Kerry Now Facing Oversight Investigation, Lawsuit Over Secretive Office, Meetings With Climate Activists

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Climate czar John Kerry is leaving his job with the Biden administration, as we reported.

He’s exiting that job to work for Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. But hopefully, they will both get tossed out of their “jobs” with the vote in November.

But there’s news that’s not good for Kerry, and I wonder if it may have anything to do with him heading for the exits.

The House Oversight Committee has launched an investigation into Special Envoy for Climate Kerry for frequently meeting with climate and environmental activists. Comer demanded unreacted documents and communication related to Kerry’s “collusion with leftist environmental groups,” as well as information about Kerry’s secretive office, known as SPEC, and the payroll. He’s looking for everything since Kerry came in three years ago and demanding that they turn it over by Feb. 21.

Comer was looking particularly at meetings of the “Kitchen Cabinet.”

Comer said these meetings with leftist groups went “far beyond normal briefings and raise questions regarding possible conflicts of interests involving SPEC staff’s ties to these groups regarding climate finance investments.”

“Documents received by the Committee illustrate that the coordination and briefings are anything but ordinary—a two-way street exists for the purposes of obtaining ‘off the record’ information, receiving climate finance consultation, and influencing U.S. foreign policy positions,” the chairman continued.

Communications reviewed by the committee, Comer said, show groups asking for and receiving consultation from the climate envoy office on “strategic guidance for navigating ‘funding gap[s]’ for climate-related finance action” that could be used to support “possible wealth transfers or insider dealings…