The cold hard truth is that this seems to have become a way of thinking in the Department of Justice. In short, congressional requests for information are too often dismissed or ignored. We in the House of Representatives are held accountable to the public every two years. That is one of the primary reasons that we must take seriously our responsibility to oversee those who believe they are not accountable. One of the reasons I ran for Congress, one of the reasons I studies and practices law, was to tr and remedy injustice wherever I could.
Justice is everyone's due.
Justice means not being cheated, not being defrauded, and it certainly means not being pushed around. I have come to learn that some people do get pushed around even by the government. I was very late coming to that realization, but I learned that people in government exercising enormous power are human beings, and like everybody else, are capable of error and arrogance. They are capable of hubris, they are capable of overreaching, and yes, on very infrequent occasions they are capable of pushing people around. And so when such injustice happens, it is doubly frustrating because our citizens have no place to turn.