Quid probe quo: US Republicans investigate the investigators
Washington (AFP) - Republicans are firing the opening salvo in their investigative war against US President Joe Biden, escalating a standoff with the White House over alleged "weaponization" of the FBI and other government agencies. A House of Representatives subcommittee due for launch on Tuesday and led by Ohio's Jim Jordan, a darling of the hard right, will have a broad mandate to probe any government agency or program. The newly-minted Republican House majority has long signalled plans to turn the tables on Democrats after years of criminal and civil investigations into former president Do...