Washington D.C. – Congresswoman Elise Stefanik joined Breitbart News Saturday to discuss her appointment to the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government and how House Republicans will provide much-needed Congressional oversight over abuses of power at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Listen to her full interview here.
Highlights of her interview are below:
On the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government:
“This is going to be some of the most important work that House Republicans do in the Majority, and this is about bringing accountability and transparency to what the American people understand has been the weaponization of the federal government against everyday Americans.
“When I go home to my district, and when I talk to people, whether it's in Upstate New York or across this country, they understand that there seems to be two sets of rules. One set of rules if you're a well-connected Democrat who is part of the Swamp— your illegal acts get brushed under the rug.”
“These agencies target law-abiding citizens just because they're conservative. So there's a lot of digging that we need to do.”
“For example, I believe it was illegal for the FBI to pay Twitter three million dollars to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story. So, the first service we can do is shining sunlight and bringing transparency. We have subpoena power, we’re in the Majority, and we're not going to hesitate to use it.”
“The average American should ask themselves, what are these agencies so afraid of? Obviously, there are egregious crimes that have been committed if they're so unwilling to turn over just basic documents, basic information to Congress.”
“We need to reform these agencies so they're not able to target Americans. Again, these agencies work for the American people, not the other way around.”
On Democrats’ attempts to silence whistleblowers who come forward against these politically charged agencies:
“There is a difference between the rank and file hardworking law-abiding FBI agents across this country versus the politicized bureaucrats, the political appointees based in Washington D.C. Those are political figures who have politicized and frankly broken these agencies.”
“One report that was buried, that came out right before the midterm elections, and it was from the Judiciary Committee under Jim Jordan’s leadership, was there were multiple whistleblowers from within the FBI and the Department of Justice who came forward and provided depositions of the abuse that they see internally of the FBI from political leaders at the top, and how they're trying to use the Biden agenda, use the Left, to almost change the way the FBI operates.”
“They want to silence whistleblowers when they're coming forward to expose the lies of the Left. So we're going to have to make sure that these Patriots feel comfortable in coming forward, and we encourage them to do so.”
“[Whistleblowers] are protected by law. Anybody has a right to come before Congress, Constitutionally, and we're going to make sure, to the best of our ability, that that is absolutely enforced.”
“In that same report that came out right before the midterms, one of the major themes that came out was there is a silencing effect, because there already has been retaliation, whether it's stripping of security clearances, whether it's blocking from promotion, taking off certain high profile cases, when they believe that an individual is a whistleblower from within the agency—that has to stop.”
