New York’s Elise Stefanik, who last year replaced Liz Cheney as chair of the House Republican Conference, said she expects the GOP-controlled lower chamber’s newly created subcommittee examining the “weaponization” of the federal government to do “some of the most important work of the 118th Congress.”
Stefanik shared this insight during an interview with Breitbat after Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy named all twelve committee members, her included, on the important House Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government,
The subcommittee will be chaired by Jim Jordan (R-OH_ and “will have far-reaching authority to investigate the Justice Department, intelligence community organizations like the FBI and CIA, and private companies like Twitter,” Breitbart reported.
We’re coming off of two years of single-party Democrat rule, when there was virtually no oversight effectively of these agencies that have run afoul, and, in many cases, I believe, have committed illegal acts,” Stefanik said.
“Take the FBI and DOJ for starters,” Stefanik said. “There is a long, long list of abuses and illegal targeting, not just of high-profile Americans who happen to be conservatives or Republicans but everyday Americans, whether it’s the raid on Mar-a-Lago, whether it was the illegal spying on the Trump campaign in 2016, whether it was the tampering with the FISA documentation, or whether, most recently, it was the fact that one of Bob Mueller’s top FBI officials working on the special counsel was, at the time, he was the FBI, New York, head of counterintelligence, was just found guilty of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from Russia.”
The subcommittee is modeled after the famous Church Committee from the 1970s that explored intrusive and illegal activities of other federal agencies which violated Americans’ civil rights.
Stefanik pointed out that some of the work would include looking at things done which pre-date the Biden administration, but at the end of the day she also recognized that the “deep state needs to be rooted out at the core of these agencies, and it’s culminating in the politicization and how the Biden White House has used these agencies as their political arm and a political weapon.”
The official Twitter handle for the House Judiciary GOP sent out a text with fire emojis when revealing who would be sitting on it.
🔥 @SpeakerMcCarthy Appoints Members to Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government pic.twitter.com/gUXEPgZWfT
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) January 24, 2023
Even Elon Musk weighed in on the critical work of the group. “This is important,” Mr. Tweet said below the thread.
Other comments followed along partisan lines, but most were optimistic something might actually come out of the subcommittee’s work and even offered suggestions.
“I hope this new committee has the courage to: LOCK. THEM. UP,” one enthusiastic post said, before continuing. THEM being the Democrat Politicians who weaponized the federal agencies to gaslight and suppress American citizens engaged in rational discussion of insane Democrat policies.”
Another comment addressed the whole reason why the subcommittee even needed to exist. “We need to know why FBI only goes after GOP while never investigating antifa and BLM who clearly organizes violence, destruction, and looting across states,” the user wrote.
“I hope this will not follow the “Jan 6th invest. format which felt like a “made for TV miniseries” I would support a freeze on future funding of cert agencies and placing senior mgmt on paid admin leave while the invest takes place as you are likely to have to dig pretty deep,” another wrote.
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