Law Professor Jonathan Turley well describes the McCarthyite tactics used by congressional Democrats defending government censorship. Their latest target is Matt Taibbi, whom they have threatened with jail time because of his truthful testimony (it turns out that Taibbi’s so-called “mistake” was no mistake at all) [Don]:

“LOCK HIM UP!”
by Jonathan Turley

“Below is my column in the New York Post on the recent call for a criminal investigation of journalist Matt Taibbi for perjury by the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. It all comes down to Taibbi’s mistake in adding an “A” to “CIS” – a group involved in the expanding censorship system.  The allegation is completely meritless but Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) did show that you cannot spell authoritarianism without “A.”

Here is the column:

“As every elementary student is told, a single letter can change an entire thought.

“Leave off an “S” and your dessert turns into a desert.

“A missing “R” turns a friend into a fiend.

“For journalist Matt Taibbi, the brief accidental addition of an “A” may not only have changed the identity of a group, but, according to a ranking Democrat, put the convict into the meaning of conviction.

“Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-VI), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, issued a letter that accused Taibbi of possible perjury because of an error that he made, not in testimony but in a tweet he later corrected.

“At issue is Taibbi referring to CISA, the government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, when he meant to refer to CIS, the Center for Internet Security.

“Plaskett’s threatening letter to Taibbi was immediately pushed on MSNBC by host Mehdi Hasan, who was shocked by the added “A” and called for the journalist to be criminally investigated for having “deliberately & under oath misrepresented” the facts.

“(It was an ironic moment, as writer Lee Fang noted, given past allegations made against Hasan over false statements.)

“For Taibbi, this is only the latest such unnerving moment … ”

Read Professor Turley’s full article here:

Lock Him Up! Ranking Democrat Suggests Possible Criminal Charges Against Journalist Matt Taibbi

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