Is the Freedom of Speech on the Ballot?

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

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🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Doesn’t the Department of Homeland Security have better things to do than police lies posted by users of Twitter? After 9/11, DHS was created to better coordinate America’s defenses against terrorist attacks on the homeland – to promote cooperation among law enforcement agencies and fill in the gaps in domestic security. Yet, today as those threats have receded, the department is in search of a new mission. It has gotten into the business of being “speech police.” On the latest episode of The Drill Down podcast, co-hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers take a look at the Biden administration’s efforts to clamp down on speech they call either “misinformation,” or “disinformation,” or even “malinformation.”

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0:00.0	Research that resonates.
0:05.8	Schweitzer has not been wrong on any of his years and years of reporting on the Biden's.
0:12.4	Investigations that matter.
0:14.4	If your last name wasn't Biden, do you think you would have been asked to be on the board of Oism?
0:19.0	I don't know. I don't know. Probably not. But that's, you know, I don't think that there's a lot of things that would have happened in my life that if my last name wasn't Biden. The only entities, the only people that would report on this, and Peter Schweizer, who deserves a medal of freedom in my view. This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer. Hi, I'm Peter Schweitzer and welcome to the Drill Down,
0:40.7	where we relentlessly exposed cronyism, corruption and the abuse of power in Washington, D.C.
0:47.1	Sitting by my side is Eric Eggers, vice president here at the Government Accountability Institute
0:51.9	and an author in his own right. Now, Eric, I know you have kids and your kids are actually quite young. And sometimes you tell them to do a thing to not do a thing. And they go ahead and do it anyways. No, not me, man. My kids are all incredibly well behaved. Okay. Well, now, wait a second. We did have a party on Friday night,
1:11.6	and I saw them, and I know that's not true. No, you're right about that. They, they're actually
1:15.9	terrible. Their favorite hobbies are coloring with chalk and overt parental defiance. So,
1:21.1	no, so my children were oftentimes aggressively disobey. Well, when your kids disobey,
1:26.5	sometimes there are bad inferences, bad things
1:29.5	that can happen as a result. But in the case of our federal government, it's even worse.
1:34.4	And our federal government's been exactly doing that. You remember back in April when the Department
1:39.1	of Homeland Security got so much heat for having the Board of disinformation that they ultimately disbanded.
1:45.5	Was that the one with the lady that was like doing the crazy singing?
1:49.8	It is.
1:50.9	They're laundering disinful when we really should take note and not support their lies with our
1:55.8	wallet voice or vote.
1:57.0	Oh, information laundering is really quite ferocious.
2:00.3	It's when a hucks to take some eyes and makes them sound precocious by saying
2:03.6	them in Congress for a mainstream mountain that service.
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