The new session of the House of Representatives will create a new Church Committee to investigate misdeeds, illegalities, and crimes committed by United States intelligence agencies, with a focus, it appears, on the Federal Bureau of Investigation. U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), yesterday, a guest on the Tucker Carlson Show, announced that, reporting that it has the approval of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
On his Jan. 3 show, Carlson called for a “new Frank Church Committee designed to discover what the FBI and the intel agencies have been doing to control domestic politics in this country. They’ve been doing a lot, but no one in Washington wants to talk about it. This topic is effectively off limits … for almost 50 years.”
The Church Committee was a special Senate Select Committee, whose investigation in 1975-76 revealed the wrongful practices of the CIA in its MK-Ultra project, and the FBI with its COINTELPRO.
Carlson had previously emphasized the role of the FBI in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots, its control of elections—"The FBI is now a bigger force in American elections than any single group of voters"—and control of the media. But there may be more that the new Church Committee may investigate. Recall that in his Dec. 15, 2022 program, Carlson reported on a source who, having seen classified documents, said the CIA had assassinated President John F. Kennedy, and Carlson posed the release of the classified documents.
In his Jan. 6 show, Carlson said, “So we spent all week telling you about the fight on Capitol Hill over who’s going to be the next Speaker of the House.” There was a standoff. “Well, during that period, Kevin McCarthy decided to make some changes … and one of them is something that we’ve been talking about and certainly thinking about for quite some time which is the creation of a committee modeled after the famous Frank Church Committee of the 1970s that will look a lot more closely at the influence of the FBI and the various Intel agencies on domestic politics….
“Kevin McCarthy’s going to do that.… His plan we have just learned is to appoint really one of the most honest and dogged members of Congress … Thomas Massey of Kentucky to head that committee, the new Church Committee … who joins us now.”
