In reference to Twitter documents showing that the FBI pressured Twitter employees to censor news-posts the agency apparently did not like, claiming they were “misinformation,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said the records show “the FBI deliberately interfered in not one but two separate presidential elections” — in 2016 and 2020.
Speaking with reporters on Capitol Hill, Dec. 20, Hawley said news about the pending arrival of Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky to speak before Congress was “state propaganda to cover for the fact, to distract attention from the fact that what we learned and what we have been learning is that the FBI deliberately interfered in not one but two separate presidential elections.”
.@HawleyMO: The FBI deliberately interfered not one, but two separate presidential elections… there have got to be repercussions for that.
We’re going to have to have a conversation about the future of the FBI and what it’s doing in our democracy. pic.twitter.com/I3WOcCC3XN
— Abigail Marone ???????? (@abigailmarone) December 20, 2022
As reported by OAN, Hawley continued, “The idea that the FBI who laundered the Steele dossier back in 2016 through the courts, lied to a FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] court in order to extend their wiretaps that they never should have gotten in the first place. Then in 2020, deliberately suppressed the Hunter Biden story.”
“Remember, the FBI had the Hunter Biden laptop for a full year before the story broke,” said Hawley. “They knew all about it. They had all the emails, knew it was true, and yet put out there that it was Russian disinformation. And we see now with Twitter, went after Twitter until Twitter agreed to censor it and take it down.”
“That’s unbelievable stuff,” said the senator. “There have got to be repercussions for that, or we’re not going to have a democracy.”
“And we’re going to have to have, clearly, a conversation about the future of the FBI and what it’s doing in our democracy,” he added, “because that kind of power, the kind of power that they have is immense.”
“And if they’re going to use it in this way, then I have to say, I think our constitutional order is not secure, and I’m very concerned,” said the senator.
Hawley did not attend Zelensky’s Dec. 21 speech before Congress. He told reporters on Dec. 23, “I didn’t go to the speech because I didn’t want to be part of a photo-op asking for more money from the United States government when they have not given us a single piece of accounting on anything they spent.”
“Our European allies are continuing to sandbag,” said Hawley. “We have spent more on Ukraine than all of the Europeans put together, and it’s on their continent.”
In a Dec. 23 letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, House Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) wrote, “We are investigating politicization and abuses at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as Big Tech’s censorship of conservatives online. 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,” said the congressman. “These revelations sadly reinforce our deep concerns about the FBI’s misconduct and its hostility to the First Amendment.”
Jordan is the ranking member of the House Committee on the Judiciary and Johnson is the ranking member on the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil rights and Civil Liberties.
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Bulldoze the fbi into powder and render every last employee unemployed.
WHY ARE WE NOT SURPRISED? The FBI/CIA are responsible for the assassination of JFK, MLK, RFK, and more, so why wouldn’t they be guilty of interfering in our elections? What I consider to be a crime is the fact that there are people who don’t believe this. How can anyone be so blind after all the evidence that’s come out thus far?
Goodness…WHAT a Shocker….
Someone in DC is wising up to what the public already know..
What is happening to our country. How can we get these power-seeking democrats, Rinos and others out of government. Trump was not perfect, but he seemed to do things to help America.
The FBI/CIA/DOJ are just enforcers for the Democrat party and the RINOs are so self-serving that they do nothing about it. I really hope that retaking the house will enable lawful investigations to proceed AND have consequences. In addition to the FBI investigation, we need to do the CIA, DOJ, and the Jan 6 insurrection by Pelosi and co to set up Trump and the MAGA supporters. There also need to be perjury charges against everyone who has lied to Congress in the various hearings. We demand justice and accountability.
The DOJ and FBI are as corrupt as can be. Along with the legacy media they have suppressed facts and put out propaganda.
Josh Hawley is right but he is going up against a stacked deck. Between the Democrats and the Rino’s I doubt there will be any accountability. In other words not a single prosecution. Especially with Merrick Garland in charge of the DOJ.
I had hoped we would be able to change things for the better through the voting process. But I no longer believe that. I think it’s going to take something else. I will leave that to your own thoughts and prayers. God help us all!
It’s obviously that the FBIhas to be reeled in and ether disbanded and the slime skimmed and jailed.
Yeah
The CIA & SES also!!!
ALL TRAITORS!!!
The PTB have been involved in US election fraud for at least 20 years. The FIB (and their state subsidiaries) are the “muscle” which ‘disappear’ anyone investigating.
There are so many things going on that are illegal, yet everyone is focusing on ridiculous things. Like Gender Pronouns.
We need to eliminate the FBI and rebuild the DOJ from the ground up. They now represent a major threat to the American people.
We now have an illegitimate president and a DOJ that places innocent dissenters in solitary for years on end. This government stinks. We need to secede from the corrupt “United” States and reform into small nations.