The Real Weaponization of the Department of Justice
Jack Smith’s indictment shows that the abuse of government Republicans have been seeking was there all along.
The Real Weaponization of the Department of Justice
Jack Smith’s indictment shows that the abuse of government Republicans have been seeking was there all along.
In January, one of the first acts of the new Republican House majority was to establish a special subcommittee devoted to rooting out the ways the FBI and other federal bodies have supposedly been used as tools of political persecution.
“We have a duty to get into these agencies and look at how they have been weaponized to go against the very people they’re supposed to represent,” said Representative Jim Jordan, the Trump ally who chairs the body. Even less Trumpy members, like the establishment GOP stalwart Tom Cole, agreed: “It is undeniable that in recent years, the executive branch of the federal government has abused its authority and violated the civil liberties of American citizens often for political purposes.”
Since then, the subcommittee has held a string of meetings and pursued a variety of half-baked ideas, many of them related to Joe Biden’s son Hunter. What it hasn’t done is deliver any clear and convincing proof of government malfeasance, and certainly nothing on the caliber of the 1970s Church Committee, which Republicans have cited as a model.
