Matt Taibbi
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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No, it is absolutely crazy. And if I were some of those people, I'd be offended. Yes. Especially the people who testified and who didn't.
uh lie under oath yes for instance right because they're all named um yeah all the police officers who testified uh to the committee now what if they're only really trying to protect a couple of them and there are some very conspicuous names i think we know who they are right yeah exactly the ones they're trying to protect right but what if you're one of the other ones
Who just gave some testimony.
I think that's probably the case. Yeah. I mean, especially if you're under oath and you're law enforcement. enforcement officer. I mean, it's a very serious thing to lie in those situations. And, you know, there are a couple of places in the testimony where it doesn't look good for some of the people who testified.
But for the vast majority of them, I would take it as a grievous insult to be given that pardon and especially to not be named. That's what's so weird about it.
I think we will. I think we're heading into a golden age for investigative journalism. I think this is after eight years of crazy misleading news stories and dead ends and unanswered questions and fake news, you know, ranging from Russiagate to Nord Stream to to the COVID origins where we were actively kept away from one side of that story for years.
I think we're going to find out a lot of this stuff. There are investigations already underway, document hunts going on all over the place. There are reports that have been commissioned to look into a lot of these questions, and they're going to be staffed up with a lot of money and a lot of personnel.
And it's just an unprecedented situation where, for instance, the DHS or the FBI or the DOJ would be in sync with congressional investigators to the point where they're not going to have to issue subpoenas for a lot of this stuff. They're just going to sit down and say, here's a list of the documents we want to find. And I think that they're going to have that collaborative arrangement.
It's incredible.
Well, they should be panicked because if you read the executive order on the weaponization of government, it specifically empowers the director of national intelligence to conduct a wide-ranging report into the possible misdeeds of the entire intelligence community and orders her to come up with, you know, anything negative that they can find. Holy shit. So, can you imagine? Right.
I mean, that's like trying to make a list of everything. She'll be doing it from now to the end of time. But no, I mean, in perfect seriousness, this is it's setting the stage for, you know, kind of a second church committee hearings era. And that was a great moment in American history. Once every 50 years. Right.
Yeah. Yeah. And really, in the mid 70s, who would have known, right, that we were doing such an incredibly wide ranging, you know, list of horrible, stupid things from, you know, trying to murder Castro with exploding seashells to spying on Martin Luther King Jr. to trying to You know, leaked news about mistresses of civil rights leaders. I mean, the list went on and on and on.
And we only found out about it because they went too far. Right. And now suddenly people in the Senate had a hammer to start looking. you know, into this direction. And it all came out. Well, not all of it, but a lot of it came out.
Sorry. No, it's all right. I mean, look, it's hard not to think. I never thought this way until like a year ago, maybe a year and a half ago.
Of course.
Yeah. I don't know why I didn't get that. It's probably just our generation that thought the schoolhouse rock thing was true. I mean, right?
Because, you know, we grew up with all the president's men and after the church committee. So we thought it all had come out. The good guys won. There's transparency. We have the Freedom of Information Act. We can find everything out.
Whoever did it, it was effective.
There aren't many.
So first of all, just to back up, I tried to make a list a couple of days ago. Oh, did you really? Yeah, of all the things that I would want to investigate if I were, you know, in that kind of a position to order these kinds of things. I'm actually going to take notes as you talk, because I want to follow along at home as this happens.
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