Matt Taibbi

So I think we need to know a lot of things about who was actually making those decisions. It might be different in terms of, you know, for each candidate. Realm of the government, right? Maybe the national security questions were dealt with by one person, then the foreign policy things by another. I don't know. I mean, we'll see.

So I think we need to know a lot of things about who was actually making those decisions. It might be different in terms of, you know, for each candidate. Realm of the government, right? Maybe the national security questions were dealt with by one person, then the foreign policy things by another. I don't know. I mean, we'll see.

So I think we need to know a lot of things about who was actually making those decisions. It might be different in terms of, you know, for each candidate. Realm of the government, right? Maybe the national security questions were dealt with by one person, then the foreign policy things by another. I don't know. I mean, we'll see.

Oh, that was only the first thing in the list, right?

Oh, that was only the first thing in the list, right?

Oh, that was only the first thing in the list, right?

I mean, I remember being in Russia in the late 90s. There were multiple episodes that you might classify as quasi-coups. Yes. Right? There was an... An episode where people tried to arrest Yeltsin's bodyguard, Alexander Karzhakov, and it kind of turned out the other way in the end. But there was intense reporting about this by the supposedly unfree Russian press at the time.

I mean, I remember being in Russia in the late 90s. There were multiple episodes that you might classify as quasi-coups. Yes. Right? There was an... An episode where people tried to arrest Yeltsin's bodyguard, Alexander Karzhakov, and it kind of turned out the other way in the end. But there was intense reporting about this by the supposedly unfree Russian press at the time.

I mean, I remember being in Russia in the late 90s. There were multiple episodes that you might classify as quasi-coups. Yes. Right? There was an... An episode where people tried to arrest Yeltsin's bodyguard, Alexander Karzhakov, and it kind of turned out the other way in the end. But there was intense reporting about this by the supposedly unfree Russian press at the time.

And then there was also the whole question of, you know, why was Putin brought in? What did he do when he was immediately kind of used to...

And then there was also the whole question of, you know, why was Putin brought in? What did he do when he was immediately kind of used to...

And then there was also the whole question of, you know, why was Putin brought in? What did he do when he was immediately kind of used to...

clamped down on the an investigation of yeltsin that was done by the general prosecutor at the time i mean that's all in the woods what i'm trying to say is even in a third world country we got more information uh about stuff that was going on than we got last year in the united states of america where we had a gigantic press corps sitting in washington supposedly covering all this stuff i

clamped down on the an investigation of yeltsin that was done by the general prosecutor at the time i mean that's all in the woods what i'm trying to say is even in a third world country we got more information uh about stuff that was going on than we got last year in the united states of america where we had a gigantic press corps sitting in washington supposedly covering all this stuff i

clamped down on the an investigation of yeltsin that was done by the general prosecutor at the time i mean that's all in the woods what i'm trying to say is even in a third world country we got more information uh about stuff that was going on than we got last year in the united states of america where we had a gigantic press corps sitting in washington supposedly covering all this stuff i

It blows my mind.

It blows my mind.

It blows my mind.

A few, but, you know, the ones that I'm still in touch with mostly have been kind of squeezed out. You know, there are people who did try to get to the bottom of what happened. I mean, Cy Hirsch did a story about... The mechanics of how it got to be went from Biden to Kamala. And, you know, that story came out on Substack, but it wasn't picked up anywhere.

A few, but, you know, the ones that I'm still in touch with mostly have been kind of squeezed out. You know, there are people who did try to get to the bottom of what happened. I mean, Cy Hirsch did a story about... The mechanics of how it got to be went from Biden to Kamala. And, you know, that story came out on Substack, but it wasn't picked up anywhere.