For those who need a refresher, the investigative committee chaired by Sen. Frank Church and vice-chaired by Sen. John Tower held more than 100 hearings and exposed serious criminal and constitutional abuses by the FBI and various agencies of the Intelligence Community, going back to when FDR was in the White House.
Among the most serious abuses exposed by the Church Committee was the FBI's long-running COINTELPRO program, as well as "a CIA biological agents program, a White House domestic surveillance program, IRS intelligence activities, and the FBI's program to disrupt the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements," according to the Senate.
"Why were the social media companies so ready to censor a true story about Hunter Biden featured in a prominent American newspaper? Because the FBI had primed them for it. For nearly a year, the FBI had been conditioning social media companies to expect a 'hack-and- leak" operation from Russia involving Hunter Biden.
In more than 30 meetings across eight months, the FBI led Big Tech to believe that the allegations in the Post story were Russian disinformation, even though the FBI had authenticated Hunter Biden's laptop nearly a year prior.
Between the Church Report of 1976 and the Weaponization Subcommittee Report of 2024, it is clear that no man or woman can rest secure in the protection of the Bill of Rights or any other provision of the Constitution so long as this long train of abuses by the IC and the FBI continues unchecked.
No president, including neither Donald Trump nor, if she wins Tuesday's election, Kamala Harris, has nearly the power of Congress to stop these abuses, hold accountable those responsible, and restore the constitutional integrity of the Department of Justice under which the FBI operates, and the IC. Presidents can issue executive orders, fire people, and direct the DOJ to investigate and bring charges where justified.
Congress alone has the ultimate power to hold accountable those individuals in the FBI who committed the constitutional atrocities described in the Weaponization Subcommittee report.
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