At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) tore into the Biden-era DOJ and FBI.
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00:00We have the nominations of Brit Shoemates to serve as Assistant Attorney General Civil Division
00:09and John Eisenbergs to serve Assistant Attorney General for National Security.
00:17I'm pleased to support both and think that they'll be excellent in their role in the Department of Justice.
00:24This morning, I want to highlight several FBI emails that I'm making public this very day.
00:33These emails show Biden FBI agents planning and celebrating the indictment of Trump advisor Peter Navarro in 2022.
00:45Upon receiving news of Navarro's impending indictment, former anti-Trump FBI official Timothy Thiebaud replied,
00:57Wow, great, end of quote.
01:00Yet, when a criminal referral was issued for Nellie Orr, the FBI and DOJ chose not to press charges against her.
01:10As many of you know, Orr was a FUSIN GPS contractor involved in the fraudulent crossfire hurricane investigation against Trump.
01:23And Orr's husband was an FBI agent who also worked against Trump.
01:29Orr was accused of lying to Congress.
01:32In the last several months, I've also released FBI emails about genesis of Arctic Frost.
01:43Arctic Frost was the FBI case against Trump that became one of Jack Smith's cases.
01:51Through records that I've already made public, the investigation's political origins are now firmly established.
01:59Anti-Trump agent Thiebaud and his merry band of partisans started the case.
02:07Many of the FBI agents on Article Frost were also involved in the Navarro case, like Special Agent Walter Gia Gardina.
02:19My Democratic colleagues have been warning us about quote-unquote weaponization of the FBI.
02:29And the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office under Trump.
02:33They've told us repeatedly of the dangers of law enforcement being used against political enemies.
02:41Now, believe me, we Republicans know because Democrats are reading us pages from the Biden playbook.
02:51Biden's DOJ, including the FBI and the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office, were weaponized, politicized, and used to target and imprison political enemies.
03:07We know this thanks to historic, heroic whistleblowers.
03:17The Biden, DOJ, and FBI did this, even as according to the FBI's own statistics, violent crime rose 4.5% in 2022.
03:29The D.C.'s U.S. Attorney's Office refused to prosecute two-thirds of the criminals arrested in our nation's capital that very same year.
03:38Instead of focusing on the rampant cases of murder and rape perpetrated against everyday Americans,
03:48personnel in the FBI's Washington Field Office and D.C.'s U.S. Attorney's Office,
03:54obsessed over ways to target President Trump and his allies.
04:00And when Artic Frost was opened, Thibault said that, quote,
04:06the case will be prioritized over all others in the branch, end of quote.
04:14When speaking about investigations, Thibault commented that, quote,
04:21it frankly took too long for us to open this, end of quote.
04:25Their conduct is disgraceful and un-American.
04:31Transparency brings accountability, which is why I'm reiterating my request for Attorney General Bondi
04:41and Director Patel to produce all records related to this political rot.
04:49We find, in some instances, people that have been around the Department of Justice
04:55for decades are the bureaucrats holding up some of this.
05:00So this is why we need to have these top officials of Bondi and Patel
05:05to step in and make sure everything that ought to be public without question is actually made public.