The “weaponized” FBI is “targeting” innocent Americans and retaliating against whistleblowers, according to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who joined House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for a Thursday morning press conference ahead of scheduled testimony from three FBI whistleblowers before the committee.

“The FBI has been victimized by political capture, and that politicization has manifested in the targeting of Americans who never deserved to have the government weaponized against them,” Gaetz stated. “Whistleblowers saw those bad acts. They stepped forward and they were retaliated against and crushed as a consequence.”