At the time of this writing early Wednesday morning, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has been nominated by President-elect Trump to head the CIA --- fabulous choice, Mr. President --- but his nominee for FBI director is yet to be announced.  That’s going to be such a key position, right up there with U.S. Attorney General, because the FBI has to be taken apart and put back together in order to fix it.  The corruption there is breathtaking, as a story that hit late Tuesday reminds us.

An FBI analyst testified before the House Judiciary Committee and the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government (Barry Loudermilk’s subcommittee) that the FBI’s “Foreign Influence Task Force” has been using a new software tool specifically to track election-related speech on social media.  Never mind the word “foreign” in this task force’s name, because the task force doesn’t pay attention to that, either.  According to this analyst, they’ve been using their new “tool” on Americans.

In a (probably useless) letter to FBI Director Chris Wray, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan wrote that this tool was being used to monitor social media posts “regardless of whether the users are American citizens or foreign actors, to search for ‘content indicative of criminal conduct.’”

According to the analyst, the FBI then shares user names and specific content with social media companies “to censor such conduct accordingly.”  That’s right --- they’re STILL DOING THIS.

When the witness was asked about the scope of said “criminal conduct,” FBI counsel repeatedly prevented him from fully answering.

“Therefore,” Jordan continued, “we write to obtain additional information in order to understand whether the FBI has or could use this software tool to censor or infringe upon lawful speech, particularly Americans’ political speech.”

This is more election interference by our own FBI, and Americans have had enough.  These power-mad bureaucrats just can’t seem to stop themselves from spying on Americans and controlling what we’re allowed to say, so someone else is going to have to stop them, even if it involves firing the whole lot of them.  Every one of them, that is, except the whistleblowers, who deserve a raise and a promotion.

https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2024/11/12/analyst-testimony-suggests-fbi-used-tool-to-track-and-spy-on-americans-engaged-in-election-related-talk-n2181913