Oversight Panel Probes Federal Agency Over Unhinged Post Claiming U.S. Is Devolving Into Nazi Germany
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer demanded answers from the Selective Service agency for reposting a vulgar social media screed last month suggesting the US may be on a similar trajectory to Nazi Germany.
Although the report was subsequently scrubbed from the Selective Service’s official X account, Comer (R-Ky.) is keen on obtaining additional information on the matter and wants to ensure the perpetrator is fired.
“The Committee is deeply disturbed that an independent federal agency, tasked with registering and maintaining a system of individuals potentially subject to military conscription if authorized by the President and Congress, would re-post a wholly unsubstantiated, false, and contemptible claim,” Comer wrote in a letter to Selective Service System acting director Joel Spangenberg on Thursday.
“The individual at fault for reposting such an inappropriate and disturbing message on an Agency X account should be terminated.”
One day after the Nov. 5 election, the Selective Service X account reposted a remark by user “SloJoe” likening the incoming Trump administration to Nazi Germany. (Read more from “Oversight Panel Probes Federal Agency Over Unhinged Post Claiming U.S. Is Devolving Into Nazi Germany” HERE)
