Ken Klippenstein
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312 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jul
Ken Klippenstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Good to be back.
It stands for National Security Presidential Memorandum 7.
They're often classified for whatever reason this one wasn't.
But in a sentence, what it does is it tells the entirety of the federal government to start making counterterrorism cases against individuals.
And they're supposed to find these cases by monitoring speech, different forms of speech that NSPM 7 provides.
says are indicators of future acts of terrorism.
And if you look at those forms of speech, they are very broad.
They're categories that describe millions of people.
It's not membership in a group like Al-Qaeda or ISIS, like is how terrorism has been defined historically.
It is things like anti-Christian sentiment, anti-American sentiment, anti-traditional family values, whatever that means, sentiment.
I mean, these really broad designators that when the order was first promulgated last year after and in response to the murder of Charlie Kirk,
I was trying very hard to draw attention to it.
I appreciate your having me on the show.
Other independent media were great about seeing the writing that was on the wall.
But mainstream media largely wrote it off, I think, just because it reads so over the top and ridiculous that I think there was this impression that it was like, well, how are you going to implement that?
This is more Trump bluster.
What's actually going to happen?
Well, now we see...
what happens because it's not like he signs it and the next day you're rounding people up.
It takes time for the FBI and the other federal law enforcement intelligence agencies to pull together evidence to try to make a case that they have some hope of at least getting a grand jury to sign off on.
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