Republicans Grill FBI Director Over Rampant Misconduct—As Indignant Democrats Defend the Bureau. Plus: Interview with Judiciary Committee Member Rep. Mike Johnson (LA) | SYSTEM UPDATE #114
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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🗓️ 13 July 2023
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| 0:00.0 | And the Good evening. It's Wednesday, July 12th. Welcome to a new episode of |
| 0:18.3 | system update. Our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at |
| 0:22.1 | 7 PM Eastern exclusively |
| 0:24.3 | here on rumble the free speech alternative to YouTube. Tonight the director of the |
| 0:28.7 | FBI Christopher Ray appeared before the House Judiciary Committee where he testified for more than six hours |
| 0:34.4 | earlier today. He was grilled by House Republicans about a wide range of |
| 0:38.9 | scandals and controversies plaguing the Bureau from how the FBI is pressuring and coercing big tech |
| 0:45.8 | to censor the political speech of American citizens online, |
| 0:49.3 | to the politicization of law enforcement investigations, |
| 0:52.1 | including recent accusations from two senior IRS |
| 0:54.8 | whistleblowers, that the DOJ intervened in the Hunter Biden investigation to protect the |
| 0:59.7 | President's son, to domestic spying programs in which the FBI purchases comprehensive |
| 1:06.3 | and extremely invasive data about the lives of American citizens to |
| 1:09.4 | enable them to create dossiers on the citizens they are supposed to be protecting to the role the |
| 1:15.3 | FBI played in its various assets in the events that the capital on January 6th. |
| 1:21.4 | The FBI director's posture for most of the day was one of the evasion and feigned ignorance. |
| 1:26.3 | He routinely refused to answer even the most basic questions by playing obvious semantic games |
| 1:31.8 | with the questions or claiming he did not have information when it is simply impossible that he was telling the truth such as when he refused to say how many FBI informant and undercover agents were among the crowd on January 8th by insisting more |
| 1:45.8 | than two years after those events that the Bureau still describes as an insurrection that |
| 1:51.4 | he does not know the answer to that question of how many |
| 1:54.1 | FBI assets were on the ground or if there were any. To say that Ray misled and |
| 1:59.3 | obstructed the committee as an understatement in cases such as that one he clearly lied. |
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