Jonathon Turley | Dec. 26, 2022
Below is my column in the Hill on the need for a new “Church Committee” to investigate and reform the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after years of scandals involving alleged political bias. In response to criticism over its role in Twitter’s censorship system, the FBI lashed out against critics as “conspiracy theorists” spreading disinformation. However, it still refuses to supply new information on other companies, beyond Twitter, that it has paid to engage in censorship.
Here is the column:
“Conspiracy theorists … feeding the American public misinformation” is a familiar attack line for anyone raising free-speech concerns over the FBI’s role in social media censorship. What is different is that this attack came from the country’s largest law enforcement agency, the FBI — and, since the FBI has made combatting “disinformation” a major focus of its work, the labeling of its critics is particularly menacing.
Fifty years ago, the Watergate scandal provoked a series of events that transformed not only the presidency but federal agencies like the FBI. Americans demanded answers about the involvement of the FBI and other federal agencies in domestic politics. Ultimately, Congress not only investigated the FBI but later impanelled the Church Committee to investigate a host of other abuses by intelligence agencies.
A quick review of recent disclosures and controversies shows ample need for a new Church Committee:
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The Watergate clamor involved the ww2 generation who were clearer about institutional, unconstitutional wrongdoings & were unhampered by ‘hate speech’ & other thought/language controls even though they were duped into fighting on the wrong side of the war which brought us to where we are today. The liars that be, at that time, did not have the world techtronic shield to hide behind.
Today’s sellout dummy ‘leaders’ merely use trigger labels against all opposition & decree any abomination as ‘law’ while the world’s weakling population protests are confronted by the sellout private & public ‘palace guards’ of said dummies.
This too shall pass.