Chairman Jordan [reading recent opinion of judge]: The United States government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ministry of truth…The FBI's failure to alert social media companies that the Biden laptop story was real, and not Russian disinformation, is particularly troubling.

Chairman Jordan: American's speech is censored, parents are called terrorists, Catholics are called radicals, and I haven't even talked about the spying that took place of a presidential campaign, or the raiding of a former president's home, but maybe what is more frightening, is what happens if you come forward and tell congress. If you're a whistleblower, come tell the legislature, come tell the congress what's going on, look out. You will be retaliated against.

Nadler: [this hearing] is an elaborate show with only two purposes in mind. To protect Donald Trump from the consequences of his actions, and return him to the White House in the next election.

Nadler: Chairman Jordan had launched an array of baseless investigations into the FBI, most premised on absurd conspiracy theories, some so absurd that the chairman cannot possibly believe them to be true.

[they are all true]

Nadler: Republican claims that the FBI has been weaponized, their personal attacks on Director Wray, their repeated calls to defund the FBI; these are not victimless acts. They're a clarion call to anti-government extremists, and that call is being hears.

Mike Johnson: The American people that we represent are losing count of the scandals that are mounting…they've seen counter-terrorism resources being used against school parents, the homes of conservative political opponents being raided. They've seen conservative states being targeted over their election integrity laws, and conservative Catholics and pro-life citizens characterized as violent extremists.

Director Wray: The FBI is not in the business of moderating content, or causing any social media company to suppress or censor…

Johnson: That is not what the court has found.

Massie: Can you tell us about how the second pipebomb was found at the DNC [ January 6th]?

Director Wray: I'm not going to get into that here.

Massie: Nine hundred days ago is when this happened, and you said you had total confidence we would apprehend the subject. We found video that looks like somebody, a passerby, miraculously found this pipebomb at the DNC, and then notified the police. Miraculously, I say, because it was at specifically the precise time to cause maximum distraction from events going on at the Capital.

Massie: Do you believe there is any limitation on your ability to obtain gun purchase data, or purchase information, for people who are not suspects from banks, without a warrant?

Director Wray: Now you're asking a legal question, which I would prefer to defer to the lawyers.

Lofgren: The January 6th Committee, I was a member, did find that the ex-president was the center of a wide-ranging conspiracy to overturn the election.

Gaetz: Are you protecting the Bidens?

Director Wray: Absolutely not.