Prepare to hear the truth from a real whistleblower, an American Patriot, here's civil liberties, enthusiasts, Second Amendment, Defender and indefinitely suspended FBI agent. 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?
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 today. And I do want to say ladies and gentlemen, that you had been listening to the Kyle serif and show and please consider subscribing.
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