Thread by @emptywheel

Just minutes into Jimmy Jordan's Insurrection Protection hearing, he has lied about what Yoel Roth testified.

c-span.org/video/?526578-…

Now Jimmy J is complaining that 1) FBI used a special app for stuff that's not at issue here and 2) that Twitter is paid for complying with legal process, as required by law.

BREAKING: Jimmy J finds it amazing Aspen Institute focused on Hunter Biden after 1) known Russian spies tried to deal Hunter Biden dirt to Rudy Giuliani and 2) GRU hacked Burisma.

Jimmy J is now accusing former spooks of making "false" claims, when they expressed an opinion

Stacey Plaskett calls #MattyDickPics and Shellenberger as Elmo's scribes, which will present Elmo's chosen narrative.

Plaskett notes that Musk is preferentially sharing info w/GOP. Notes that FTC has extraordinary concerns about Twitter and "that there's something going on between House Republicans and Elon Musk. This isn't just a matter of what data was given to these so-called journalists."

[#mattydickpics was outraged that he was called, appropriately, a so-called journalist.]

Plaskett: You have called two witnesses who pose a direct threat to people who oppose them.

Holy shit she's laying into them.

Jimmy J claims that #MattyDickPics is a Democrat.

Plaskett: Well let's get on with it.

Here's the link.

#MattyDickPics is getting sworn in. Ut oh.

c-span.org/video/?526578-…

Shellenberger claims AMerican taxpayers are paying for a censorship complex, a lie.

Now Shellenberger is accusng entities like DFIR of inadequately disclosing ties, even though they've pointed out that Elmo's pets didn't report their comments.

"Military grade govt monitoring."

S: "Congress should immediately cut off funding to the censors and investigate their activities."

Jimmy J calls #MattyDickPics "matt" before he calls him Mr. Taibbi.

Matty says he got a tip from "a source online."

He says it took a week to do his first #MattyDickPics post.

So he was the first. Then the other Elmo Pets joined.

Matt AGAIN misrepresenting what the FBI referrals were.

Then names some Russian mouthpieces.

"Undeniably, the making of such lists is a form of McCarthyism."

"Effectively news media became an arm of state sponsored censorship."

Johnson: Twitter was basically an FBI subsidiary before Elon Musk took over.

#MattyDickPics says this is more important than his actual journalism on the vampire squid.

Shellenberger also says this is the most important thing. Says, under oath, that it involves freedom of speech.

HE CLAIMS ELMO HAS STOPPED CENSORSHIP!!!!!!

A claim that Shellenberger is making right now was disputed in recent deposition.

Lynch misstated the results of ICA, said it was 18 agencies. #MattyDickPics is going to join in this.

Lynch: Do you believe that the Ru interfered?

T [rolls eyes].

#MattyDickPics: Not in the sense that you're putting it.

Lynch: reclaiming my time. Do you believe RU engaged in hack-and-release.

Taibbi: I don't know.

Lynch: Let me ask Shellenbech [sic]

Shellenberger: They tried to.

Lynch: Hack and release.

Shellenberger: To the best of my awareness, yes.

Taibbi: Also that information was true. That is not a legit predicate for censorship.

BREAKING: Taibbi says John Podesta's risotto recipe was "true."

BREAKING: Taibbi says it's a fair statement that RU is trying to undermine confidence.

A break from him.

Issa says that "anarchy, overthrow of govt" is outside free speech w/o acknowledging that some of what we're talking IS insurrection.

Shellenberger: We're talking about arguments online.

Taibbi doesn't answer DWS' question about being spoonfed information.

She quotes Taibbi to Joe Rogan: "Once you start getting handed things, then you've lost."

BREAKING: Taibbi says he has finally hired journalists to investigate the stuff he has been "reporting" on for 4 months now.

Taibbi admits he did not release anything about the Trump White House.

Shellenberger: I did not find that.

Connolly: All four testified under oath they had never gotten request from Biden, but they did from Trump.

Chrissy Taigen.

Matty describes that some of those people (Truthout and Consortium) are his friends.

#MattyDickPics now misrepresenting the FTC request.

He claims the disinterest in this bullshit an example of how low the industry has sunk.

Plaskett: How many emails did Musk give you access?

Shellenberger: Thousands. No way anyone could have gone thru them before.

Plaskett: Millions? Hundred thousand.

Plaskett: 338 files. How gave you access?

Taibbi: Sources at Twitter.

Shellenberger: Bari Weiss.

Taibbi says no conditions on access.

Plaskett: Unfiltered access? HR files?

Taibbi: Signed a waiver.

Plaskett: Did you produce waiver? Have you given all access what you were given.

Taibbi says he wasn't privy to why consent decree. Says he didn't read consent decree.

Shellenberger: Did not know who owned Binance.

Jimmy falsely claims that Plaskett asked for Taibbi's sources.

Taibbi joins in.

Thus far Democrats are letting matty continue to lie about what the FBI was doing.

Matty is bolloxing CISA and EIP and what they do.

But the Dems are not holding him accountable.

Matty admits that he gave stuff to the GOP on the committee and then put it on Twitter.

Now says it came out on Twitter first.

Shellenberger now claiming there's an influence operation pre-bunking Hunter Biden laptop.

Jeebus pete the Dems are letting a lot of shit fly.

LOLOLOLOLOL

Shellenberger claims there's not much doubt about provenance of laptop.

He did that under oath.

BREAKING: Jim Jordan and Shellenberger both claim they know nothing about Russian spying in 2019.

Shellenberger falsely claims they were "spying" on Rudy G.

Linda Sanchez cedes to Goldman.

Goldman asks about whether Shellenberger knew Rudy was cavorting w/RU agents in 2020. Whether he knew Rudy didn't want analysis until after pub. Fox, very sketchy.

Goldman asks Shellenberger if he knows hard drive altered.

Shellenberger says CBS has verified.

Matty pipes in, Politico, revealing he's a stupid idiot.

Matty Gaetz follows up on testimony that hte hard drive WAS doctored by claiming that it was not.

Matty says RU did not interfere to the extent it's been reported. He interrupted b4 Taibbi said that he doubts the hack.

Matty: I think it's a legitimate objective to stop actual foreign interference.

Goldman: Are you saying FBI had no basis to inform social media companies to inform social media companies of foreign interference.

Matty: Twitter even they couldn't determine IRA or not.

Elise asks Shellenberger abt Wray's claim that FBI never contacted Twitter abt Biden laptop.

Shellenberger: Lots suspicious.

BREAKING: Taibbi raises Teleporter communication which BY DEFINITION is not disinformation.

UNDER OATH!!!!

Shellenberger is likening RU hack-and-leak to Ellsberg. Claims it's an info-op against journalist.

Taibbi now claiming that Twitter lawyers don't know what Bartnicki is.

"There is no basis to restrict publication of true material."

Basically saying you SHOULD report GRU theft.

LOLOLOL

#MattyDickPics says he goes into stories not knowing what the story is, but he hasn't corrected a single one of his faceplants.