Credit where credit is due. UndeadFOIA wrote this article, not Taibbi. And it may prove to be a very big deal. The October 7, 2016 DNI/DHS joint release was approved by Obama and, said Jeh Johnson before Congress, “he wanted us to make it.” Whatever documents pertain to it—especially texts & emails about revising the September products—may hold the smoking gun, or at least a lot of smoke, proving Obama was not only aware of, but directing the Trump takedown. Megyn Kelly rolled footage of Jeh Johnson’s testimony about the 10/7/16 joint statement during her first of two recent interviews w Aaron Mate. https://youtu.be/Pg_MXVolA1s
Attny Jeff Childers of Coffee n Covid (Substack) thinks one of the big players has turned States Evidence. That they in fact hid the burn bag and directed Patel to it. Also that all this is being dribbled out in planned released. Go read the whole thing. It's in the Friday edition. Last story of the scroll. GREAT read and deduction. @Matt - you have single handedly restored my faith in a fair press and reporting. Thank you for all of this and Racket too.
I like that Matt has allowed and provided Undeadfoia a broader platform by posting his work on Racket. That is generous and shows that Matt gives credit and admires good work and he just wants to share the truth no matter who gets the credit. This is a great collaborative effort.
I’d like to add that FOIA is bullshit. We the people own every shred of information that the govt produces. Unless it’s classified “top secret” it should all be public and accessible at any time. The govt also has a big problem classifying information. That’s to keep basic correspondence out if the hands of us the citizens. We have allowed our country to be taken over by morons. I’m also not thrilled with our supposed intelligence arm either as they all seem to be corrupt bumbling idiots.
We had spies during the revolution war. I’m sure it was much different during those times as there was a cause. I really don’t see a need for it anymore. They didn’t prevent 911. They were wrong on WMD’s in Iraq. I’d say almost every major situation and/or problem we have had for the last 100 years can be attributed to terrible or made up intelligence.
Imagine George Washington's spies claiming they had quill and ink accounts of him being peed on by prostitutes? The men at Valley Forge would have been jealous of him getting warm.
The Crowdstrike angle seems to be gaining in importance. It should.
Why was the FBI et. al. showing it such deference? This was a matter of national security, what with the involvement of the State Dept, Soros orgs, and many others’ emails being hacked. The DNC shouldn’t even have a say. This whole thing stinks.
Correct. The FBI just took Crowdstrike at their word. (Though it should probably be said that Crowdstrike and the FBI were obviously on the same team, so I don't know if that would have changed anything.)
My take on this at the time was that since Hillary and the DNC were point blank refusing the FBI access, and Obama did not have the balls for a fight with Hillary (or “didn’t want the optics on his legacy” if you prefer), using Crowdstrike as a proxy was a face saver to avoid a damaging Dem on Dem confrontation.
It should have been obvious to all concerned (and probably was) that Crowdstrike would produce whatever report HRC and the DNC wanted.
That picture - Senator Cotton shadowing Tulsi and he put out a statement about helping Kash. He is part of the cabal and will do whatever he can to keep tabs on them. He always pretends to be just another MAGA guy but that he has never been. He is a globalist. His is not there to help.
If the Russians out Chinese have the capability to mess with our elections, it stands to reason they would. Given Trump’s love for dictators, it stands to reason they would act to favor his election as well as undermine public trust in the system, a process Trump had already put in motion by claiming that only fraud would prevent him from being elected.
You are an ignorant fool: both Obama & Biden either when he was occasionally lucid or when he was being Obama’s mouthpiece were more dictatorial than Trump.
Can you cite one instance where “Trump’s love for dictators” caused him to make an obvious decision in the favor of a dictator to the detriment of the US? Go ahead we’re all waiting!
Let’s see what’s “detrimental to the US”-opening your borders to 15 million illegals, allowing a cabal of woke ideologues to pretend to be the president, encouraging delusional men to play in women’s sports and in their bathrooms, causing massive inflation further eroding the middle class, creating a coup against a candidate then president using a false concocted narrative from Clinton. I could go on but you get my point, your party is provenly “detrimental to the US” just look at the last four years. Spare me the bs about how Trump is Hitler and is authoritarian, the voters from last November don’t buy that bullshit.
Trump's "love for dictators" isn't a given at all.
It is rational when conducting diplomacy to take care not to needlessly insult adversaries, which would impede diplomacy. Relations with friendly or allied nations have a foundation that can sustain franker public conversation.
If I was President, I'd be much more likely to publicly criticize a close ally like England or Germany, than China or Russia. They would require greater delicacy to foster an environment that is conducive to good relations.
Bill Binney on Russiagate, seven days ago. He’s the man who obliterated Crowdstrike’s claim that Russia hacked the DNC. Thank you, Michael88888, for posting. Binney is solid.
Listening now. V good stuff in here. Binney and crew are dying to speak w Tulsi. They don’t think she has the full technical picture. Binney is firm in his position Brennan was behind the Guccifer 2 avatar and was responsible for causing the DNC hack. Binney also said he personally told Trump that Obama was involved. To my ear, Binney intimated he could prove some additional pieces of the puzzle for Tulsi, were he given access. As an aside, the group lamented Matt Taibbi’s “refusal to call Binney” at the time—but Matt has more than redeemed himself in their eyes.
They are particularly concerned that Gabbard completely misapprehends the entire DNC hack aspect. Binney tells the group that the NSA would know definitively who did the DNC download (it was NOT a hack, they insist); and the entire group is practically begging to speak w Tulsi. Bottom line: great discussion well worth your time.
Maybe it had to do with this person having massive misses in the information provided like the revised downward 8xx,xxx jobs early in 2024 or the overstatement of jobs created close to the presidential election which were promptly revised downward after the election.
The only thing causing a market drop is the Fed under the less than stellar direction of Powell. The stubborn little mule won't budge off his hyping about tariffs raising prices, which hasn't happened yet.
Anyone who took, and understood, their very first course in microeconomics knows that the share of a tax borne by the sellers (in other countries) and buyers (here) is completely ambiguous without knowing which side is most sensitive to price changes. That's microeconomics 101. Never in my life have I heard so much confident bullshit about the effects of a tax (tariffs are a tax). Makes me want to barf.
If Powell PAID people to borrow, it would grow the economy and erase the national debt because the dollar would be worth two cents. He's just being stubborn because he's old and has savings.
Moreover, your comment isn't very coherent with today's events. The fired official was someone responsible for labor market reports based on data collected in the past. The tariff news yesterday and today had no effect on that data on the July labor market. So, what's your point?
If you actually believed this, you should have bought a bucket of VIX calls several days ago in anticipation of the tantrum. It's what I did, and I made a tidy sum today. Sometimes you win. But post-dicting market movements isn't knowledge.
Schmuckonomics relies on the Fit of Pique model. In other news, Trump pointlessly moves submarines and sends international bootlicker Steve Witkoff back to Moscow. Expect more delays while Peace Process Theater extends its run.
Great work! What we have here seems to show again that the greater IC, the people who actually collect and analyze intelligence, had seen nothing to indicate anything out the ordinary. Seems that they were completely unaware of the surveillance Brennen, Comey, and Strzok had been running all year to build their own dirt file. Theirs was a private high-level operation to get what they knew they would need to throw the Republican congress off of Hillary's scent trail. Of course, they were doing it for the good of the country.
Great reporting. As for disclosing to the Public, yes keep pushing. But in the meantime, why doesn't Tulsi et al just invite you to a meeting in a SCIF and have you go through all the redacted material to prove once and for all, whether or not Clapper had any actual intelligence backing up their claims that Russia was likely to do cyber attacks against state and local election infrastructure? If they had no such intelligence, as I suspect, then they were just spit balling things into a report and declaring the non-sources as highly classified to justify redacting them from the docs that they had to disclose to you under FOIA.
Clapper famously admitted to lying under oath about surveillance of civilians and when he made the admission, famously said words to the effect of: "Yes my earlier testimony was untruthful, but I told you then the least untruthful thing that I could without disclosing classified information."
So nothing Clapper has ever said about anything should be trusted.
Matt will go down as one of the best journalists of these tumultuous times. I’m glad he keeps his docs in a secure place because we will need them when its time to write the history of the 2000’s.
It turns out that "intelligence" works by assuming everyone else is a gullible dumb ass. A toad will extend its tongue to catch and swallow BBs rolled down an inclined plane. The press gobble up the information equivalent of BBs and crap them out as hate-filled Echo Infotainment. Of course, members of the press have their choice of corporate approved and personally vindictive inclined planes. On with the show!
Matt Taibbi is without question the goat. Keep up the incredible work, Matt.
Agree!!
Credit where credit is due. UndeadFOIA wrote this article, not Taibbi. And it may prove to be a very big deal. The October 7, 2016 DNI/DHS joint release was approved by Obama and, said Jeh Johnson before Congress, “he wanted us to make it.” Whatever documents pertain to it—especially texts & emails about revising the September products—may hold the smoking gun, or at least a lot of smoke, proving Obama was not only aware of, but directing the Trump takedown. Megyn Kelly rolled footage of Jeh Johnson’s testimony about the 10/7/16 joint statement during her first of two recent interviews w Aaron Mate. https://youtu.be/Pg_MXVolA1s
https://youtu.be/KgvXFhVSCoQ?si=z_t69u0Nmtmx7ldH — more of Kelly and Mate discussing the DNI/DHS 10/7/16 release.
Attny Jeff Childers of Coffee n Covid (Substack) thinks one of the big players has turned States Evidence. That they in fact hid the burn bag and directed Patel to it. Also that all this is being dribbled out in planned released. Go read the whole thing. It's in the Friday edition. Last story of the scroll. GREAT read and deduction. @Matt - you have single handedly restored my faith in a fair press and reporting. Thank you for all of this and Racket too.
Matt is fantastic, but credit where it’s due: @UndeadFOIA wrote this article.
Yes, Matt always amplifies his findings.
I like that Matt has allowed and provided Undeadfoia a broader platform by posting his work on Racket. That is generous and shows that Matt gives credit and admires good work and he just wants to share the truth no matter who gets the credit. This is a great collaborative effort.
I sure hope he's right. And whoever it is, the person doesn't end up rolled up in a rug.
Just read the Childers work, thank you for the link.
Childers does excellent analysis, and from a lawyers perspective. And he’s hilarious.
I’d like to add that FOIA is bullshit. We the people own every shred of information that the govt produces. Unless it’s classified “top secret” it should all be public and accessible at any time. The govt also has a big problem classifying information. That’s to keep basic correspondence out if the hands of us the citizens. We have allowed our country to be taken over by morons. I’m also not thrilled with our supposed intelligence arm either as they all seem to be corrupt bumbling idiots.
Pretty accurate statement, that! Why do countries always seem to talk themselves into having secret police?
We had spies during the revolution war. I’m sure it was much different during those times as there was a cause. I really don’t see a need for it anymore. They didn’t prevent 911. They were wrong on WMD’s in Iraq. I’d say almost every major situation and/or problem we have had for the last 100 years can be attributed to terrible or made up intelligence.
Imagine George Washington's spies claiming they had quill and ink accounts of him being peed on by prostitutes? The men at Valley Forge would have been jealous of him getting warm.
It’s partly because they branched off into other things besides intelligence. That’s the trouble with the secrecy; there’s no one who can guide them.
The Crowdstrike angle seems to be gaining in importance. It should.
Why was the FBI et. al. showing it such deference? This was a matter of national security, what with the involvement of the State Dept, Soros orgs, and many others’ emails being hacked. The DNC shouldn’t even have a say. This whole thing stinks.
What are the odds the DNC would leave examination of the servers to an honest firm?
Can we go under 0%?
Didn't the DNC refuse to grant FBI access to them?
Correct. The FBI just took Crowdstrike at their word. (Though it should probably be said that Crowdstrike and the FBI were obviously on the same team, so I don't know if that would have changed anything.)
My take on this at the time was that since Hillary and the DNC were point blank refusing the FBI access, and Obama did not have the balls for a fight with Hillary (or “didn’t want the optics on his legacy” if you prefer), using Crowdstrike as a proxy was a face saver to avoid a damaging Dem on Dem confrontation.
It should have been obvious to all concerned (and probably was) that Crowdstrike would produce whatever report HRC and the DNC wanted.
That picture - Senator Cotton shadowing Tulsi and he put out a statement about helping Kash. He is part of the cabal and will do whatever he can to keep tabs on them. He always pretends to be just another MAGA guy but that he has never been. He is a globalist. His is not there to help.
UndeadFOIA on Racket News is the team-up we needed!
Russia did not hack the DNC. That is cover for the real story. Seth Rich provided the material to WikiLeaks which then resulted in him being murdered.
Matt, your adept reporting on Russiagate shows Americans how totally corrupt our Federal Government is!! We can’t even hold a fair election anymore.
What if spooks have determined what's bad for the people? Then it's patriotism, they think.
Bad for the people, or bad for the puppet masters? I doubt The People are barely an afterthought in all this, other than how to propagandize them.
If the Russians out Chinese have the capability to mess with our elections, it stands to reason they would. Given Trump’s love for dictators, it stands to reason they would act to favor his election as well as undermine public trust in the system, a process Trump had already put in motion by claiming that only fraud would prevent him from being elected.
The Electoral College elects the President and Vice President.
Ignorance just can't shut itself up. Also, Trump's love for dictators is NOT a given.
That’s true. Just because he declares his love and admiration doesn’t mean it’s true.
You are an ignorant fool: both Obama & Biden either when he was occasionally lucid or when he was being Obama’s mouthpiece were more dictatorial than Trump.
Can you cite one instance where “Trump’s love for dictators” caused him to make an obvious decision in the favor of a dictator to the detriment of the US? Go ahead we’re all waiting!
Since you defend Trump, we likely don’t agree on what is detrimental to the US.
Let’s see what’s “detrimental to the US”-opening your borders to 15 million illegals, allowing a cabal of woke ideologues to pretend to be the president, encouraging delusional men to play in women’s sports and in their bathrooms, causing massive inflation further eroding the middle class, creating a coup against a candidate then president using a false concocted narrative from Clinton. I could go on but you get my point, your party is provenly “detrimental to the US” just look at the last four years. Spare me the bs about how Trump is Hitler and is authoritarian, the voters from last November don’t buy that bullshit.
TDS is a bad problem it doesn’t allow rational thought.
Ron: next time you may want to use some empirical evidence.
Your judicious use of “stands to reason” is a weak attempt to support your own opinion.
Trump's "love for dictators" isn't a given at all.
It is rational when conducting diplomacy to take care not to needlessly insult adversaries, which would impede diplomacy. Relations with friendly or allied nations have a foundation that can sustain franker public conversation.
If I was President, I'd be much more likely to publicly criticize a close ally like England or Germany, than China or Russia. They would require greater delicacy to foster an environment that is conducive to good relations.
He has gone beyond not insulting to actual praise.
Which seems like good diplomacy to me. The praise I’ve heard has all been reasonable.
Good recap of the whole of Brennan and Clapper’s “thinking”, “argument” and “evidence”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C076WWAP3ak
People might watch this if you indicated what it was...
Bill Binney on Russiagate, seven days ago. He’s the man who obliterated Crowdstrike’s claim that Russia hacked the DNC. Thank you, Michael88888, for posting. Binney is solid.
Listening now. V good stuff in here. Binney and crew are dying to speak w Tulsi. They don’t think she has the full technical picture. Binney is firm in his position Brennan was behind the Guccifer 2 avatar and was responsible for causing the DNC hack. Binney also said he personally told Trump that Obama was involved. To my ear, Binney intimated he could prove some additional pieces of the puzzle for Tulsi, were he given access. As an aside, the group lamented Matt Taibbi’s “refusal to call Binney” at the time—but Matt has more than redeemed himself in their eyes.
They are particularly concerned that Gabbard completely misapprehends the entire DNC hack aspect. Binney tells the group that the NSA would know definitively who did the DNC download (it was NOT a hack, they insist); and the entire group is practically begging to speak w Tulsi. Bottom line: great discussion well worth your time.
Or adding the link as confirmation after offering a summary. Nobody is looking for a reading or listening assignment.
+1 :) It's a 2 hour+ video(!), though very instructive.
Trump fires lead official on economic data as tariffs cause market drop
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg3xrrzdr0o
Maybe it had to do with this person having massive misses in the information provided like the revised downward 8xx,xxx jobs early in 2024 or the overstatement of jobs created close to the presidential election which were promptly revised downward after the election.
The only thing causing a market drop is the Fed under the less than stellar direction of Powell. The stubborn little mule won't budge off his hyping about tariffs raising prices, which hasn't happened yet.
Anyone who took, and understood, their very first course in microeconomics knows that the share of a tax borne by the sellers (in other countries) and buyers (here) is completely ambiguous without knowing which side is most sensitive to price changes. That's microeconomics 101. Never in my life have I heard so much confident bullshit about the effects of a tax (tariffs are a tax). Makes me want to barf.
True they absolutely have not.
Why should an unelected person have control over interest rates?
There is no standard criteria established for one of the most important economic decisions made in and for the USA.
I would think low jobs numbers would be anti-inflationary and signs of economic slowdown, which should prompt the Fed to lower rates.
If Powell PAID people to borrow, it would grow the economy and erase the national debt because the dollar would be worth two cents. He's just being stubborn because he's old and has savings.
Markets drop, markets rise. Funny watching it be attributed to this or that.
Moreover, your comment isn't very coherent with today's events. The fired official was someone responsible for labor market reports based on data collected in the past. The tariff news yesterday and today had no effect on that data on the July labor market. So, what's your point?
If you actually believed this, you should have bought a bucket of VIX calls several days ago in anticipation of the tantrum. It's what I did, and I made a tidy sum today. Sometimes you win. But post-dicting market movements isn't knowledge.
Schmuckonomics relies on the Fit of Pique model. In other news, Trump pointlessly moves submarines and sends international bootlicker Steve Witkoff back to Moscow. Expect more delays while Peace Process Theater extends its run.
The criminal case is building against all obamanistas and clintonistas!
Great work! What we have here seems to show again that the greater IC, the people who actually collect and analyze intelligence, had seen nothing to indicate anything out the ordinary. Seems that they were completely unaware of the surveillance Brennen, Comey, and Strzok had been running all year to build their own dirt file. Theirs was a private high-level operation to get what they knew they would need to throw the Republican congress off of Hillary's scent trail. Of course, they were doing it for the good of the country.
Great reporting. As for disclosing to the Public, yes keep pushing. But in the meantime, why doesn't Tulsi et al just invite you to a meeting in a SCIF and have you go through all the redacted material to prove once and for all, whether or not Clapper had any actual intelligence backing up their claims that Russia was likely to do cyber attacks against state and local election infrastructure? If they had no such intelligence, as I suspect, then they were just spit balling things into a report and declaring the non-sources as highly classified to justify redacting them from the docs that they had to disclose to you under FOIA.
Clapper famously admitted to lying under oath about surveillance of civilians and when he made the admission, famously said words to the effect of: "Yes my earlier testimony was untruthful, but I told you then the least untruthful thing that I could without disclosing classified information."
So nothing Clapper has ever said about anything should be trusted.
Matt will go down as one of the best journalists of these tumultuous times. I’m glad he keeps his docs in a secure place because we will need them when its time to write the history of the 2000’s.
It turns out that "intelligence" works by assuming everyone else is a gullible dumb ass. A toad will extend its tongue to catch and swallow BBs rolled down an inclined plane. The press gobble up the information equivalent of BBs and crap them out as hate-filled Echo Infotainment. Of course, members of the press have their choice of corporate approved and personally vindictive inclined planes. On with the show!