Journalist Matt Taibbi hit back at Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), who called him a liar for suggesting that the FBI has been “analyzing and mass-flagging social media posts” instead of “chasing child sex predators or terrorists.”
Dear @mtaibbi: I’m on the House Judiciary Committee that has oversight over the @FBI and you are lying. The FBI has lots of agents chasing child sex predators and terrorists. Please stop undermining and lying about federal law enforcement. https://t.co/nUcrwRyjRU
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) December 17, 2022
Taibbi responded to Lieu, suggesting that he could shed light on actual figures:
“Being on that committee,” Taibbi replied, referring to the House Judiciary Committee Lieu brought up, “you should know:
– How much has been spent, and how many DHS/DOJ employees have been assigned, to monitoring and flagging social media? – Why is the FBI asking for “location information” about ordinary Americans and media outlets like @RSBNetwork ?
Taibbi also asked Lieu “What “law enforcement” objective is served by asking for Billy Baldwin’s location information?” and why the FBI and DHS are in the business of analyzing and flagging social media content at all.
Being on that committee you should know:
– How much has been spent, and how many DHS/DOJ employees have been assigned, to monitoring and flagging social media?
– Why is the FBI asking for "location information" about ordinary Americans and media outlets like @RSBNetwork? https://t.co/wWJwDxPmpl— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 17, 2022
Your turn Ted…
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Following the latest ‘TWITTER FILES‘ drop, which revealed that “Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary,” journalist Matt Taibbi commented that “Instead of chasing child sex predators or terrorists, the FBI has agents — lots of them — analyzing and mass-flagging social media posts.”
Instead of chasing child sex predators or terrorists, the FBI has agents — lots of them — analyzing and mass-flagging social media posts. Not as part of any criminal investigation, but as a permanent, end-in-itself surveillance operation. People should not be okay with this.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 16, 2022
In response, California Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu lashed out – telling Taibbi: “I’m on the House Judiciary Committee that has oversight over the @FBI and you are lying,” adding “The FBI has lots of agents chasing child sex predators and terrorists. Please stop undermining and lying about federal law enforcement.”
To which researcher Tracy Beanz asked FBI whistleblower Steve Friend to chime in.
Dear @mtaibbi: I’m on the House Judiciary Committee that has oversight over the @FBI and you are lying. The FBI has lots of agents chasing child sex predators and terrorists. Please stop undermining and lying about federal law enforcement. https://t.co/nUcrwRyjRU
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) December 17, 2022
Friend, a former 12-year veteran of the FBI and a SWAT team member, notably came out in October to claim that the agency went into hyperdrive to track down and investigate January 6th cases to promote the appearance of right-wing domestic terrorism, at the expense of other investigations – such as child trafficking.
Friend was suspended and stripped of his gun and badge in September for refusing to participate in SWAT raids against January 6th subjects accused of misdemeanor offenses, according to the NY Post.
As Taibbi wrote in November of Friend;
He worked a child pornography detail before being transferred to the assignment that would upend his life: investigating J6. The FBI not only took Friend off vital work chasing child predators to pursue questionable investigations of people maybe connected with the Capitol riots (often in some misdemeanor fashion), they used dubious bureaucratic methods he felt put him in an impossible spot.
Essentially, the FBI made Friend a supervisory agent in cases actually being run by the Washington field office, a trick replicated across the country that made domestic terrorism numbers appear to balloon overnight. Instead of one investigation run out of Washington, the Bureau now had hundreds of “terrorism” cases “opening” in every field office in the country. As a way to manipulate statistics, it was ingenious, but Friend could see it was also trouble.
As a member of a dying breed of agent raised to focus on making cases and securing convictions, Friend knew putting him nominally in charge of a case he wasn’t really running was a gift to any good defense attorney, should a J6 case ever get to trial.
“They’re gonna see my name as being the case agent, yet not a single document has my name as doing any work,” Friend says. “Now a defense lawyer can say, ‘Hey, the case agent for this case didn’t perform any work.’ Labeling the case this way would be a big hit to our prosecution.”
And so, in response to Lieu’s tweet, Friend wrote: “Hey @tedlieu, I’ll be happy to explain how I was moved from investigating child exploitation and human trafficking and told to focus on January 6. I was told child pornographers should be considered a “local matter.””
Absolutely @tracybeanz. Hey @tedlieu, I'll be happy to explain how I was moved from investigating child exploitation and human trafficking and told to focus on January 6. I was told child pornographers should be considered a "local matter." https://t.co/iE7KJ9fZt7
— @RealStevefriend (@RealStevefriend) December 17, 2022
So far crickets from Lieu, though he’s quite the prolific Tweeter so maybe Friend will get a response.
The FBI, meanwhile, responded to Taibbi’s “The Twitter Files” thread, in which he said that between January 2020 and November 2022, former Twitter Senior Director of Trust & Safety, Yoel Roth, had exchanged over 150 emails with the agency.
“The FBI regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identified foreign malign influence actors’ subversive, undeclared, covert, or criminal activities,” the FBI said in a statement. “Private sector entities independently make decisions about what, if any, action they take on their platforms and for their customers after the FBI has notified them.”
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The US is just like the old USSR – jewcunt surveillance agencies like the KGB, STASSI, DHS and other instruments of totalitarian control.
And behind it is a military which targets Americans for democide.
The Fucking Brownshirt Immorals and their full STASI lies:
“The FBI regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identified foreign malign influence actors’ subversive, undeclared, covert, or criminal activities,”
Knowing full well that Hunty’s laptop was real and not “foreign” anything.
Fucking criminals.
Where are the tapes?,I guess the FBI is has a library where they all share them.
I mean really…. where is ANYTHING THE FBI has investigated……???We the people have right to know because WE PAID THE BILLS!……Criminals the lot!!…
Obbledy,
to be fair… we did just get the JFK files, less the kill shot! Only took 58~9 years, patience asshopper.
L.
ted lulu is a demturd, therefor if his lips are moving, his mouth is spewing excrement that smells as bad as maxine waters face looks.
ted lulu is a demturd, therefor if his lips are moving, his mouth is spewing excrement that smells as bad as maxine waters face looks. BUT, the irony here is lulu proved Taibbi correct, he really does not know what the Favoritism Before Integrity agency is doing.
Lieu should go back to communist China, where he belongs. Get the fuck out of my country.
Bari and Matt could do a lot of good by naming names in the Administrative State,
Look at the Americans from our service academies that go on these sponsored trips to israel — just like our members of Congress do as often as possible.
Ted Lieu, Maxine Walters, Adam Schiff, and Newsome to name just a few. When did Californians start hating America? Mexico can have it back as far as I’m concerned.
They already have it.
Ted Lieu forgot to remember that he’s an idiot.
Track this back to see if it is in fact real. We should be watching to see how the supreme’s handle or wiggle out from under this one. The corruption runs deep in this country at the moment. As a matter of fact it runs deep in most or all the world governments. The big and yet unanswered question is, what will the people of all these governments do about it? These fellows found a way to make them tip-toe over the trap door. Do I feel that any of the rules will be followed, hell no but, when will we the people stop enabling & giving permission to these butt heads to beat us up?
I guarantee this supreme court story is real, follow the link below.
https://www.mikehuckabee.com/latest-news?id=79E58DC1-A12E-43AB-9D66-58BE00C0FE3C
“The corruption runs deep in this country at the moment. As a matter of fact it runs deep in most or all the world governments.”
SAME. As it EVER was.
Oversight which he refuse to oversee! Must be nice to make all that money,LIE about what you(if you do anything at all)TALK a big shtick about how your “defending democracy”!….7 million tweets in a mere 90 days! That took a lot of apparatchiks that call themselves federal agents…….how many Ted???
Every time Jew hatred raises it’s ugly head the post has zero value.
‘cept the folks will still notice it.