The first hearing of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Thursday demonstrated the magnitude of the panel’s investigation into alleged civil liberties violations by government agencies.
The inaugural hearing included testimonies from notable members of Congress and former FBI agents, who touched on the surface of a vast number of issues spanning at least three presidential administrations and several agencies, including the Departments of Justice, Education, and Homeland Security, as well as Health and Human Services, the IRS, FBI, CIA, and more.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a longtime Army Reserve officer and Fox News contributor who recently left the Democrat Party, highlighted the now-dissolved Disinformation Governance Board.One of the Democrats’ two witnesses, Rep. Jamie Raskin , contended the subcommittee was “political” because it had an “overriding electoral focus.”
Raskin used comments Jordan, a fervent Trump supporter, made at a conservative conference last year as his evidence of the subcommittee’s “electoral focus.”a host of issues he was interested in probing. He had then added as an aside to the conference’s Trump-friendly audience, “Plus, that will help frame up the 2024 race, when I hope and I think President Trump is going to run again, and we need to make sure that he wins.”Rep.
Jordan noted Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, under which the subcommittee is housed, have been and will continue to be invited to transcribed interviews of whistleblowers, though Goldman countered that he personally had not been made aware of the transcribed interviews that had already taken place nor had he been privy to the “dozens” of other whistleblower accounts that were broached during the hearing.
“Do you have any specific or special or unique knowledge about the inner workings of Twitter?” Wasserman Shultz asked. “So essentially your responses to the questions here today were your own opinion and pure conjecture?” “I’ve testified both as a Republican and Democrat witness over 50 times, approaching 60,” Turley replied.
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