Matt Taibbi Surprised by FBI & Twitter's Collusion; Russiagate Info in Twitter Files

Um And this is the , this is the House Intelligence Committee . Uh you would think they would have better uh operational security . Another moment that was shocking to me , there was a , um there's an email from an FBI agent uh named Elvis Chan in San Francisco to Twitter and they're setting up this signal group , uh which is going to include all the top sort of censorship executives at all the big companies .

Matt Taibbi Surprised by FBI & Twitter's Collusion; Russiagate Info in Twitter Files

Um , they have a system where the DH S handles , um , you know , censorship requests that come up from the , the States and the FBI handles the international ones and they all float all these companies and , um , it's a big bureaucracy and we , I don't think we expected to see that . It's very bizarre to me that they , that they would just openly call for censorship in emails and these private transmissions but the ones that are easily duplicated , you could send them to other people . It could , it can be easily get out like that .

Matt Taibbi Surprised by FBI & Twitter's Collusion; Russiagate Info in Twitter Files

I was looking for something else entirely . Uh And then suddenly we come across a string of emails internally at Twitter where Twit where the Twitter officials are saying , you know , we're not finding any Russians at all behind this . Hashtag And we told uh the members of Congress who asked about this um that there are no Russians involved in this .

Matt Taibbi Surprised by FBI & Twitter's Collusion; Russiagate Info in Twitter Files

Like that they , they really genuinely felt that they were impregnable that they don't have anybody to answer to . Um , I mean , a normal person doesn't put incriminating things in emails because we all have the expectation that someday it might come , come out , you know . Uh , but these folks didn't act that way .

Matt Taibbi Surprised by FBI & Twitter's Collusion; Russiagate Info in Twitter Files

It could , it can be easily get out like that . They're so comfortable with the idea that the government should be involved in this censorship of what turns out to be true information , especially when in regards to the Hunter Biden laptop , that they would be so comfortable that they would just send it in emails . Yeah .