House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter to former Special Counsel Jack Smith, demanding that he testify on the weaponized Department of Justice under the Biden administration.
The Committee criticized “disturbing tactics” used by the DOJ during its “partisan and politically motivated prosecutions of President Trump undermined the integrity of the criminal justice system.” It noted in its press release that Smith was “ultimately responsible for the prosecutorial misconduct and constitutional abuses of his office.”
“Among the disturbing tactics employed in that prosecution, your team sought to silence President Trump by restricting his public statements about the case, conducted an unnecessary and abusive raid of his residence, attempted to improperly pressure defense counsel with the promise of political patronage, and manipulated key evidence in the investigation,” the letter condemns, stating the actions undermined the “integrity of the criminal justice system and violated the core responsibility of federal prosecutors to do justice.”
The letter further condemned the “abusive surveillance” of congressional members, activities that “reinforce the conclusion that your office conducted politically motivated investigations.” Documents reveal that Smith and his team monitored the phone records of nearly a dozen Republican lawmakers.
Discussing previous interviews with those close to Smith, Jordan wrote that these individuals “failed to fully cooperate with the Committee’s inquiry,” including the former special counsel himself.
Jordan declared that Smith’s “misdeeds were so flagrant that the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility confirmed to the Committee in November 2024 that it had opened an inquiry into the tactics” of this office. “Over the course of our oversight, we have written you several times to request documents relating to your politicized investigation. You failed to respond.”
