Miranda Devine shreds NY Times' dishonest framing of GOP's 'new Church committee'

Some Republicans in the House, including Reps. Jim Jordan and Chip Roy, included the formation of what’s been described as a “new Church committee” in their list of demands in return for supporting Kevin McCarthy to be Speaker. The new committee will investigate the intelligence community and its attempts to influence domestic politics, and more:

New: On Tucker Carlson, @RepThomasMassie announces @GOPLeader agreed to create a committee, à la Frank Church Committee, to investigate "influence of FBI and various intel agencies on domestic politics."

— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) January 7, 2023

"I don't know if you're clairvoyant or just made the future happen," @RepThomasMassie tells Carlson, who had previously floated the idea as deal-sweetener for @GOPLeader to win support in his bid for speaker. "But it's happening."

— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) January 7, 2023

NEW: It is indicative of "the new way of doing business in Congress," @RepThomasMassie tells me of the committee which will be "structured as a select subcommittee of Judiciary."

He adds, "this was part of the package that McCarthy presented in order to secure his speakership."

— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) January 7, 2023

The New York Times has an article about the new committee, and Miranda Devine noticed that the narrative is going to be that the mission will be to help Trump:

Could @nytimes be any more dishonest? Framing the GOP’s new “Church committee” into FBI malfeasance as a ploy to help Trump. No mention of FBI’s #LaptopFromHell coverup or FBI whistleblowers like @RealStevefriend or #TwitterFiles or MO. lawsuit pic.twitter.com/N6PGGqtoTu

— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) January 9, 2023

Republicans are promoting Mr. Jordan’s panel as a new “Church Committee,” referring to a 1970s investigation by Senator Frank Church, Democrat of Idaho, that uncovered decades of intelligence and civil liberties abuses by presidents of both parties.

But in an environment in which Mr. Trump has been the subject of multiple criminal investigations for years — including continuing inquiries into his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results and his hoarding of sensitive documents — Democrats predicted the new investigative subcommittee was likely to adopt a more partisan edge.

Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said the Church Committee had been “a serious and bipartisan attempt to reform the conduct of the intelligence community, based on hard and verifiable evidence.”

As usual, the evidence of media bias can be seen mostly in what they don’t mention as much as what they do report.

Miranda: "Could @nytimes be any more dishonest?"

NYT: "Hold my beer."

Best not to challenge them on depths of inaccuracy! https://t.co/38b1vgiBCc

— The Trout Lord (@thekitchentwit) January 9, 2023

The NYT is purposefully spinning. The NSBA used the "domestic terrorism" label to describe that incident and others in a letter drafted with admin input, which was then used by Merrick Garland to issue his baseless directive to the FBI and US Attorneys.https://t.co/NYOltKB2rg https://t.co/zksIVBD8n9

— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) January 9, 2023