As reported yesterday, former “Special Counsel” Jack Smith, the unqualified prosecutor who oversaw two failed cases against President Trump and who’s been shown to have flagrantly disregarded his political targets’ constitutional rights, is ** scheduled to testify Tuesday** before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing entitled “Oversight of Jack Smith’s Abuse of Authority and the Targeting of Republicans and Related Matters.” The hearing starts at 9AM Eastern, so pop some popcorn for breakfast and save a little to throw at the TV screen (with appropriate boos and hisses).
Since yesterday’s report by Laura Ainsworth, still more has emerged about Smith’s malfeasance in advance of his testimony, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit by The Oversight Project. Good timing --- this is something the senators on the committee should definitely be asking about.
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As ** reported by Breitbart News**, the DOJ records unearthed by this FOIA request show that Smith’s office “bent its own purchasing rules” to gain possession of forensic video software just days before the indictment of President Trump regarding the 2020 election. The documents “raise new questions about whether his office followed appropriate legal and ethical standards and what video Smith needed so urgently.”
Smith’s office was apparently in such a desperate rush (no exaggeration: one email actually uses the word “desperate”) to get this software, from Axon Investigate (a component of Axon Enterprises), that it bypassed the usual approval process for expenditures. Of course, this would have been a drop in the bucket for Smith, as he ended up laying out about $50 million of taxpayers’ money to chase Trump.
But Smith’s executive officer put the kibosh on the order, writing that she was “not okay with” bypassing the proper procedure. She wrote later that morning that she needed “to crack down on our processes” and had “a lot less leeway in the audit now that I have staff.” But then, still later, she turned around and authorized it, because “the purchase is urgent.” The mystery here: What was Smith’s office doing that made having this so urgent?
