{"id":106669,"date":"2017-05-10T20:25:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T00:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=106669"},"modified":"2017-05-10T20:26:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T00:26:54","slug":"breaking-news-chaffetz-calls-justice-department-investigate-comey-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-news-chaffetz-calls-justice-department-investigate-comey-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaffetz calls for Justice Department to investigate Comey firing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>CHAFFETZ STATEMENT ON COMEY FIRING \/ Letter to DOJ IG asks for expansion of ongoing review<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released the following statement after sending a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPreviously I asked Inspector General Horowitz to review the FBI\u2019s actions in advance of the 2016 election. Today I sent a letter urging IG Horowitz to expand the scope of his review to include the <a href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/comey-president-trump-fires-fbi-director\/\">decision to fire Director Comey<\/a>. I look forward to receiving the IG\u2019s findings.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Background:<\/p>\n<p>In January 2017, the Office of Inspector General announced it had initiated a review of allegations regarding certain actions taken by the DOJ and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in advance of the 2016 election. Chairman Chaffetz\u2019 request would expand the scope of that investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ OIG has roughly 450 employees. IG Horowitz was unanimously confirmed in 2012 under the Obama Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a copy of the request sent to DOJ IG Michael Horowitz.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dear Mr. Horowitz:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Yesterday, May 9, 2017, the President fired the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, James Comey. In a letter to the Director advising him of his termination, the President cited to recommendations from Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General based their recommendation on the Director\u2019s decision to publicize the results of the FBI\u2019s investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last year, among other things.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I request that you expand the scope of your office\u2019s ongoing review of allegations regarding certain actions by the Department of Justice and the FBI in advance of the 2016 election to include the facts and circumstances surrounding the removal of Director Comey. You stated previously that your work includes an examination of whether Comey\u2019s public communications and notifications to Congress about the Clinton investigation comported with Justice Department and FBI policies and procedures.[2] You separately stated \u201cif circumstances warrant, the OIG will consider including other issues that may arise during the course of the review.\u201dThe recommendation to remove Comey indeed warrants such consideration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is the principal oversight committee of the House of Representatives and may at \u201cany time\u201d investigate \u201cany matter\u201d as set forth in House Rule X.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I thank you for your attention to this matter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sincerely,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jason Chaffetz,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Chairman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAFFETZ STATEMENT ON COMEY FIRING \/ Letter to DOJ IG asks for expansion of ongoing review WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released the following statement after sending a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz: \u201cPreviously I asked Inspector General Horowitz to review [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5409,"featured_media":106670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chaffetz calls for Justice Department to investigate Comey firing - Breaking911<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-news-chaffetz-calls-justice-department-investigate-comey-firing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chaffetz calls for Justice Department to investigate Comey firing - Breaking911\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CHAFFETZ STATEMENT ON COMEY FIRING \/ Letter to DOJ IG asks for expansion of ongoing review WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released the following statement after sending a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz: \u201cPreviously I asked Inspector General Horowitz to review [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-news-chaffetz-calls-justice-department-investigate-comey-firing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Breaking911\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Breaking911\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-05-11T00:25:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-05-11T00:26:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/download-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"168\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"T. 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