Democrats already groaned over a new subcommittee chaired by new Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), 58, AKA “Weaponization Committee” to look into political abuses by federal government agencies. Democrats and the media want no part of an investigation into abuses under Democrat leadership of federal agencies for political purposes. Democrats and the press spent inordinate time investigating 76-year-old former President Donald Trump for alleged ties to the Kremlin, something alleged by 75-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during the 2016 campaign an through Trump’s presidency. Liberal papers like the New York Times and Washington Post actually received Pulitzer Prizes from reporting on Trump’s alleged ties to the Kremlin. Not one of the stories has ever been vetted or validated for factual accuracy.
Democrats and the press didn’t like when 72-year-old former Atty. Gen. Bill Barr appointed 72-year-old former U.S. Atty. John Durham (R-Conn.) as Special Counsel to investigate improper federal investigations into Trump and his 2016 campaign. Jordan hopes his “weaponization” subcommittee can uses its subpoena power to interview old names like 62-year-old former FBI Director James Comey, former 68-year-old former CIA Director John Brennan and other past Democrat officials. Jordan and other Republicans want to know the extent of a government conspiracy in the Justice Department, FBI and CIA to prevent Trump in 2016 from becoming president, but, more importantly, how the federal agencies sabotaged Trump’s foreign policy during his presidency, including important relations with Russia, China and North Korea. Democrats vowed to push back or Jordan’s committee.
Democrats and the press don’t want the public to know that the DOJ, FBI and CIA were used to investigate Trump for purely political purposes. Democrats complain that the GOP’s Benghazi oversight committee implicated Hillary in poor oversight that resulted in the Sept. 11, 2012 deaths of 52-year-old Libyan Amb. Chris Stevens and three other U.S. citizens. Hillary once said under oath “what difference does than make,” regarding the lack of security at the Benghazi U.S. consulate at a time of anarchy in Libya. To Democrats, investigating Hillary’s role in Benghazi was dirty political trick. Democrats think that it’s OK for the White House, CIA, FBI National Security Agency [NSI], etc., to use whatever mean available to persecute political opponents. No oversight is necessary as long as Democrats are in power to use federal agencies to advance political agendas.
Jordan laid out the case for the Judiciary Committee oversight of Dmocrats abuse of federal agencies for political purposes. “We have a duty to get into these agencies and look at how they have been weaponized to go against he the very people they’re supposed to represent, how they have infringed on First Amendment liberties of the American people. And we’re going to do that,” Jordan told Fox News Sunday. “We are going to do it in a way that’s consistent with the Constitution. But we’re going to do it vigorously. We’re going to do aggressively. Because that’s out job,” Jordan said. Jordan knows that Durham had the authority but could not use subpoena power get former Obama administration officials under oath to answer questions about the Russian hoax that went on for years, even after 78-year-old Special Counsel Robert Mueller finished his final report March 23, 2019.
Democrats want to label Jordan’s “Weaponization Committee” another conspiracy theory or “the MAGA Grievance Committee,” doing everything to discredit the process. But with some much published evidence that Democrats abused federal agencies for political purposes, Jordan wants to know that extent of a “Deep State” conspiracy to damage Trump 2016, but, more importantly, his presidency. How many times did Democrats and the press accuse Trump of inappropriate ties to dictators like 70-year-old President Vladimir Putin, 69-year-old Chinese President Xi Jinping or North Korean President Kim Jong-un? Democrats and the press don’t question how Biden wrecked U.S.-Russian and U.S.-Chnese relations, leaving U.S. national security in shambles. Democrats and the press have no problem with Biden pushing the U.S. closer into WW III.
Democrats and the press already refer to Jordan’s “Weaponization Committee” as the “hard right” or “MAGA” investigations, doing everything possible to discredit the investigation before it starts. Democrats and the press want to bury for posterity what happened during Trump’s 2016 campaign and presidency. Jordan wants to expose for all to see how federal agencies were used for political purposes. Former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey knew the case against Trump was built of Hillary’s paid opposition research AKA the Steele dossier, all fabricated rubbish designed to discredit Trump’s 2016 campaign. Using fake probable cause to initiate an FBI counterintelligence investigation was outrageous but never questioned, especially by Democrats and the press. Jordan wants to prevent federal agencies from abuse by covert political operatives.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
