Carmine Sabia December 22, 2024
The House Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government has discovered shocking information on government censorship, retaliation against FBI whistleblowers and politicization of government agencies against now-President-elect Donald Trump.
Chairman Jim Jordan’s Judiciary Committee issued a 17,000-page final report on the matter on Friday where it said it uncovered a “two-tiered system of government—one of favorable treatment for the politically-favored class, and one of intimidation and unfairness for the rest of American citizens.”
“The probe led by Chairman Jordan uncovered several stunners, including federal government efforts to censor social media content directly and through proxies, the weaponization of law enforcement resources against Americans, and Democrat-aligned prosecutors’ efforts to use the law to target their political opponents, namely Trump,” Just The News reported.
The committee’s report credited the subcommittee with bringing “abuses by the federal government into the light for the American people,” but it said more work needs to be done to fix the issues.
“The Weaponization Committee conducted rigorous oversight of the Biden-Harris administration weaponized government and uncovered numerous examples of federal government abuses,” Jordan said to Fox News.
“Through our oversight, we protected the First Amendment by investigating the censorship-industrial-complex, heard from numerous brave whistleblowers, stopped the targeting of Americans by the IRS and Department of Justice, and created serious legislative and policy changes that will benefit all Americans,” he said.
The subcommittee also said that it found the Federal Bureau of Investigation politicized cases, went after law-abiding citizens, went against its own protocol, and retaliated against whistleblowers.
“At least three whistleblowers came out publicly —including Marcus Allen, Garrett O’Boyle, and George Hill—alleging that they were subjected to retaliation after raising concerns internally, and later to Congress, about the FBI’s pursuit of January 6 suspects, investigation of pro-life Americans following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and other issues,” the report from Just The News said.
“O’Boyle, for example, said that he was suspended following protected disclosures to Congress about his concerns the bureau was improperly targeting pro-life activists in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. For years, the bureau withheld pay and left his family in limbo after they moved to the Washington, D.C., area at the FBI’s behest,” it said.
One of the greatest scandals it found was that the administration of President Joe Biden worked to “coerce” massive tech companies like Meta (Facebook), Alphabet (Google), and Amazon, to censor some content.
In November, after the presidential election, Jordan gave specific instructions to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to keep their records as they relate to the crisis at the border.
The Ohio Republican representative wants the records preserved before the administration leaves in January as Trump is inaugurated, Just The News reported.
Jordan expressed concerns that the two men and their departments would eradicate the records before they left office in January.
“This letter serves as a formal request to preserve all existing and future records and materials related to the Biden-Harris Administration’s enforcement of federal immigration law,” the Ohio representative said in both letters.
“You should construe this preservation notice as an instruction to take all reasonable steps to prevent the destruction or alteration, whether intentionally or negligently, of all documents, communications, and other information … that are or may be responsive to this congressional inquiry,” he said.
Federal law requires Cabinet members and political appointees to preserve all of their records.
The Biden administration is moving swiftly and discreetly to implement new policies aimed at easing restrictions on migrants who entered the U.S. illegally in a last-minute effort to counter President-elect Donald Trump’s planned immigration crackdowns and mass deportations, sources told the New York Post.
New York City is set to be the focal point of these changes, the outlet added.
The outgoing administration plans to introduce an ICE Portal app in early December, specifically in New York City. The app will enable migrants to complete check-ins with ICE remotely, eliminating the need for in-person visits to local ICE offices.
