Republicans on the House Oversight Committee criticized its chairwoman’s calls for an FBI investigation into the role the social media platform Parler may have played in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as “blatantly and overtly partisan,” arguing that for any such probe to be fair, it should also include Facebook and Twitter. Reps. James Comer (R-Ky.) and Greg Steube (R-Fla.) made the remarks in a letter (pdf) to committee chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), who last week asked FBI Director Christopher Wray to launch a “robust investigation” into whether Parler played a role in the Capitol breach. Maloney called on the probe to include looking into whether Parler served as “a potential facilitator of planning and incitement related to the violence, as a repository of key evidence posted by users on its site, and as a potential conduit for foreign governments who may be financing civil unrest in the United States.” …