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House Republicans just took a hard, necessary step to get answers from the Manhattan-style special counsel operation that targeted President Trump. Chairman Jim Jordan issued a subpoena compelling former special counsel Jack Smith to sit for a deposition as part of the Judiciary Committee’s oversight into how politically charged prosecutions were handled.
Jordan’s letter makes plain that this isn’t a sideshow but a formal demand: the committee set a deposition for December 17 and asked for documents to be produced by December 12, showing Republicans intend to follow the paper trail wherever it leads. The Judiciary Committee has repeatedly raised serious questions about the conduct of Smith’s office and the people who assisted it, and Chairman Jordan is treating those questions like the rule-of-law issues they are.
Don’t let the media’s shrill hand-wringing fool you — Smith reportedly volunteered to testify publicly weeks ago, but the committee chose a closed-door deposition to preserve the integrity of the inquiry and prevent grandstanding and selective leaking. Smith’s lawyer complained about the decision, yet the committee’s job is not to stage a TV spectacle; it’s to get facts from those who oversaw politically explosive prosecutions.
On Sean Hannity’s program, Chairman Jordan made the sober point conservatives have been demanding: Smith will “definitely be under oath” and therefore “obligated to tell the truth,” a moment that underlines that this is about accountability, not theater. For too long the Deep State and its allies at the DOJ have operated with impunity; putting people who ran politically driven prosecutions on the hook under oath is the exact medicine this country needs.
Predictably, Democrats screamed about secrecy and accused Republicans of hiding things, but that criticism smells of projection — Democrats want public soapboxes so they can cherry-pick soundbites, not real oversight. If the Biden Justice Department had nothing to hide, there would be no need for a subpoena and no need for committee members to press for sworn testimony to cut through carefully curated narratives.
This probe also follows troubling disclosures that Smith’s team examined metadata tied to phone records connected to members of Congress as part of the Arctic Frost work, raising legitimate concerns about the scope and methods used in these investigations. Americans who work hard for a living don’t expect their officials to weaponize surveillance or weaponize the law to settle political scores, and Congress has a duty to investigate whether those lines were crossed.
Patriots who love this country should applaud a House that finally moves to enforce accountability across the swamp — nobody is above the law, and a former special counsel who wielded the full force of federal power must answer under oath. Chairman Jordan and his colleagues are doing the heavy lifting the rest of Washington has refused to do, and hardworking Americans deserve nothing less than a full accounting of how politically motivated lawfare was prosecuted.
