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    Full Analysis Available at RobertGouveia.com. Fani's collusion with the January 6th Select Committee is on display in a new letter released by Congress. Prior to charging Trump, Fani sought additional records from Bennie Thompson and the J6'ers as part of her investigation into the Georgia RICO allegations.

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    December 5, 2023

    The Honorable Fani T. Willis


    District Attorney
    Fulton County District Attorney’s Office
    141 Pryor Street
    Atlanta, GA 30303

    Dear Ms. Willis:

    The Committee on the Judiciary continues to conduct oversight of politically motivated


    prosecutions by state and local officials. Although we were aware that your office had
    coordinated its politically motivated prosecutions with the Office of Special Counsel Jack Smith,
    we recently learned that your office also coordinated its investigative actions with the partisan
    Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol (“January 6
    Select Committee”). Accordingly, we write to request documents relating to the investigative
    coordination between your office and the partisan January 6 Select Committee.

    On August 24, 2023, we wrote to you requesting production of three categories of


    documents to advance the Committee’s oversight of politically motivated prosecutions by state
    and local officials.1 Your reply letter dated September 7, 2023, failed to adequately address the
    Committee’s requests and made several baseless excuses for refusing to provide the requested
    documents.2 We wrote again on September 27, 2023, explaining in detail the legal deficiencies in
    your position and offering, as a sign of good faith, to prioritize the production of certain
    documents so as to minimize any potential burden on your office.3 You responded to the
    Committee on October 11, 2023, rejecting our offer at accommodation and instead resorting to
    ad hominin attacks on the Committee’s oversight.4 Your response letter largely rehashed the

    1
    Letter from Rep. Jim Jordan, Chairman, H. Comm. on the Judiciary, to Dist. Att’y Fani T. Willis, Fulton Cty. Dist.
    Att’y’s Off. (Aug. 24, 2023).
    2
    Letter from Dist. Att’y Fani T. Willis, Fulton Cty. Dist. Att’y’s Off., to Rep. Jim Jordan, Chairman, H. Comm. on
    the Judiciary (Sep. 7, 2023).
    3
    Letter from Rep. Jim Jordan, Chairman, H. Comm. on the Judiciary, to Dist. Att’y Fani T. Willis, Fulton Cty. Dist.
    Att’y’s Off. (Sep. 27, 2023).
    4
    Letter from Dist. Att’y Fani T. Willis, Fulton Cty. Dist. Att’y’s Off., to Rep. Jim Jordan, Chairman, H. Comm. on
    the Judiciary (Oct. 11, 2023).
    The Honorable Fani T. Willis
    December 5, 2023
    Page 2

    same arguments that we considered and addressed in our detailed September 27 letter.5 You again
    failed to produce any documents in response to the Committee’s oversight.

    Recently, the Committee became aware of cooperation between your office and the
    partisan January 6 Select Committee.6 We are in possession of a letter, dated December 17, 2021,
    and enclosed herein, from you to Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, Chairman of the partisan January 6
    Select Committee, requesting access to congressional “records that may be relevant to our
    criminal investigation.”7 Specifically, you asked Rep. Thompson for access to “record [sic]
    includ[ing] but . . . not limited to recordings and transcripts of witness interviews and
    depositions, electronic and print records of communications, and records of travel.”8 You even
    offered that you and your staff were eager to travel to Washington, D.C, to “meet with
    investigators in person” and to receive these records “any time” between January 31, 2022, and
    February 25, 2022.9

    Although it is not clear what records, if any, you obtained from your coordination with
    the partisan January 6 Select Committee, this new information raises additional questions
    relevant to the Committee’s oversight of your politically motivated prosecution of a former
    President of the United States and several former senior federal officials. The partisan January 6
    Select Committee had a troubling track record of procedural abuses and due process violations. It
    only solicited evidence from a select set of relevant individuals, ignored exculpatory evidence,
    and did not pursue witnesses with evidence that would not advance its partisan narrative.10 It
    fabricated and publicly released doctored evidence.11 It cherrypicked selective information to
    create false and misleading public narratives.12 To the extent that your politically motivated
    prosecutions are now relying in any way on records obtained from the partisan January 6 Select
    Committee, it only reinforces concerns about your commitment to due process and whether you
    have fulfilled your obligations to properly disclose this material. 13

    5
    Id.
    6
    Tim Darnell, ‘We have an announcement’ – Fulton DA Willis launches fundraising website, ATLANTA NEWS FIRST
    (Aug. 10, 2023); Meet Fani Willis, FANIFORDA.COM (last visited Aug. 18, 2023) (highlighting an article from the
    New York Times with the headline “In Atlanta, a Local Prosecutor Takes on Murder, Street Gangs and a President”).
    7
    Letter from Dist. Att’y Fani T. Willis, Fulton Cty. Dist. Att’y’s Off., to Rep. Jim Jordan, Chairman, H. Comm. on
    the Judiciary (Dec. 17, 2021).
    8
    Id.
    9
    Id.
    10
    Letter from Rep. Jim Jordan, Ranking Member, H. Comm. on the Judiciary, to Rep. Bennie Thompson, Chairman,
    Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol at 2-3 (Jan. 9, 2022); see John
    Solomon, Jan. 6 Committee acknowledges it made false accusation against witness Bernard Kerik, JUST THE NEWS
    (Nov. 23, 2021).
    11
    Id.; see Sean Davis, During January 6 hearing, Schiff doctored text messages between Mark Meadows and Rep.
    Jim Jordan, THE FEDERALIST (Dec. 15, 2021).
    12
    Id.; see Daniel Chaitlin, Jan. 6 Committee caught misportraying another text message to Mark Meadows, WASH.
    EXAM. (Dec. 17, 2021).
    13
    We are aware, of course, of allegations in an unrelated high-profile prosecution that your office has been
    withholding materials from the defendant’s attorneys. Ashley Oliver, Fani Willis’s Young Thug RICO trial opens in
    turmoil, Wash. Exam., Nov. 27, 2023.
    The Honorable Fani T. Willis
    December 5, 2023
    Page 3

    Article I of the Constitution grants Congress “[a]ll legislative powers,”14 and the Supreme
    Court has held that “Congress may conduct inquiries into the administration of existing laws,
    studies of proposed laws, and . . . surveys of defects in our social, economic or political system
    for the purposes of enabling Congress to remedy them.”15 Further, as we have previously
    articulated to you, Congress “has authority to consider, and to investigate . . . legislative reforms
    to insulate current and former presidents from state prosecutions . . . .”16 Pursuant to Rule X of
    the House of Representatives, the Committee is authorized to conduct oversight of criminal
    justice matters to inform potential legislation.17 Accordingly, we ask that you please produce the
    following material:

    1. All documents and communications between or among the Fulton County District
    Attorney’s Office and the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the
    United States Capitol for the period July 1, 2021, to January 3, 2023; and

    2. All documents and communications referring or relating to records in the possession


    of the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office obtained from the Select Committee
    to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol.

    Please provide this information as soon as possible, but no later than 5:00 p.m. on December 19,
    2023. In addition, we reiterate the requests contained in the Committee’s August 24, 2023, letter
    and ask that you produce this material immediately. As we have previously expressed, the
    Committee is willing to work with you in good faith to prioritize the production of material in a
    manner that will alleviate the potential burden on your office.

    Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

    Sincerely,

    Jim Jordan
    Chairman

    cc: The Honorable Jerrold L. Nadler, Ranking Member

    Enclosure

    14
    U.S. CONST. amend. I, § 1.
    15
    Bragg v. Jordan, No. 1:23-CV-03032-MKV, 2023 WL 2999971, at *10 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 19, 2023) (citing Trump v.
    Mazars USA, LLP, 140 S. Ct. 2019, 2031 (2020)).
    16
    Id. at *7.
    17
    Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives, R. X(1)(5) (2023).

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