Parker [former FBI]: The FBI became politically weaponized, starting from the top in Washington, and trickling down to the field offices.

Parker: For many, becoming a Special Agent was their calling in life, but now it's merely a very dangerous and high-risk job, with minimal contentment. Weary of consequences that come with voicing their displeasure, these agents keep their heads low. They work hard and stay off the radar, and they count down the days until they can collect their well-deserved pensions.

Stefanik: There was a corrupt revolving door at the highest levels, between the FBI and twitter.

Stefanik: According to polling, of the people that were made aware of the Hunter Biden laptop story, 53% would have changed their votes, including 61% of democrats. This is the definition of election meddling. And it's the definition of election meddling by the FBI, on behalf of democrats, paid for by the US taxpayers. It's collusion, it's corruption, and it's unconstitutional.

Plaskett claims that the IRS disproportionately audits African-American families.

Hageman: Through the testimony made today, and the points made by my colleagues, it is clear that the culture and the mission of the DOJ has changed in a manner that runs counter to the rights and liberties of the American people.

Hageman: We have seen two issues stemming from this abuse in the change of priorities within the FBI and DOJ. They are either investigating Americans based upon their constitutionally-protected rights, or they are flagging lawful action, to which they have political objection.

Turley: What you really see is how unsatiable censorship becomes. Eventually they were doing what appeared to be word searches, and just sending all of these postings in for possible action by twitter. That included things like jokes and other things, that anyone looking at it would realize that this is not a nefarious Russian operation.

Lynch: As recently reported by the bi-partisan Center for Strategic and International Studies, twenty-eight of the domestic terrorism fatalities that occurred in 2021 were the result of far-right terrorist attacks that were perpetrated by individuals that were, "motivated by ideas of racial or ethnic supremacy, opposition to government authority, including perceived overreach related to protocols following COVID-19 policies, misogyny, hatred based on sexuality or gender identity, and belied in QANON conspiracy theory, or opposition to certain polities such as abortion.

Baker: Traditionally in the FBI, a field agent had an investigation, he had a field supervisor above him, above him was the agent in charge of that office, only then did the information and the decision making go to FBI Headquarters. What happened under Mueller's centralize, all of that was eliminated. They ran these key investigations, the Hillary Clinton email investigation, and the the Trump collusion investigation out of headquarters. Eliminated all these layers of independent judgement, supervision, gone.

Goldman wants notes taken during whistleblower interviews.

Sanchez: What if they vocally advocated conspiracy theories that have no basis in fact? Should that impact how the committee views their testimony?

Williams: Yes, openly advocating conspiracy theories that have no basis in fact would have a negative impact on an open investigation.

Gaetz: Mr. Williams, wouldn't the American people feel like this government wasn't so weaponized against them if there wasn't such a revolving door between Department of Justice senior officials and lobbying?

Williams: I don't quite follow the premise of your question.

Gaetz: Lobbying is influence peddling, and you are the principal at the Raben Group, which is a lobbying firm.

Wasserman-Schultz tried and failed at attempting to minimize Turley's legal opinion of twitter colluding with government.

Parker: That would not be appropriate…it is not appropriate to make any sort of potentially political or social statement while wearing your FBI ballistic vest on official duty. [FBI kneeling for black lives matter]

Stewart: I look forward to hearing from others who are key to this investigation, Christopher Wray, the attorney general, former FBI Director Comey, former CIA Director Brennan. I hope we have a chance to hear from them as well.

Stewart: The FBI has lied to the FISA courts. The FBI has lied to congress, and the FBI has lied to the American people.

Stewart: Mr. Williams, do you think that, as I've described to you, seventeen omissions, fifty-one wrong assertions in one FISA application is professionally done?

Williams: I would say this is a matter that continues to be of interest to the Justice Department.

Stewart: It's a simple question. Do you find that acceptable? I think it's hilarious that you won't say, 'No, I don't.'

Williams: This is a matter before the Justice Department and congress that has been ongoing for years

Stewart: So you won't answer the question if you find that acceptable? I'm asking for a simple opinion. Do you find that acceptable?

Williams: What I will say is that…

Stewart: Never mind. You're not going to answer the question.

Massie: The problem is we have collected millions of exabytes of data. When what you're collecting incidentally becomes the entire universe, I think you might need a warrant to go look at that information. And when the number of searches done of US persons by the FBI, I'm not talking about CIA/NSA; we know in 2020, it was over a million searches into this fishing, into this database where you don't need a warrant.

Allred: To me, this subcommittee and this hearing is a disgrace…just been an airing of grievances, of debunked claims and conspiracy theories…it goes so far down the rabbit hole. Before I was elected to congress, I was a civil rights lawyer, I served as an appointed lawyer in the Obama administration.

[of course you were, and of course you did, you career criminal shyster]

Bishop: One of the twitter file disclosures is that Elvis Chan, FBI San Francisco, wrote to a twitter executive and said, 'my colleagues at the Fort had a query for you'. Turns out, they had to tell me, that means Fort Meade. The National Security Agency, the NSA, probably.

Garcia: The federal government has a long history of weaponizing it's power against minorities, communities of color, religious minorities, and immigrant communities. Women, Latinos, people of color, and religious minorities, are the actual victims of a weaponized government…now my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have assembled this misnamed and misguided committee, to grandstand and to try to lecture us all on the weaponization of government.

Garcia: We should dedicate our efforts investigating the abuse of power, president's pardon power, by the former twice-impeached president.

Garcia: You do agree that it [January 6th] is domestic terrorism?

Williams: There is no domestic federal terrorism statute.

Turley: A lot of what we have, that we hold most dearly in terms of private information, is now on our cellphones, it's now on The Cloud. And the government has really targeted The Cloud. They're going after The Cloud with non-warrants.

[The Cloud is likely an intelligence operation/asset itself]

Goldman knows he is in deep legal trouble, and has no choice but to attack these agents.

Armstrong: The point of the coordination between the DOJ, the Department of Education, and the National Schoolboard Association, was designed to create a federal nexus. Local schoolboards incidents are prosecuted locally…only by fabricating a domestic terrorism nexus do you create a position where you can prosecute those cases in federal court.

Armstrong: 'Only the few without cellphones can escape this tireless and absolute surveillance.' Those are quotes from the Supreme Courts majority opinion in US v Carpenter.

Armstrong: The amount of date available either directly or through third parties is both astounding and terrifying. Combine that with the advance in technology like A.I, facial recognition, and more, that will allow aggregation, analysis and identification, and we are fast approaching a surveillance state with no assurances, other than the promises of our government, that it will not abuse this tremendous responsibility.