Biden DOJ Official Admits to Misleading Congress on Her Arrest Record

Published on May 4, 2024

The civil rights chief of the U.S. Department of Justice has confessed to lying to Congress about her arrest history during her confirmation hearing three years ago. Kristen Clarke, the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the DOJ, admitted Wednesday that she had been arrested in 2006 in relation to a domestic violence complaint but chose not to disclose that information during her 2021 Senate confirmation process. “Nearly 2 decades ago, I was subjected to years-long abuse and domestic violence at the hands of my ex-husband,” Ms. Clarke wrote in a statement to CNN. “This was a terrorizing and traumatizing period that I have sought to put behind me to promote my personal health, healing and well-being,” she continued. “The physical and emotional scars, the emotional abuse and exploitation, and the lying are things that no woman or mother should ever have to endure.”...