House Republicans to Form a Committee ‘Weaponization Of The Federal Government’Report

Ben ZeisloftJanuary 2, 2023

House Republicans Plan to create a subcommittee for exposure collusion There will be no distinction between federal agencies or private companies on Tuesday when they take control.

Current name: “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” According to a report, GOP lawmakers will use the new House majority to investigate how federal law enforcement and intelligence community influenced corporate America to censor narratives or track citizens. report The Wall Street Journal

A subcommittee, unlike a select committee like the one that was called by Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), to investigate the January 6 attack at the United States Capitol, has the power and authority to review and introduce legislation. This raises the possibility of reforming the bureaucratic structure, which many Republicans feel is a threat to the system’s checks and balances, once the heart of the operation of the federal government.

The committee’s creation is a reflection of a demand House Republicans have reservations about Kevin McCarthy (R. CA), House Minority Leader, serving as the next Speaker. Seven lawmakers asked for a body modeled after the Church Committee that would investigate federal abuses and issue subpoenas.

The Church Committee was a committee created by the Senate in 1975. It exposed a number of controversial CIA operations including infiltration of civil right organizations and attempts to plant assets in domestic and foreign news outlets. Kimberly Strassel, the Wall Street Journal columnist who reported the news of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government argued that the Church Committee was not to be trusted. “did far more harm than good” By “allowing the left to attack and undermine” The intelligence community.

They are also seven legislators called McCarthy, who is running for top office in House of Representatives, with a narrow majority, to not introduce single-issue legislation and to make serious efforts towards limiting federal spending.

After Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, released a series titled “The Subcommittee” and outlined his plans for its creation, the planned creation of this subcommittee is possible. “Twitter Files” He spoke of coordinated efforts by federal agents and former executives at the social media firm, which he purchased at the end last year. There was. “an organized effort by representatives of the intelligence community” This is the goal “senior executives at news and social media companies” to discredit “leaked information about Hunter Biden before and after it was published,” According to a release Independent journalist Michael Shellenberger: Possibly influencing the outcome of 2020 elections

Twitter received more than $3.4million from the FBI to pay for its surveillance. “legal process response,” Evidently, he was referring to the time that executives spent working with the agency to discuss stories agents wanted to suppress.

Another release Matt Taibbi, an investigative journalist, published emails between federal law enforcement officials and company officials. These emails showed that officials repeatedly flagged posts relating to election from small accounts for company censorship. The FBI stated that it was responding to the publication. “regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identified foreign malign influence actors’ subversive, undeclared, covert, or criminal activities.” A second version was published days later. statement According to the FBI, “conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.”