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WATCH: Rep. Hageman Brings The Receipts, Grills Chris Wray Over FBI’s Election Interference

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In a fiery congressional hearing Wednesday, Representative Harriet Hageman (R-WY) grilled FBI Director Chris Wray over election interference by the Bureau in conjunction with major social media companies.

Rep. Hageman challenged Director Wray’s denial of the FBI’s involvement in weekly meetings with executives from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Verizon.

“We have established that the FBI and other federal agencies met weekly with executives from major social media companies. Were you involved in any of those meetings?” questioned Hageman. To which Wray responded, “I wasn’t involved in the kind of meetings that you’re talking about, or I didn’t participate, I guess, in meetings like that.”

The discussion continued, with Hageman asking whether these meetings were still occurring, to which Wray referenced a recent preliminary injunction. When pushed further by Hageman on the nature of these meetings leading up to the 2024 elections and the FBI’s intention to continue them, Wray replied, “We’re not going to be policing election-related speech.”

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“But that’s what we found. Director Wray, you and I both know that the federal government is forbidden from doing indirectly what it cannot do directly,” declared Hageman. She further accused the FBI under Wray’s leadership of circumventing the First Amendment by using social media companies as proxies.

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“Were you the person who gave the orders to use these social media companies to violate the First Amendment?” asked Hageman. Director Wray, however, continued to disagree with Hageman’s description of the FBI’s engagement with the social media companies.

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