House Republicans are now signaling a top-to-bottom investigation of the FBI when the party takes over the lower congressional chamber in January.
Incoming House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) suggested that the bureau needs to be investigated in the same manner as the Church Committee, which investigated abuses by the CIA, FBI, Internal Revenue Service, and National Security Agency. The committee, led by then-Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho), revealed the now-infamous CIA MKULTRA program and COINTELPRO, which were commissioned by the FBI.
“We’ve been looking at a Church-style committee to look at this,” Jordan told Just the News last week.
And several days before that, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he was open to the suggestion. “We’ve got to get to the very bottom, and I think just subpoenas are starting, but you’re almost going to have to have a Church-style investigation to reform the FBI, the more that we are learning,” McCarthy told Fox News.
“With a new Republican majority next year, it’s not enough to just hold hearings, we need to hold people accountable,” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) wrote last Tuesday.
Earlier in the week, Macy told Fox News that “I really want to know what government agents and agencies were censoring the free speech of Americans,” referring to the FBI’s interactions with Twitter. “I want to see heads roll. I want to see people fired for what they’ve done.”
The Epoch Times has contacted the FBI for comment.
Twitter Files
It comes after Elon Musk-owned Twitter released internal documents and communications to several journalists showing agents within the FBI attempting to discredit an explosive New York Post report published in October 2020 that detailed Hunter Biden’s business dealings and laptop.
“What I quickly put together is a pattern where it appears that FBI agents, along with former FBI agents within the company, were engaged in a disinformation campaign aimed at top Twitter and Facebook executives, as well as at top news organization executives to basically prepare them, prime them, get them set up to dismiss Hunter Biden information when it would be released,” author Michael Shellenberger, who posted internal communications from Twitter and FBI agents, wrote in a lengthy thread last week.
Other materials that recently have come to light include messages indicating that FBI officials had flagged specific posts to Twitter employees for removal. On Nov. 6, 2022, special agent Elvis Chan forwarded an email from the National Election Command Post (NECP) that flagged about two-dozen accounts, including a prominent one belonging to Right Side Broadcasting Network. Posts created by the account, the NECP wrote, “may warrant additional action due to the accounts being utilized to spread misinformation about the upcoming election.”
The FBI, according to separate installments of the “Twitter Files,” appeared to be constantly communicating with Twitter and even went so far as to create a specific communication channel shared by both company employees and the bureau’s employees. Internal messages released this month show that top former Twitter managers had expressed unease about the FBI’s advances.
On Saturday, journalist Matt Taibbi released more internal files, suggesting that the FBI had assigned staffers to look for Twitter term-of-service violations to get accounts suspended. He released a November 2020 message from then-Twitter lawyer James Baker, himself a former FBI official, noting that it is “odd that they (the FBI) are searching for violations of our policies.”
Another message from a Twitter staffer expressed concern about the FBI’s “aggressive” demands, according to another post Saturday. “Due to a lack of technical evidence on our end, I’ve generally left it be, waiting for more evidence,” he says. “Our window on that is closing, given that government partners are becoming more aggressive on attribution.”
In response to the recent reports detailing the FBI’s interactions with Twitter, the law enforcement agency claimed that “conspiracy theorists” are trying to damage the bureau’s work.
“The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding, and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries,” the FBI told Fox News last week. “As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers.”
“The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public,” the FBI statement added. “It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.”
“Other materials that recently have come to light include messages indicating that FBI officials had flagged specific posts to Twitter employees for removal.”,,,,Which demands that the FBI originators of these post flaggers be immediately identified and targeted for removal themselves from the FBI IMMEDIATELY. Follow the paper trails and bread crumbs back to their candy-coated FBI gingerbread safe houses that would make Handsel and Gretel meals out of all of us and our freedoms of speech. They all need to be tossed into the very ovens they sought to burn WE THE PEOPLE and our Constitutions up in.
“It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.”
Huh??
The FBI political police gestapo of the treasonous Democrat Part has discredited itself.
#1. How does the FBI explain their false attacks on President Trump and their fabricated Russian collusion fairytale?
#2. How does the FBI explain their suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop evidence right before the election,
that would have changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election??
#3. How does the FBI explain their witch hunt raid on Donald Trumps Florida home in a witch hunt expedition??
#4. The FBI and the DOJ has become the political police Gestapo of the treasonous, unethical Democrat Party that attacks their political rivals.
AND ANY ONE still claiming “There are still good folks working there, its just the higher ups that are wrong”, IS IMO TOO STUPID to allow to vote.
This current FBI has showed itself to be politically partisan and in so doing has acted in ways that have unbalanced the Constitutionally designed created balance of power between Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of government. They have created a new branch of government power of thier own who now seeks to protect and expand their power, not secure the power of the three branches as originally and Constitutionally created. Either change the Constitution to make what they do legal, or cull out the illegality of the institution that now exists and put leashes upon their attack dogs to be retrained to attack the enemies of the state, not the state itself.
Unfortunately, imo they’ve been this way SINCE HOOVER..
It’s time to bring to light what has been hidden—don’t leave a single stone unturned.
Did you know what the FBI and others were doing was Treason when you are for immagints and other Countries is what has Happen when they were for the Democrats is doing since they got Joe Elected Now China selling more Goods in the USA and more illegal Drugs coming from China thru Mexico too Cartels own the Border and Joe tell them to take down Shipping Containers that were Blocking the Gap in the Wall that He would not let them finish with the Wall supplies there and could not Use either What you see was TREASON to our USA Period
Absolutely. Bring it on, and don’t relent. Expose the revelations from every witness and see where the trail leads. We all know where it will lead, but the ignorant public needs to have it shoved right in front of their faces, and perhaps they will remember the next time they go to the polls.
BUT what good will investigating them do.. WHEN WE HAVE SEEN FIRST HAND, willful criminal activity that DID get investigated, YET NOT A DAMN SINGLE PERSON ever faced one single charge???
Well, the hope is that with a new congress in control there will be follow up and maybe even a forced prosecution based upon undeniable proof. They have to try. People need to understand that this Deep State police force is not Efrem Zimbalist’s version of the FBI. The only option is to keep after them until enough FBI employees elect to tell what they know in congressional hearings. At some point the crooked MSM will have to start reporting the facts out loud.
YOu have more faith than i do, that “Something just has to happen”..
another “investigation” that takes forever and never accomplishes anything (like the Durham report)? Of course, that’s the plan to keep the sheeple smiling at how great our government is