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let them say what they want. THIS is our Attorney General.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/02/09/gaetz_grills_lobbyist_were_not_here_to_trash_the_fbi_were_here_to_rescue_the_fbi_from_political_capture.html
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Gaetz Grills Lobbyist: We're Not Here To Trash The FBI, We're Here To Rescue The FBI From Political Capture
Posted By Tim Hains
On Date February 9, 2023
At the first hearing of the House Select Committee on "Weaponization of the Federal Government" on Thursday, Rep. Matt Gaetz asked Elliot Williams, a lobbyist with the Raben Group, about the "revolving door" between the Justice Department and federal lobbying.
REP. MATT GAETZ: Would the American people feel like this government wasn't so weaponized against them if there wasn't a revolving door between the Department of Justice senior officials, and lobbying?
ELLIOT WILLIAMS: I don't quite follow the premise of your question, sir.
GAETZ: It's pretty easy. There is a revolving door between senior officials at DOJ and the lobbying profession. Do you think that gives the public more or less trust?
WILLIAMS: There are rules governing what employments this is based on my understanding after having been in government for 15 years, one, what individuals' actions can be once they are employed elsewhere, but also what they are allowed to do.
GAETZ: Lobbying is influence peddling. You are the principal at the Raben Group, which is a lobbying firm. I would observe the reporting of Project Veritas where… the director of research and development [at Pfizer] said on a recording, "One of the things we are exploring is like, why don't we just manipulate Covid ourselves, mutate Covid via and directed evolution. Pfizer is a revolving door for all government officials. It's pretty good for industry, to be honest. It is bad for everyone else in America."
Pfizer is one of the clients of the lobbying firm you are a principal of, isn't it?
WILLIAMS: I do not represent pfizer.
GAETZ: You are a principal of the raven group, right?
WILLIAMS: That is correct.
GAETZ: Mister Chairman, I will enter into the record that clients of the Raben Group, which include Pfizer.
Not just Pfizer, but Google as well. In response to the Twitter Files, we saw a statement come from the FBI where they said "correspondence from the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, long-standing, and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements."
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We have come not to trash the FBI but to rescue the FBI from political capture. It seems as though that political capture was really enhanced when Robert Mueller took a lot of the authority and power away from the field offices all over our country and centralized that power."
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