Chaffetz Skipped Meeting With Ethics Chief He Threatened To Subpoena, Emails Show

[Stonepounder]

Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON ― Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the Utah Republican who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, told reporters last week that a government ethics official who had criticized President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deal with his potential conflicts of interest refused to meet with him. Chaffetz even threatened to subpoena the official, Office of Government Ethics director Walter Shaub. “This is not going to be an optional exercise,” Chaffetz said.

But it was Chaffetz who missed a previously discussed meeting in early December, according to Office of Government Ethics emails The Huffington Post obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request. And the ethics office now says the congressman is trying to keep an upcoming meeting — proposed for Jan. 23 — closed to the public.
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Rather than investigating Trump’s entanglements, Republicans attacked OGE. Chaffetz—who previously cited his teen daughter as a reason he couldn’t support Trump, then voted for him—sent a threatening letter to Shaub dated Jan. 12, instructing him to come in for a closed-door meeting with House Oversight Committee staff. That letter surfaced in the press, but in an internal email, Shaub noted that Chaffetz’s staff apparently didn’t want the public to know about it.

Shaub wrote in a Jan. 14 email to his staff that, as far as he knew, OGE did not release the letter. (Ranking Minority Member Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) was also copied on Chaffetz’s letter.) But “a letter between two public institutions is not something we would have withheld,” he added.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jason-chaffetz-emails-meeting-with-shaub_us_587fe1d1e4b04b69667e3760?lk0saldx4tbkjra4i

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Read the whole article. Chaffetz missed meetings, then blamed Shaub. Guess the habits of the Liar-in-Chief are catching.

[Alice11111]

1. Such an aggressive, amoral scumbag

Dems need to target him #1. Last election, I gave my pennies to his opponent. He really didn't have a good challenger. There must be someone in Utah!!!

[GP6971]

2. You're being too kind. n/t

[StevieM]

4. He is perhaps the biggest bastard in Congress. And that is really saying something. (eom)

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Good Guys1,

Little Jason=0. Nuff said.

[Leghorn21]

5. Walter Shaub is the MAN. I want a kingsized poster of him

on my wall, stat!

Hang tough, Mr. Shaub!

[tenorly]

6. Chafing under an ethics cloud himself no doubt.

Chafing Chaffetz.

[drray23]

7. I dont think walter shaub strikes me

as a man who will crumble under pressure. Chaffetz feeble attempts at bullying him are probably not going to work.

[TomCADem]

8. What's Up With Republicans Throwing Staff Under the Bus?

Chaffetz is a no show, but he blames the Ethics Director for failing to meet.

[2naSalit]

9. He run these Committee hearings

like a kangaroo court, shouting at the "witness" and never allowing any response, interrupts, talks over them blurting out his assumptions that fell out of his ass...

[DFW]

10. The only difference between Chaffetz and horse droppings

Is that when waterlogged, Chaffetz would sink faster.

[Crash2Parties]

11. Remember "Freedom of Information Act" requests? Ah, those were fun...

Journalist, circa 2018

[Fast Walker 52]

12. haha, hopefully that will be the least of our worries

[Fast Walker 52]

13. what an awful person, our government is being run by the most amoral weasel-faced scum

possible. They don't even seem capable of shame... their crazy rightwing fantasies are running amok

[turbinetree]

14. My question is how and why he can just disallow the public from attending

I think some citizens should show up.............................