Government Oversight

By John Conyers Jr. December 19 at 8:14 PM John Conyers Jr., Democrat, represents Michigan's 13th Congressional District in the House. Nearly 50 years ago, the Kerner Commission, which was created in the aftermath of the country's 1967 riots, warned that "our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal." And now, six years after the election of our first Afri... Read more »

Yesterday the Department of Justice issued an updated policy statement to curb the risks of unlawful profiling by federal law enforcement agencies. Building on the 2003 guidance issued by the Bush administration, the new policy expands covered classifications to include gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity and includes activities related to national security an... Read more »

Today, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a redacted summary of its 6,000-page report on the use of torture by the Central Intelligence Agency. The report concludes that the CIA’s use of “enhanced interrogation” techniques in the years following the attacks of September 11, 2001 did not effectively assist the agency in acquiring intelligence or in gaining cooperation from detaine... Read more »

Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.) sent a letter to Chief Judge Ed Carnes and Judge Gerald Tjoflat of the United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit regarding the arrest and the ongoing prosecution of Middle District of Alabama Judge Mark Fuller in Atlanta, Georgia for a violation of state criminal law. Following the laws... Read more »

12/01/14 Letter to 11th Circuit Court » Read more »

Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr., released the following statement after the Senate fell two votes short of ending debate on the USA FREEDOM Act of 2014. The 58-42 vote effectively cuts off any prospect of surveillance reform in the 113th Congress. The USA FREEDOM Act would have introduced sweeping reforms to various government surveillance programs, including the ... Read more »

Joint Cmte. Leadership Letter to Acting CDC Director » Read more »

House and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Members John Conyers, Jr. and Chuck Grassley are raising questions about a new practice by the Justice Department denying certain records to the department’s Inspector General. During testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in September, the Inspector General for the Department of Justice, Michael Horowitz, raised concerns about the FBI’s refusal... Read more »

Joint Cong. Judiciary Cmte. Ranking Members Letter to Acting AG » Read more »

Judiciary Cmte. Letter to AD Clancy » Read more »