Former FBI official Jill Sanborn to Appear for Transcribed Interview with House Judiciary Committee on December 2, 2022
October 20, 2022
Former FBI official Jill Sanborn to Appear for Transcribed Interview with House Judiciary Committee on December 2, 2022In a new letter, Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Mike Johnson (R-LA) accepted the offer made by attorneys for former Assistant Director of the FBI Counterterrorism Division and Executive Assistant Director of the National Security Branch Jill Sanborn to appear for a transcribed interview before the House Judiciary Committee on Friday, December 2, 2022. Earlier this year, a whistleblower revealed that Sanborn pressured agents to reclassify cases as "domestic violent extremism" (DVEs) in order to appease the Biden Administration's woke left-wing agenda. Committee Republicans have been investigating the troubling pattern of abuse, intimidation, and political bias within the FBI and Department of Justice. Read the letter: "On August 10, 2022, we wrote to you requesting that you appear for a transcribed interview concerning your actions while employed at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Although your attorneys claimed you 'want to be responsive' to our request, you failed to take any meaningful steps to arrange your transcribed interview for over two months. Only late last Friday did your attorneys offer a specific date for a transcribed interview—December 2, 2022—a date six weeks in the future and nearly four months since our initial request."Your attorneys have maintained that a forthcoming letter from the FBI will fully respond to our request and obviate the need for your testimony. You should know, however, that we do not agree with this assertion. As Committee staff has informed your attorneys, our request to you for a transcribed interview is separate and distinct from the requests for documents and information we have made to the FBI and the Justice Department."Your attorneys have also suggested that the FBI must approve your appearance for a transcribed interview. You should be aware that, here too, we do not share your attorneys' view. Every federal employee, and former employee, has a right to speak with Congress without interference, intimidation, or obstruction from his or her employing agency. To the extent that the FBI is or has been preventing your ability to respond to our request in a timely and comprehensive manner, we will be interested in examining these facts during your transcribed interview."You have had over two months to complete your requested due diligence on our request for a transcribed interview. We have been patient and accommodating in attempting to work in good faith with your attorneys. Your testimony remains essential to our inquiry, and as such, we welcome your appearance for a transcribed interview on December 2, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. Because you are represented by personal counsel in this matter, agency counsel will not be permitted to attend the interview. If you have any questions about these proceedings, please ask your attorneys to contact Committee staff on your behalf."Read the full letter to Sanborn here.