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Kash Patel: GOP needs ‘Church Committee’ to investigate FBI/DOJ, hold them accountable for abuses

November 4, 2022 | | Print Article

Former Trump chief of staff at the Department of Defense, Kash Patel, is calling for a new “Church Committee” to investigate the FBI/DOJ that resembles the Senate select committee established in 1975 to look at abuses committed by the intelligence community.

He wrote an opinion piece at Fox News calling for the resurgence of the committee in response to stunts the FBI and Justice Department have pulled under the Biden administration’s direction against former President Trump and a long list of other conservatives.

“You wouldn’t know it from reading the headlines, but Special Counsel John Durham has demonstrated in exacting detail what former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes and I first uncovered five years ago: the Steele Dossier was not just a Clinton-concocted and Democrat-funded scheme to influence the 2016 presidential election,” he began.

“It was an unlawful effort eagerly coordinated by the top brass of the FBI, culminated in the presentation of known lies to a federal court to illegally surveil President Donald Trump and his campaign. Only now are we learning just how deep the corruption ran, all the way through the intelligence community,” Patel pointed out.

He bemoaned the demise of Durham’s prosecution of those involved in the Russia collusion hoax but believes it was necessary for exposing gross abuses by the FBI.

“While doomed to failure because of the political rot infesting D.C.-area jury pools, Durham’s prosecutions of Michael Sussmann and Igor Danchenko were necessary steps toward exposing the FBI’s schemes to abuse its surveillance powers to meddle in domestic politics. We still have a lot to learn, including about the role of the CIA and its former director Gina Haspel in launching the Russia Hoax behind the scenes,” he continued.

“While I successfully surmounted obstacles established by ‘obstruction twins’ FBI Director Chris Wray and then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to uncover that (for example) high-ranking DOJ official Bruce Ohr was married to dossier researcher Nellie, acted as an FBI source cutout, just so they can maintain the influx of intel they knew to be false. So much has yet to be revealed to the American public, and it must be with haste,” Patel added.

Patel believes that since the Republicans are poised to sweep back into power, this is the time to aggressively go after intelligence agencies for abusing their powers to further leftist political agendas.

“The FBI has abused its counterintelligence mission to target the Democrats’ political opponents, including unrelenting attacks on Trump from his candidacy, throughout his presidency, and continuing with the unprecedented raid on Mar-a-Lago,” he contended.

“If that weren’t enough, the FBI brazenly rigged the 2020 election and withheld from Congress damning information about Hunter Biden’s corrupt foreign business dealings by directing Facebook to censor any reporting about Hunter’s laptop, falsely calling it ‘Russian disinformation,’ a damned lie propagated in a letter signed by more than 50 former senior intelligence community officials,” Patel charged. “These officials included former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden, who more recently breezily suggested that Trump deserves the death penalty, and he was glad to knowingly participate in a fraud to keep Trump out of office.”

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The abuses by the agencies extend far beyond the Russia collusion hoax according to Patel. They also include domestic “counterterrorism” investigations including the targeting of parents who spoke out at school board meetings. He pointed to other examples such as Trump supporters being branded as “domestic extremists” and the arresting of pro-life activists.

“The politicization of the FBI into a partisan tool to punish the Democrats’ enemies and protect their friends is a threat that imperils our republic and demands Congress’ immediate attention. They have created a two-tiered system of justice; we must undo it. Therefore, the next Speaker of the House must establish a new Church Committee – the legendary Senate select committee established in 1975 to exclusively probe gross abuses committed by the Intelligence Community,” he asserted.

“The next speaker must establish a dedicated panel in the spirit of the Church Committee to properly investigate these abuses, withholding federal funding, impose accountability, and fearlessly point the way to fundamental legislative reform before it is too late. The American people deserve nothing less,” Patel concluded, making a rational and reasoned argument for the formation of the committee.

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