Even though it is likely the most significant report produced by any investigative committee in Congress since the Church Committee in 1976, you wo n’t find it published on the A-section pages of the New York Times or the Washington Post.
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For those who need a refresher, Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho ) and Sen. John Tower (R-Texas ) co-chaired more than 100 hearings and exposed serious criminal and constitutional abuses committed by the FBI and various organizations affiliated with the Intelligence Community ( IC ) since FDR was in office.
According to the final document, “intelligence agencies have undermined the legal rights of citizens,” “primarily because the checks and balances that were intended by the Constitution’s authors to ensure accountability have not been used.” (emphasis added ).
Among the most serious crimes exposed by the Church Committee was the FBI’s long-running COINTELPRO program, as well as” a CIA biological agents system, a White House domestic security system, IRS knowledge activities, and the FBI’s programme to disrupt the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements”, according to the Senate.
Now, consider the Interim Staff Report issued five days ago by the House Judiciary Committee chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio ) and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, which is entitled” ELECTION INTERFERENCE: HOW THE FBI’ PRE-BUNKED’ A TRUE STORY ABOUT THE BIDEN FAMILY’S CORRUPTION IN ADVANCE OF THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION” . ,
A New York Post news article that was at the center of that interference was a report from the New York Post about a laptop Hunter Biden had left at a repair shop that he had left behind but did n’t come back to retrieve it less than three weeks before the 2020 presidential election. The contents contained startling and undeniable proof that Hunter Biden had been selling access to his father for years while he was vice president and continuing to do so with the assistance and knowledge of his powerful father.
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The customers were a large collection of foreign governments, companies, knowledge operatives, and gloomy individuals in Russia, China, Ukraine, and many different countries around the world. If these activities continued with Joe Biden in the Oval Office, they may lead to prosecution.
Please excuse the long quotes from the subsequent Weaponization Subcommittee document for explaining what transpired after the Post story was published.
Shortly after the Post article was published, but, something odd happened. Almost instantly, major social media websites, including Twitter and Facebook—the modern-day online community square—censored the true story about Trump family influence peddling.
As a consequence, millions of Americans cast their national vote conscious of serious, trustworthy allegations of wrongdoing levied against one of the two individuals. The 2020 election was unfairly affected by this repression because one member benefited from it more than the another. These businesses and their executives currently hastily acknowledge that their repression was improper.
Why were the social media companies but eager to judge a genuine account of Hunter Biden that appeared in a well-known American paper? because they were trained by the FBI for it. The FBI had been preforming social media companies for almost a month that a “hack-and-leak” operation involving Hunter Biden from Russia would be a reality.
Despite the FBI having verified Hunter Biden’s laptop almost a year before, the FBI led Big Tech to think that the claims in the Post tale were Russian disinformation in more than 30 meetings over the course of eight weeks.
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In other words, FBI agents and law enforcement officials who took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution intentionally lied to social media executives, convinced that they would do anything to sabotage our most fundamental democratic republican process, the inaugural vote of the president of the United States. Not a single FBI agent, official, or social media executive has been held accountable to this day.
It is obvious that no person or woman can rest assured in the protection of the Bill of Rights or any other constitutional provision as long as this protracted cycle of abuses by the IC and the FBI continues unchecked between the Church Report of 1976 and the Weaponization Subcommittee Report of 2024.
Something else is obvious: Congress, which has been divided between Democratic and Republican majority members for decades, has either knowingly funded these abuses, turned the other way, or buried its head in political sand.
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 ( DOJ) 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. However, the ultimate authority lies in Congress’s ability to hold accountable those FBI employees responsible for the crimes described in the Weaponization Subcommittee report.
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That ultimate power of Congress is not simply conducting investigations, producing needed evidence, and referring the alleged offenders to DOJ for criminal prosecution. No, Congress has the sole authority to fund or defund recalcitrant executive agencies.  ,
The most crucial decisions that every American voter will make in 2024 will be the choice between the House of Representatives and the Senate, regardless of how crucial the question of who will hold office for the next four years is.
Will Americans elect members of Congress with the guts and the courage to demand that the Constitution be upheld and then use the First Branch’s authority to quake it? That is the most fundamental issue of the 2024 election.  ,
