House Republicans will probe the “partisan investigations” the FBI carried out under the Biden administration in a hearing next week, The Daily Wire has learned.
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight will speak with multiple former FBI agents about the “decline” of the bureau under President Joe Biden on April 2. Under Biden, the FBI faced criticism for its investigations into President Donald Trump, treatment of Christians, and targeting of peaceful pro-life advocates.
The subcommittee said that the hearing will examine how the FBI “abandoned its core mission to uphold the Constitution and protect the American people, wasting taxpayers’ hard-earned money on partisan investigations, ineffective procedures, and abusive tactics.”
Chaired by Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), the hearing will also “highlight how the FBI, under the Trump Administration and Director Kash Patel’s leadership, is focused on regaining public trust and returning to its original mandate of protecting the American public.”
“Under the Biden administration, taxpayer dollars were being used for politically motivated investigations that harmed innocent Americans and violated their rights,” Van Drew told The Daily Wire. “Next week, we will uncover the full extent of these misused resources and the damage done to the American people. As chairman of this subcommittee, my priority remains to restore trust in our justice system and ensure that our agencies operate fairly and without political bias.”
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), who has made headlines for her attacks on Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Sen. Ted Cruz, is the ranking member on the subcommittee.
The hearing is called “Inside the Biden FBI: Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and a Bureau Leadership in Decline.”
One of the witnesses will be Stewart Whitson, a former FBI supervisory special agent, who is the senior director of federal affairs for the conservative watchdog group Foundation for Government Accountability. Richard Stout, a former FBI special agent and director of the group Reform the Bureau, and former FBI special agent Nicole Parker will also testify.
Biden’s FBI, helmed by Christopher Wray, was sharply criticized for its handling of numerous operations, including a raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home to seize alleged classified documents.
The FBI also faced scrutiny over its armed raid of pro-life father of 11 Paul Vaughn at his home in rural Tennessee. Vaughn was arrested by the FBI over his involvement in a peaceful pro-life protest at Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, abortion facility in 2021.
“My house was assaulted, my wife and children were terrorized, and I was kidnapped at gunpoint by four armed men,” Vaughn previously told Congress of the arrest. “I had just sent three of my children to the car so I could take them to school when the house began to shake from a loud banging near the front door. I heard men shouting from my front porch, ‘Open up! FBI!’”
Vaughn was eventually pardoned by Trump alongside nearly two dozen other pro-life activists.
FBI Director Kash Patel has promised to end political prosecutions at the bureau and focus on going after violent criminals and cracking down on drug trafficking.
