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-Land of the Free
Dems' police-state tactics won't stop reporters like Matt Taibbi
2023-04-22
[NYP] As every elementary student is told, a single letter can change an entire thought.

Leave off an "S" and your dessert turns into a desert.

A missing "R" turns a friend into a fiend.

For journalist Matt Taibbi, the brief accidental addition of an "A" may not only have changed the identity of a group, but, according to a ranking Democrat, put the convict into the meaning of conviction.

Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-VI), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, issued a letter that accused Taibbi of possible perjury because of an error that he made, not in testimony but in a tweet he later corrected.

At issue is Taibbi referring to CISA, the government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, when he meant to refer to CIS, the Center for Internet Security.

Plaskett’s threatening letter to Taibbi was immediately pushed on MSNBC by host Mehdi Hasan, who was shocked by the added "A" and called for the journalist to be criminally investigated for having "deliberately & under oath misrepresented" the facts.

(It was an ironic moment, as writer Lee Fang noted, given past allegations made against Hasan over false statements.)

For Taibbi, this is only the latest such unnerving moment.

When he was testifying before Congress on government censorship efforts, the IRS sent an agent to his home to look into irregularities on his taxes from years earlier.
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