{"id":2113611,"date":"2023-12-01T16:22:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T21:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-witness-in-weaponization-hearing-contradicted-her-own-opening-statement\/"},"modified":"2023-12-01T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T21:26:08","slug":"dem-witness-in-weaponization-hearing-contradicted-her-own-opening-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-witness-in-weaponization-hearing-contradicted-her-own-opening-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness in weaponization hearing contradicts own opening statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdem-witness-in-weaponization-hearing-contradicted-her-own-opening-statement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2113611&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n      <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Democrats\u2019 witness in Thursday\u2019s House\u200b Weaponization hearing \u2063on government \u2062censorship\u2063 contradicted her own opening statement.<\/p>\n<p>Olivia Troye, a \u200bformer advisor to Vice President Mike Pence, stated unequivocally in response to a\u2064 question from GOP North Carolina Rep. Dan\u2063 Bishop that she had never\u2063 declared state censorship a \u201cconspiracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2064 have never said this was a conspiracy. You have \u200dnot heard that comment from me,\u201d Troye said.<\/p>\n<p>Except \u2062just an hour earlier in her opening statement, Troye railed against the\u200b committee\u2019s proceedings as grounded in\u200d conspiracies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of continuing to \u200dspread conspiracy theories about government censorship,\u201d she said, \u201cthis committee \u200cshould \u2063instead focus \u200don the \u2064very real and very dangerous threat posed by the leading\u200b Republican \u200dcandidate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8zTU4y1R_Sw?si=UmIJ8JiU9MI_Ecz5&#038;enablejsapi=1\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s House hearing of the \u200cSelect Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government\u2064 featured independent journalists and authors of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/twitter-files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter\u200d Files<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/public.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael Shellenberger<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Matt \u200bTaibbi<\/a>, for a \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/09\/democrats-desperate-to-implement-censorship-regime-disregard-free-speech-in-weaponization-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">second time<\/a>. The pair testified\u200b before lawmakers on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fantastic-beasts-trailer-downplays-involvement-of-author-j-k-rowling\/\" title=\"Fantastic Beasts Trailer Downplays Involvement of Author J.K. Rowling\">government speech control<\/a> two days after publishing the \u200b\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/public.substack.com\/p\/ctil-files-1-us-and-uk-military-contractors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CTIL Files<\/a>\u201d chronicling how the \u201cCensorship Industrial Complex\u201d \u2063was activated after the 2016 election. \u200bWhistleblower documents revealed the Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL), \u200dwhich was officially launched as a \u2062volunteer\u2063 project\u200c by\u200d data scientists and\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congrats-to-the-u-s-intelligence-community-back-to-back-u-s-presidential-election-interference-champs\/\" title=\"US Intelligence Community wins again for interfering in back-to-back presidential elections! Congrats!\">intelligence community veterans<\/a>, became the premier \u201canti-disinformation group\u201d whose tactics were ultimately adopted by the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe\u2062 whistleblower\u2019s documents describe\u200c everything \u200cfrom \u200dthe genesis \u2064of modern digital censorship programs to the role of the military \u200cand intelligence agencies,\u200b partnerships with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-government-erasing-western-retailers-online-stores-locations-for-voicing-human-rights-concerns\/\" title=\"Chinese Government Erasing Western Retailers\u2019 Online Stores, Locations For Voicing Human Rights Concerns\">civil society organizations<\/a> and commercial media,\u200d and the use of sock puppet accounts and other offensive techniques,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo days ago,\u201d Shellenberger\u200c said in his opening\u2062 statement, \u201cI published the first\u200d batch of internal files from the Cyber Threat Intelligence League which \u200dshow U.S.\u200d and U.K. military contractors working \u2062in 2019 and 2020 to both\u200d censor and turn sophisticated psychological operations and disinformation tactics\u2064 developed abroad against the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats in\u2064 the hearing made a\u2063 point\u2064 to defend\u2062 the\u200d dystopian censorship regime as\u2062 a necessary barrier to counter online disinformation while spreading disinformation themselves. New York Rep. Dan Goldman repeated the debunked line that the \u2063laptop \u2062belonging to Hunter Biden,\u200c made public by the New York Post, was a manipulated vehicle of Russian interference. The laptop exposed new details about\u200d the Biden\u2062 family business operations, which are now under investigation by House Republicans in a \u200dpresidential impeachment inquiry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ:[READ:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/11\/30\/dan-goldman-is-a-hunter-biden-laptop-truther\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dan Goldman Is A Hunter Biden Laptop Truther<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a Substack post \u200don Friday,\u200c Taibbi called \u2064the Democrats\u2019 performance \u201cbizarre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats not only show they don\u2019t care,\u201d\u200b Taibbi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/dan-goldman-democrats-make-a-clown?utm_campaign=email-post&#038;r=23dzz&#038;utm_source=substack&#038;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cthey announce themselves as the chief \u2062advocates of new speech-control programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Tristan Justice is the western\u2062 correspondent \u2064for The Federalist and the author of Social\u2064 Justice Redux, a \u200dconservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington \u200bExaminer and The\u2064 Daily Signal. His\u200c work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and\u2062 Fox News. Tristan graduated from\u2064 George Washington\u200b University \u200cwhere he majored in political science \u2063and\u2062 minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan \u200cor contact him \u200dat Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s\u2062 email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-image data-amount=\"5\">\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How did the witnesses, Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi, describe the\u2062 role of the Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL) in government speech control<\/h2>\n<p><span>  The Democrats\u2019 witness in Thursday\u2019s House Weaponization hearing on government\u2062 censorship\u2062 contradicted her own opening \u200cstatement.<\/p>\n<p>Olivia Troye, a\u2064 former advisor to Vice President Mike Pence, stated unequivocally in response to a question from GOP North Carolina Rep. Dan Bishop that she had never \u2063declared state censorship a \u201cconspiracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2063 have never said this was a conspiracy. \u200dYou have not heard that comment from\u2063 me,\u201d Troye said.<\/p>\n<p>Except just an hour earlier in her opening statement, Troye\u2064 railed against the committee\u2019s proceedings as grounded in conspiracies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of\u200c continuing to spread\u200d conspiracy theories about government censorship,\u201d she said, \u201cthis committee should instead focus on the very\u2062 real and very dangerous threat posed by the leading Republican candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s House hearing of the \u200dSelect Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government featured independent journalists and authors \u2063of the Twitter Files, Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi, for a second time. The pair testified before lawmakers on government speech control two days after publishing the \u201cCTIL Files\u201d chronicling how\u2062 the \u201cCensorship Industrial Complex\u201d was activated after the 2016 election. Whistleblower documents revealed the Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL), which was officially launched as a volunteer project by\u2063 data \u200cscientists and intelligence community veterans, became the premier \u201canti-disinformation group\u201d whose tactics\u200b were ultimately adopted\u200d by the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whistleblower\u2019s documents describe everything from the genesis of modern digital censorship programs to the role of the military and intelligence agencies, partnerships\u2064 with civil society\u200b organizations and commercial \u2062media,\u200d and the use of sock puppet accounts and other offensive techniques,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo days ago,\u201d Shellenberger said in his \u2064opening \u200dstatement, \u201cI published the first batch of internal files from the Cyber Threat Intelligence League which show U.S. and U.K. military contractors working \u2064in 2019 and 2020 to both censor and turn sophisticated psychological operations \u200dand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shellenberger-tells-weaponization-subcommittee-us-and-uk-turned-psychological-operations-against-americans\/\" title=\"Shellenberger informs subcommittee: US and UK employ 'psychological operations' on Americans\">disinformation tactics developed abroad<\/a> \u200bagainst \u200cthe American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats in the hearing made a point to defend the dystopian\u200c censorship \u200bregime as a necessary barrier to counter online disinformation while spreading \u200ddisinformation themselves. New York Rep. Dan Goldman \u2062repeated the debunked li<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia Troye, a former advisor to Vice President Mike Pence, contradicted herself during the House Weaponization hearing on government censorship. When asked by GOP Rep. Dan Bishop if she had ever called state censorship a &#8220;conspiracy,&#8221; Troye firmly denied it. However, her statement contradicted her own opening remarks, leaving Democrats in an awkward position<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2113612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2113611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2113611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2113612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2113611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2113611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}