The planned initiation of the important Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Fed Government is part of Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s agreements with the Republican Caucus’ “conservative faction” in his four-day, 15-vote struggle to wind the gavel.
According to Axios, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, who backed McCarthy’s campaign, will chair the subcommittee investigating interactions between Big Tech corporations and the Biden administration, aided in part by the discoveries from Elon Musk’s recently released Twitter Files.
The investigation into emails and texts as well as other correspondence between the tech titans and the Biden administration, will look for pressure from the government that could have ultimately led to harassment or censorship of conservatives — or censorship of debate on highly divisive policies, such as the CDC’s COVID policy.
Here is more from Axios.
“The Select Subcommittee on Weaponizing the Federal Government was formed in part in reaction to Elon Musk’s revelations in the internal papers dubbed the Twitter Files.”
“The document request will be followed by “compulsory proceedings,” including, if necessary, subpoenas.”
“The subcommittee’s main focus is “the politicization of the FBI,” which includes a review of the investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.”
The panel will also investigate Anthony Fauci’s approach to COVID disinformationand misinformation… the Justice Department’s interactions with local school boards on masks and other COVID rules… as well as the Dept. of Homeland Security’s unsuccessful attempt to establish a Disinformation Governance Board.
Jordan hinted at his plans in a number of letters he sent to the CEOs of Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft last month, asking for details on “the nature and extent of your firms’ complicity with the Biden Administration.” Jordan advised the firms to save any existing or future records pertaining to his request for interactions with the executive branch regarding “moderation, suppression, restriction, deletion, or restricted circulation of content.”
Jordan’s letters were previously ignored by Microsoft and Meta. Previous inquiries for comment from the three other firms were not returned.
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