Republican members of the newly formed House Subcommittee on Arming the Federal Government have already begun investigating government agencies.
On Friday, in a closed-door meeting, all GOP members of the subcommittee met for the first time to begin planning subpoenas and investigations into alleged civil liberties violations at the FBI and Justice Department.
However, after the meeting, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) told reporters that the subcommittee’s goal was to investigate “much broader” agencies than just the FBI and Department of Justice, adding that Twitter was one of them.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who chairs the weapons panel, suggested the possibility of issuing subpoenas after the House court sent several fiction Requesting interviews with potential witnesses as part of an investigation.
The investigation concerns not only the FBI and the Department of Justice, but also the federal government’s efforts to prosecute people who oppose woke ideology on school boards.
Jordan’s targets include a current and former FBI employee, two people with ties to the Association of National School Boards, and the former head of the disbanded DHS Disinformation Management Council.
During the meeting, he reportedly told Republicans that the subcommittee planned to follow former Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings’ (D-Md.) rule of issuing subpoenas without first consulting Democrats.
The Ohio Republican met with Twitter CEO Elon Musk last week to discuss how he plans to delve deeper into the “Twitter Files” investigation, which revealed shocking revelations about the Covid-19 pandemic, amid coordination between the F.B.I. and a social media platform in the run-up to the 2020 elections.
Issa said the subcommittee’s goal is to do “real” investigative work and he already had several interview transcripts on several heated topics, including Jan. 6 and how the Justice Department handled tensions at school board meetings
“I imagine that, like most commissions of inquiry, we will disproportionately transcribe interviews and testimony. … That’s not the point showing public,” Issa said, adding that “it’s about a real investigation and then making it public.”
