Former FBI official Jill Sanborn sat for a transcribed interview with the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday as the panel begins its investigations into the politicization of federal agencies.
Republicans allege that Sanborn engaged in misconduct while former executive assistant director of the FBI’s National Security Branch by pushing for cases to be classified as domestic terrorism under the guidance of the Biden administration. She appeared voluntarily after not meeting with the committee in December, when top Judiciary Republican Jim Jordan (R-OH) first made his request. Jordan had threatened to subpoena Sanborn if she didn’t agree to the sit-down.
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“According to whistleblower disclosures, Jill Sanborn cooked the books on domestic violent extremism cases when she was at the FBI,” Jordan tweeted in December. “She promised to sit for a transcribed interview with the Judiciary Committee today to discuss her role. At the last moment, she backed out.”
Sanborn met with the committee for slightly more than an hour, according to Punchbowl News, and answered questions without her personal lawyer or FBI counsel present, drawing objections from the agency. The practice is not unprecedented. Democrats had blocked counsel from transcribed interviews during former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment.
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Sanborn testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in January 2022 in the wake of the Justice Department and FBI apparently targeting parents protesting school boards as “domestic terrorists.”
She retired last year following 24 years at the FBI.
