With their new majority in the House ….
They are carrying on where ex-President Donald Trump left off…..
They do NOT like ANYONE on their case ….
Only on others….
They have pursued the same attacks on the IRS for checking on their actions….
Make NO mistake….
This is also a warning shot at the Justice Department (On Trump) also…
Representative Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who will be the Judiciary Committee’s chairman next month, has pledged to investigate what he describes as the politicization of the F.B.I. as well as that of the Justice Department. In a taste of what is to come, the committee’s Republican staff released a 1,000-page report last month that asserted that the F.B.I. hierarchy “spied on President Trump’s campaign and ridiculed conservative Americans” and that the “rot within the F.B.I. festers in and proceeds from Washington.”….
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The attacks began in 2018, after federal agents searched the office of Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, for evidence of campaign finance violations. After the search, Rudolph W. Giuliani, another lawyer close to Mr. Trump, went on the warpath. He declared that the F.B.I.’s office in New York — with which he had worked closely as the U.S. attorney in Manhattan — had behaved like “storm troopers” in conducting the raid.
Since then, Mr. Trump and his supporters have gone after the bureau for its role in investigating his campaign’s ties to Russia; for purportedly failing to investigate issues surrounding Hunter Biden’s laptop; and for using informants to infiltrate a group of militiamen charged in a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan.
Some critics, including former agents, have attacked the F.B.I. for pursuing those in the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, describing the criminal prosecution of the rioters as political persecution.
This drumbeat of vitriol has created a reflexive reaction against the F.B.I. as nefarious and partisan among large swaths of the right, even as Mr. Trump has lost a measure of political support.
“The FBI is the largest criminal gang in the country,” the right-wing commentator Dinesh D’Souza recently wrote on Twitter, adding, “It’s America’s version of the KGB or the Chinese state police.”….