Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled as they have been during the Bush administration. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. Barack Obama
The above appears to be a heartfelt quote from former President Barack Obama. I wonder how he feels about the whistleblowers who are speaking out about the corruption in the Biden Presidency?
Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler Testified at the House Oversight and Judiciary Committee hearings that the Justice Department slow-walked the criminal probe into Hunter Biden's tax issues. 1 Most of their testimony was carried live by Fox News. There were other whistleblowers who would testify that day. However, Fox gave them no airtime. I assume Fox had other things that were more important for them to put on the air.
I caught a fleeting bit of info on Emma-Jo Morris's testimony as they told us who would testify that day. I watched and waited to hear what Morris had to say. As I said, Fox choose not to air her testimony. By chance, I found her on my phone and watched her opening statement. Wow-z- wow- wow, if that was not an eye-opener! I urge you to watch the video on YouTube linked below.2 If you can not find it online, I have the whole opening statement listed below.
Full Text: Breitbart’s Emma-Jo Morris’s Opening Statement to Congress About Censorship of Hunter Biden Laptop
Breitbart News Politics Editor Emma-Jo Morris denounced the “elaborate censorship conspiracy” to silence her 2020 reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop during testimony before the House Weaponization Committee on Thursday.
The following is the full text of Morris’ opening statement before the House Committee:
My name is Emma-Jo Morris. I am the Politics Editor at
Breitbart News.
I am here today because I published a series of news stories three years ago, in October 2020, about Hunter Biden’s now infamous laptop — also known as the “laptop from hell” — which is seen as some of the most scandalous reporting of the last decade.
What was more scandalous than the reporting itself though was the fact that it exposed the unholy alliance between the Intelligence Community, social media platforms, and legacy media outlets.
At the time, I was deputy politics editor at the New York Post. My reporting showed that, despite then-candidate Joe Biden’s repeated and furious denials, he was apparently involved in the foreign business deals of his family.
Over several days, just weeks before Americans would vote for their next president, I revealed verified authentic emails from the Biden scion’s hard drive showing Ukrainian business partners receiving leaks from the Obama White House, I documented an off-the-books meeting between then-Vice President Biden and a Ukrainian energy executive, and introduced the world to “the Big Guy,” who got action on a deal with CEFC China Energy Co.
The Post published exactly how the material for the reporting was obtained, even identifying the sources, as well as a federal subpoena showing the FBI was in possession of the material the story was based on, and had been since December of 2019.
But when the stories appeared on social media that morning — the venue where millions of Americans go to find their news, and editors to get their angles — within hours, the reporting was censored on all major platforms, on the basis of being called “hacked” or “Russian disinformation.”
Twitter refused to allow users to share the link to the stories,
banned the links from being shared in private messages — a policy typically used to clamp down on child porn distribution — and locked the Post out of its verified account.
Facebook said it would curb distribution and reach of the links on its platform.
However, the stories were not based on “hacked materials,” nor were they “Russian disinformation.” And despite those claims appearing to come out of thin air at the time, we would eventually learn that they actually didn’t come out of thin air at all.
On October 19, five days after the Post first began publishing, Politico ran a story headlined, “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.”
Politico printed a letter, completely uncritically, from veteran members of U.S. intelligence falsely claiming the Post exposé “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
Most notable among the signatories of the letter were Jim Clapper, former DNI, and John Brennan, former CIA — despite having such damaged credibility following their participation in the Russia Collusion conspiracy theory.
A few days later, on October 22, when Biden appeared in the second presidential debate, and was confronted with the facts of the Post’s reporting, he said to Trump, “Fifty former national intelligence professionals said this: what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plot.”
But it was not.
Now, fast forward to this year, three years later.
Just last spring, House investigators revealed it was a call by now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell that prompted the spy letter published by Politico, which bypassed agency approval processes that would have been normally applied.
It is also now known that ahead of my reporting, federal agencies were priming social media companies to execute an operation to discredit it.
According to internal documents released by Elon Musk upon his acquisition of Twitter, the FBI and other intelligence community members essentially directed the platform’s censorship operation in part externally, by working with top management; in part internally, by social media companies hiring eye-popping numbers of agency-alumni.
Journalist Michael Shellenberger reported, based on documents he obtained from Musk, that “during all of 2020, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies repeatedly primed” Twitter executives “to dismiss reports of Hunter Biden’s laptop as a Russian ‘hack and leak’ operation.” Feds arranged for Top Secret security clearances to be granted to Twitter management, and even had an encrypted messaging network set up, which they dubbed a “virtual war room.”
To this day, hundreds of people from the intelligence community work at social media companies.
Over the last few years, my reporting has been confirmed by virtually every mainstream news outlet, from the Washington Post, to the New York Times, to Politico. No one denies that the laptop is real, that the origin story is exactly what I told you it was in the first place.
This elaborate censorship conspiracy wasn’t because the information being reported on was false. It was because the information was true, and a threat to the power centers in this country.
What this relationship between U.S. government officials and American corporations represents is an unprecedented push to undermine the First Amendment — the right to think, write, read, and say whatever we want — and how we respond will determine whether we see a free press as inalienable, or as optional.
1 Grayer, Annie, Cohen, Marshall, Treene, Alayna, and Cohen, Zackary, Second IRS whistleblower goes public at House Oversight hearing about Hunter Biden probe, CNN, Politics, July 20, 2023, https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/politics/oversight-committee-hearing-irs-whistleblowers/index.html
Where are the early morning swat type raids on Hunter Biden's residence? Where are the indictments, arrests, and prosecutions of the deep state operatives associated with the cover up of the Biden family crimes? All you see is the endless "investigations" of the investigations led by the feckless Republican leadership in the Congress. The people do not want another special counsel so more taxpayer money can be wasted on lawyers. They want the Congress to act to stop the money that goes to fund the deep state. Does anybody think that we are not living in a socialist fascist state?