Tim Stretton is director of the Congressional Oversight Initiative at the Project On Government Oversight, where he trains congressional staff to conduct oversight and investigations. He joined the organization's policy team in 2019 after six years working for Sen. Susan Collins and the Senate Special Committee on Aging, and he has testified before Congress on oil and gas royalty oversight and congressional oversight capacity.
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Role at the time: Director of the Congressional Oversight Initiative at the Project On Government Oversight, quoted by Democracy Docket
Condemned
Response to this claim
Blumenthal's inquiry into White House ballroom donors threatens citizens for associating with the president and may violate 18 U.S.C. sections 241 and 242.
“There are legitimate constitutional limits on congressional oversight investigations, but those limits cannot be used as a blanket excuse for the executive branch to obstruct oversight”
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Why we used this label
Stretton calls the letters meritless and says the executive branch cannot use limits on oversight as an excuse to obstruct it, so we labeled it condemns.
U.S. Attorney Aaron Reitz posted a letter telling Sen. Richard Blumenthal to preserve records, citing two federal civil rights crimes over his inquiry into White House ballroom donors. Blumenthal calls the implied threat baseless and says he will not be intimidated.
