Biden DOD demands Mike Flynn fork over speech fee even though he helped DIA spy on Russians

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Army takes new action despite evidence showing Flynn sought prior DIA approval for December 2015 RT dinner, got briefed in advance and gave U.S. spy agencies a thumb drive of intel he collected on the Russians.

The Biden Pentagon recently alerted retired Army Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn it plans to recoup from him nearly $40,000 he received for attending a dinner in Moscow in 2015, claiming he didn't clear the speaking fee in advance and therefore violated the Constitution's Emoluments Clause. But documents from Russia special prosecutor Robert Mueller's investigation tell a far different story.

The documents, reviewed by Just the News, show Flynn in fact alerted his former agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, ahead of the dinner and got approval touse the trip to spy on Russia's leadershipand specifically its GRU military intelligence unit.

The operation was blessed in advance by senior DIA officials, including Vincent Stewart, the Marine general who had succeeded Flynn as DIA chief. The former Trump administration national security adviser was even given tasking orders and a counterintelligence briefing before he departed for Moscow in December 2015.

"The first week of December 2015, General Flynn asked if I was still in the European Center and told me he planned on traveling to Moscow to speak at an RT event and might meet the Director of the GRU," former senior DIA executive David Becker wrote in a sworn declaration that was submitted during the Mueller probe but has never been made public.

You can read that memo here:

"We discussed potential topics of interest for the US intelligence community," Becker explained. "I told him I would arrange a briefing for him to include a Counterintelligence briefing before he departed to Moscow. We agreed that I would call him once it was arranged at DIA HQ.

"I next contacted my supervisor the Director of the Europe Eurasia Regional Center John Sadler, to begin the process. Mr. Sadler immediately contacted the Director of DIA LTG Stewart by email requesting permission to develop this briefing for [LTG] Flynn."

Stewart approved the operation, including telling Flynn what U.S. spy agencies wanted as "current collection requirements for Russia," as well as a defensive briefing to help prepare Flynn not to get tripped up by the Russians at the dinner, Becker wrote in the affidavit.

The intelligence community was so excited by Flynn's opportunity that it sent a total of 10 experts to brief him on everything from what the U.S. wanted to know about "the Senior Leadership of Russia" to "important collection points of the GRU," according to the documents.

They also gave Flynn a "complete briefing on the intelligence potentially directed against him" when he was with the Russians.

Becker disclosed that when Flynn returned from the trip he immediately contacted the DIA.

"DIA sent collectors to his office to pull all the information he was able to collect while on his trip," the former DIA executive wrote.

The retired general "turned over all contact information he obtained on his trip and provided all the information he was sensitized to look for during the initial meeting, including providing a thumb drive of pictures and other information," the affidavit disclosed.

Flynn sat among and gathered information from some of the top players in Russia, including Vladimir Putin (whom he sat next to), his chief of staff Sergey Ivanov, his deputy chief of staff Alexei Gromov and chief Russian spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, according to information reviewed by Just the News.

Becker's detailed description confirms source reporting this journalist first published when he was a columnist at The Hill in 2019. It also significantly calls into question the reporting of numerous major news organizations that portrayed Flynn's visit with RT as a national security threat and betrayal of his country for money…

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/feds-still-pursuing-mike-flynn-repay-speech-fee-even

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DOD Flynn

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Liberal commentator Keith Olbermann used the dinner to make part of his case in February 2017 that Flynn "must now be arrested."

Politico, likewise, ran an article in 2017describing Flynn's dinner this way: "Out of uniform, he accepted a paid speaking gig in Moscow and wound up at an RT dinner seated next to Putin in December 2015, raising more than a few eyebrows."

It turns out, no one in the intelligence world would have raised eyebrows about Flynn's dinner, because the spy agencies were in on it.

The use of the dinner to denigrate Flynn's patriotism continues to this day. Malcom Nance, a former intelligence analyst who frequents MSNBC, got into an online confrontation with Flynn last month and claimed on Twitter the former general "LITERALLY ate Putin's bread SEATED AT HIS RIGHT HAND. He LOVED Moscow's cash & spent years nestled deeply in Vlad's cold, white KGB."

Beyond the reputational damage facilitated by the misreporting of the occasion, the RT dinner continues to have legal and financial consequences for Flynn.

Flynn originally pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI about his contacts with a Russian ambassador but then sought to withdraw his plea when belated evidence emerged that FBI career agents had concluded he did not lie and wanted to close down an investigation of Flynn but were overruled by FBI leadership.

The bureau's conduct was so concerning that the lead agent in the Flynn case later told prosecutors he believed his agency was playing a "game of Clue" to "get" Trump and Flynn in the absence of evidence of wrongdoing.

Meanwhile, the FBI's former counterintelligence chief released notes questioning whether the bureau was engaging in entrapment with Flynn.

"What's our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?" Bill Priestap wrote of the bureau's interactions with Flynn in notes that raised serious questions.

Flynn's withdrawn plea never reached a final conclusion because Trump in November 2020 pardoned Flynn, an act that removed any further criminal exposure.

But the Pentagon continued to investigate the RT dinner, and its inspector general concluded Flynn did not seek the Army's approval to accept the money, even though he cleared his dinner in advance with the DIA.

Last week, the Army's Office of the General Counsel sent Flynn a letter revealing the DOD planned to seek collection of more than $38,000 the retired general received as speaking fee and in-kind expense reimbursement through the U.S.-based speaking bureau that arranged Flynn's participation in the RT dinner. RT paid more than $45,000 to the speaker's bureau, which disbursed Flynn's share after deducting its own share.

"The Army has determined that in December 2015 you failed to obtain the necessary approval in accordance with Army Regulation (AR) 600-29 before accepting compensation from an entity substantially owned or controlled by a foreign government in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution," the letter stated, making no mention of Flynn's preclearance from the DIA.

Kash Patel, the former chief of staff to the Defense Secretary and former chief investigative counsel for the House Intelligence Committee when it unraveled the false Russia collusion narrative, said the DIA documents definitively prove that "Mike Flynn didn't do anything wrong on his trip to Russia."

"It's one of those unfortunate tragedies of a man who served his country with honor and distinguished himself and acted appropriately," Patel said of Flynn during an interview Monday on the John Solomon Reports podcast. "And then the media, you know, shredded his career."

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/feds-still-pursuing-mike-flynn-repay-speech-fee-even

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Becket Affidavit absolving Flynn

Emoluments letter from Army on Flynn

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Becker

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>Emoluments letter from Army on Flynn

Ex-FBI intel chief: Clinton campaign used 'contrived disinformation' to deceive voters in 2016

"This is more than just political dirty tricks," says Kevin Brock. "Political dirty tricks usually have some foundation in truth, but they just made stuff up."

As the Biden administration pushes its new Disinformation Governance Board, the FBI's former intelligence chief says he is now convinced Democrat Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign used "contrived disinformation" to try to mislead Americans into believing Donald Trump was a Russian asset.

"This is more than just political dirty tricks," retired Assistant Director for Intelligence Kevin Brock told the "Just the News, Not Noise" television show Wednesday. "Political dirty tricks usually have some foundation in truth. But they just made stuff up."

Brock, one of the bureau's most respected former executives, said he has been impressed with the way Special Counsel John Durham has used the prosecution of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann to expose how the false Russia collusion narrative was constructed.

Sussmann, who has pleaded innocent and faces trial at the end of the month, is charged with lying to the FBI in fall 2016 when he denied he was acting on behalf of a client in bringing the bureau what turned out to be false allegations that Trump had a secret communications channel with the Kremlin.

Durham has exposed recent evidence showing the Clinton campaign's own researchers were skeptical of the allegation, which one described as a "red herring." The underlying data permitted no more than an "inference" at best, according to another. Last week, prosecutors unveiled an email showing a journalist had told the campaign research team weeks before it approached the FBI that one of the Trump-Russia allegations was "bullshit."

"This is the way disinformation is really exposed, not by some contrived government agency, but by evidence presented in court that gets at the truth of what happened," Brock said of the prosecutor's recent evidentiary filings in court. "What Durham is methodically doing, is laying out a case that the Hillary Clinton campaign, the Democrat Party used contrived disinformation in a conspiracy, in a conspiratorial way, to deceive the American voter ahead of the election."

Brock has been sharply critical of his former agency for allowing the Russia collusion probe to continue for two years without an adequate predicate or strong evidence.

He said Sussmann's approach to the FBI must be looked at in a larger context that the Clinton campaign and Democrat Party flooded the FBI, the CIA, the State Department and news media from multiple angles trying to sell the Russia collusion story with flawed evidence like the Steele dossier and get an investigation started.

"This is much more than an attorney for the Clinton campaign lying to the FBI," said Brock. "He is using this charge to expose a larger story, a larger narrative."

Durham "called it a joint venture of conspiratorial actions that contrived information," Brock explained, referring to Durham's recent court filings. "… Certainly the American people were defrauded."

Brock also expressed concern about the Homeland Security Department's newly created Disinformation Governance Board, saying it would be a mistake for the agency to use it to referee Americans' speech and that it is ripe for political abuse.

"I think that disinformation is in the eye of the beholder," he said. "I think most people suspect that all of this information will be information promulgated by one political party rather than the other. And so the danger of a governance board like this is that it will be be beholden to the party that's in power in government at that time to silence or mute opposition viewpoints.

"Now, DHS, the secretary has gone to great lengths to say 'No, we're just interested in countering Russian disinformation or Chinese disinformation on social media platforms," he added. "But it's something that should be treated, and I think we are looking at it as something to be wary of."

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/ex-fbi-intel-chief-says-clinton-campaign-used-contrived

Capitol Police chief says members of Congress have 'never' been investigated related to Jan. 6

Texas GOP Rep. Troy Nehls alleges a Capitol Police officer entered his office without his knowledgeand photographed "confidential legislative products protected by the Speech and Debate clause" of the Constitution.

Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger told Just the News that members of Congress are not being investigated by the Capitol Police, after Texas Republican Rep. Troy Nehls alleged that Capitol Police officers were spying on him.

"Absolutely not," Manger said in an interview after receiving an award from the Bethesda Chapter of the AFCEA during a ceremony in Washington D.C. on Tuesday. "Never have."

Nehls alleges that on Nov. 20 a Capitol Police officer entered his office without his knowledge and photographed "confidential legislative products" on a whiteboard, material he asserts is protected by the "Speech and Debate clause" of the Constitution.

Nehls has said he was being targeted because of his public statements related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

"I'd been beat up, beat to hell on social media by the far left, everybody calling me an insurrectionist and everything else because they actually felt that I was the threat because of my position on J6," he said. "I exposed J6. I exposed the Capitol Police leadership team for failing to do their damn job."

"And if they would have done their job, J6 would have never ever happened," Nehls continued. "If the National Guard would have been deployed on our nation's capitol on Jan. 4, and all of the intelligence were there, January 6 would have never taken place. But there are people that wanted it to take place."

Nehls told Just the News that a forthcoming Capitol Police Inspector General's report will show he was "under criminal investigation" when Capitol Police officers entered his Capitol Hill office and began taking photos in November 2021.

Manger, who was sworn in on July 21, 2021, said he hasn't seen the report and isn't sure if it will be made public. Manger was asked if Capitol Police officers were sent to Nehls' office for something related to the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 investigation.

"Absolutely not true," he said. "An officer found an open door. I've said that from the start."

Nehls said his office is awaiting a copy of the full IG report about the incident.

"They were coming after me to silence and destroy me," Nehls said Friday. "That's what [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi wants to do to guys like me. If I am a vocal critic of J6 and that leadership team, they're going to go out there and try to destroy me just like they did with Donald Trump."

Manger was honored for his lifetime of public service in law enforcement as chief of police in Fairfax County, Va. and in Montgomery County, Md. before becoming the Capitol Police chief.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/capitol-police-chief-says-members-congress-arent-being-investigated-related-jan

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Michael Flynn calls Biden DOD payment demands 'another effort to keep me silent'

Flynn called the investigation into him a "persecution and harassment and embarrassment."

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn on Tuesday said the Biden Pentagon's plans to recoup nearly $40,000 he received as a speaking fee for a 2015 event in Moscow are an effort to keep him "silent."

The Defense Intelligence Agency claimed Flynn did not notify it of the speaking fee he received for a dinner hosted by Russia Today, a Russian state-controlled outlet. Documents reviewed by Just the News show Flynn not only notified the Defense Intelligence Agency about his trip, but he also received approval to spy on Russia's leadership and its military intelligence unit during his visit.

Flynn told "Just the News – Not Noise" that he was "not surprised" by the Pentagon's letter demanding he repay the speaking fee.

He also called on the agency to "[release] the damn classified documents" on his work.

"I'm not surprised at the snarkiness, at the evil that exists inside of our our government right now, particularly the national security state," Flynn noted.

Retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer defended Flynn on Tuesday's "Just the News – Not Noise."

He said that Flynn was "doing his job" and while at the RT event "he got a lot of really good intel, about a lot of the inner workings of what he observed regarding Putin and the way he behaved."

Flynn said the Pentagon's demands are affecting his retirement account.

"They're just going to reach into my into my retirement and they're going to take some money… At the end of the day, this country means a heck of a lot more than what what they will do to me," he said defiantly.

The national security state is "trying to run this country, and they don't like people like me, because they know that they do not want me coming back into government in any capacity," he said.

Because of his work as national security advisor to former President Donald Trump, Flynn said the security state "had to get rid of me very quickly."

He called the investigation into him a "persecution and harassment and embarrassment."

The Justice Department "just went right after me and my family and just tried to destroy me solely because I helped Donald Trump get elected in 2016, and they and they did not want me back in the mix of things in the summer of 2020 when he was running again," he added.

https://justthenews.com/government/security/michael-flynn-calls-biden-dod-payment-demands-another-effort-keep-me-silent

11 May, 2022 13:53

Musk brags about resisting Russia

Moscow has rejected claims it attacked the US billionaire’s Starlink network

Billionaire Elon Musk said on Tuesday that his Starlink system was far ahead of the competition when it comes to defeating alleged Russian cyberattacks on satellite internet providers. He was commenting on fresh Western claims that Moscow had targeted a rival network in February. Moscow has denied waging cyberwarfare on either system.

The US, the UK, and the EU this week officially accused Russia of being behind a hacking attack that took tens of thousands of modems offline using Viasat’s KA-SAT broadband internet network. The goal was to disrupt Ukrainian military communication using the French satellite link during the first days of Russia’s military attack against its neighbor, they claimed. Musk shared the news on his Twitter account before touting his own system as more resilient to tampering.

“Starlink has resisted Russian cyberwar jamming & hacking attempts so far,” Musk remarked, referring to his own firm, which competes in the market of providing satellite broadband internet. In late March, Musk made similar remarks, likewise commenting on the KA-SAT hack allegations against Russia.

Musk reportedly shipped 5,000 sets of the ground equipment for his space-linked network to Ukraine after a public plea by the country’s vice prime minister, winning online praise for his ‘get things done’ attitude and swift action. The move was implied to be a charitable gesture of support for the struggling nation, but according to the Washington Post, the gear was actually paid for by the American government.

Last month, Dave Tremper, the director of electronic warfare for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, claimed during a conference that Starlink countered Russian jamming attempts in Ukraine with a single software update and did so faster than the US military would have in the same scenario.

“In the way that Starlink was able to upgrade when a threat showed up, we need to be able to have that agility,” he was reported as saying.

Some Russian officials, most notably space chief Dmitry Rogozin, argued that the situation with the Starlink operation in Ukraine served as proof that the system should be perceived as a Western military capability and a potential threat to Russian national security.

The Russian space agency cited the same dual-use concerns as it canceled the scheduled March launch on behalf of OneWeb, another satellite internet provider. The firm, which counts the British government among its shareholders, said earlier that it no longer wanted Russian space services to deploy its assets.

This week, Rogozin claimed that military helicopters were used to deliver Starlink terminals to the nationalist Azov battalion in the port of Mariupol and implied that by offering communication services to them Musk could be complicit in their alleged war crimes. The billionaire took issue with Rogozin’s characterization of the unit as “Nazi” and remarked that “there are no angels in war.”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on the hacking accusations on Wednesday by reiterating Russia’s denials of targeting either Viasat or Starlink networks.

“It’s everyone’s favorite hobby now to blame Russia for any and all attacks on IT security,” he said, adding that in fact it was Russia who was targeted by serious cyberattacks lately.

(Why doesn’t anyone talk of China hacking around the world)

https://www.rt.com/news/555307-musk-russian-jamming-starlink/

11 May, 2022 13:55

No plans for martial law in Russia – Kremlin

The military operation in Ukraine is going “as planned” and no such move is needed, Putin’s spokesman says

(Weird picture, eh?)

Moscow harbors no plans to impose martial law in the country amid the ongoing conflict with Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday, dismissing claims made by a top US spy.

“No, there are no such plans,” Peskov told reporters when asked to comment on a fresh statement by Director of US National Intelligence Avril Haines. The official also urged reporters and the public to listen to Russian President Vladimir Putin who has “reiterated and most recently confirmed that the special military operation is unfolding as planned.”

The top US spy Hainesalleged that Moscow may impose martial law in the country to ramp up its efforts in Ukraine. Haines also claimed that President Vladimir Putin’s “aims are greater than what Russia is capable of militarily” and the situation is likely to be “more unpredictable and potentially escalatory in the next few months.”

“The current trend indicates the likelihood that President Putin will turn to more drastic measures, including imposing martial law,” Haines claimed on Tuesday.

(The DNI just makes up shit!)

https://www.rt.com/russia/555311-moscow-martial-law-plans/

11 May, 2022 13:34

Germany signals massive drop in Russian gas supply

Import volumes coming via Ukraine fell by almost 25% on Wednesday, energy regulator says

Germany’s energy regulator said on Wednesday that Russian gas flows at the Waidhaus border point through Ukraine declined by 25% on the previous day. The announcement comes as Kiev has suspended a third of Russian gas supplies to Europe.

The regulator’s comment echoed an earlier statement by Germany’s economy ministry that flows of Russian gas via the key transit point in Ukraine had dried up. According to the regulator, Berlin’s overall imports were stable as it was more than offset by higher volumes from Norway and the Netherlands.

The Ukrainian gas transmission system operator said on Tuesday, it had decided to suspend operations at the major transit point due to “interference by the occupying forces.” The border point accounts for a third of Russian exports to Europe via Ukraine. Russia’s energy major Gazprom said it saw no reason for the disruption.

The move marked the biggest interruption to date. Despite the ongoing conflict, Russian gas supplies have continued to Europe, which is still heavily reliant on the country’s energy.

(So Ukraine is intentionally punishing EU states, probably to get more arms)

https://www.rt.com/business/555302-germany-russian-gas-supply-drop/

The Decline of a Democratic Superlawyer

Marc Elias, the left's go-to attack dog, is laughed out of court, accused of lying to the special counsel, and on the losing end of several voting-rights cases

It's not every day that a federal judge calls a lawsuit from one of the country's top lawyers a nasty and partisan "Hail Mary pass" intended to undermine free and fair elections. But that's what happened on Wednesday when U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, a Clinton appointee, tossed out a lawsuit brought by Democratic superlawyer Marc Elias.

"In the 102 years since my father, then a Ukrainian refugee, came into this country, if there were two things that he drilled into my head, they were … free, open, rational elections [and] respect for the courts. The relief that I'm being asked to give today impinges, to some degree, on the public perception of both," Kaplan said of the lawsuit, which sought to preserve redistricting lines in New York state that a court had already ruled unconstitutional. "And I'm not going to do that."

It's been a rough month for Elias, the man former president Barack Obama tapped to lead his post-presidential initiative to expand "voting rights" and the Democratic Party's premier legal attack dog. Just last week, Special Counsel John Durham accused Elias, who represented Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign—and who every election cycle counts virtually every powerful Democrat as a client—of lying about his relationship with the opposition research firm he retained to assist that campaign.

In an attempt to shield communications between Fusion GPS and Rodney Joffe, a firm client hawking Russian collusion theories, Elias told Durham that he retained Fusion to support his legal work—and that, as a result, it is subject to attorney-client privilege. Durham was not having it: "The factual record and Fusion GPS's own communications raise serious questions about this depiction," he wrote.

Elias's tactics are now drawing rebukes from judges, prosecutors, andeven fellow Democrats, who say his hard-charging nature is hurting the party. Elias is publicly reeling. He last month scrubbed years of posts from his Twitter feed and hasn't explained why. The move comes less than a year after he decamped from the white-shoe law firm Perkins Coie to found his own law firm—ostensibly to engage "more fully" in the "political process," though some speculate the firm was increasingly uncomfortable with Elias's tactics and the scrutiny of the Durham probe. Durham indicted Elias's partner, Michael Sussman, a month after Elias left.

"Elias has virtually limitless funding and will challenge any voting law anywhere if he thinks doing so will help his party," said the Honest Elections Project's Jason Snead. "His strategy often backfires since many of the cases are weak or frivolous. Some of Elias's allies on the left criticize his strategy and judgment."

Durham's accusation is not the first time that Elias has been slammed for rank dishonesty. The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year sanctioned him for "lack of candor" in a Texas election case, which Elias ferociously contests.

He has run into trouble on substance, too, blundering into a major defeat in the Supreme Court in 2021 that some critics say was entirely of his own making.

That came when Elias challenged two ordinary voting regulations in Arizona under a provision of the Voting Rights Act that protects minority political involvement. Liberals did not want the Court to rule on the scope of that provision—they feared the conservatives would interpret it narrowly and hamstring their attacks on new red-state election laws.

The scope of that provision was an open question that liberals wanted to keep out of the Supreme Court. The conservative justices have repeatedly trimmed the reach of the Voting Rights Act, and liberals feared Elias would bring about a like result, especially since the rules he challenged were common to blue and red states alike.

The Court's decision in Brnovich v. DNC played out exactly as liberals feared. Justice Samuel Alito delivered a 6-3 decision that upheld Arizona's rules, announced new limits on the Voting Rights Act challenges, and in so doing put new red-state election regulations on firmer footing. Democrats saw the ruling as an unmitigated catastrophe….

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/the-decline-and-fall-of-a-democratic-superlawyer/

We are gonna hear from the WH, 8.3% of inflation is good and its all Putin’s fault, or Trump’s fault!

https://twitter.com/DanODonnellShow/status/1524377065369358338?s=20&t=NboFOTVLLWuTT0DcTK3DCw

Now they are going punish and censure doctors for practicing medicine

https://twitter.com/FDRLST/status/1524377533990543360?s=20&t=NboFOTVLLWuTT0DcTK3DCw

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Medical Licensure Board Creates Misinfo Policy. What Could Go Wrong?

The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), an authority on medical licensure and the discipline in the United States, recently passed a policy on medical misinformation and disinformation that will guide state medical boards and the health care workers they license and could even “become state law.” What could possibly go wrong?

Like the other obsessive “misinformation” pushes — from Silicon Valley to CNN’s Brian Stelter to the White House — this one once again uses the Covid rationale to legitimize it.

“More than 2 years into this pandemic, the largest threat next to the spread of the virus itself is the spread of disinformation and misinformation,” claimed FSMB’s President and CEO Humayun Chaudhry.

Ah yes, on the list of biggest threats, so-called “misinformation” is right up there next to a virus that reportedly contributed to the deaths of almost 1 million people in our country alone. To tackle this allegedly deadly misinformation, this premier medical licensure board is advising against exemptions for vaccines and “other preventative measures” (read: mask-wearing) and calling on each state board to adopt policies for their licensees’ conduct related to what’s been deemed dis- and misinformation.

In other words, theFSMB is setting up an ideological infrastructure for disciplining physicians who don’t follow the so-called scientific consensus on medical causes, treatment, prescriptions, or advice. It’s reminiscent of the way hospitals treated the hard-working nurses and doctors who looked at the available evidence on the Covid shot and opted not to take it, firing them en masse during what was already a staffing crisis, to the detriment of ailing patients.

This heavy-handed ideological crackdown by the FSMB is an affront not only to science generally but also to everything we’ve learned so far during the Wuhan virus. How many times did Americans hear, after their Covid posts had already been nuked from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, that “the science has changed”? The “trust the experts” refrain from health bureaucrats, the medical establishment, and the media became an echo of “whoopsies” as The Science was proved wrong time and time again….

After two years of masking, health experts finally admitted that covering our faces in fabric actually doesn’t stop the spread. After thousands of Americans lost their jobs for refusing to inject an experimental vaccine into their veins, we learned that the real misinformation was coming from the talking heads including the president who said the virus would keep us from getting Covid and spreading it, neither of which was true. And despite health experts telling us lockdowns were worth the risk, the shutdowns’ failure to protect Americans while bankrupting them exposed that short-sighted scientific evaluation as a lie too.

Thanks to Big Tech oligarchs, we got a preview of the efficacy of “misinformation” policies. Most of the content they censored because it contradicted “scientific consensus” turned out to true, with Americans no safer for having had it hidden from their view. How much worse might the consequences be when a course of treatment isn’t just shadowbanned on YouTube but prohibited in the doctor’s office?

But this move by the FSMB also completely ignores massive historical blunders in science, and the ramifications of such a short-sighted ideological purge will far outlast the virus du jour…

Or what about the “lobotomy” of 2022, wherein physicians chop off healthy body parts in response to mental illness. Today’s medical elites claim there’s scientific consensus on the benefits of mutilating genitals, sterilizing teens, and administering wrong-sex hormones for people who deny basic biology about the sexes or suffer from gender dysphoria.

Even Joe Biden’s own Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, who is transgender, has claimed “there is no argument” among physicians specializing in youth and adolescents about “the value and importance of gender-affirming care.” It’s patently false.

The bottom line is that anyone who claims to be a champion of medicine or science but is quick to shut down dissenting theories and flag new evidence as “disinformation” is no scientist at all. By its very definition, science includes observing the natural world and all the available evidence it affords and experimenting on it. This means theories are always changing, especially about novel viruses and experimental treatments.

In these circumstances, anyone who says the science is settled is either a liar or a fool. And short of settled science, there’s no place for politically motivated policies on “misinformation.”

https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/11/top-medical-licensure-board-creates-misinformation-policy-because-what-could-go-wrong-with-a-science-hive-mind/

https://twitter.com/JimHansonDC/status/1524358497302888456?s=20&t=NboFOTVLLWuTT0DcTK3DCw