Congressman Seeks Facebook, Twitter Records Related to Suppression of Hunter Biden Laptop Story

Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) asked Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on Thursday to preserve all internal records related to the companies’ suppression of news coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2020, according to copies of the congressional preservation letters obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The congressman is asking Zuckerberg, Agrawal, Facebook communications director Andy Stone, and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to "Immediately initiate document preservation for all materials relating to questions, inquiry, conversation, strategy, and response to the media reporting of the Hunter Biden laptop and/or its contents that first appeared in the New York Post on October 14, 2020," and to notify employees, consultants, and subcontractors who might have access to relevant materials.

Issa said his office is investigating efforts by social media outlets and Democratic operatives to stifle the New York Post bombshell story about Hunter Biden’s corrupt foreign business dealings, which was based on emails found on Hunter’s abandoned laptop.

"This is the scandal that Big Tech and the Democrat industrial complex wish would go away," Issa told the Free Beacon. "They know what they did, and of course they think they’ve gotten away with it. That’s why it’s critical that we not squander the opportunity for accountability."

Issa also sent preservation requests to top Biden 2020 campaign aides—including now-White House press secretary Jen Psaki and chief of staff Ron Klain—as well as a group of Biden-supporting former U.S. intelligence officials who claimed the laptop appeared to be part of a "Russian information operation."

The preservation requests don’t have the legal power of a congressional subpoena, but companies could take a political risk if they refuse to comply—particularly if Republicans gain the House majority next year, giving them control of investigative committees and subpoena authority.

Although there was no evidence in 2020 that the Post’s reporting was inaccurate—and even Hunter Biden didn’t deny that the emails were real—Democrats decried the story as Russian "misinformation," and Facebook and Twitter took unprecedented steps to prevent users from viewing or sharing it weeks before the election.

Facebook announced that it would be "reducing [the story’s] distribution on our platform" and changed its algorithm to make posts about the article less visible. Twitter locked the Post’s account and barred users from sharing the link, claiming it was "potentially harmful."

Facebook declined to comment.

Numerous other news outlets have since corroborated the Post’s reporting.

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/congressman-seeks-facebook-twitter-records-related-to-suppression-of-hunter-biden-laptop-story/

Why would Aus State media feel obligated to defelect such a story if it's not true?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-25/coronacheck-ukhsa-report-negative-efficacy-false/100936440

SEN. SANDERS: “Anybody who thinks we don’t have an oligarchy in this country is sorely mistaken. In our country today, we have two people who own more wealth than the bottom 40% of the American population."

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1507136560935968771

Rep. Darrell Issa Hits Twelve Individuals Involved in ‘Laptop From Hell’ Election Interference with Document Preservation Notices

Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) has submitted document preservation notices to twelve individuals from the intelligence community, White House, Facebook, and Twitter — as Republicans in Congress are gearing up to take back majorities and investigate election interference with regard to the suppression of the “Laptop From Hell” series in October 2020.

Rep. Issa is demanding former DNI boss James Clapper, former CIA boss Micheal Hayden, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, former CIA head John Brennan, former top CIA aide Nick Shapiro, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Meta Communications Director Andy Stone, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and current Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal all preserve documents relating to their involvement in suppressing the New York Post’s bombshell exposé on the Hunter Biden laptop in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election, according to letters obtained exclusively by Breitbart News.

The news comes as Breitbart News exclusively reported Wednesday that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced House Republicans had sent dozens of preservation notices across the federal government to agencies and departments throughout Biden administration, ordering them to preserve documents in anticipation of eventual subpoenas from House Republicans after the 2022 midterm elections.

The letters from Issa to the various characters begin similarly, demanding the recipient “immediately initiate document preservation for all materials relating to questions, inquiry, conversation, strategy, and response, from 2020 to current, to the media reporting of the Hunter Biden laptop and/or its contents that first appeared in the New York Post on October 14, 2020.”

The notices state the recipient should “[construe the request] as an instruction to preserve all documents, communications, and other information, including electronic information and metadata, that is or may be potentially responsible to this congressional inquiry,” including electronic messages, text messages, or communications on encrypted software sent from official or personal devices.

Issa adds in his letters that the information will be “essential for Congress to conduct a comprehensive fact-finding investigation into the actions by technology companies, media organizations, and political allies to suppress information and prevent public awareness of matters involving the Biden Family.”

Rep. Issa told Breitbart News in a statement that he is putting those who participated in the effort to suppress the laptop from hell “on notice” and that he will be taking up the role of a watchdog when Republicans take a majority in the House in November.

“Big Tech, the mainstream media and the Democrats’ deep state intelligence community want to either rewrite the history of their collusion – or erase it entirely. We’re not going to let them do that,” Issa said in a statement to Breitbart News.

“These letters are putting everyone on notice: real accountability is going to happen. And we won’t rest until the full truth is known.”

The letters come as Republicans anticipate taking back power in Congress, and in the wake of the New York Times becoming just the latest legacy outlet to admit that the Laptop and reporting on its contents were authentic and accurate — despite broad, unsubstantiated, and false claims at the time that the report was “Russian disinformation.”

When the original Post stories were reported in October 2020, the security state, the media, Big Tech, and the Democratic Party worked in machine-like coordination to suppress the information.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/24/exclusive-rep-darrell-issa-hits-twelve-individuals-involved-in-laptop-from-hell-election-interference-with-document-preservation-notices/

Kamala Harris’s Newly Hired Press Secretary Deleted Over 10,000 Tweets Before Accepting Job

Vice President Kamala Harris’s newly hired press secretary Kirsten Allen deleted over 10,000 tweets before accepting the position, according to Social Blade.

Social Blade, which tracks activity on social media sites, reveals Allen deleted 10,594 tweets between January 5 and January 11, two months before the White House confirmed Allen had accepted the position. Allen reportedly was not in communication with Harris’s office until February. Allen was hired to replace top spokeswoman Symone Sanders, who left the White House in December.

Social Blade does not track which tweets were deleted, but with Allen’s former employers being disgraced by Floridian gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum and the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, speculators have “raised questions about the content on her page before it was scrubbed.”

Allen has a history of tweeting radical opinions, including pro-vaccine mandate notions, retweeting characters like Nikole Hannah-Jones, founder of the 1619 Project, and far-left reporters.

Allan joined Harris’s team to replace Symone Sanders, who left her position as Harris’s top spokeswoman to join MSNBC. Sanders is not the only member of Harris’s team to depart in recent months.

More than five staffers have left Harris’s office after being tossed to and from by “disorder, bad press, and, at times, internal frictions” because of Harris’s reported, “abusive environment,” where staffers have been “treated like shit,” and have had a slew of resignations and departures in recent months during political “shitshow” resets.

The resets came after Harris made numerous gaffs at critical times. When asked by NBC News’s Lester Holt if she had traveled to the border to inspect President Biden’s southern invasion, she replied, “and I haven’t been to Europe.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/24/kamala-harriss-newly-hired-press-secretary-deleted-over-10000-tweets-before-accepting-job/

British intelligence operative’s involvement in Ukraine crisis signals false flag attacks ahead

Shadowy UK intel figure Hamish de Bretton-Gordon was at the forefront of chemical weapons deceptions in Syria. Now in Ukraine, he’s up to his old tricks again.

With Washington and its NATO allies forced to watch from the sidelines as Russia’s military advances across Eastern Ukraine and encircles Kiev, US and British officials have resorted to a troubling tactic that could trigger a massive escalation. Following similar claims by his Secretary of State and ambassador the United Nations, US President Joseph Biden has declared that Russia will pay a “severe price” if it uses chemical weapons in Ukraine.

The warnings emanating from the Biden administration contain chilling echoes of those issued by the administration of President Barack Obama throughout the US-led dirty war on Syria.

Almost as soon as Obama implemented his ill-fated “red line” policy vowing an American military response if the Syrian army attacked the Western-backed opposition with chemical weapons, Al Qaeda-aligned opposition factions came forth with claims of mass casualty sarin and chlorine bombings of civilians. The result was a series of US-UK missile strikes on Damascus and a prolonged crisis that nearly triggered the kind of disastrous regime change war that had destabilized Iraq and Libya.

In each major chemical weapons event, signs of staging and deception by the armed Syrian opposition were present. As a former US ambassador in the Middle East told journalist Charles Glass, “The ‘red line’ was an open invitation to a false-­flag operation.”

Elements of deception were especially clear in the April 7, 2018 incident in the city of Douma, when an anti-government militia on the brink of defeat claimed civilians had been massacred in a chlorine attack by the Syrian army.

Veteran inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) found no evidence that the Syrian army had carried out any such attack, however, suggesting the entire incident had been staged to trigger Western intervention. Their report was subsequently censored by organization management, and the inspectors were subjected to a campaign of smears and intimidation.

Throughout the Syrian conflict, a self-proclaimed “chemical warrior” named Hamish de Bretton-Gordon was intimately involved in numerous chemical weapons deceptions that sustained the war and ratcheted up pressure for Western military intervention.

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https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/24/british-intelligence-ukraine-false-flag/

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China says ‘everyone knows’ who is most to blame for Ukraine war

A spokesman for China’s Defense Ministry said the US is ‘slinging mud’ at Beijing over the Ukraine war

The Chinese Ministry of Defense has called the US “a liar and troublemaker” and said that “everyone knows” which country was “the biggest initiator” of the Ukraine crisis.

Ministry spokesperson Wu Qian on Thursday commented on accusations from unnamed US officials that Beijing knew in advance about Russia’s attack on Ukraine and that China had even asked Moscow to delay it until after the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

Wu condemned the claims, along with reports about China allegedly offering military assistance to Russia, saying there was “absolute disinformation” which only serves the purposes of “shifting blame to and slinging mud at China.”

The accusations show “the true face of the US as a liar and trouble maker,” he said, adding that his country firmly opposes attempts by the US to spread “false and malicious information targeting China on the Ukraine issue.”

https://www.rt.com/news/552653-china-us-ukraine-role/

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21 arrested in Utah sex trafficking operation; police say it is 'not even the tip of the iceberg'

A recent operation headed up by the Utah County Sheriff's Office to combat human sex trafficking resulted in 21 arrests and three women being rescued, according to the sheriff's office.

But Sheriff's Lt. Jason Randall, head of the investigations unit, said despite the success of the operation, it represented just a small fraction of the overall problem of sex trafficking in Utah and throughout the nation.

"This isn't even the tip of the iceberg. This is like a snowflake on an iceberg. We are barely scratching the surface," he said.

On Thursday, the sheriff's office held a press conference to announce the results of an undercover operation held Feb. 14-17. During the campaign, investigators went online looking for both victims of human trafficking, as well as people — mainly men — who were willing to engage with women or children in illegal sexual activities.

A total of 21 people were arrested for investigation of a variety of drug and trafficking-related charges, such as enticement, sexual solicitation and unlawful sexual conduct, according to the sheriff's office. A probable cause affidavit filed with the Utah County Jail states that one man traveled to Lehi, where police had set up their undercover operation, from Evanston, Wyoming, believing he would be meeting a girl for sex.

Another man, from Sandy, responded to an advertisement set up by undercover investigators on "an online social media site that is known to be used to solicit minors for sexual acts," and offered an officer (posing as a girl) $100 for sex, a second booking affidavit states.

"One of the individuals that showed up brought rope, brought tape, brought toys, brought lingerie. And this person was under the understanding they'd be meeting with a 13-year-old child," Randall said of one of the men arrested. "There's no doubt in my mind that we have saved multiple other child victims because this man is a perpetrator and he showed up with the intent of doing harm to a 13-year-old girl."

"In the situation they're in, the victim can't always see the light at the end of the tunnel, or that there even is a light. And all they see is, quite frankly, doom and despair."

–Utah County Sheriff's Lt. Jason Randall

During the course of the operation, police also found three women who were being forced into prostitution and were being trafficked through social media platforms.

One of the goals of undercover operations like this, Randall said, is to reach those women who may believe their situation is hopeless and they don't have a choice but to continue being trafficked.

"They don't see a window. They don't see a door out," he said. "In the situation they're in, the victim can't always see the light at the end of the tunnel, or that there even is a light. And all they see is, quite frankly, doom and despair."

Randall said law enforcers meet with each of the victims after they are rescued and let them know what resources are available. But sometimes it takes a couple of tries to convince women and girls trapped in cycles of abuse that there are other options, he said.

There are many victims around Utah, Randall said. Some of them go unnoticed because they "look like us" and "live in our own neighborhoods." The goal, he said, is to identify them and help them turn their lives around.

Ten law enforcement agencies participated in the undercover operation, which received funding from the Malouf Foundation to help pay for equipment used in the stings as well as overtime pay for officers. Randall said the sheriff's office has at least four more similar operations planned for 2022.

https://www.ksl.com/article/50374602/21-arrested-in-utah-sex-trafficking-operation-police-say-it-is-not-even-the-tip-of-the-iceberg

'They're young, they'll get over it' - how Laken Maree Rose became one of New Zealand's most prolific female child sex offenders

In the wake of a “sickening” and “unprecedented” child sex abuse case in 2021, Stuff has put the spotlight on Laken Maree Rose who, figures show, could be the most prolific female child sex offender in New Zealand history.

The first thing Laken Maree Rose said to the officer arresting her for crimes that would soon make her one of the most prolific female child sex offenders in New Zealand was about her victims.

“They’re young, they’ll get over it.”

The man hearing those words was Detective Sergeant Darryl​ Brazier, the 40-year police veteran who brought the five-year reign of abuse conducted by Rose and her co-offender, Andrew Alan Williams, to an end.

The pair were sentenced in August last year at the High Court in Rotorua for crimes described by sentencing judge Justice Matthew Muir as “almost unprecedented”.

Between them, they were guilty of more than 100 child sex offences, including the rape of a three-year-old while the child’s mother was in the same property.

Rose was sentenced to 19 years and nine months imprisonment, with a minimum non parole term of seven years and nine months, after pleading guilty to 10 charges and being found guilty of a further 45 charges at a judge alone trial.

Williams had pleaded guilty to 56 charges and was sentenced to 23 years five months’ imprisonment, with a minimum non parole term of nine years four months.

The couple’s offending spanned seven victims as young as three, across the Waikato, Palmerston North, Dannevirke and the Bay of Plenty.

Talking to Stuff, Brazier went further than Muir’s sentencing remarks when describing their offending.

“There’s no precedent.”

He said that, over his four decades in the police, he had encountered females who had been convicted of ‘party to’ sex offending, “but none like this”.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/128064031/theyre-young-theyll-get-over-it–how-laken-maree-rose-became-one-of-new-zealands-most-prolific-female-child-sex-offenders

Private school threatened to charge parents $1 every minute for late pickup

Divine Mercy College, in Perth, said it will also dob in parents to child services

Principal Adam Zydek said he was sick of parents picking kids up an hour late

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10649379/Perth-school-Divine-Mercy-College-threatens-charge-parents-1-minute-late-pickup.html

'Haven't his victims been through enough?': Netflix documentary about Jimmy Savile is blasted by viewers for cashing in on the paedophile's crimes by rehashing a story that's been told countless times

Netflix released the trailer for documentary Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story

Features archived footage of the TV presenter who sexually abused many people

Twitter users have blasted the streaming service for revisiting the trauma

Netflix has sparked outrage across social media after announcing the upcoming release of a documentary about Jimmy Savile.

The disgraced TV presenter, who was best known for hosting Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It, has been accused of sexually assaulting over 450 people since his death in 2011, with victims as young as five.

The trailer for Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story, which will land on 6th April, teases the reveal of how he was able to 'fool the nation' for four decades as a beloved TV personality while abusing countless victims.

Netflix subscribers have been quick to take to Twitter arguing that 'nobody asked for' a documentary about Jimmy Savile, and claiming that the victims have been through enough without having to see his face on 'every' streaming service.

Viewers have also complained that their favourite shows are being cancelled, while the streaming service gives a platform to a story that has already been told.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10648673/Netflix-viewers-blast-trailer-upcoming-documentary-Jimmy-Savile.html

Scott Morrison claims he hasn't been to Hillsong in 15 years – despite footage showing him praying with Brian Houston at the church's annual conference in 2019

Scott Morrison attempted to distance himself from Hillsong church on Thursday

Prime minister responded to allegations made against founder Brian Houston

He said he was 'very disappointed' and hasn't attended Hillsong in '15 years'

Mr Morrison was guest of honour at church event in July 2019

He spoke for 15 minutes and lead a 'prayer for Australia' alongside wife Jenny

The Morrisons said they had attended Hillsong 'many, many times' over the years

Scott Morrison responded to allegations his 'mate' Brian Houston harassed two women in the church by claiming he hadn't been to Hillsong in '15 years' - despite being the guest of honour at an event in 2019.

Houston resigned at 4am on Wednesday after allegations of 'indiscretions' against two women over 10 years were made public.

The prime minister was asked about the controversial church's founder on Thursday morning.

Mr Morrison expressed his 'disappointment' before attempting to separate himself from the organisation he had previously been to 'many, many times'.

'I must admit we were very disappointed and shocked to hear the news,' Mr Morrison said.

'My first thoughts were with the victims, as they've been rightly described and so I was very concerned. And the actions that have been taken are entirely appropriate.'

The PM was asked about his current association with the church, confirming he now attends Pentecostal church ShireLive closer to his home in city's south rather than Hillsong.

'I haven't been at Hillsong now for about 15 years, I go to a local church,' Mr Morrison said.

However Morrison still made a well documented trip to Hillsong as a guest of honour in July 2019, taking to the stage and making a speech to the thousands in attendance before praying onstage with Houston.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10646415/Scott-Morrison-claims-Hillsong-15-years-despite-attending-event-2019.html

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