House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan, in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday, demanded answers regarding testimony by a bureau analyst that suggests officials used a “software tool” to track election-related speech on social media.
The analyst claimed during a discussion with the Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government that the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) division of the FBI was using the tool to “search open-source databases about content indicative of criminal conduct.”
“According to the analyst’s testimony, the FBI uses this tool to monitor social media posts by users, regardless of whether the users are American citizens or foreign actors, to search for ‘content indicative of criminal conduct,’” Jordan wrote.
“The analyst further testified that the FBI shares its…
