"Overseeing The Overseers": CIGIE & The Right To Bear Witness To Bring Down The Heavens

The "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) continue their great search for the origins of the investigation.

I am waiting to see how much longer it takes for them to figure it out because I published the press release a few years ago and blog every single day about it.

Nadler previously informed the public that the whistleblower was "Protected by the Highest Order".

I am going with The Celestial Goddess, in the Woodshed, with verification of qui tams, in the Vatican, but hey, what do I know?

I know the Second Amendment has absolutely nothing to do with guns.

I also know that the "Elected Ones" are a reflection of how poorly our educational system functions.

“Overseeing the Overseers: Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency @ 10 Years”

#maytheheavensfall

Witnesses

Ms. Kathy Buller
Inspector General, Peace Corps, on behalf of Executive Director, Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency Legislation Committee

Mr. Scott Dahl
Inspector General, Department of Labor, on behalf of Chairman, Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency

Mr. Michael Horowitz
Inspector General, Department of Justice, on behalf of Chairman, Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency

Documents

• NOTICE
• Memo

116th Congress

Margins matter.

Aryele Bradford obviously did not find this hearing to be historic based upon the use of 0.05 margins.

Oversight Chairman Connolly's Opening Statement On CIGIE 9-18-2019 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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JUDICIARY & OVERSIGHT: TOP HOUSE DEMS RENEW CALL FOR WHITE HOUSE-DOJ COMMUNICATIONS ON TIME WARNER MERGER

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, top Democrats from the House Judiciary and House Oversight and Government Reform Committees sent a letter to the Department of Justice renewing their February 8, 2018 request for documents related to AT&T’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner in light of new concerns raised by recent statements regarding President Donald Trump’s potential interference with the Department’s merger review process.  The letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions from House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), House Antitrust Subcommittee Ranking Member David N. Cicilline (D-RI), and House Government Operations Subcommittee Ranking Member Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA), requests any and all communications between the White House and the Department of Justice on the matter.

“As we have repeatedly noted, political interference in law enforcement matters—including antitrust enforcement—is unacceptable and without modern precedent,” the Members wrote. “Despite our repeated requests for materials related to the Trump Administration’s many conflicting claims on the matter, the Department has not provided Congress with any relevant information.”

On March 1, 2018, Cummings and Connolly sent a letter to Chairman Trey Gowdy requesting a subpoena for these documents, but Gowdy declined and blocked Committee members from voting on the subpoena.  

Cummings & Nadler Letter to AG Sessions Re ATT Time Warner 5-15-2018 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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CONYERS, CUMMINGS, CONNOLLY & CICILLINE Request Documents about President Trump’s Regulatory Task Forces’ Secret Meetings and Conflicts of Interest

Washington, D.C. (August 7, 2017)—Today, Reps. John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Gerry Connolly, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, and David Cicilline, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law, sent a letter, below, to Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney and Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator Neomi Rao expressing grave concerns about the secrecy of the Regulatory Reform Task Forces and requesting information about the nature of their meetings.

“We write to express our alarm concerning the lack of transparency, accountability, and independence of the Regulatory Reform Task Forces,” the Members wrote. “We believe that the interests of the American public must be paramount when reviewing the worthiness of regulations. Therefore, these Task Forces must have an effective and transparent guard against conflicts of interest, especially those in which industry lobbyists seek to overturn environmental and health protections for financial gain. It appears that the current Task Forces are already failing on this front, and instead are actively hiding their members and their meetings from public view.”

The Democrats explained that press reports indicate these Task Forces appear to have operated in private without public input, and some agencies have refused to release basic information about their activity or maintain a record of their meetings as required by the Federal Records Act.

“Withholding the names and titles of Task Force participants may also violate the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA),” the Members wrote. “Simply put, it is unacceptable for federal agencies to operate in such a clandestine and unaccountable manner especially when the result could be the undoing of critical public health and safety protections.”

The Members also expressed concern that several employees stand to profit from their work on the Task Force. For example, the wife of one Task Force member at the Environmental Protection Agency is the top lobbyist for a large oil company.

“Rather than ‘drain the swamp,’ these conflicts threaten to influence the outcome of the review process against hardworking Americans and in favor of regulated industries and agency staff,” the Members wrote.

The Members requested documents and information, including a description of every Task Force created pursuant to the executive order, a list of the names and titles of every member of each Task Force, and communications related to non-governmental entities participating in Task Force meetings.

Congressional Letter To OMB On Executive Order On Regulatory Task Force 2017-08-7 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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