“‘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:
“The Russian investigations:
“The FBI previously was at the center of controversies over documented political bias. Without repeating the long history from the Russian influence scandal, FBI officials like Peter Strzok were fired after emails showed...
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The Church Commission made no difference as the FBI continued with new targets...
just shut it down and ban all employees from working for the government for 20 years
Reform? are you kidding? everyone needs to be fired for not speaking up and the leaders sent to jail for long time.
Remind me when the government investigating the government ever changed anything. At this point nothing short of a revolution can have any impact on Washington, D.C. As long as we have our distractions (Dems vs. Reps.) and entertainment (sports, social media,religion, and drugs) we will never disrupt the status quo.
Get Captain "Jim Jordan" Obvious to send out some tweets.
Works every time
A new Church Committee? Well, why not, the last one worked so well. The only thing the Church Committee accomplished was to inform the Eff Bee Eye that they needed to improve their law breaking making it less detectable.
Nemo
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