Two Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday sent a scathing letter to committee chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) for seemingly being tricked by man who was indicted months ago for being an unregistered agent for the Chinese government.
The letter, written by Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Dan Goldman (D-NY), took Comer to task for hyping up Gal Luft as a whistleblower seemingly without doing basic work to verify his claims or explore whether he may have had an ulterior motive for coming forward.
"We are concerned that an official committee of the House of Representatives has been manipulated by an apparent con man who, while a fugitive from justice, attempted to fortify his defense by laundering unfounded and potentially false allegations through Congress," they wrote. "Although Mr. Luft has been on the run for months, you touted him as a 'potential witness' and even prepared to interview him as part of your investigation. As recently as Friday, you described Mr. Luft as 'a very credible witness' about matters relating to the President’s son’s financial dealings with Chinese companies."
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The congressmen also take Comer to task for opening the door to allow Luft to potentially manipulate his investigation "not only for his own self-interest but perhaps also in furtherance of the [Chinese Communist Party's] efforts to undermine U.S. security interests."
The Democrats concluded the letter by asking Comer to "immediately initiate an investigation into whether the Committee may have been unwittingly duped by Mr. Luft in furtherance of the CCP’s interests, as well as any potentially false statements made by Mr. Luft to Members of Congress or congressional staff."
