The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee issued a warning on Dec. 4 to the heads of the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ), telling them not to dispose of records or documents that could indicate mismanagement or wrongdoing.
“I’m putting DOJ & FBI on notice,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) wrote on X. “Don’t shred a single document. Don’t delete a single file. Accountability is coming,” Hawley wrote on X.
Hawley’s post was accompanied by a more formal open letter addressed to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, stating that he had received reports that records were already being destroyed….