‘Nothing Is Off The Table’: Jim Jordan Outlines Response To Durham Report

Special counsel John Durham‘s long-awaited report serves as a guide for how Congress can further investigate the Russiagate controversy, according to a top GOP lawmaker.

During an appearance Sunday on Fox News, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) spoke about ways in which he might pick up on investigative leads from Durham’s report, which heavily criticized the FBI’s probe into alleged links between Donald Trump‘s 2016 campaign and Russia.

“We’re going to talk with our lawyers,” Jordan told “Sunday Morning Futures” anchor Maria Bartiromo. He also said there would be talks with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on “where to proceed from here.”

“Are there people that were highlighted in the Durham investigation and the Durham report that we need to talk to on the Judiciary Committee? We’re going to give that a good, hard look,” Jordan said.

“Nothing is off the table,” he added, “because it is critical the American people understand how their government — their agencies — have been turned on them, the taxpayer, and we get all the facts out there.”

The chairman was responding to a question about whether he wants to see another investigation into former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, after it was reported that Durham found the FBI dropped multiple inquiries related the couple and their non-profit organization in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election in which Hillary Clinton was the Democratic nominee.

Jordan is already making moves after the Department of Justice (DOJ) released Durham’s report last week. He invited the special counsel to testify before the Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction in the matter.

Though Jordan did not divulge to Bartiromo on-air whether Durham has agreed to make such an appearance, he said the special counsel’s report showed “the FBI had no probable cause, no predicate, no evidence whatsoever, and yet they launch into an investigation of President Trump and his campaign.”

Armed with other concerns about the FBI, including new revelations about the bureau’s misuse of surveillance tools and whistleblower allegations of “political rot” within the law enforcement agency, Jordan said lawmakers are considering ways to rein in the FBI.

The chairman listed two areas of focus: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reforms and the appropriations process.

“We have to exercise our authority, the power of the purse, to limit what the federal government — what the FBI and the Justice Department are doing to the American people,” Jordan said.

Man Whose Life Sentence Was Commuted By Obama Arrested On Attempted Murder Charges: Police

A Chicago-area man whose federal life sentence was commuted by former President Barack Obama has been charged with multiple attempted murder charges, according to law enforcement officials.

Illinois State Police announced that it had arrested and charged 54-year-old Alton D. Mills of Evergreen Park with three counts of Attempted Murder in connection with a shooting last week.

Police responded to an expressway shooting on May 14 on Interstate 57 and discovered that multiple rounds had been fired from the suspect’s vehicle striking the victim’s vehicle.

“The back-seat passenger in the victim vehicle was struck by gun fire and was transported to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries,” police said in a statement. “On May 16. 2023, after an extensive investigation the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office approved three counts of Attempted Murder.”

Mills is being held without bond. Police said no further information will be released.

Mills was arrested in 1993 on federal charges for conspiracy “to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine base and cocaine and conspiracy to use communication facilities in the commission of drug trafficking offenses; use of communication facility to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base (two counts); [and] possession with intent to distribute cocaine base,” Obama’s Department of Justice said in a statement in 2015.

Due to previous drug convictions, Mills was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Many top Democrats in Washington, D.C., including Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), championed Alton at the time. Durbin went as far as to give a speech about him on the Senate floor.

“An overlooked casualty in our ‘war on drugs’ are the men and women who have been convicted under disproportionately harsh mandatory minimum sentencing laws,” Durbin said. “One such man is Alton Mills, who served more than two decades of a mandatory life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense, a punishment even the sentencing judge disagreed with.”

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