House Judiciary Committee Republicans gave FBI Director Christopher Wray the opportunity Tuesday to “amend” his testimony that the bureau does not censor free speech.
The Republicans wrote to Wray in a letter obtained by the Washington Examiner that the director’s testimony, which he gave in a congressional hearing last week, was at odds with a recent court ruling that found evidence the FBI had engaged in “substantial censorship.”“Your testimony conflicts with the findings of the federal court in Missouri v.
He said in response to a question from Rep. Mike Johnson about the ongoing Missouri v. Biden case that the bureau was focused on “foreign hostile actors” seeking to interfere with content found on social media. The Republicans cited several examples found in Judge Terry A. Doughty’s sweeping 155-page ruling, including that the FBI flagged “domestic disinformation” for social media companies in the lead up to the 2020 election.
The Republicans also noted Doughty’s finding that the FBI “likely misled social-media companies into believing the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation, which resulted in suppression of the story.”
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