ANALYSIS – LONG OVERDUE – The new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government will soon be investigating federal agencies that have abused their power and violated Americans’ rights.
The spotlight should be especially focused on those federal agencies in the law enforcement and intelligence arenas.
As I have repeatedly argued, this subcommittee is long overdue and badly needed, as the always-growing behemoth that is our federal government has, in recent years, been fully weaponized for partisan gain and abused citizens of all stripes.
The active partisan involvement by the FBI in helping cover up Hunter Biden’s laptop, along with current and retired senior officials in the intelligence community working to discredit the laptop, should be front and center of these investigations.
As should the entire Hillary Clinton campaign contrived Trump-Russia-collusion hoax.
More recently, new bombshells of this vast federal overreach and abuse have been dropped by Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ expose.
These files show deep unconstitutional collusion between the FBI and a multitude of federal agencies and Big Tech, especially Twitter, to censor and block online content posted and read by millions of Americans.
This illegal activity violating Americans’ first amendment rights is also a huge concern.
According to The Epoch Times:
For now, the subcommittee will specifically look at abuses by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI, the legality of vaccine mandates, disinformation about conservative-sponsored election security laws, and censorship by big tech firms under government pressure, according to subcommittee members.
While created by Republicans, the new select subcommittee has a broad mandate. It will be chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
Since its creation, some Democrats have called the panel a Republican ploy to deflect from ongoing investigations into the Jan. 6 Capitol breach and former President Donald Trump.
On January 10, Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., using every leftist talking point and incendiary partisan term he could muster, called it “nothing more than a deranged ploy by the MAGA extremists who have hijacked the party and want to use taxpayer money to push their far-right conspiracy nonsense.”
Republican subcommittee members dismissed these allegations, with one congressman saying that this vast federal overreach they will be investigating represents “the signature abuse of power of our time,” in much the same way Watergate defined another era.
ET adds:
The new panel will examine how these abuses happened, how to correct them, and how to make sure the abuses won’t happen again, subcommittee member Rep. Mike Johnson told The Epoch Times.
“Since the beginning of the Biden administration, some federal agencies designed to serve and keep Americans safe have instead been turned against them,” he said.
“This fact is beyond dispute. The Biden Administration has used counterterrorism resources against the parents of school children, raided the homes of political opponents, targeted conservative states over their election integrity laws, inflated domestic extremism statistics, and instituted illegal vaccine mandates, just to name a handful of examples,” he added.
However, the members emphasized that the subcommittee won’t be limited to investigating specific abuses, like the Russian collusion hoax or specific agencies.
“We have a very broad charter. We’re not limited to [investigating the] DOJ and FBI,” said Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.
That is a good thing because the abuse and corruption at our federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies extend far beyond the DOJ and the FBI.
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It’s a start but we want to see real results. It’s time to clean the swamp no matter what party they’re part of.
Yep….talk is cheap….and I won’t be holding my breath.
The need has been there for a long time. Not much evidence of success. The Administrative State has become a perpetual state and I am not confident that members of either party can rein it in.
I agree, but SUNLIGHT is the best for truth to come out. We can no longer afford to rely on liars & deceivors. If we can’t clean up DC, then we must start over.
OK folks, let’s get reality in focus.
Everyone is tounge wagging about one thing or another. But, what is the elephant in the room that no one aknowleges. The “Swamp” is a very real thing!! And everyone dances around that fact. Until we all agree that there is a very real problem that is decades old, we cannot fix it. All we have done thus far is argure like the fleas on the dog. Let’s face it, the dog is sick. That means, we have a great number of ticks that have infected our government and now must be eradicated. And it stinks, and it is right under our noses. Everyone sees it. The information is there. Why does no one act? It is maddening. I think we are all crazy and will ultimately go insane…. If we haven’t already. Woke, be damned, Wake up people!!!
Kudos for trying, guys, but think your time would be better spent keeping the WHO from taking over worldwide medical directives and keeping us safe from the WEF. If you can’t convict, why bother?
Investigating them is one thing. Wake me up should any real punishment be administered towards them.
Until then, back to my nap. Zzzzzzzzzzzz.
I’ll believe that when they get past the talk and into some action.