House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent letters to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Friday, warning them to preserve all of their records as the committee continues its investigations into the Biden regime’s mishandling of the border.
“This letter serves as a formal request to preserve all existing and future records and materials related to the Biden-Harris Administration’s enforcement of federal immigration law,” Jordan wrote in each of the letters.
“PRESERVE YOUR RECORDS,” the House Judiciary Committee wrote in an X post directed toward Garland and Mayorkas.
The Ohio congressman expressed concern that the departments could be in the process of destroying evidence after a paper shredding truck was spotted outside the Department of Justice earlier this week.
“With President Trump’s decisive victory earlier this month, we are concerned that DHS may attempt to purge relevant records, communications, and documents responsive to
our numerous requests for information,” Jordan wrote.
“You should construe this preservation notice as an instruction to take all reasonable steps to prevent the destruction or alteration, whether intentionally or negligently, of all documents, communications, and other information, including electronic information and metadata, that are or may be responsive to this congressional inquiry,” the chairman continued.
“This instruction includes all electronic messages sent using official and personal accounts or devices, including records created using text messages, phone-based message applications, or encryption software,” he added.
In a statement to the Hill, the Justice Department (DOJ) pushed back on the insinuation that it is destroying records.
“This Justice Department follows the law, including our legal obligations regarding the preservation of records, and we will continue to do so,” a DOJ spokesperson said.
The letters provide an appendix of dozens of outstanding oversight requests that were made to each agency in the past two years and ignored.
Jordan also sent a letter to special counsel Jack Smith shortly after the election asking him to retain all records related to his prosecutions of Trump, the Hill reported.
“Accountability is coming,” the Committee promised in its post on X.
Ok, so what happens if (of course they are purging their records) Garland and Mayorkas are purging records. What will congress do about it? What will the new AG do about it?
Precisely nothing!