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System Update with Glenn Greenwald

From Waco to Today, Retracing the 30-Year Domestic War on Civil Liberties That Launched Gore Vidal's Political Transformation | SYSTEM UPDATE #157

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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Politics, News

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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0:00.0

The Good evening. It's Friday, October 6. Welcome to a new episode of System Update. Our

0:20.9

live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 PM

0:24.5

Eastern, exclusively here on Rumbull, the free speech alternative to YouTube tonight.

0:29.1

One of the primary topics we cover on System Update is the abuse by the U.S. security state and its vast powers,

0:36.8

the CIA, NSA, Homeland Security, FBI for domestic political purposes.

0:43.0

When the U.S. security State was created in the aftermath of World War II,

0:45.7

the central taboo was that it would never turn its powers inward.

0:51.4

It was permitted to operate in total secrecy and use often lawless methods because it was

0:56.4

intended to focus only on foreign enemies and to interfere in the internal affairs of foreign

1:01.9

adversaries but was never to be weaponized in

1:04.2

American politics or turned against the American people. There is now abundant

1:09.3

evidence that leaves no doubt that this taboo simply no longer exists.

1:13.7

Whistleblowers with these agencies who risked their liberty

1:16.9

over the last 25 years to reveal the agency's secrets

1:20.1

did so because they said they were so offended and horrified that the weapons of

1:25.6

these security agencies were not being regular, were now being regularly

1:28.8

turned on the domestic population. That the CIA directly and aggressively interfered in and manipulated both the 2016 and 2020 presidential

1:38.0

elections is beyond dispute.

1:40.5

Both the Russia Gate Collusion Conspiracy Theory of 2016 and the 2020 lie that the 100 Biden laptop was Russian disinformation

1:48.0

came directly from the bowels of the CIA and was fed to the New York Times in the Washington Post.

1:54.2

Just last month an appellate court ruled that the FBI and other agencies within the

1:58.2

Biden administration committed one of the most egregious and systemic violations of the First Amendment in decades, if not ever, by systematically

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