Issa: Weaponization Committee Exposes Unprecedented Censorship by White House and Biden Administration

WASHINGTON, DC– Congressman Darrell Issa (CA-48) issued the following statement following the third hearing of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government:

“The third hearing of this select committee not only further detailed that the federal government targeted the free speech rights of the American people through its censorship campaigns, but that it was also carried out by high officials of this White House and involving hundreds or thousands of federal employees across the entire Biden Administration – all at taxpayer expense. Congress can’t ignore this abuse of power.

“Sworn testimony today revealed that this White House and Administration directly and repeatedly demanded that social media companies – including Facebook and Twitter – remove disfavored speech even if true.

My questions today were designed to illuminate the realities of what we have learned only from the discovery stage of Missouri vs Biden, namely that federal agencies verified as participating in the censorship of Americans’ free speech include: The FBI, State Department, CDC, NIAID, Surgeon General, and even the White House.

My Democrat colleagues still have a choice: They can join us in working to reveal the truth and understand the true scope and depth of how this all went so wrong. Or they can continue to delay and obstruct this Committee’s work on behalf of all America’s constitutionally protected rights.”

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Darrell Issa is the Representative of California’s 48th Congressional District. The District encompasses the central and eastern parts of San Diego County and a portion of Riverside County, including the communities of Fallbrook, Valley Center, Ramona, Escondido, Santee, Lakeside, Poway, Temecula, Murrieta, and the mountain and desert areas of the San Diego-Imperial County line. Issa served as the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform from 2011-2015.