Democrats voting in her favor, and again, one Republican against her.

The bills in the house hall have reached an unusually fast timetable – a blatant variation in the choice of Republican leaders in the House of Representatives not to bring the Senate approved bill – which would have been re -financing the capital that was stripped by Republicans in the House of Representatives in the last ongoing decision – to the ground.

The House of Representatives is expected to vote on two other draft laws associated with this week-one of which would retract restrictions on vehicles for the police and another that would cancel the judicial nomination committee, a group that provides judicial candidates to the president. If it is passed, this bill will make it so that the region does not actually have an opinion on its judges. A number of other DC bills are expected to come to Earth in the coming weeks as well.

Long -term life for these bills is a question mark. Filibuster applies to them in the upper room, and it is unclear whether a few Democrats will support them for 60 votes.

Emine YüCel