by Greg Piper at Just the News
House Republicans think federal agencies have become a weapon against their own apolitical employees and the constitutional rights of Americans. House Democrats think House Republicans have become a weapon against the prerogatives of federal agencies.
The parties traded laundry lists of grievances stemming from agency and congressional investigations, from the Benghazi attack to the Russia collusion hoax, at the first hearing Thursday of the House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
Minority Democrats deemed the subcommittee itself a threat to the safety and integrity of law enforcement, arguing GOP rhetoric provoked a “dirty bomb” threat against the FBI after its raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. Majority Republicans pointed to their November staff report on FBI whistleblowers and the Justice Department’s politicization.
They also disagreed sharply on the nature of parent-led protests against school boards that prompted Attorney General Merrick Garland’s explosive memo about “domestic terrorism.”
The partisan dynamics carried over from Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing about “government interference” in speech, where Twitter executives admitted the pre-Elon Musk company used various tacks to suppress certain political content and covertly communicated with the feds…
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