THE LOWDOWN:

• A hit piece from NBC News about the Oversight Committee’s usage of “a digital signature” is falling flat following revelations from the Washington Reporter that NBC itself relies on the same technology.

• NBC News certainly thought it caught Rep. James Comer (R., Ky.) dead to rights with its story, “Lead investigator into Biden’s use of an autopen signed letters with a digital signature.”

• However, none other than NBCUniversal itself used a digital signature in filings obtained by the Reporter.

• Still, some Democrats in Congress like Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D., N.Y.) immediately tried to leverage the NBC story to attack Comer’s efforts.

A hit piece from NBC News about the Oversight Committee’s usage of “a digital signature” is falling flat following revelations from the Washington Reporter that NBC itself relies on the same technology.

NBC News certainly thought it caught Rep. James Comer (R., Ky.) dead to rights with its story, “Lead investigator into Biden’s use of an autopen signed letters with a digital signature.”

However, none other than NBCUniversal itself used a digital signature in filings obtained by the Reporter.

Republicans in Congress are not taking issue with President Joe Biden using an autopen per se, but rather the autopen being used by Biden White House aides for acts of clemency ahead of the former president’s departure from office.

“The Biden defense is revealing itself and it looks like a confession to the crimes,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) told the Reporter.

Some of Issa’s colleagues, like Rep. Jimmy Patronis, have spoken with the Reporter about the need for, in Patronis’s case, a select committee to get to the bottom of Biden’s age coverup.

Still, some Democrats in Congress like Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D., N.Y.) immediately tried to leverage the NBC story to attack Comer’s efforts.

“Comer using an autopen to investigate an autopen is just so James,” Moskowitz said. “That’s what we love about him, his attention to detail.”