Conyers’ website politicizes House Judiciary Committee

During a Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law hearing to discuss the firing of eight U.S. attorneys and featuring Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, Smith, the ranking Republican on the full panel, complained that the new site, called Write Congress to Right Justice, seems to solicit information on politicization of the Justice Department, but in fact only seeks information about the Bush administration and not previous administrations.

Smith noted that Republicans were not consulted before the site was launched and pointed out that the Web page states that information sent by private individuals will be “received and reviewed by a select group of members of the majority staff of the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives.”

“This Web site purports to solicit evidence, but it actually appears to be a partisan persecution of the administration,” Smith said. He added that he spoke to the House parliamentarian, who apparently told Smith that he is “very troubled” by the site.

Conyers’ politicization of the House Judiciary Committee is clearly a partisan witch hunt, and should be investigated by the Ethics Committee. The House should call for a full disclosure from Chairman Conyers, including, but not limited to, all records of letters and emails, and telephone records.

Obviously, the Democrats are concerned about leaving an incriminating trail of e-mail evidence, evidenced by these instructions:

“We recommend that current or former employees use personal e-mail to this Web site or call or write the staff of the committee” at the majority Democrats‘ main line.” Source

Conyers is certainly no stranger to unethical behavior. It has only been six months since his last spree:

Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) has “accepted responsibility” for possibly violating House rules by requiring his official staff to perform campaign-related work, according to a statement quietly released by the House ethics committee late Friday evening.

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