John Conyers: “contrary to the practices and precedents of the House, the majority of the Committee on the Judiciary filed the report…”

“contrary to the practices and precedents of the House, the majority of the Committee on the Judiciary filed the report to accompany H.R. 2937 without allowing the minority to opportunity to file additional views. Unfortunately, it comes as no surprise that the majority did not want the minority to file additional views. This breach of the traditional comity of the House is consistent with the partisan tone that has characterized the majority's investigation into the Travel Office firings from the beginnings. The majority's report weaves a web of conspiracy that would make even Oliver Stone blanche. To hear the majority tell it, the conspiracy to frame Travel Office director Billy Dale and drag him through a political show trial includes the FBI investigators and career prosecutors who tried his case, not to mention the private citizens on the grand jury who voted to indict him. Cases where Congress considers providing funds to meet the legal expenses of defendants should meet a threshold of prosecutorial misconduct or the compromising of the criminal justice system. There is no evidence of such misconduct in the case of Mr. Dale.”