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Noah Shachtman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
327 total appearances

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Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

So what are we doing?

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

We're talking about the playoffs?

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

Yeah, absolutely not.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

I mean, not that many, but too many.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

Yeah, it was nuts, man.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

You know, we were reporting the story a lot in this crazy cold winter that New York had.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

And we had sources who like insisted on staying outside the entire time.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

We had people who were absolutely convinced they were being tailed.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

We had people that were terrified they were being watched.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

Several of our sources were current and former members of the Garden security team.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

And many of those people were former cops, you know, were figures in law enforcement or intelligence of some kind.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

And it's a matter of public record.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

You can go on LinkedIn and see that former FBI agents, former CIA officers, and former New York City cops

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

join the Garden security staff.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

And so in a way, I know it sounds crazy, but these terrified people were part of James Dolan's deep state.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

Yeah, me too.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

Now look, he's a big guy.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

You're going to need a lot of people in suits.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

So what Oakley didn't know and what I was shocked to find out was after talking to one of the security sources for this story, and this is a direct quote, they wanted to have us doing covert surveillance operations on him just to see where he was at, what he was doing at the time, to try to dig up something to use.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance โ€” and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think

Yep.

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