A verified U.S. State Department account got caught up in a Ukrainian intelligence service’s efforts to suppress alleged Russian disinformation on social media, according to a new report (pdf) by the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. According to the new committee report, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) forwarded to the…

Information provided by three FBI whistleblowers to a U.S. House subcommittee in May weighs in favor of further investigation and testimony from more current and former agents, says whistleblower Stephen Friend. Friend said that while he, Garret O’Boyle, and Marcus Allen took hits from Democrats on the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal…

A member of the internal board that reviews materials written for publication by present and former employees of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) helped solicit signatures for the October 2020 letter claiming the Hunter Biden laptop story “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” according to a new congressional report. The letter…

A member of the internal board that reviews materials written for publication by present and former employees of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) helped solicit signatures for the October 2020 letter claiming the Hunter Biden laptop story “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” according to a new congressional report. The letter…

Commentary With the War on Wrongthink having escalated in the wake of the sham indictment of President Donald Trump, the conviction of a political memester for a literal thought crime, and the revelation that at least one Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) office had sought to cultivate sources within Catholic churches on grounds that domestic violent…

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has a glossary of terms it associates with extremist, involuntary celibate (incels) individuals and members of religiously or ethnically motivated violent extremism (RMVE), including popular internet slang like “based” and “redpilled.” The conservative Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project recently obtained copies of FBI training materials relating to involuntary celibate violent…

Commentary When the IRS targeted Tea Party groups during the Obama years, and no one paid a serious price for it, it was both a harbinger of and contributor to the more pervasive and extreme weaponization of the federal government against dissenters from its orthodoxy that was to come. Today, a decade after IRS officials…

House Republicans said in a March 30 hearing said that collusion between Big Tech and the government amounts to a “censorship industrial complex.” The hearing, the second round for Republicans’ Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, featured witnesses including Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, and D. John Sauer, former…

Commentary What’s the price one must pay for exposing America’s public-private censorship regime? Evidently, it’s not just tens of billions of dollars. Nor is it the scorn and derision of congress and corporate media, let alone Silicon Valley, one’s employees, and customers. No, as we’re now learning—if not already made clear over the last half-decade—for…

Commentary House Speaker Kevin McCarthy pledged to uncover government corruption and detail the Biden administration’s efforts to undo the pillars of American peace and prosperity. But two months into the new Republican-led congress and the investigations McCarthy and GOP leadership promised have barely gotten off the ground. Because the congressional majority can’t pass meaningful legislation…