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Kyle seraphin. Hello my friends and welcome to
the Kyle seraphin, show for marched 10th.
It's a Friday and in a variation on a famous Carl Sandburg quote,
Ted Cruz once said, if you have the law on your side, hang on
the law. If you have the facts on your
side, bang on the facts. But if you have neither bang on
the table. Now, Sandberg is attributed was
saying Hound on the table and yell like hell and in a moment
like this, we are witnessing a Democrat Party that has neither
the facts, nor the law. On their side, and what are they
doing? But banging on the table and
yelling, like, how they're attempting to discredit The
Messengers, Some of you may have seen our Monday show where we
talked about if you are catching Flack, then you're over the
Target. And one of the messages that we
took home from Stephen friend and from George Hill was that,
there was no refuting, the message that they brought when
they were testifying in front of Congress, there was only an
attempt to discredit them as Messengers.
In today's show, we're going to be discussing some of those
important moments that came from the house weaponization
committee testimony with Michael Schellenberg.
Matt Taibbi, that happened yesterday and after that, we're
going to talk about a little bit of the stonewalling and the
general malfeasance that continue to go on at the FBI
because they just can't help it. They're back in the news, we'll
talk about a thread that usually Kelly put out, which I think is
very telling, and I want to also discuss the way that CNN covers
it because, of course, the story that they lead with is not the
story that is of note to anybody, that is involved in the
trials here, and the things that go on for the January 6
defendants, including the proud boys for their so Called
seditious conspiracy. All right, so I want to get into
the Matt Taibbi and Schellenberg testimony that went on
yesterday. For those of you that are not
aware the house committee on the Judiciary, has convened, a
subcommittee or a select committee on the weaponization
of the federal government. And what they decided to do in
their second public, hearing is discuss the Twitter files.
If you're not following the Twitter files, you can find them
on at least four different journalists threads.
They are all being threaded by independent journalists
including Lee Fang. Barry Weiss who the members of
this committee did not know is a female.
Barry Weiss is a female Rider who historically has been at the
New York Times, there is a man named Michael Schellenberg who's
going to be pictured in some of this testimony that will show a
couple of little scenes from and Matt, Taibbi, who worked for a
long time at Rolling Stone. Now, I'm going to focus on Matt
Taibbi in many ways because he was the first person to begin
with the Twitter vials threads. I have a small Connection to him
and that we've spoken a number of times for a number of hours.
And I find Matt Taibbi to be utterly credible and utterly
reasonable in the way that he approaches these things.
What I don't find is that the ranking member Stacy Plaskett of
this house subcommittee on weaponization is bringing
anything to light and has any interest in achieving anything
close to the truth. So we're going to, we're going
to kind of dip into how she did her opening statement.
I want you Hear what she said and then we're going to hear the
address that Matt Taibbi came back with now I receive his sub
stack, one of the weird things about him, interviewing me is
that we were going to be doing a story and so he gave me an
access to a sub stack. So I get emails of that.
Nearly every morning, sometimes a couple times a day for this
online magazine, which is called Racket.
And I'm going to read what he originally wrote as well.
Will play just his his Opening statement because he does have a
nice little rebuttal to this woman but let's go ahead and cut
into looking at the ranking member.
This is Stacey Plaskett the representative from the United
States Virgin Islands and I'll tell you why.
That's also relevant in a second here.
So let's hear what she has to say.
Opening statements. Three weeks ago, house oversight
had this hearing with actual Twitter Executives, who had
actual first-hand knowledge about what happened in 2020 and
that didn't go so well for the House, Republicans because real
evidence showed that there wasn't coordination between
Twitter and the federal government.
So real evidence, I'm not confident that any of them
brought any evidence Beyond people speaking and that's
testimony but it's not evidence. And so once again this woman
this is not a serious person, she's going to get fake outrage
during a moment. It's kind of interesting to
watch. Whenever somebody is doing this,
just think about them bouncing on the table because she doesn't
have facts. She doesn't even know what words
mean but unfortunately for her she's going to do this in public
and it's most likely that some staffer wrote this because you
can tell she doesn't actually know what she's talking about. a
little bit later on as well as li like the recorder files
really showed was a discussion on content moderation and that
we only got a fraction of the discussion.
Why is she mad? So now we're back again, no
surprise. What else have they got to talk
about? Not what's interested in the
American people are interested. Not what taxpayer dollars have
brought us here to Washington to do and the Republicans have
brought into of Elon Musk public scribes.
That's an embarrassing statement for her.
So these are Elon musk's public scribes.
Forbes cover this as her slamming them I suppose.
That's the case. I would say that she publicly
discredits herself, she's talking to two of the more
accomplished independent journalists in this country and
to people who are breaking. What is probably the most
important story of the last 10 years as noted, by the public
engagements, and we'll let Matt and have his own rebuttal to
that. But I'ma let her continue for a
few moments. To release Cherry Picked out of
context emails and screenshots designed to promote his chosen
narrative Elon Musk, chosen narrative.
That is now being parroted by the Republicans because the
Republicans think that these witnesses will tell a story
that's going to help them out politically on Tuesday.
The majority released an 18-page report claiming to show that the
FTC is quote harassing Twitter. Oh, my poor Twitter including by
seeking information about its interactions with individuals
before us today. How did the report reached this
conclusion by showing to 12 single paragraphs from a single
demand letter? Even though the report itself
makes clear that there were new Morris demand letters with
numerous requests. None of which we've been able to
see that are more demand letters and more requests of Twitter
that she got a little lost in there, she's talking about
things that she doesn't understand because she doesn't
really know what it is that she's referring to Jim Jordan.
Made it clear later on that day. That not only did the
Republicans. Make it available to her, but
they didn't take advantage of that that offer she claims that
it was because it was late at night.
It wasn't that That late. And I don't know if you were
going to be going in front of an open Hearing in front of people.
You know, you're going to be on camera, then maybe you would
want to be educated about the thing that you're talking about,
but that's not necessary. In this case, it's not necessary
for this woman to have any background on what she's saying.
So she just does this this routine where she's going to
have this fake outrage. He's going to be making fun of
Twitter or Twitter. I mean, this is an American
company. It's an American company, where
Americans work. It's owned by an American
citizen. And she in theory is accountable
to the American citizens will discuss why that's even funnier
about her again. She's that the representative
from the Virgin Islands, which might surprise you to know that
there is, in fact, a delegate from there.
In other words, the key Conclusions are based on a
fraction of information out of context.
Cherry-picked surprise, just like the Twitter files.
All right, by that, that's all I can really tolerate from her.
And the thing about it is, is these words cherry-picked, it's
of note that they also appear in the Democrat response to Steve
friend to Gare de loyal to George Hill.
This is What happens when the same people write responses in
on these committees? So, we're dealing with people
that, that are not particularly inventive.
They're not creative and they don't have a different line on
any of this. They're going to continue to say
the same things and it's probably the same person who's
writing Her speech. If you're watching the rumble
video here. What you'll notice is that
Stacey Plaskett continues to look down and reads directly off
the speech. These are not heartfelt words
that are her outrage. This is her performing.
She's giving a performance. Formance.
It's a theatrical performance. It's not a particularly
compelling one. At least not to me because it
comes off as being very scripted, which it is.
It literally comes directly out of a script that she's got in
front of her and that script involves her making little
faces. And, and being diminutive about
an American company, that is doing something that I think
nobody else is doing in this social media space, which is
trying to move towards a more free speech platform, which I
think is an admirable goal. I was not on Twitter in the pre
Elon Musk days at least not for very long.
I was, I got on Twitter in October of 2022.
So I've only really experienced the sort of the Elon Musk take
over and whatever that involves and it's been mostly free.
And I think that it's been mostly something that I've been
able to promote whatever ideas that I chose and those ideas
continue to result in more and more people following the
account that I created and and I would say that that's how the
marketplace of ideas is supposed to work but But that doesn't
necessarily mean that these people want that.
So it's, it's of note, I'm going to give Matt Taibbi, a chance to
say his response to this, and I may play more of this than not
but one way or another, I will read through his actual
statement. Because I think it's, I think
it's important because all of it is from a man who is
significantly smarter than Stacey Plaskett by Leaps and
Bounds and he wrote his own script and he doesn't have any
fake outrage, he doesn't have to pretend that it means Something
that it doesn't, they're words that he wrote down, he's got
this. If you're not looking at the the
video that I've got in front of me here, he's got like a little
teal you know iMac or what do you call those things iPod?
That's not what they called iPad.
I know it's an Apple product, he's sitting here with a little
propped up, you know, screen and he's going to read it because he
probably typed it out and that's his format.
So here he is sitting in a suit. Most most of you who are
familiar with seeing Matt, Taibbi, we'll see you in a ball
cap. He's a he He's kind of a low-key
dude. You know I've seen him in puffy
jackets his you know, his text messages come in and you know,
he and I will infrequently text, but occasionally I'll reach out
to him and it just shows up in a very low key setting and he's
got all of his Awards and stuff like that behind him, whatever
he does like a Skype hit or something like that.
So this is kind of an interesting look he's wearing a,
you know, a pink shirt and kind of a darker color tie with a
dark suit and he looks very professional.
And if you don't know anything about Matt, Taibbi, he was an
athlete in his Younger days, he went and played professional
basketball over in Russia and I think in Mongolia as well and I
mean he's a physical dude in the same way that when you see him
sit and talk to someone like Joe Rogan which he did recently,
these are two physical characters and then you have
this woman out there doing this performance.
So without any further Ado, I'm this is actually a tribute off
at Dinesh d'souza's YouTube page here and we're going to hear,
Matt in his own words Chairman Jordan ranking member Plaskett
members of the select committee. Thank you for having me today.
My name is Matt Taibbi, I've been a reporter for 30 years and
a staunch advocate of the First Amendment much of that time was
spent at Rolling Stone magazine. Ranking member Plaskett, I'm not
a so-called journalist. I've won the national magazine
award, the eye of stone award for independent journalism, and
I've written 10 books, including for New York, time to New York
Times bestsellers. So that's, that's Jim.
Jordan laughing in the background, there, which is
pretty fantastic. I didn't play all the way
through the cut, but she refers to these.
These guys, both Schellenberg and Taibbi, as a so-called
journalist, or as so-called journalists which is pretty
offensive. This is her once again, they're
attempting to discredit the messenger because this is pound
on the table. There's no reason for you to do
that and try to like demean a witness that you've never even
spoken to. And I'm going to tell you why
these these hearings are going to end up failing on both sides
in a second here. But we'll just, we'll let Jim
Jordans laughs, continue it and and Matt's words.
Now, the editor of the online magazine, racket on the
independent platforms up stack. I'm here today because of a
series of events that began late last year, when I received a
note from a source online, it red.
Are you interested in doing a deep dive into what censorship
of manipulation was going on at Twitter?
A week later the first of what became known as the Twitter
files. Reports came out to say these
attracted intense public interest would be an
understatement my computer look like a Vegas slot machine as
they're just the first tweet. About the blockage of 100,
Biden, laptop, story registered 143 million impressions, And 30
million engagements, just want people to understand what that
is. If you're not a social media
person, 143 million views and he said, 30 million engagements.
When I send out something right now, I have something like
60,000 or 65 thousand followers. Something in that range on
Twitter, you know, I'll catch anywhere between five and ten
thousand views on a regular tweet that people are not
interested in on a big one. Maybe 100, 150 thousand
something to that effect. That's if people start picking
it up and moving it around, I think the biggest one we've had
Had six or seven hundred thousand views one, this one had
143 million views, there's so much interest in what was going
on there and 30 million engagements means people that
retweeted it that that shared the same subject that they had
already seen people that had commented on it of which there
was a, just an incredible volume of people commenting on it.
Everybody wanted to put their take on it and I was watching
these things come down. I actually was involved in some
panel discussions on the original drops like this.
Because people lost their minds about this sort of transparency
and it is a big deal and it was a big deal at the time.
And the number of engagements there are some pretty
breathtaking numbers for the platform.
Twitter wasn't until a week after the first report, after
Michael shellenberger, very wise and other researchers, join the
search of the files that we started to grasp.
The significance of this story. The original promise of the
internet was that it might democratize.
The exchange of information globally, a free internet.
Would overwhelm all attempts. To control information flow.
It's very existence is a threat to anti-democratic forms of
government everywhere. What we found in the files was a
sweeping effort to reverse that promise and use machine learning
and other tools to turn the internet into an instrument of
censorship and social control. Unfortunately, our own
government appears to be playing a lead role.
We saw the first Hanson Communications between Twitter
Executives before the 2020 election, when we read things
like Flag by DHS or please see attached report from FBI for
potential misinformation. This would be attached to an
Excel spreadsheet with long lists of names whose accounts
were often suspended shortly after again, ranking member
class. Could I would note that the
evidence of Twitter government relationship includes lists of
tens of thousands of names on both the left and right.
The people affected include Trump supporters but also
left-leaning sites like Consortium and Truth out the
leftist, South American Channel, tell us or the yellow vest
movement. That in fact is a key point of
the Twitter files that is neither a left or right issue.
So, I think it's really an important point that Matt makes
right there. This is not supposed to be a
left or right issue and it's something that he continues to
accurately State as he moves through his testimony through
the entire day. This testimony went on for
hours. I live stream which case to
Tracy beans for some of it. So I'll encourage you to check
out the the uncovered DC Rumble Channel, if you want to see that
it was mostly us kind of pausing and talking or speaking over the
top of these clowns. Because some of them were just
saying things that were So patently absurd, we were
watching in real time, they the failure to understand what it
was that they were even talking about.
Most of these congresspeople seems like have a weak grasp of
the internet which is kind of incredible incredible in this
day and age. What what Taibbi is talking
about when he says that this neither a left or right issue is
something I want to hone in on because they're banging on the
messenger here, but the messenger is not a partisan
messenger, you know, Taibbi is a Democrat which Jim Jordan
revealed later on. He asked them both.
They both said they were registered as Democrats.
He's an old-school liberal he describes himself in this speech
is an old-school ACLU style liberal in other words he's one
of those people that believes that even if he doesn't agree
with you that you have the right to speak and and I feel the same
way we don't have the same beliefs about some things.
I know that his issues with religions are his issues but I
know Matt Taibbi wouldn't have a problem with me having religion.
He wouldn't have a problem with you having religion.
And I think it's really important that there used to be
that Common Ground. Matt is one of those guys that I
think probably Stood Still and he's written about the Russia
gate collusion hoax and how nonsensical it was because the
facts weren't there. He's a guy that falls the facts.
Now there's always a sense of editorial bias when you deal
with riders when you deal with reporters and as someone who
grew up around, newsrooms literally my whole life.
My father was the news director for a west coast news station
for CBS Radio KCBS, 7:40 a.m. he ran that the year that I was
born and spent you know, a lot of time around the news when I
was in my early teens or at least in my I don't know
whatever it is. Middle Middle School ages, he
ran a radio station in Dallas, Texas, which was called krld.
It was the largest new signal in the state of Texas.
It was the flagship, the Texas state networks and when you,
when you are around news people, there's always a bias to say
Otherwise is absurd. And the bias is usually supposed
to be in a real traditional setting bias should be based on
what stories are chosen. Not based on how they cover the
story necessarily now, they might pick an angle a little bit
differently than others. But the, the facts of the story
are supposed to be the facts of story and my experience with
Matt, Taibbi, has been that. That's what he's interested in.
He's interested in the facts. The facts go wherever they go
and the fact that he's interested in the story, that's
the end of it. That's the amount of editing
the, he's going to be doing for the editorial line of it.
And the rest of it is just how do you put that information out
in a way that you can understand?
I'm going to I'm going to quote a little bit further in a second
here but I'll give him a moment just to do it.
The left and the right issue is so important.
It's something that has been stated in the disclosures given
by, by Me by a several other whistleblowers that I'm aware of
bye. Steve Friend by George Hill.
By Garrett. Oh boy, we've actually written
these things down to Congress. This is not a left or right
issue the idea that there is a weaponized doj or a weaponized
FBI, that there is a Twitter that's out there.
That is a, you know, censoring People based on their political
beliefs. These are not left or right
issues because that could swing back on anyone and I thinking
person, easily notes that censorship for one can result in
censorship for all. It's just a quick question.
On of what's in Vogue and whether the regime changes, so
an incredibly dangerous set of policies to be playing around
with, and for whatever reason, you know, the Democrats in this
committee, can't hear it. They can't hear it at all
because they're too busy. They're too busy.
Whatever you, what would you even call that?
Like, they're too busy being preoccupied with attacking this
Messenger, as opposed to being able to accept that.
The messenger may have some valid information and points to
share. Let Mass stays some more of his
own words. Following the trail of
communications between Twitter and the federal government
across tens of thousands of emails, led to a series of
Revelations mr. Chairman we summarized and
submitted them to the committee in the form of a new Twitter
file strike, which was also released to the public this
morning. We learned Twitter, Facebook,
Google, and other companies developed a formal system for
taking in moderation requests from every corner of government.
From the FBI, the DHS, the HHS DOD, the global engagement
Center at State, even the CAA for every government agency
scanning Twitter. Or perhaps 20 quasi, private
entities doing the same thing, including Stanford's election,
Integrity partnership, News Guard.
The global disinformation index and many others.
Many taxpayer-funded a focus of this fast-growing Network as
Mike, noted is making lists of people whose opinions beliefs
associations or sympathies are deemed misinformation
disinformation or mal information that last term is
just a euphemism for true. But inconvenient undeniably the
making of such lists is a form of digital.
McCarthyism ordinary Americans are Just being reported the
Twitter for D amplification or be platforming, but the firms
like PayPal digital, advertisers like Zander, and crowdfunding
sites, like GoFundMe. These companies can and you
refuse service to law-abiding. People and businesses, whose
only crime is falling afoul of a distant.
Baseless unaccountable algorithmic judge.
All right, so Matt's discussion here and I was following along
with the, with the actual text that he had sent off to his sub
stack subscribers. There's a couple of little
interesting points in their number one.
He said he made this available in a Twitter thread and then
also gave it to the members of the House.
There is a woman who later on in the testimony starts asking
questions and it is immediately evidence.
Number one. She refers to bury wisest mr.
Weiss that's kind of funny. If anybody follows anything
Barry spilled be a RI and Barry Weiss is a female.
I believe she's a lesbian. That's what my wife was telling
me, and she's a reporter for the New York Times.
She's been around for a long time.
She's been a very reputable Rider at least on the left.
She's been kind of a darling of the left and she's been one of
the more serious people. Many ways that wrote for the New
York Times, she was involved in this project because they
basically got almost all left-leaning credible
journalists who did a story that turned out to write about how
Twitter in this case was censoring people on the right.
So all these left-leaning journalists are out there
writing about how the left was censoring people on the right.
It's really important how to note like these people were not
seeking favor from a group and saying, like I'm about to change
teams here, that's not what was going on that they went where
the story was because they're honest.
Operators in that way. I think that's the case.
It's also worth noting that Matt talks about how there are real
world amplify, you know, situations that are far outside
of what goes on with social media.
And in some ways I think social media is one of those.
It's a silly Canary in the coal. Mine, I think those are words to
use later on, in the In this testimony, it is just a small
indicator of how people are being cancelled out of society.
Now, producer Phil who's not with me today.
But producer Phil always talks about not being suspended from
the FBI, not being fired from the FBI, but being canceled from
the FBI in the same way that Matt, Taibbi is talking about
these D amplifications or D platforming 's and then those
can have real world consequences in bigger, bigger venues and
forums those. Things can include things like
PayPal as he mentioned, digital advertisers.
So what does that? That's, that's people that
actually going to be placing advertisements on content, so,
you could actually lose access to potential income crowdfunding
sites, like, GoFundMe. Many of you will always know
that. There's a reason why the
fundraising site that most conservatives are using now is
give send go, it doesn't have the broader reach.
It doesn't have the ability for people to, to pop in and find
your, your campaign on accidents.
Certainly, the much smaller audience when it comes to the
number of people that are regularly looking at that, that
platform because GoFundMe set itself up and it really
dominated the market place. When people ask you, do you have
a go fund me? It's like, well, no, we have a
gifts and go and some will know what that is.
And other people will, you know, wonder why this is a an
alternative and why does it have to happen?
It has to happen. Because as Taibbi, accurately
notes, these distant facelifts unaccountable algorithmic
judges, Words. But I think excellently phrased,
these algorithmic judges and sometimes with human moderation
on top of it will eliminate you from that conversation.
You're not going to be privy to the, you know, to the human
engagements that exist on that those forums because they've
deemed you that you're inappropriate.
Actually, I'm going to go back to him for one more moment
because I do want him to describe what he thinks was the
real problem here, and he does kind of wrap it up.
So let me let me send it back over here to To Matt and then
we'll will discuss further as someone who grew up a
traditional ACLU. Liberal this mechanism for
punishment and deprivation, without due process is
horrifying. Another troubling aspect is the
role of the press, which should be the people's last line of
defense in such cases. But instead of investigating
these groups journalists partnered with them, if Twitter
declined to remove an account right away, government agencies
and ngos would call reporters for the New York Times
Washington Post and other outlets who in turn would call
Twitter demanding to know why action had not yet been taken
that, that mechanism of enforcement is very very
interesting and it's something that they were noting.
So in the Twitter files, they would note that not only did,
you know, something happened that would be a an inbound
requests from the government. From the government.
I mean, that should be shocking to people.
The government would request censorship the removal of an
account and then they would leak it to sympathetic ngos and
reporters. And, you know, different outlets
on the news that were all on the left New York Times, Washington
Post says he mentioned and those agencies those news
organizations, or whatever they are now, advocacy groups would
call in or email in and demand The censorship that was already
requested by the government. So you know, there's a great
Meme and it shows you know, old school journalists which is
essentially like there's a government mouthpiece.
The government mouthpiece is like, squawking, something and
there's a bunch of people behind the journalist and the
journalist is basically, like, squawking back and pushing back
on the government narrative. And then it says, you know,
today's mainstream media and it's the government squawking at
a Podium. The people are all behind and
the journalist has basically turned and is squawking the same
direction and zh, you know, now the Press takes his marching
orders from the government. This is one of those great
examples, but unfortunately it neuters the fourth estate, which
is the you know what journalists are supposed to be historically.
The American sentiment is that the Press is what keeps the
government in check. It's a group of people that,
that will not just listen and then regurgitate, but we'll
listen digest and then push back.
Whereas And and growing up around newsrooms.
As I said, this was the kind of people that I was used to
seeing. They were all kind of
countercultural types. A lot of them were real quirky
and weird individuals. They had weird backgrounds and
life stories. They had unusual tastes they
had, you know, strange decorations in their homes.
They were almost like artists in some ways like, they were part
of a community of people that were nonconformists and, you
know, in the classic sort of throw sense, you know, who
should be a man. Is a nonconformist.
I know I butchered that one but essentially, you know, they
wanted to be people who stood in their own two feet who had their
own ideas and would push back against whatever that narrative
was that was what it meant to be to be someone who stuck it to
the man was a journalist who you know, what's the deeper story
here. And what we're seeing now are
mouthpieces of a regime that most most every corporate media.
And this is why I'm friends with people, like Tracy, beans, who's
willing to just publish the things that are true and honest.
And, and that they have the receipts for Which is kind of a
frustrating experience. You know, reason recent
construction for this, the receipts that you can show that
something was bought but essentially being able to bring
the documents to bring the evidence, which is at the actual
word we're looking for, in this case, you know, to have
evidence. And then let the evidence lead
you, where it is. That's what a real investigator
does. That's how journalists used to
work. That's what I thought I was
joining the FBI for what it's worth.
Give Matt just another couple seconds here, effectively news.
I became an arm of the state sponsored thought policing
system. I'm running out of time so I'll
just sum up and say It's just not possible to instantly arrive
at truth. It is.
It is however possible becoming technologically possible to
instantly Define and enforce of political consensus online.
Which I believe is what we're looking at.
This is a grave threat to people of all political Persuasions,
the First Amendment and American population, accustomed to the
right to speak is the best defense left against the
censorship industrial complex. If the latter can knock over our
first and most important, constitutional guarantee these
groups will have no serious opponent left anywhere.
If there's anything that's where file show is that.
We're in danger of losing this most precious right without
which all Democratic rights are impossible.
Thank you for the opportunity to appear and I'd be happy to
answer any questions from the committee.
All right, so You know, he left out some things that he had sent
over via email and so I'm going to read some of those because I
think they're also really important.
You can tell that Matt is not faking anything, he doesn't
have, he doesn't, he's not an actor.
You can. His delivery is not as good as
it could be. He's not someone who is doing a
performance. You can tell he's probably like
a nervous writer. Who is less comfortable
appearing behind a microphone, then?
Then then most of these Congress people who are used to doing
theater in that sort of forum. So some of the things he said
that I think are that were left out, he ran out of time and he
skipped over these. But let's, let's cover what it
is. He said some will say so what,
why should we eliminate disinformation to begin with?
You can't have a state-sponsored system targeting disinformation
without striking at the essence of the right to free speech.
These two ideas are Conflict, such an important concept, that
you cannot censor out. And there's a reason why our
free speech is includes Miss Des or even Mal information as they
have stated, which you had mentioned, is just a euphemism
for unpopular ideas. It says many of the fears
driving. What?
Michael Schellenberg calls the
censorship industrial complex, what I've called the
information, industrial complex also inspired the famous Alien
and Sedition Acts of 1798, The latter outlawed any false
scandalous and malicious writings against Congress or the
president. Now, we don't believe that these
things make any sense right now, but you don't know about the
alien sedition laws going back to the end of the, what is that
19th century, then then look into it American history.
I think is not well taught and or it's not well received by
people in this country. So understand that these were,
these were salacious laws that were written and they were
pretty egregious compared to Our belief that we should have free
speech and of course, the idea that you couldn't write anything
false Slanders or malicious. Even if it was true is not
something that we're accustomed to at this point, continuing to
quote, Taibbi here, here's something that will sound
familiar supporters of the law. Hundreds of years ago were quick
to denounce their critics as sympathizers with a hostile
foreign power at that time, France.
So you just substitute in Russia and that's where we're getting
these Russia, Russia hoax, once again, if you do not have the
facts on your side, you simply try to beat the messenger, and
one of the ways you do it is slander them and libel them by
mentioning, some sort of evil bogeyman, and for the left,
Russia is the Boogeyman. And that's what they continue to
do. Alexander Hamilton said, Thomas
Jefferson and his supporters were more Frenchman than
Americans. This was the ongoing debate.
That was happening at that time. In and vehement opposition to
the laws said, democracy cannot survive in a country where power
is given to people who suspicions, maybe the evidence
that is Jefferson was, was one of those wonderful Minds that
continues to give gifts to us, whose suspicions, maybe the
evidence such a, such a tight statement of of indictment there
in this case. And interestingly enough, we're
going to hear from Gerry Connolly and second here at
Gerry Connolly Apparently, understand a lot of things.
He doesn't even know how to pronounce these names.
And then his colleague was a guy named Goldman.
I can't remember what Goldman's first name is, but he comes out
of comes out of New York and he's asking Taibbi, if he
believed in the indictments that came out of the molar
investigations. And Taibbi rightly says,
something to the effect of, you know, they're just indictments,
they're just allocations with with probable cause behind them,
but they're not proven and he said, so, you don't believe the
indictment and it's like, you don't know what the word
indictment means, in our legal process.
These are people that are not Serious.
And they can't be taken seriously because of it.
So anyway, so we're going to move through Jefferson's ideas,
team, still ring true today. This is against how you be
speaking in a free Society. We don't mandate truth.
We arrived at it through discussion and debate.
This is that old-school liberal peace and this is why I like
him. Once again, we don't have to
agree on the starting point. We may end up at the same place
if we both are open to sharing ideas which when he and I have
spoken, we have been any groups that claim to They claim the
confidence to decide fact and fiction, especially in the name
of protecting democracy is always itself.
The threat to democracy. This is why Aunty disinformation
campaigns don't work. He mentions his experience as a
journalist and knows that the experts are often initially
wrong. And sometimes, they even lie.
In fact, when Elite opinion is too much in sync, this itself
can and should be a red flag. He goes on to talk about the
covid, LaBrie Theory, some of the other things like the the
actual speech was it's sad that it was truncated but he's a
First Amendment believer. He believes in the American
people's right to know and and and move information around.
Once again, somebody that I respect pretty heavily and I
respect him simply because he's an honest operator he does
things that make sense. Now let's transition to a not
honest operator Gerry Connolly, I just want you to know the kind
of the characters that you're out there.
Again we're going to attack the messenger.
This is a this is the former Congressman that I had.
Representing me in Virginia. I went to a gun control meeting
that he hosted it was called a town hall.
It was for mother's demanding action.
No further information about what that action is their
anti-gun group and they were all a bunch of sort of Foolish
liberal women wearing the same t-shirt congratulating
themselves on their activism with no knowledge about
Firearms. Had no business making gun
policy and then Gerry Connolly who in this clip is wearing a
scarf on top of his suit for some reason.
Nobody knows why let you listen to him for a second from
Virginia, mr. Connolly thank you, mr.
Chairman I don't know what to say.
Last one fellow Americans. So he's wearing a scarf.
We're elected officials his white hair and a stupid
mustache. The truth would try to
participate in the process at getting it.
The truth, mr. TV of you have said that this
isn't really a matter of right or left.
That there are lots of different ideological colorations involved
in the Twitter policy was that Roughly.
Correct? Yes.
And mr. Schoenberg.
You would agree with that. Yes.
So when you release information, Have You released any
information of, for example, right wing elements, or the
Trump, White House attempting to moderate content at 20?
Yes. No, not the Trump, White House
proceed although I did report initially in the first router
files that Trump White House had made and requests and have been
honored. This just saw her Okay.
So he just said that there was some write the problem with this
is that the right was not getting censorship or asking for
censorship at near the rate that the left was.
And so Matt has mentioned that he went looking for it and it
wasn't there, this is not good enough for Gerry Connolly who
can't pronounce names correctly. And so he goes on and here's
that there's evidence but the evidence is not significant and
now he's going to go on and talk about something in pop culture,
which has nothing to do with anything.
And once again, he can't pronounce a name.
So he's talking about Christy Teegan.
Egan, and he's going to butcher that because he's just like,
kind of a foolish old man. That doesn't understand how
things work in the internet on the internet.
Where is the internet? I could just imagine these
people having these discussions, this other like woman.
Like I said, who's trying to, like, sort out, who these
journalists are she refers to them as a threesome, which is
quite funny made for a moment for me on Jesse Watters last
night and you've just got this. They're not serious people once
again, they're going to just try to impugn and they're going to
attack The Messengers as though they are some sort of Xanax,
when, in fact, they're Democrats, which they mentioned
on later. I do not find that, you haven't
found it. So we had a hearing the other
day on Twitter and we had four Witnesses.
Three for the majority one for the minority and all for
testified under oath. They had never received a
request for Content moderation or take them by the Biden white
house, but they did from Donald Trump's White House.
Specifically the those witnesses that they had were gone like
relatively recently. Lee.
So they may not have been involved in that or they're
Liars, which is more likely, because the types of people that
they were, there's no, you know, if you watched people like
you'll Roth, they were on the hook and there's also no
consequences for lying to Congress unless you're in the
wrong party. So anyway I can only handle so
much a Gerry Connolly but I was going to show you the let's get
a piece where actually Taibbi is talking back to him because it's
more interesting. After this video, and of course
we're going to get ads. So I'll push over here, we will,
we'll move on to another little topic.
There's only so much of this I can take, but I watched hours
and hours of this so you don't have to and the takeaway is non
serious, people asking non serious questions and then I
can't even say that the Republicans were doing a great
job, some of them went in and went on soliloquies, talking
about covid misinformation, disinformation censorship and,
you know, you have witnesses in front of you.
But Let me, let me lean into that just for a moment.
The reason why these weaponization committee hearings
are not serious to me is because you don't have people that know
how to ask questions. You have these performances
going on, but there are two types of witnesses that you
should essentially be seeing one of them would be known as a
either, a victim witness or simply a subject-matter witness
in which case you ask them questions and you get to what it
is. That they know you find out what
their opinions, their bye. Biases and so on, you get
information from them that you should know a little bit about
and then you go and try to enrich yourself with it and the
other one is a subject interview and the subject interview is
what people would. Also know as an interrogation,
it doesn't have to start off as an as an interrogation, it can
move to interrogation but a subject interview is laying out
the case for who this person is and why they may be guilty.
Were they in the right place? To the know the right things?
Do they do? Certain things that may have
been on the wrong side of whatever it is that you're
investigating and rather than treat people.
In this way what we have instead is this sort of like silliness
this, this absolute silliness of theater and trying to confirm my
own biases like none of them are interested in uncovering the
truth and that's why they're not serious about it.
So it's unfortunate. I'm going to go to a piece of
daily. Why her?
This is my Pivot to FBI malfeasance.
As always, you know, we save a little bit of time every day for
this sort of thing. And I want you to be aware of
This one is particularly troubling to me because I'm a
702 abolitionist. I don't think that we should
have fisa 702 and apparently the Republicans who are working on,
it are also concerned about this.
This says, the FBI may have used fisa to spy on the congressman,
overseeing fisa and the renewal is a top legislative priority
for Biden while. I wonder why this I'm going to
read a little bit of it and then I'm going to give some
commentary on it for a second here.
So the FBI may have abused the foreign intelligence
surveillance Act Also known as fisa to spy on the very
Congressman tasked with overseeing fisa, according to
revelations in the hearing on Thursday.
This just happened yesterday, representative Darin lahood.
He's a republican out of Illinois.
A member of the House, permanent select committee on intelligence
said at a Committee hearing that, he has reason to believe
that he himself is the unnamed congressman who a recently
Declassified report from the office of the Director of
National Intelligence, also known as odni admitted that FBI
Has wrongfully conducted a search on the hood is leading
the working group tasked, with oversight and renewal of section
702 of fisa reported by Fox News.
And last month, Jill Biden asked the Congress to reauthorize the
fisa position, calling it a top legislative priority.
Here's Darin lahood saying, I want to make it clear that the
FBI's inappropriate querying of a duly elected member of
Congress is egregious and a violation that not only degrades
the trust and feyza. I think that's accurate but is
also viewed. But is also viewed as a threat
to the separation of powers and he believes that he was in fact
the person on there this is a Luke Rose Yak writing for daily
wire. 702, fisa is a really quirky animal, it is a section
that involves very little oversight within the bureau
itself, the the ease and the ability of accessing fisa.
Basically, it has to check certain number of boxes and then
you have to articulate that, it's only a couple of paragraphs
to be able to get approval. And what you need to show is
that there is an agent of a foreign power.
This could be, you know, a traditional intelligence officer
or a spy of some kind, this could be someone that we call a
co-op D. This would be someone working on
behalf of an intelligence officer in this space.
And it could be someone who has some sort of nebulous government
connection, to one of the threat countries or something, but they
cannot be in the United States. The fisa 702 section Provisions,
they require that the person not be in the US.
And that's a big difference from the stronger.
Fisa that people would be used to in the FBI.
When you get the fisa warrants, they're known as full sizes or
7025 zip. The 702 version of it is much
weaker. It has to actually be
deactivated at the collection must be discontinued.
If that individual that you have nominated for 702 coverage,
makes it into the United States. So fill in the blanks by
fill-in-the-blank country comes the United States lands down at
Dulles airport or LAX, or take your pick.
When that happens, the minute that you are aware.
That the person is there you have to turn off collection and
you can't reactivate it until you're confirmed that that
person has left the United States.
So not collectible on US citizens or people who are
actually in the u.s. they were all given a much higher degree
of privacy. Here's the weird part, the main
usage 4702 coverage in my experience was not just getting
background information on who these, you know, feyza,
nominated, coverage individuals. Were but who they're talking to?
That's the whole purpose. You intelligence, you always
want to spin your network wider and get more information.
And the things that are of most interest are looking for
Americans that are in there who are talking to this, you know,
foreign intelligence asset. The problem is is that's
expressly illegal under federal law under what's called reverse
targeting. So when they're talking about
FBI members querying the database, they can literally go
in. Look at 7:02 coverage and 702
May cover any number of All that are, you know, that our Assets
in this way that are nominated and you can search it, you know,
by name and my email address and by other selectors as we call
them phone numbers, Social Security, you know this kind of
thing. You can search through this big
database of all the 702 coverage and look for anything you want.
You know, you can look for certain Chinese characters, you
can look for certain words that are written in English.
You can look for, you know, things like classified or top
secret or whatever you want to do.
And if If that materials in there, these are mostly emails.
They might be text messages and things like that.
Sometimes you get Skype messages and other weird stuff in there.
Some of the collection grabs. It's basically that anything,
that an American Service must turn over on these, you know, of
this, this database, they turn over anything.
That touches American Wires, so phone calls and things like that
as well. But when you come to the actual
7025, it's a little bit more limited than a full scope.
Fisa that has all the, you know, possibly microphones and cameras
and stuff in houses and all the other kind of tools that they
can use. So if you searched for a
congressman's name, that's reversed targeting like that's
illegal in and of itself to be able to do that.
And that's not to say that it doesn't happen because I'm
fairly confident. That's one of the few ways that
you can actually use fisa. If you're in that space, just
really troubling stuff, not the way that we should be dealing
with it but we are dealing with an FBI, that's not particularly
honest. And I've got a one and a half
minute clip here that I'm going to show you.
This is this is at least two phonic from New York talking to
Christopher Ray this again. Also happened yesterday, this is
a hearing that I skipped listening to Christopher.
Ray is like listening to an ex-girlfriend.
Who is lying about you to other people here.
He is talking to us, to phonic and not saying anything of
value. Do you believe the hunter Biden?
Laptop? Story is disinformation.
Well I want to be careful about there is an ongoing
investigation that is relevant to that, so I have to be careful
of what I can share on that here.
Do you believe the hundred Biden?
Laptop story is disinformation, I don't think there's anything I
can share on that and open setting.
Were you aware that? The FBI Personnel were in
contact with Twitter regarding the hunter Biden, laptop story.
I don't believe. FBI Personnel were in contact
with Twitter about the 100 lap, top story, specifically.
I think they were people in contact with Twitter about
Russian. Disinformation efforts Of which
hundred Biden laptop story was included according to the FBI?
Well, I think, I don't know exactly what you're looking at,
but I'm just gonna deny facts. Were you aware that the FBI had
Hunter Biden's laptop since December of 2019?
I can't speak to exactly when we had a laptop available.
There is a there is as you as you know there is an ongoing
investigation run by the US attorney out of Delaware from
the prior Administration that we continue to work very closely
with and we had an ongoing investigation as well.
And our Baltimore Field office is working, very hard with that
us attorney. And I expect them to pursue that
case as far as it tastes stonewalling director, Ray, the
American people deserve answers and this is Acceptable.
So, he doesn't believe that. And that's really the issue
there. He doesn't actually believe
that. The American people do believe
do deserve answers because he doesn't think he works for the
American people. He mentioned that the other day,
that 50% of the American people think that they're the enemy,
and he doesn't work for them, he's interested in his
recruiting numbers and he believes that he works for state
and local Partners or some other nonsense.
Go back to the Bret Baier thing, you can hear what he has to say.
But, you know, this is not a man that cares about honesty.
That's why he goes like this when they ask a question because
blink blink. Link 15 blinks and then he just
says something nonsensical like this an ongoing investigation.
We can't speak about that because a national security we
take these concerns very seriously.
I don't really know the information that you're asking
about right now. Like what is your purpose, why
are you there testifying when, you know nothing.
And he's deliberately not knowing things, he doesn't know
things on purpose and he also likes to obfuscate.
He's just he's not an honest operator.
It's really frustrating to watch this kind of stuff but so be it.
This is the Guy that we have in the White House.
And unfortunately, this is who Trump sort of saddled the
American people with. He was one of those, probably
one of the worst Personnel decisions.
I've had a couple of conversations about it.
I had one actually yesterday with Kimberly Guilfoyle on her
Rumble show and she would agree, I think as well, that it was
just one of those really, really awful.
Trump decisions. You know, they happened and a
lot of them were around personnel.
And we're stuck with that one. In particular, I'm going to
Pivot again to FBI malfeasance. This time is something that
Julie Kelly, who writes for American greatness and does a
great job. She has a very active Twitter
account. If you don't follow that, it's
Julie underscore Kelly the number two and you can find her
reporting on a lot of January, 6 stuff.
And then particular, she's been following this case with the
proud boys. The so-called seditious
conspiracy case. I went to CNN to try to pull
this up because I wanted to see how they covered it.
This is again. Just yet.
Another example, of attack the messenger, try to obfuscate
what's actually going on. So, what we said here is
Prosecutors. This is the, the article here
from CNN politics prosecutors. Mistakenly turnover, potentially
FBI classified material to Proud Boys on trial.
The article here is written by Holmes lie, brand and Casey
Gannon CNN by line, just read over here.
Boom. The, the federal prosecutors
accidentally turned over documents that may have included
classified information. Two members of The far-right
Proud boys. Apparently they're far right now
who are on trial for seditious conspiracy including more than
1,000 internal messages between FBI agents.
The judge basically gave the FBI more time to review these things
and said that the defense can hold on to them.
The issue came to light during the cross-examination of FBI
agent. Nicole Miller on Wednesday.
When attorney Nicholas Smith who's representing the proud
boys? Remember Ethan nordine revealed
messages between the FBI agents, including Miller discussing the
investigation into the group. Their actions related to January
6 2021. Okay.
That's the story that CNN's gonna throw out there, right?
And then we get down to the meat of this actual Story.
One of the messages revealed in the court discussed
Communications between one of The Proud boys who's now on
trial and his attorney at the time.
According to Smith, it's unclear how the FBI had access to
Communications and whether the communications are protected by
attorney-client privilege. No, it's actually not it's
actually not unclear. This is the reason why we go to
other actual independent. Pendant reporters.
So Tracy beans here. No to think that this is an
insane thing that the judge should actually be throwing this
sort of thing out the breaking information coming out of Julie,
Kelly's account. So there's Tracy beans.
As usual at, this is how the stuff always gets double hit
into my feed. The drama in the proud boys
trial is that the FBI agent was lying on the stand according to
Julie Kelly's statements. And they mentioned very clearly
that they had access to jail, phone calls between the attorney
and the client Now these should not even be available to an FBI
agent. They should not be available in
the jail cause when you go down on him but for whatever reason
they have them, I'm going to read some of the stuff that came
out of the transcripts of the trial reporting here.
It says, today government witness special agent, Nicole
Miller was cross-examined and she testified that she
understood her legal Duty under the jencks ACT Jew, produced to
the United States Attorney written statements related to
the subject matter of Our Testimony that's 18, USC 3501
Miller acknowledged among those statements were message.
Has she sent in the FBI's link messaging system where Bureau
employees, communicate with each other link is like skyper,
instant messenger. It also has some some video
capabilities, it has audio capabilities, it's usually I
think there's a link on the unclassified side.
There's also one on the red side which is known as the secret
terminals. People who are familiar with the
military will call its internet. And so that allows you to have
discussions about classified materials in a way that's
appropriate because it's over the the proper Network.
It's The default setting for almost all things in the bureau.
So, an incredible amount of unclassified conversations, take
place on the link server. But in this case, she basically
had 25 rows of excel messages that she supposedly had with her
Co cases and that was supposed to be all the messages that were
relevant to the case, there's no question that that's probably
BS, they turned over a thousand. What she did was she hid files
and only turned over you know, she turned over basically
Something like 1,000 or 1,200 lines of documents of which a
thousand of them were hidden 25 were revealed and when they
uncovered it they got all of the information, all 1000 lines that
we're in there and the FBI basically said, we haven't
searched those for classified material because it was on a
classified Network. It could have classified
material technically possible. But generally not normal, most
people do not cut and paste classified information in and if
they do it would be portion mark.
It would be very easy to run through that.
You could probably do it in like five or Minutes, you just look
through for the portion marking and anything that's not portion
of marked. It's actually already out of
policy. It's actually already probably a
spill in that case because it's not marked as classified despite
the fact that it is and it'd be very difficult for the bureau to
go through and decide that those things are the case.
But anyway, the real issue here is that we're talking about a an
FBI agent. Basically, she was claiming that
she didn't you know that she did some things that she gave all
the information that she didn't necessarily give.
There's some other information here about Daya confidential
human Source one of them that's really of note here.
We'll pull this thing up if you can't see it as small print but
it says the agents request to special agent Miller.
This is another FBI agent on the link system was to go into a CHS
informant report. There's a specific name for what
the reports are called that Miller had just put together and
it out that the agent was in fact present.
Now, here's the thing. This is why it's such a problem.
It's possible that that agent wasn't actually present that it
was an actual error in writing it.
But the other possibility is that the agent was there, and
that they're lying, and it seems to be evidence of that.
So, these are just without context.
This is why you do your job up front, and the idea that the FBI
gets to decide, which text messages are in and out of
bounds, that there's no third party Arbiter.
There's nobody within the bureau that actually like overseas
these things. They just you pick your
Discovery and you send it over. I always had kind of a
uncomfortable feeling about this, my buddy told me, he got a
spreadsheet that had all of this text message.
Yes. And he was supposed to you know
click off which ones were related to his case.
It seems like somebody else should probably be doing that
too. You know in case there's just
something in there or you know, double-check the work but that's
not what happens. Discovery is kind of an
afterthought in a lot of ways. It's not like that primary
thought. And that's what happens when you
have a group that basically is interested in the outcomes.
A lot of times they're just the process of it is kind of a it's
more of a pain than it is. Sort of a moment of Pride to be
able to do the right thing. I'm sure I'm guilty of that too
and I've sent over Discovery. It's not like my fun favorite
thing to do. It's kind of a pain to export it
and we don't have good systems for it in the bureau.
So you know you're clicking on something and it's going to you
know create an archive file of all these things and then you
just burn it off onto a CD but even our CD burners were trash,
just not good technology. The last thing I was going to do
is just to kind of a quick cover up.
This is one of the weirdest things we talked about the
story, the other day of the four Americans that were down in
Mexico, two of whom were kidnapped into were killed.
This is is not related to the messenger.
This is just sort of current events and is just one of those
weird little moments in the world.
So I wanted to bring it up the the gulf cartel, who was
apparently the group responsible for what happened to these
Americans issued a very bizarre apology for what happened.
And there was a letter written in Spanish, it's translated.
I'm going to read a piece of it just because we're going to
continue to follow up. I'm really curious whether this
was mistaken identity or these people are involved in
something, they shouldn't Bend. And this letter doesn't tell us,
one thing or the other. But it does say that the quote,
the gulf cartel Grupo escorpion has strongly condemns, the
identity, the events of Friday, March 3rd, which was a week ago
in which unfortunately, an innocent working mother died.
And for American citizens, were kidnapped, two of which died for
this reason, we have decided to hand over all of those involved
and directly responsible for the events who were at all times,
acted. Either their own determination
and in discipline, and against the rules, which the seed CDG
has always operated have no idea.
But the, that's your honor among Thieves, they have a code and
apparently these people violated, or they did what they
were told, and they're going to be sacrificed because they don't
want the American Military to come stomping in and deal with
them as a domestic terrorists or as a foreign terrorist
organization and fto. They do want to be designated on
that totally bizarre weird times.
We'll have to keep watching that story.
You said I had two possibilities and we'll see what they can end
up being one of the one of which will probably be true.
All that being said, I think that's all we can fit in for
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