Following FBI Director Christopher Wray’s often tense appearance before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., reacted to claims from mainly Republicans that the FBI has become politicized and has suppressed or censored information.
In an exchange with Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., Wray claimed the bureau’s focus is on “malign foreign disinformation,” meaning “foreign hostile actors who engage in covert efforts on social media platforms.”
Johnson interjected that a federal judge in his state, Terry Doughty, recently found instead that the FBI “engaged in a massive effort to suppress disfavored conservative speech and blatantly ignored the First Amendment right to free speech.”
Kennedy told Fox News that the FBI has a history of being politicized by its top brass, pointing to J. Edgar Hoover’s alleged targeting of civil rights groups and figures like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
