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Monday, April 27, 2026

Republicans looks to FBI whistleblowers as Biden DOJ stonewalls ... - Washington Examiner

Congressional Republicans are already exploring ways to get around the Justice Department as they investigate how the Biden administration has handled similar classified document inquiries involving the sitting president and his predecessor.

Senate Intelligence Committee members are threatening to cut intelligence agency funding. House Oversight Committee Republicans are pursuing separate lines of inquiry with the Secret Service and the National Archives.

And the House Judiciary Committee is seeking testimony from FBI whistleblowers to shed light on how the bureau handled the respective investigations of former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden internally, a person familiar with the matter told the Washington Examiner.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) previously said his committee has worked with 19 FBI whistleblowers to get a sense of politicization within the bureau.

Those conversations led to House Judiciary Republicans releasing a report in November about problems that whistleblowers identified within the FBI, including that the law enforcement agency inflated numbers related to “violent extremism” to support a partisan narrative.

Some of the whistleblowers remain employed by the bureau, and some may have knowledge related to the Justice Department's decision to issue a subpoena to Trump and later raid his home while declining to take either step in the Biden inquiry.

The department told Jordan on Monday that it would not satisfy most of his...



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