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9 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
One of the major revelations of our investigative exposés in Brazil -- which the left cheered -- was how prosecutors illegally leaked investigations to corporate media, which published them without knowing if they were true, destroying reputations. Often, no charges were brought:
This is exactly the same thing as the NYT did in the Matt Gaetz case. *Nine months ago*, the paper published an article announcing the DOJ was "investigating" Gaetz to see "whether" he paid a 17-year-old girl for sex. Still no charges, while the cloud hangs over his head.
As I detailed in the video report I did on the Gaetz case yesterday for Rumble, a Brazilian paper apologized for what NYT did here: trumpet leaked allegations before charges were even brought. Often charges never were. It's journalistically reckless:

rumble.com/vqg1c2-matt-ga…
If Gaetz is really guilty of what the NYT and other outlets basically tried and convicted him for -- trafficking an underage girl for prostitution -- then it's time to charge him and put him on trial. If not, then clear his name. This middle ground is profoundly unfair to anyone.
This is why so many people are afraid to speak up about the obvious due process and civil liberties abuses in the Gaetz case. The know that scumbag liberals will accuse them of either being apologists for pedophilia or themselves pedophiles.

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10 Dec
When it comes to US attacks on press freedoms in the
last 6 years, nothing comes close to Assange's extradition and prosecution. Nothing is in the same universe. But media frauds don't care because he's not one of them, not in their clique, and is a real journalist & dissident.
Employees of media corporations harbor hatred for Assange for the obvious reason: they're Dems and his reporting harmed Hillary.

But much of it is jealousy & resentment: he's a mirror showing what frauds they are. He is what they pretend to be: speaking real truth to real power.
What a complete, absolute joke. Jim @Acosta - one of the most coddled, harmless, shielded, banal blowhards ever - wrote a book, that liberals ate up, heralding himself as an imperiled journalist-dissident.

CIA stenographers go to hair salons. Real dissidents end up like Assange Image
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10 Dec
Julian Assange Loses Appeal: British High Court Accepts U.S. Request to Extradite Him for Trial -- The Full Story:

greenwald.substack.com/p/julian-assan…
Press freedom and civil liberties groups throughout the West have repeatedly warned that Assange's prosecution is a grave threat to press freedom.

The Biden DOJ ignored them, and today won a major victory toward permanently silencing the pioneering transparency activist. Image
Press freedom groups reacted with fury to the Biden DOJ's "victory" in its attempt to imprison Assange under *espionage laws* for doing journalism.

Reporters Without Borders said "Assange has been targeted for his contributions to journalism."

rsf.org/en/news/rsf-co…
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9 Dec
Julian Assange -- the most persecuted journalist in the west -- is still in a high-security prison in the UK because the Biden DOJ appealed the British judge's rejection of the US extradition request, demanding he be imprisoned while the appeal pends. The ruling will be tomorrow:
While the US and UK keep Julian Assange in a cage for the crime of reporting accurately about the crimes of those governments, every sermon issued by US and British officials about the sanctity of press freedom and attacks by other countries is and should be regarded as a joke.
Julian Assange is the real embodiment of an actual dissident, a brave warrior against corrupt power centers, the hero which so many online posers pretend to be.

That's the difference between posers and real threats to power: the latter are attacked, prosecuted and targeted.
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8 Dec
NEW: Matt Gaetz and the Dangers of Prosecutorial Leaks For Everyone

rumble.com/vqg1c2-matt-ga…
It's been 8 months since the NYT claimed the DOJ was investigating "whether" @MattGaetz committed crimes. He's still not been charged with anything, and thus has no chance to contest the innuendo, yet millions believe he's guilty. That's why prosecutorial leaks are so abusive.
Leave aside what you think about Gaetz or his politics. It's unethical and often even illegal for prosecutors to leak accusations to the media precisely because it destroys people's reputations without having to prove their guilt.

digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewconten…
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8 Dec
Media Matters angry that one cable network - and only one - is devoting air time to arguing the US should not go to war with Russia over Ukraine.

Media Matters employees should tear themselves away from 24/7 live-blogging Fox and go enlist to fight Russia in defense of Ukraine.
-- "President Zelenskyy? This is Joe Biden. I have some good news and bad news. Which do you want first?"

-- "The bad news, Mr. President"

-- "The bad news is most Americans think it's lunacy to go to war with Russia. The good news is a Media Matters battalion is on the way."
By the way, is it at all notable that Crimea became part of Russia during the Obama administration, and now Russia is supposedly preparing to invade Ukraine during the Biden administration, but never did either when they had their blackmail-controlled puppet in the White House?
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To Deny the "Lab Leak" COVID Theory, the NYT and WPost Use Dubious and Conflicted Sources -- all without disclosing any of this

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A bizarre and abrupt reversal by scientists regarding COVID's origins, along with clear conflicts of interest, create serious doubts about their integrity. Yet major outlets keep relying on them: Peter Daszak, desperate to deny a "lab leak," but others who are highly compromised.
One of the most bizarre and still-unexplained episodes in the COVID pandemic was the group of scientists who told Fauci in late January they concluded COVID came from a lab. Within days, they publicly recanted, then received millions in grants from NIAID, controlled by Fauci.
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