Posted on 12/24/2022 9:50:37 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
House Judiciary Committee Republicans led by incoming Chairman Jim Jordan demanded Friday that FBI Director Chris Wray turn over records of all communications and payments the law enforcement agency had with Twitter, signaling aggressive investigations of social media censorship next year, .
Jordan's office said the release of internal files by Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, had unmasked an "ongoing surveillance operation" that exceeded FBI investigative authorities and that resulted in a "coordinated misinformation effort between the FBI and Twitter to suppress and censor free speech."
"We are investigating politicization and abuses at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as Big Tech's censorship of conservatives online," Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., wrote Wray in an oversight letter. "Newly released information shows the FBI has coordinated extensively with Twitter to censor or otherwise affect content on Twitter's platform.
"These documents show that the FBI maintained this relationship with Twitter apart from any particularized need for a specific investigation, but as a permanent and ongoing surveillance operation. These revelations sadly reinforce our deep concerns about the FBI's misconduct and its hostility to the First Amendment," they added.
You can read the full letter here:
The letter demands that Wray turn over all communications between the bureau and the social media giant from Jan. 1, 2020 forward, singling out two dozen Twitter executives the committee is specifically interested. The letter also requests:
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
“You are in a position to demand nothing.”
Going to get reams of blacked-out pages, if anything.
How about facebook, reddit, and google?
Remember when in a single day someone’s social media account would be targeted for not being “correct” and then banned accross multiple social media platforms? like General Flynn’s account (and his banking account too). I’d like to see those communications between the tech tyrants and the FBI/DOJ/deep state. I bet you the gov’t was behind it to discredit and punish him.
If McConnell hadn’t sold you out you could have held up funding or FBI and DOJ salaries until the rank and file spilled their guts on what the high and mighty were up to.
They won’t turn in anything, and nothing will happen to them.
FBI to Jorden: “Make us!”
we cannot comply with your request because the ominbus did not appropriate money for the ink required to print blacked out pages.
I think the FBI and the DOJ should be raided. They won’t raid themselves, of course.
Apparently Jordan did not get the memo. The FBI does not report to anyone and they don’t give a crap what you think.
The Republicans just voted to increase the FBI budget for “domestic terrorism”. Yes, you read that right. The GOPe is funding the agency that deliberately targets their voters (MAGA types) and ignores the leftist brownshirts.
Let that sink in when you have some glimmer of hope that congress is going to “fix this”.
You fix it by not funding it.
testifying if it gets that far will be, “ I don’t recall, I don’t remember, not to my knowledge” ok you can go now
“Yeah, we’ll get right to that.”
Every time I see Wray on my TV, I see a double talking weasel.
In some ways I wish these hearing actually had some teeth, that they could do anything beyond bloviating and exposing wrong doing. But then, I think that when the rats are in charge, its gonna get down to real Stazi and Nazi crap.
We got us a ‘probe’!
Did Jordon ‘vow’ yet?
Until he vows, the do nothing cement won’t cure.
Im sure some U.S. Marshals will be more than glad to help.
The question now is do the FBI call CNN or MSNBC to announce when they will be SWATing Jordan’s house
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