A House panel tasked with investigating whether government agencies have violated civil liberties published a lengthy final report on Friday summarizing two years’ worth of work and findings.
The bulk of the 17,019-page report was made up of transcripts of the 99 closed-door interviews and depositions the panel has conducted, including some that have never been released before. The transcripts featured FBI officials and targets of the panel’s censorship investigation, such as former Twitter executive Yoel Roth.
The panel, called the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government and housed under the House Judiciary Committee, had a roughly $20 million budget to work with and a wide range of authority to issue subpoenas across the executive branch.
The report noted that in addition to the interviews, the weaponization committee held 13 hearings, sent hundreds of demand letters to agencies and corporations, and issued nearly five dozen subpoenas.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) characterized the work of the committee as a success, saying in a statement provided to the Washington Examiner that it had effectively exposed government wrongdoing.
“The Weaponization Committee conducted rigorous oversight of the Biden-Harris administration’s weaponized government and uncovered numerous examples of federal government abuses,” Jordan said. “Through our oversight, we protected the First Amendment by investigating the censorship-industrial-complex, heard from numerous brave whistleblowers, stopped the targeting of Americans by the IRS and Department of Justice, and created serious legislative and policy changes that will benefit all Americans.”
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Jordan, who will serve as Judiciary Committee chairman again next year, has said he expects the subcommittee to dissolve at the end of the year and that he plans to fold the work into the broader committee.
This story is developing.