This past week, the hotly-anticipated House Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government met for the first time and paid out the groundwork for its actions over the coming two years.
The Committee is chaired by Jim Jordan (R-OH) and features other prominent America First representatives likeDarrell Issa (R-CA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), and Chip Roy (R-TX).
“There’s a lot for us to do,” Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) said to reporters after the meeting. “That’s really clear, and that’s just in the course of the discussion we had.” Bishop famously earned his spot over Texas Republican Dan Crenshaw, who blasted House Freedom Caucus members as “terrorists” during their famous holdouts during the Speaker vote earlier this month.
The DC Enquirer was on top of the story, noting that the committee will focus on long overdue concerns from the American public as it relates to invasive and possibly illegal actions taken by the federal intelligence agencies.
As previously reported by the DC Enquirer, the committee will focus on how the intelligence agencies and federal law enforcement have utilized their power to the detriment of the American people.
The committee will be especially useful given the influx of instances in which the federal government, in the form of the FBI, has used its influence to force social media companies to silence users or stories like the Hunter Biden laptop story of October 2020.
Although it didn’t need the Twitter Files to prompt their investigations, the reporting that stemmed from Elon Musk’s takeover didn’t hurt. Musk’s initial information dump concerning the 2020 election only strengthen the resolve of members to get to the root of the corrupt agencies that were seen as manipulating election outcomes through narrative control.
Twitter banned a story in October of 2020 regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop, which has since been verified as authentic. Polls suggest countless voters would have reconsidered their presidential selection had they known the extent of the Biden family’s corruption.
“Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary,” wrote journalist Matt Taibbi. “Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth.”
The DC Enquirer continued its reporting by quoting CNN, which suggested the GOP-led committee might not consult their Democrat colleagues during the process. The GOP have 12 members while the Democrats have just 9.
With the Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee now underway, the Republicans are likely to launch repetitive subpoenas to get answers. According to CNN, the GOP representatives are not likely to consult their Democrat colleagues on the committee when deciding subpoena requests. This is a sign that the Republicans are going to be hard at work and not allow the Democrats on the committee to get in their way.
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