Democrats Threaten Twitter Files Journalist With Jail Time – ‘House Democrats Have Lost Their Mind’

A letter by Virgin Islands Delegate and Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government Stacey Plaskett (D) accused Matt Taibbi of lying to Congress during his Twitter Files hearing. Perjury is, as Mr. Taibbi noted, a charge that can carry a “penalty…[of] five years” in jail. Taibbi responded to this letter by writing an article titled “House Democrats Have Lost Their Minds.”

“Wow. When I think this iteration of the Democratic Party can’t sink any lower, it does” wrote the journalist. The accusation of perjury revolves around the notion that Taibbi confused CISA (the governmental Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) with CIS (the Center for Internet Security) in his report to Congress. As Representative Plaskett wrote “This mistake is important because, by adding an ‘A,’ you weren’t making a harmless spelling error. Rather, you were alleging that CISA — a government entity — was working with the EIP [Election Integrity Partnership] to have posts removed from social media.”

She also noted that “When presented with this misinformation [which was after the Congressional testimony by Mehdi Hasan], you acknowledged you had made ‘an error’ by intentionally altering the acronym CIS and you subsequently deleted your erroneous tweet. Prior to your appearance before the subcommittee on March 9, you signed the Judiciary Committee’s Truth in Testimony form, certifying that you understand that ‘knowingly providing material false information to this committee/subcommittee or knowingly concealing material information from this committee/subcommittee, is a crime (18 U.S.C. 1001).”

Taibbi notes in his article that “It would be one thing if I really made the mistake. In that case, Plaskett’s letter would merely be an outrageous attempt to intimidate a witness by threatening a charge of intentional lying over a miscue. But that’s not the case. I did of course make an error, but what Plaskett is referencing is actually a mistake by Hasan, one she’s now repeating. I’m not sure what to do but explain and show this as clearly as possible.”

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Matt Taibbi went to Twitter and documented why he was correct. Mr. Taibbi wrote “here’s the EIP website saying it partnered with CISA, the CIS site saying the same thing, and the award showing CIS is a DHS contractor. You’re wrong on this and you convinced a politician to threaten me with jail as a result. This has gone too far.”

Dear ⁦@mehdirhasan⁩: here’s the EIP website saying it partnered with CISA, the CIS site saying the same thing, and the award showing CIS is a DHS contractor. You’re wrong on this and you convinced a politician to threaten me with jail as a result. This has gone too far. pic.twitter.com/FwJSu2FNPR

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) April 21, 2023

Screenshots proving Mr. Taibbi’s assertion were then provided. Lee Fang, an independent journalist, wrote that the threatening letter by Plaskett “was a group effort that involved senior figures in the House Democratic Caucus.” Lee Fang’s piece also documents and details how nothing in Taibbi’s congressional testimony was factually incorrect. He also “thoroughly debunked” Mehdi Hasan’s “deceptive accusations” since what Hasan pointed out was separate from “his testimony to Congress” included.

As referenced in Mr. Fang’s piece, Taibbi’s congressional statement was that “[w]hat we see in The Twitter Files is that Twitter executives did not distinguish between DHS or CISA and this group EIP. For instance, we would see a communication that said, From CISA escalated by EIP. So they were essentially identical in the eyes of the company […] So, yes, we have come to the realization that this bright line that we imagine that exists between, say, the FBI or the DHS or the GEC and these private companies is illusory and that what’s more important is this constellation of kind of quasi-private organizations that do this work.”

The Democratic Congressional leadership trying to silence and punish honest assertions made in good faith that are truthful by a journalist is telling on the direction of that party. It stands now for the state censorship-technological nexus and Mr. Taibbi threatens this nexus through its public exposure. It must be said, however, that at least one Democrat presidential candidate is running against censorship and that person is Robert France Kennedy Junior.