Posted on 04/22/2023 5:22:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A far-left delegate in the U.S. Congress has threatened one of the leading “Twitter Files” journalists with jail time over an alleged mistake in his reporting.
Just The News reports that Stacey Plaskett (D-V.I.), the congressional delegate from the Virgin Islands who has become a darling of the far-Left in recent months, wrote a letter to former Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi over a typo in his reporting. The error involves Taibbi’s use of the acronym CISA, which he used in reference to the Center for Internet Freedom (CIS); CISA is the official acronym for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
However, despite the issue being a clear mistake rather than a direct and intentional lie, Plaskett harassed Taibbi with false accusations of lying about a government agency.
“This mistake is important because, by adding an ‘A,’ you weren’t making a harmless spelling error,” Plaskett wrote. “Rather, you were alleging that CISA—a government entity—was working with the EIP [Election Integrity Partnership] to have posts removed from social media.”
“When presented with this misinformation, you acknowledged you had made ‘an error’ by intentionally altering the acronym CIS and you subsequently deleted your erroneous tweet.” Plaskett presented no evidence that Taibbi’s typo was “intentional.”
Despite this, Plaskett then went on to declare that Taibbi may have committed perjury as a result of his mistake, citing that, prior to his congressional testimony on March 9, Taibbi acknowledged that “knowingly providing material false information to this committee/subcommittee or knowingly concealing material information from this committee/subcommittee, is a crime (18 U.S.C. 1001).”
“Under the federal perjury statute, 18 U.S.C. 1621, proving false information is punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment,” Plaskett threatened.
Taibbi is one of the leading independent journalists who was recruited by Twitter owner Elon Musk to gradually release internal documents and other data exposing the corruption, left-wing bias, and other possibly illegal practices by Twitter’s former leadership, prior to Musk’s purchase of the company last year. Taibbi and others would then post the information in lengthy Twitter threads, which have since come to be known as the “Twitter Files.”
Anyone opposed by the left should know that testifying in front of Congress will be a perjury Trap.
Gestapo wanna-be.
Maybe there shouldn’t be so many gov’t agencies.
Great interview about this and about a journalist slowly realizing what the party and the people he had voted for have become.
https://rumble.com/v2jp0xs-live-with-journalist-and-democrat-enemy-1-matt-taibbi-viva-frei-live.html
It looks like witness intimidation.
For a better America, Stacey must be eliminated
The sad thing is that I don’t think a liberal (not a leftist) like Taibbi will put 2 and 2 together and admit that the hatred and threats he is now receiving are the logical outcomes of the political philosophy he has supported his entire life. In other words, he will never have that “come to Jesus moment” SMH
Oh the power of being a delegate ,LOL
Ludicrous.
If so, why would he correct himself on TV?
Not intentional, and how do you prove it?
We have had several FBI and intelligence officials, as well as an infamous former AG do the same thing.
Crickets.
Wonder if Taibbi is still a Democrat?
Meanwhile, the biggest threat to freedom that the suburban Karens see is “blocking a woman’s right to choose!!!”
Uhhh, not for nothing they’re Karens but if the party you support gets their totalitarian way, a “woman’s right to choose” won’t exist anymore. It will be “governments right to choose for women.” Some bureaucrat will decide you are having an abortion whether you want one or not.
Jail journalists today, “choose” for you tomorrow.
The left wants to subjugate us. Those that will not comply will be sent to “re-education” camps. Those that still refuse to comply will be eliminated. That is the philosophy of the Marxist left.
Below read the philosophy of Bill Ayers, a friend of Obama. Excerpted from “The New American.”
This is the democrat party today.
In recent weeks, a number of websites have posted text, audio, or video of an interview with Larry Grathwohl from the 1982 video documentary No Place to Hide: The Strategy and Tactics of Terrorism by the Western Goals Foundation. I worked on that video as a researcher and went undercover into some of the terrorist groups and their support networks. Larry Grathwohl was one of the experts/witnesses we interviewed for the documentary. He had been undercover inside the Weather Underground and had worked closely with Ayers, Dohrn, and their fellow terrorists.
In No Place to Hide, Grathwohl explains that the Weathermen actually believed that they would be successful in overthrowing the U.S. government and that, with the help of the Cubans, Chinese, Russians, and North Vietnamese, they would occupy America. Americans would have to be “re-educated” in camps, similar to what the communists did in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and other countries they had taken over. Here is one of the chilling revelations Larry Grathwohl made in the film:
I asked, “Well what is going to happen to those people we can’t reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?” And the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated.
And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.
And when I say “eliminate,” I mean “kill.”
Twenty-five million people.
I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people and they were dead serious.
democrats are bullies who are in need of people to punch back at them.
If lying to Congress is punished like this, then Fauci should worry about facing a firing squad on the steps of the Capitol.
“Rather, you were alleging that CISA—a government entity—was working with the EIP [Election Integrity Partnership] to have posts removed from social media.”
At this point is there ANY government agency that DOES NOT work with Leftists in social media?
Bkmk
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