{"id":15829,"date":"2025-11-19T15:31:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jordan-refers-former-jack-smith-aide-to-department-of-justice\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:31:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:31:45","slug":"jordan-refers-former-jack-smith-aide-to-department-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jordan-refers-former-jack-smith-aide-to-department-of-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan refers former Jack Smith aide to Department of Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) referred a top aide to former special counsel Jack Smith to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution over obstruction of a congressional investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Windom, who was senior assistant special counsel under Smith, sat for an interview with congressional investigators in June and a deposition in September.<\/p>\n<p>In a Wednesday letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Jordan wrote that Windom declined to answer questions by citing a lack of authorization from her department, along with other justifications. But the DOJ had authorized his testimony before he sat for an interview with congressional investigators, Jordan argued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Committee on the Judiciary writes to refer significant evidence that Thomas Windom, former Senior Assistant Special Counsel to Jack Smith, has, by his conduct during a deposition before the Committee, obstructed a congressional investigation,\u201d Jordan <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/2025-11-19-jdj-to-doj-re-windom-referral.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in the letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This letter is part of a wide-ranging effort from Republicans across both chambers of Congress to target Smith and his office for their investigations into Donald Trump. Republicans have repeatedly argued that Smith\u2019s work constituted a kind of politicization of federal law enforcement, even as Trump has broken with modern precedent by publicly calling on his attorney general to prosecute his political adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Jordan subpoenaed Windom to compel his cooperation after the voluntary transcribed interview. At the September deposition, Jordan recalled that Windom\u2019s attorney cited \u201can unspecified First Amendment privilege, attorney-client privilege, a misguided belief that the Committee had no legitimate legislative purpose for the inquiry, and his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jordan argued that Windom&#8217;s justifications were unpersuasive.<\/p>\n<p>A Justice Department spokesperson and a lawyer for Windom did not immediately return requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) referred a top aide to former special counsel Jack Smith to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution over obstruction of a congressional investigation. Thomas Windom, who was senior assistant special counsel under Smith, sat for an interview with congressional investigators in June and a deposition in September. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}