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   Earlier this month, Bill and Hillary Clinton officially refused to comply   
   with a subpoena that House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) issued,   
   formally rejecting demands to sit for closed-door depositions in the   
   House’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Their lawyers submitted an eight-   
   page letter declaring the subpoenas “invalid and legally unenforceable,”   
   followed by a sharply worded joint statement in which the Clintons vowed   
   to fight the effort as long as necessary.   
      
   On Tuesday, Comer dropped the hammer on the Clintons.   
      
   “Facing contempt of Congress, the Clintons’ lawyers made an untenable   
   offer: that I travel to New York for a conversation with President Clinton   
   only,” Comer revealed in a post on X. The conditions only got worse from   
   there. “No official transcript would be recorded and other Members of   
   Congress would be barred from participating. I have rejected the Clintons’   
   ridiculous offer.”   
      
   Comer added, “The Clintons’ latest demands make clear they believe their   
   last name entitles them to special treatment.”   
      
   Comer pointed out that the subpoenas came from a bipartisan House   
   Oversight Committee and required sworn, transcribed depositions, and an   
   informal, off-the-record chat fails to meet even the lowest standard of   
   oversight. “Former President Clinton has a documented history of parsing   
   language to evade questions, responded falsely under oath, and was   
   impeached and suspended from the practice of law as a result,” Comer said.   
      
   He then argued that transparency is extremely important to the Epstein   
   investigation. The idea of speaking without a transcript struck him as   
   offensive, not just procedurally flawed. “The absence of an official   
   transcript is an indefensible demand that is insulting to the American   
   people who demand answers about Epstein’s crimes,” he said.   
      
   Comer backed that argument with examples of how the committee already   
   handled high-profile witnesses. “As part of our investigation, the House   
   Oversight Committee has released transcripts of interviews with former   
   U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr and former U.S. Secretary of Labor Alex   
   Acosta, which has provided much needed transparency to the public,” he   
   said. Obviously, that transparency disappears when witnesses insist on   
   secrecy. “Without a formal record, Americans would be left to rely on   
   competing accounts of what was said.”   
      
   https://floppingaces.net/most-wanted/above-the-law-how-the-clintons-tried-   
   to-evade-the-epstein-subpoena/   
      
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