Rep. Mike Turner, the incoming chair of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that Republicans will seek the FBI’s “secret files” of contacts in Big Tech and the media — and are willing to exert their subpoena power to obtain the information.
Turner (R-Ohio) said the committee this year learned of “these activities” — also revealed in the series of reports known as the “Twitter Files” focusing on censorship of The Post’s 2020 expose on Hunter Biden.
According to the latest installment released Friday, the FBI had “constant and pervasive” contact with Twitter, viewing the social media giant as a “subsidiary” and labeling numerous accounts as “misinformation.”
“It is my understanding from our contacts that we have had with the FBI that there are secret files that the FBI has of these contacts that they were having with social media and with mainstream media,” Turner said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“And it has been our objective to get ahold of those files, to see the extent of this, so we can stop it, we can cut off the funding and prevent, obviously, average Americans being impacted by FBI actions,” he continued.
Republicans won a narrow majority in the House in the Nov. 8 midterm elections that will give them the authority to issue subpoenas to compel testimony at hearings.