Matt Taibbi
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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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?
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...
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.
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.
And that's kind of the way the media works.
I think it's very notable that a lot of the high-profile investigative reporters just can't even publish in the United States. And look at somebody like Jeff Gerth, who made a point of kind of keeping ties to traditional media and not burning bridges and doing all that stuff. and worked his butt off to get this 24,000-word piece about Russiagate into the Columbia Journalism Review.
And it should have landed hard. It should have landed like a Mike Tyson uppercut, you know? And people just ignored it. So even when they don't kick you out of the club, they just ignore the hardcore reporting.
Big deal guy for many, many years. He was the bulldog going after the Clinton administration on everything. Right. So, I mean, when he did a story, it mattered. It was on the desk of every senator in the country. Of course. You know, and now. That's what's so interesting about this period is that there is none of that.
The stuff that lands on the desks of people in the relevant committees in Washington is PR. There's no reporting there for the most part. Maybe that will change now. I don't know. But I doubt it. People read your stuff.
I mean, we know that there's five or six shifting official explanations of what happened. They eventually settled on this kind of labyrinthine... The story about a rogue Ukrainian operation that apparently without our input went and did this. Yeah, I don't believe it. I mean, it's laughable to think that that's true. But that's the kind of... Nord Stream is just one.
It's like looking up at the stars in the sky. That's just one of them. And that's a huge story. I mean, think about it.
Absolutely. It strained the incoming relations, and it could have resulted in an immediate nuclear escalation. I mean, there are so many different things, and it was a massive ecological disaster. It was a Deepwater Horizon-level environmental event.
Right, and it's a tiny footnote to the insane lunacies that happened during this period. I'm sorry, but it is. Nord Stream, if you're making a list of the 10 weirdest things that happened in the last eight years, it's probably at the bottom, I would think. Wow.
I mean, there are so many different areas where they're going to have to investigate, reinvestigate that. We just went through a period where there was sort of mass stonewalling of Congress when it was trying to investigate. What happened with COVID? There were key people like Peter Daszak from the EcoHealth Alliance who just didn't answer subpoenas.
There are documents that we know exist that we're going to get now with FBI communications between... The Bureau and a lot of these scientists dating back 10 years, and it's going to tell a crazy story. I mean, a really interesting story. There's a reason why Fauci's pardon is backdated to 2014, because that's the time period that they're going to have to start looking, which is interesting.
You know, when did we start defying the ban on gain-of-function research? We clearly did. I think that's pretty established at this point. Why were we doing it? What connection did that have to the Wuhan thing? What kind of advance notice did we get? What kind of lies were told about it? Who were responsible for those lies? What information did we get about the inefficacy of the vaccine?
And how did that connect to statements by the CDC and the White House? This also connects to the censorship issue in a major way, because there was also a sort of massive effort to control the public conversation about this that went through the health agencies. So we know they're looking at that. And that's another executive order, by the way, the free speech order.
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