Chairman Jordan: This subcommittee's work has also included putting out reports showing how CISA went from a cybersecurity agency, into the disinformation police, and how the FBI coordinated with a compromised Ukrainian intelligence agency to censor Americans.

Plaskett: One of the things that I've request that we look into is the IRS audits of working-class people, and people of color, which are far, far, at a higher rate than millionaires and billionaires. Or, a discussion, in a hearing, of actions by the former president, Donald Trump, and what he has said he will do to weaponize our government if reelected…Trump has said that he would reinstate the muslim travel ban…he has vowed to use the Department of Justice to investigate his political enemies. He has said that those who oppose him should be executed for treason. He has called his political enemies cockroaches, vermin, and that immigrants are poisoning American society. He has promised to use the Insurrection Act to mobilize the military against any protesters who speak out against him if he wins reelection.

[Plaskett PANIC]

Shellenberger: I regret to inform the subcommittee today, that the scope, power, and lawbreaking, of the Censorship Industrial Complex, are even worse than we had realized back in March. Two days ago, my colleagues and I published the first batch of internal files from the Cyber Threat Intelligence League, which showed US and UK military contractors, working in 2019 and 2020, to both censor, and turn sophisticated psychological operations and disinformation tactics, developed abroad, against the American people.

Subramanya [journalist]: Debanking has been one of the Trudeau government's weapon of choice. Since 2018, it has frozen the accounts of more than eight hundred Canadians who did things it didn't approve of.