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House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, Chairman Jim Jordan
December 20, 2024
House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government

"TABLE OF CONTENTS

...Federal Government Censorship and Americans’ First Amendment Rights 

I. The Biden-Harris Administration’s censorship efforts

·         The Censorship-Industrial Complex: How Top Biden White House Officials Coerced Big Tech to Censor Americans, True Information, and Critics of the Biden Administration

·         The FBI’s Collaboration with a Compromised Ukrainian Intelligence Agency to Censor American Speech

·         Election Interference: How the FBI ‘Prebunked’ A True Story About the Biden Family’s Corruption in Advance of the 2020 Presidential Election

·         The Weaponization of the Federal Trade Commission: An Agency’s Overreach to Harass Elon Musk’s Twitter

·         The Weaponization of the Federal Trade Commission Part II: Harassment of Elon Musk

·         Censorship’s Next Frontier: The Federal Government’s Attempt to Control Artificial Intelligence to Suppress Free Speech

II. The government’s use of non-governmental entities to censor Americans by proxy

·         The Weaponization of ‘Disinformation’ Pseudo-Experts and Bureaucrats: How the Federal Government Partnered with Universities to Censor Americans’ Political Speech

·         The Weaponization of CISA: How a ‘Cybersecurity’ Agency Colluded with Big Tech and ‘Disinformation’ Partners to Censor Americans

·         The Weaponization of the National Science Foundation: How NSF is Funding the Development of Automated Tools to Censor Online Speech ‘At Scale’ and Trying to Cover Up Its Actions

III. Threats to free speech abroad and the risk at home

·         The Attack on Free Speech Abroad and the Biden Administration’s Silence: The Case of Brazil

·         The Attack on Free Speech Abroad and the Biden Administration’s Silence: The Case of Brazil Part II

IV. The Select Subcommittee filed briefs to help support Americans’ First Amendment
rights in court

·         Weaponization Select Subcommittee’s Amicus Brief on Missouri v. Biden

·         Weaponization Select Subcommittee’s Amicus Brief on Murthy v. Missouri

Abuses of Federal Law Enforcement Agencies

I. The weaponization of federal law-enforcement resources against Americans

·         Weaponization Select Subcommittee and House Judiciary Committee Interim Report on AG Garland’s Anti-Parent Memo

·         Report on FBI Whistleblower Testimony Highlights Government Abuse, Misallocation of Resources, and Retaliation

·         The FBI’s Breach of Religious Freedom: The Weaponization of Law Enforcement Against Catholic Americans

·         Fighting the Weaponization of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS): The End of Abusive Unannounced Field Visits

II. The Biden-Harris Administration’s coordination with financial institutions to surveil Americans

·         Financial Surveillance in the United States: How Federal Law Enforcement Commandeered Financial Institutions to Spy on Americans

·         Financial Surveillance in the United States: How the Federal Government Weaponized the Bank Secrecy Act to Spy on Americans

III. The Democrats’ use of lawfare to target political opponents

·         An Anatomy of a Political Prosecution: The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s Vendetta Against President Donald J. Trump

·         Lawfare: How the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and a New York State Judge Violated the Constitutional and Legal Rights of President Donald J. Trump

Federal Government Election Interference Operations

·         How Senior Intelligence Officials and the Biden Campaign Worked to Mislead American Voters

·         The Intelligence Community 51: How CIA Contractors Colluded with the Biden Campaign to Mislead American Voters

Appendix A – List of Hearings of the Select Subcommittee
Appendix B – List of Letters of the Select Subcommittee
Appendix C – Subpoenas of the Select Subcommittee
Appendix D – Depositions and Transcribed Interviews of the Select Subcommittee" 

"Part 1

Final Report 5: Through its oversight, the Select Subcommittee revealed the extent of the censorship-industrial complex, proving that in 2021 the Biden-Harris White House 'engaged in a covert scheme of censorship' that was 'blatantly unconstitutional' by directly pressuring Facebook, YouTube, and Amazon to censor COVID-related speech, including true information and critics of the Biden-Harris Administration. In addition to direct censorship, the Select Subcommittee also showed how multiple federal agencies used non-governmental entities to censor Americans by proxy. Finally, the Select Subcommittee demonstrated that the threat to Americans’ free speech does not end at America’s shores but increasingly emanates from foreign governments, including Brazil, the European Union, and Australia.

Final Report 46: On July 15, 2021, the Surgeon General’s office emailed Facebook, highlighting the Advisory and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s statements that 'American lives are at risk' unless social media companies 'do more to address the spread [of misinformation] on their platforms.' The same day, then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki held a joint press briefing with Surgeon General Murthy and criticized 'Facebook specifically for [its] handling of COVID misinformation and listed four steps' the White House believed Facebook should be taking, citing CCDH [Center for Countering Digital Hate]’s claim that '12 people'—that is, the so-called Disinformation Dozen—were 'producing 65 percent of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms' and noting that it was 'important to take faster action against harmful posts.'

Following these statements, Facebook scrambled to determine whether the so-called Disinformation Dozen had been 'totally removed' from its platforms, with one employee noting that 'The White House made a statement about these accounts and now leadership is interested in what the status is, we’d like to do this now if at all possible.'

Final Report 86: On March 3, Amazon began taking measures to address White House scrutiny with hopes of 'earning us goodwill at the White House.' The pressure from the previous day’s interactions with the Biden White House were the reason for the new changes. One employee emailed: 'as part of our ongoing conversations with the White House COVID task force, staff alerted us to their serious concerns with the misinformation or anti-vaccination books sold in the store.'

Part 3

Final Report 1766: The Select Subcommittee also documented how the federal government has poured millions of taxpayer dollars into automating censorship and propaganda technologies. The Select Subcommittee’s February 5, 2024 report, 'The Weaponization of the National Science Foundation: How NSF is Funding the Development of Automated Tools to Censor Online Speech 'At Scale' and Trying to Cover Up Its Actions,' detailed the NSF’s funding of AI-powered censorship and propaganda tools, and its repeated efforts to hide its actions to avoid political and media scrutiny. In the name of combatting alleged misinformation regarding COVID-19 and the 2020 presidential election, the NSF issued multi-million-dollar grants to university and non-profit research teams to develop AI-powered censorship and propaganda tools that can be used by governments and Big Tech to shape public opinion by restricting certain viewpoints and promoting others. Non-public documents obtained by the Select Subcommittee demonstrate that these federal bureaucrats, 'disinformation' researchers, and non-profit groups understood that their actions—'content moderation' and combatting so-called misinformation—amounted to 'censorship.' Yet, the NSF forged ahead, supporting new technologies that would essentially enable the censorship of online speech at scale. These documents also revealed a years-long, intentional effort by the NSF to hide its role in funding these censorship and propaganda tools from media and political scrutiny... 

From working with third parties to set up a consortium of 'disinformation' pseudo-scientists to flag Americans’ social media posts for censorship, to relocating its censorship activities to a government-funded non-profit, to funding university and non-profit research teams to build censorship and propaganda tools, the Select Subcommittee has shown how the federal government has consistently attempted to bypass the First Amendment and public scrutiny by laundering its censorship activities through third parties."

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