Matt Taibbi is a smart guy, he’ll get there. I’m not sure why my gut says to trust him, but it does – and I do. Recently he’s been getting hit by the leftists who are asking why Taibbi is not looking at the Trump administration pressure on social media to control and manipulate public information [Twitter Here].
Taibbi has been hitting back against his detractors by saying, there’s no evidence of Trump doing that; yet there is massive evidence of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) contacting Twitter to do exactly that.
This is interesting to me and CTH readers because we outlined in real time what the SSCI and HPSCI were doing in order to promote the Trump-Russia conspiracy before and after the 2016 election.
What’s fascinating about this… is that the same people who are attacking Taibbi right now, are the same people who received and promoted the propaganda from the SSCI (Burr and Warner) in addition to the HPSCI (Schiff and Swalwell).
In essence, the ancillary media attack hounds are attacking Taibbi because at the end of the research trail Taibbi is following he will find the same names of the ancillary media who are attacking him.
[SEE SHORT THREAD HERE]
In my opinion, Taibbi is on the right trail in following the SSCI and HPSCI manipulation of the social media platforms, specifically Twitter. In addition to the SSCI creating the structure that supports the intelligence weaponization by DHS and FBI, Senate Intel Chair Richard Burr and then Senate Intel Vice-Chair Mark Warner are at the epicenter of it.
I know I sound like a broken record on this, but it’s been true since the outset of my own research discoveries of the issue four years ago. The entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative couldn’t exist without the SSCI participating in it. This is why I have talked and written so much about it.
Factually, and I say this with no compunction for attribution, if you want to tell the public the story of the larger issue, the absolute best starting point is how SSCI Vice-Chair Mark Warner told SSCI Security Director James Wolfe to leak the Carter Page FISA application to then Politico journalist Ali Watkins. It’s an easy story to outline because there is ample evidence to highlight it, including open admissions by the DOJ and FBI (in documented court records) that the leak event on March 17, 2017, took place.
That week in mid-March, 2017, when Mark Warner leaked the Page FISA application followed two days later by James Comey testifying to congress (March 20th), was/is the most openly documented evidence-based story that leads to everything that follows.
On March 17, 2017, Senator Mark Warner leaked the FISA in order to stimulate the media to support the demand for a Trump-Russia special counsel. On March 20, 2017, holding the exact same motive, FBI Director James Comey first made the public admission that President Donald Trump was under FBI investigation for the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy. Senator Warner and Director Comey held the exact same motive.
Everything done by the SSCI before and after that mid-March event, touches everything before and after the special counsel was appointed. It’s like a fulcrum point that creates massive tentacles into the entire apparatus of the effort by the legislative branch, the executive branch, the intelligence community and the Weissmann/Mueller special counsel to cover it up.
Expose that moment on March 17, 2017, and the entire house of cards built by Weissmann/Mueller and the DC media apparatus collapses.
There is not another single moment during the entire arc of the Trump-Russia madness, that creates the inflection point as well as the March 17, 2017, leak. EXAMPLE:
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Keep cheering on Matt Taibbi. Keep supporting him as he follows this trail. Yes, you know where it ends, but you are a select rare few who have followed this story. Taibbi can blow it wide open if he continues.
Additionally, remember and understand that the entirety of the media apparatus was in on this scheme.
Every single outlet promoted the narrative that was collectively pushed by Senator Mark Warner, Director James Comey, the corrupt intelligence apparatus and the Robert Mueller special counsel. They are all opposed to Taibbi following this trail.
While this is good reporting and necessary, for the readers of CTH it’s nothing we don’t already know. For me the pregnant question is “So what?” The leftists rule and the leftists skate and the leftists inevitably win nearly every single confrontation between the Left and the Right. Since the Right is run mostly by the feckless band of Republicans we are stuck with I have little hope that things will actually change but for a short stint until time moves inexorably along the path to totalitarianism.
Sorry …
We, the readers of CTH, are a relative small portion of the general public, If and when the general public becomes aware and and the leftists escape it becomes a big problem. In the meantime I believe there is hope.
It important that Taibbi understand the depth, breadth, and width – the scale of corruption and collusion that exists among government, global multinational corporations , and foreign governments as well. Sundance is highlighting the fact that Taibbi is on the right path, and that we should help that progress by supporting Taibbi wherever we see comments in other blogs and websites where that topic may be being discussed.
From SD’s article above:
“Keep cheering on Matt Taibbi. Keep supporting him as he follows this trail. Yes, you know where it ends, but you are a select rare few who have followed this story. Taibbi can blow it wide open if he continues.”
Taibbi has recently published extraordinary articles about the Twitter files’ revelations re. the government’s illegal collusion with Big Tech and media to suppress information about Biden family crime, about covid lies and misinformation, and his articles have received national / international exposure and opened millions of eyes to reality who would not otherwise have been made aware.
When such a prominent journalist is working on what we all know to be the hard truth, we must grab every opportunity to support and bolster his work. We need a majority of the population to be awake to the dangerous deceit and treachery that exists among the federal government leadership and the Deep State at this time. It threatens the future of our republic and our lives.
That’s the “ so what.”
Would it be conspiracy theory to suggest that Matt Taibbi be very careful, thoughtful and realistic about his own safety?
Agree 100% with earlier commenters – If Matt Taibbi and Sundance are not acquainted, they should be. I would add Elon Musk to that party as well. Everyone has their only particular motives for participating, we need not agree with each other 100% in order to be a powerful force for good and the reconstruction of our Republic, as it was intended to be.
I’m still more than a little suspicious about the ho-hum, out walking his dog death of 43-year-old Andrew Breitbart.
I always have been too.
And Scalia.
The wives and families always come out to say there’s nothing weird.
Scalia really was strange… everything about it. Always cremation. Scalia family didn’t believe in cremation.
But then, Breitbart’s coroner died when report came out, so that was also freakish.
I think Seth Rich and Officer Sicknick family were similar–although both families came out earlier to ask for help, then they followed the script obediently.
I think it’s both threats and inducements.
Sicknick family had at least some leftists; someone contacted commie media w/in days, and his mother and “girlfriend” (she wasn’t, but billed herself that way because it was more useful) appeared on MSNBC
Agree 💯 Sundance, except my skepticism exists in the fact that Musk is Taibbi’s boss. It’s pretty obvious to me that Musk is rootung for Team DeSantis. While Taibbi may not be purposefully holding back the people distributing the info are. They will protect their interests and guide Taibbi to the out come they prefer. Otherwise they would release all of the files at one time and let the lions, coyotes, wolves, and piggies feast. These controlled drops are a way to drip out the info saving the best for the election season. You watch. DeSantis will have a perfect plan in place to fix all of our problems with the bureaucracies because he will be privy to all the pertinent info before anyone else. Kinda like Hillary had all the Russia Gate info and thought that was her ace.
Not sure about this but it is problematic that the DeSimps are so prevalent. When I saw Dave Rubin in all the astroturf photos, I thought… but he’s such a mild, nice guy… he’ll be hard to counter.
And then I saw him on twitter today, angry, seething, spitting.
WOW this is worse than 2016 NeverTrumps.
All NeverTrumps have outed themselves as horrible people.
David French used to be sort of respected, like most National Review sorts. Then they all came out shrieking, demon possessed.
Same with Matthew Tyrmand and Project Veritas.
Dave Rubin, who has seriously NEVER been obnoxious… until he was accused of being astroturf DeSantis guy.
It’s like 2016 x 1000.
I trust no one DeSantis. Wish it were different.
Of course Taibbi is on the right trail. He’s absolutely right in ignoring the leftists wanting him to investigate Trump. They’re practicing a well know tactic of accusing others of what they’re doing. Yawn.
He hasn’t ignored them.
He’s tried to defend himself, over and over again.
That’s why he even brought up the Trump requests that never happened (a NeverTrump state department guy? was that it?)
IMO, they ALL are going to start exposing themselves and then start turning on each other to cover their own asses!
I think it is going to start getting interesting, as in a ‘Great Awakening’ for the general public at large.
I agree with Sundance on this assessment of Taibbi. Grinding slowly, but finely, is a productive long term approach here.
I hope the gentleman is well prepared for what will be coming his way as his slow-spinning bit of truth reaches final pay dirt. There are very powerful forces involved.
And this choice also reflects well on Elon Musk, who I have been on the fence with in the past. Perhaps his heart is in the right place, and like many, had yet to see all the strings.
What has Bari Weiss been doing?
Bill Moyers, Matt Taibbi and Yves Smith on Big Banks
Jun 22, 2012
Rolling Stone editor Matt Taibbi and Yves Smith, creator of the finance and economics blog Naked Capitalism, join Bill to discuss the folly and corruption of both banks and government, and how that tag-team leaves deep wounds in our democracy. Taibbi’s latest piece is “The Scam Wall Street Learned from the Mafia.”
That was excellent. Thank you for posting.
The only question worth asking is, what will be done about all of this? It’s still happening as I’m typing this. It’s happening at Google, FB, and all throughout the TV news media and, as far as I can tell nobody in power is taking decisive action to stop it. Until that happens, it’s all just useless talk.
Taibbi Bona Fides > “The Great American Bubble Machine” ~ the 2008 Wall Street vampire squid > “True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital” ~ Willard the Bain Bandit
We already KNOW about the CORRUPT MARK WARNER and Russian COUP. The senate intel committee is just another CORRUPT group of politicians trying the SAVE THEIR OWN INSTITUTION, not looking for truth and protecting America.
My only question is this: Is Tabibi in it for the Truth or to line his pockets?
I think he’d intend to be honest.
He’s vastly more honest than most.
But can he get beyond the DeSantis shill?
Not sure
I hope for the best, but plan for the worst. In this case, as in everything ever revealed by any remote corner of the “mainstream media”, the info gets squashed…isolated…”fact checked” as nebulous….forgotten.
Seriously, we could (and did) have literal video of a Biden crime, perhaps even of a capital crime, and it was stashed and trashed.
THIS is why I wanted President Trump, before the election in 2020, to go live and reveal deep secret info about the cabal, the players connected to it from Congress (both sides), with evidence and documentation. It was the ONE MOMENT they could all be burned down, nuked, and without an ability to hide behind the three letter agencies (or be intercepted before the moment). The press and networks would have had no choice but deep dive it all, less they are exposed as US Pravda by a competitor. Would this have caused President Trump great pain? Yes. He would have likely been convicted for numerous crimes. However, he could lead the opening statement by saying “I am President of the United States, and I am also declaring myself a federal whistleblower relative to the information I am presenting. I also officially declassify all material immediately that is affected by this presentation, within my Constitutional powers as President”.
That was my hope…burn it all down while we had the chance. If HE couldn’t do it, it will never get done.
He knew how popular he was.
He knew he could set up his second term to take down these monsters, and the entirety of DC.
Doing what you describe is extremely limited.
So he’d be deemed insane, he’d be institutionalized, no one would ever complete his work…
he knew he could set up a structure to fight globalist leftism.
He did NOT know the extent of the fraud, how many courts were corrupted.
Thank you Sundance as always and yes I am cheerfully cheering on Matt Taibbi.
Obama gave Brennan and Clapper the ok to use NSA computers to spy on Trump. NSA director Admiral Mike Rogers saw the queries ” Trump and Staff..Trump and family..” and went unannounced to warn Trump.
” She ( Hillary ) had to be stopped..the Republic must be preserved “
I just wanted to say Thank You! Without you, I would have no idea what went on. There is so much info, so I appreciate very much the step by step detail you have given us, and the refreshers every once and a while as I tend to forget certain things after a while.
Not pertinent— but, I love the dog and the fox pic!
Too clever! 💕🐾🐾🐾💕
The FBI is probably planting child pornography on Taibbi’s computer right now.