'The FBI will crush you. This government will crush you and your family': Whistleblower's chilling testimony warns about costs of exposing government corruption



Suspended Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Garret O'Boyle delivered chilling testimony on Thursday warning his colleagues not to speak out about government corruption after he alleged that the agency left his "family homeless."

During Thursday's House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing, O'Boyle advised future whistleblowers not to come forward about potential FBI corruption because of the alleged retaliation he and his family endured.

North Dakota Republican Rep. Kelly Armstrong asked O'Boyle what advice he would give to future government whistleblowers.

\u201cBREAKING: F.B.I. Whistleblower, Garrett O\u2019Boyle just ended today\u2019s hearing with a chilling warning for future F.B.I Whistleblowers\u201d
— TexasLindsay\u2122 (@TexasLindsay\u2122) 1684429659

"With all of the hardships you've gone through, if one of your really good friends, your former colleague, came to you and said, 'I have this thing that is being covered up and I think the American people need to know about it,' what advice would you give them?" Armstrong inquired.

O'Boyle replied, "I would tell them first to pray about it, long and hard."

"I would tell them I could take it to Congress for them, or I could put them in touch with Congress," he continued. "But I would advise them not to do it."

Armstrong asked, "You would legitimately try to protect one of your colleagues from doing what you have done?"

"Absolutely," O'Boyle responded without hesitation.

"And how do you think that solves being able to shine light on corruption, weaponization, any kind of misconduct that exists with the American people?" Armstrong questioned.

"It doesn't solve it," O'Boyle candidly replied before giving an eerie warning to future whistleblowers.

"But the FBI will crush you," he continued. "This government will crush you and your family if you try to expose the truth about things they are doing that are wrong."

"We are all examples of that," O'Boyle stated, referring to himself along with two other FBI whistleblowers — former Special Agent Stephen Friend and suspended Supervisory Intelligence Analyst George Hill — who testified in front of Congress Thursday.

Armstrong yielded back his time, concluding, "I can't think of a more sobering way to end a hearing."

The three on-the-record FBI whistleblowers accused the agency of "retaliatory conduct" after they spoke out about the bureau's "abuse and misconduct" and "politicized rot."

A report released Thursday by the committee revealed allegations that the FBI unjustly investigated Americans and pressured staff to "reclassify cases as domestic violent extremism (DVE), and even manufactured DVE cases where they may not otherwise exist."

According to O'Boyle, after he came forward with the allegations, the FBI relocated him to an office on the other side of the country. O'Boyle claimed that when he arrived for his first day of work at the new field office, he was informed by the FBI that he was being placed on unpaid suspension.

The whistleblower stated that the agency effectively left him and his family "homeless" and prevented him from accessing their belongings, which were still in FBI storage because of the recent relocation.

The FBI continues to deny the whistleblowers' allegations.

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Tucker Carlson ousted at Fox over speech stressing the importance of prayer and the evil nature of the forces besetting America, claims insider



Tucker Carlson may have been given the boot at Fox News over his emphasis on the importance of prayer and his suggestion that America is not presently afflicted by bad politics, but rather by the forces of evil.

Carlson gave a keynote speech Friday at the Heritage Foundation's 50th anniversary gala in Maryland wherein he stressed that the old political binary fails to account for the division presently afflicting America. Instead, it can be better understood in theological or spiritual terms as a battle of good versus evil, suggested the 53-year-old.

An unnamed source reportedly briefed on Fox Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch's decision-making told Vanity Fair that Carlson was ousted largely over the speech on account of its religious overtones.

"That stuff freaks Rupert out," said the insider. "He doesn't like all the spiritual talk."

The offending speech

Carlson, whose journalism career started at the Heritage Foundation, told a crowd of around 2,000 that recent trends — such as the DEI and ESG initiatives that have swept big business or the medical tyranny that swept the nation along with COVID-19 — exposed not just cowardice but the strength of the herd instinct.

"The herd instinct is maybe the strongest instinct," said Carlson. "It may be stronger than the hunger and sex instincts, actually. The instinct, which again is inherent, to be like everybody else and not to be cast out of the group, not to be shunned — that’s a very strong impulse in all of us from birth. And it takes over, unfortunately, in moments like this, and it’s harnessed, in fact, by bad people in moments like this to produce uniformity."

The former Fox News host cited the LGBT movement’s incoherent speech codes and the efforts by many to contort to satisfy them as an example of herd instinct trumping rational and independent thinking.

Many Americans have surmounted this instinct, however, argued Carlson.

"There is a countervailing force at work always. There is a counterbalance to the badness. It’s called goodness. And you see it in people," he said. "So for every ten people who are putting 'he and him' in their electronic JPMorgan email signatures, there’s one person who’s like, ‘No, I’m not doing that. Sorry, I don’t want to fight but I’m not, like, doing that. That’s a betrayal of what I think is true. It’s a betrayal of my conscience, of my faith, of my sense of myself, of my dignity as a human being, of my autonomy – I am not a slave, I am a free citizen, and I’m not doing that. And there’s nothing that you can do to me to make me do it. And I hope it won’t come to that, but if it does come to that, here I am.Here I am. It’s Paul on trial. Here I am.’”

Carlson noted that during COVID and in the face of other recent "herd" events, there was no predicting who would ultimately stand up, but sure enough, people of various makeups and political persuasions ultimately did. When they did stand up to defend one truth, Carlson suggested the defiant frequently found themselves aggregating and defending additional truths.

“The truth is contagious,” said Carlson. “And the second you decide to tell the truth about something, you are filled with this – I don’t want to get supernatural on you – but you are filled with this power from somewhere else. Try it. Tell the truth about something. … The more you tell the truth, the stronger you become.”

He added that the reverse is also true: “The more you lie, the weaker and more terrified you become.”

Carlson took a more explicit theological view toward the end of his speech, when he suggested that whatever coherent binary that may have existed that was centered on a common vision of America is far gone, rendering useless the analytical framework that many still use to try to make sense of it.

“There is no way to assess, say, the transgenderist movement with that mindset. Policy papers don’t account for it at all. If you have people who are saying, ‘I have an idea: Let’s castrate the next generation. Let’s sexually mutilate children.’ I’m sorry, that’s not a political debate … but the weight of the government [and] a lot of corporate interests are behind that.”

Carlson intimated that the irrationality of leftist politics puts it outside the realm of politics and into the realm of spiritual warfare.

“If you’re telling me that abortion is a positive good, what are you saying? Well, you’re arguing for child sacrifice, obviously. … When the treasury secretary stands up and says, ‘You know what you can do to help the economy? Get an abortion.’ Well, that’s like an Aztec principle, actually.”

Carlson stressed that abortion zealotry, like the transgenderist movement, is a theological phenomenon.

\u201cTucker Carlson\u2019s speech over the weekend was powerful. Too powerful apparently.\u201d
— TexasLindsay\u2122 (@TexasLindsay\u2122) 1682355201

“None of this makes sense in conventional political terms. When people or crowds of people … decide that the goal is to destroy things, destruction for its own sake – hey, let’s tear it down – what you’re watching is not a political movement; it’s evil.”

“I’m merely calling for an acknowledgment of what we’re watching,” said Carlson.

The former Fox News host ended the speech the way he began: imploring his audience to pray: “Maybe we should all take just like ten minutes a day to say a prayer about it … and I hope you will."

The offended sensibilities

The insider suggested that Murdoch "was perhaps unnerved by Carlson's messianism because it echoed the end-times worldview of Murdoch’s ex-fiancée Ann Lesley Smith."

Vanity Fair previously reported that Murdoch and Smith, originally slated to marry this summer, allegedly called it off because the 92-year-old had grown "increasingly uncomfortable with Smith's outspoken evangelical views."

In March, Murdoch, Smith, and Carlson reportedly had dinner together, during which Smith and Carlson discussed religion.

At one point, Murdoch's then-fiancée opened the Bible and read passages from the book of Exodus.

A source close to the Fox Corp. chair said, "Rupert just sat there and stared."

According the source, Smith "said Tucker Carlson is a messenger from God, and [Murdoch] said nope."

Just days after the dinner with Carlson, Murdoch kicked Smith to the curb.

Gabriel Sherman, writing for Vanity Fair, noted that this was just one of many "erratic decisions [Murdoch] has made of late that raises questions about Murdoch's leadership of his media empire."

Claremont fellow Megan Basham responded to the allegation that Carlson's religious overtones had something to do with his firing, writing, "The world is fine with talk of faith when it is soft and toothless. It is the faith that recognizes acts of good and evil that offends them."

Conservative commentator Matt Walsh tweeted, "Fox hired Caitlyn Jenner because he's trans and fired Tucker Carlson because he's religious. That's your 'conservative' news network."

FULL SPEECH: Tucker Carlson’s Last Address Before Leaving Fox News at #Heritage50 youtu.be

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Twitter flags the CBC, Australian Broadcast Corporation, and other state broadcasters as 'government-funded media'



Twitter has gone farther to highlight the cozy linkages between various media outlets and the governments in their respective countries after recently labeling NPR and PBS as statist media outfits.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Radio New Zealand (RNZ), and the Australian Broadcast Corporation (ABC News), along with other media outlets, have been tagged on the platform as "Government-funded Media." Although initially flagged "government-funded," the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has since been rebranded as "Publicly-funded media."

Conservatives who have long criticized these media outfits for their apparent lack of distance from centralized power have lauded the decision, whereas some liberals have derided Twitter's efforts to increase transparency as an attack on democracy and the public trust.

\u201cNEW: Twitter media labels have been added in the following countries:\n\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 Canada: CBC\n\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa Australia: ABC \n\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddff New Zealand: Radio NZ\n\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 United Kingdom: BBC\nThe labels note that these outlets receive public or government funding. They now join the ranks of US media outlets CBS & NPR.\u201d
— TexasLindsay\u2122 (@TexasLindsay\u2122) 1681700926

Degrees of separation

According to Twitter's definitions, these labels "provide additional context for accounts heavily engaged in geopolitics and diplomacy."

Whereas a "state-affiliated media account" is defined as "outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution," a "government-funded media account" is "defined as outlets where the government provides some or all of the outlet’s funding and may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content."

Finally, for publicly funded media accounts, "Publicly-funded media refers to media organizations that receive funding from license fees, individual contributions, public financing, and commercial financing."

Canadian state media, 'government-funded'

Just as NPR and its devotees took issue with its new designation on Twitter, going so far as to quit the platform, the CBC lashed out in a statement obtained by the Toronto Star, itself a government-subsidized paper.

"Twitter’s own policy defines government-funded media as cases where the government 'may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content,' which is clearly not the case with CBC/Radio-Canada," said the statement. "CBC/Radio-Canada is publicly funded through a parliamentary appropriation that is voted upon by all Members of Parliament. Its editorial independence is protected in law in the Broadcasting Act."

Canadian psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson responded, tweeting, "A Twitter triumph for @JustinTrudeau and, indeed, all Canadians! @elonmusk has awarded @cbc the prestigious government-funded media designation! Our humble local broadcaster joins luminaries such as @NPR in receipt of this singular honor. Veritable shades of Pravda!"

Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, wrote, "CBC officially exposed as 'government-funded media.' Now people know that it is Trudeau propaganda, not news."

\u201cBREAKING: CBC officially exposed as \u201cgovernment-funded media\u201d.\n\nNow people know that it is Trudeau propaganda, not news. \n\nSign here to save $1 billion & defund the CBC: https://t.co/R8BvsAcR3O\u201d
— Pierre Poilievre (@Pierre Poilievre) 1681689197

Rachel Gilmore, a reporter for Global News — which also receives money from the Canadian government — denounced the move by Twitter and its celebration by Poilievre, writing, "This is beyond disturbing. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling a national Canadian news organization 'propaganda' and 'not news.' This is a craven attack on the truth, democracy."

The CBC admits on its website that it received over $1 billion in operating funding, $109 million in capital funding, and $4 million in working capital from the Trudeau government this year alone.

Despite 100% of the population funding the CBC, as of 2020, less than 4% of the population tuned in, reported the Globe and Mail.

While its viewership appears to be ever shrinking, the Liberal government has repeatedly promised to boost the state broadcaster's funding. For instance, in the 2015 election, the Trudeau Liberals promised to throw an addition $150 million in taxpayer funds to the CBC, extra to its $1.1 billion in base government funding, reported the Toronto Sun.

In addition to its leadership openly badmouthing and waging lawfare against conservatives, the CBC, promised support by leftist politicians, reportedly undercuts private media outlets and competition, in part by distorting the ad market. Additionally, the CBC, like the Liberal government, has been accused of utilizing government funding to advance identitarian and other woke programming.

Poilievre is actively campaigning to get the CBC defunded. An Angus Reid poll conducted in March 2022 found that there is strong support among Canadian conservatives for cutting the CBC loose.

Although not the full measure he seeks, Poilievre nevertheless pressed Twitter in an April 11 letter to "apply the Government-funded Media label to the CBC's various news-related accounts, including @CBC, @CBCNews, and @CBCAlerts."

At the time of publication, the primary CBC account had been flagged as government-funded, but @CBCNews and @CBCAlerts accounts have yet to be tagged.

Jeffrey Dvorkin, a former managing editor at CBC Radio and vice president of news and information at NPR, told the Toronto Star, "Public broadcasting is under increasing criticism and attack these days because the very idea that there may be some connection to government funding is seen by some people, especially on the conservative side of things, as a bad thing."

Australian state media, 'government-funded'

After getting the "government-funded" branding on Twitter, the ABC pushed for the "publicly-funded" tag that the BBC ultimately secured. It has yet to seen any change in its status.

The Australian state broadcaster wrote on Twitter, "FYI: The ABC is a publicly funded broadcaster, governed by the ABC Charter which is enshrined in legislation. For more than 90 years the ABC has always been and remains an independent media organisation, free from political and commercial interests."

Unlike NPR, the ABC indicated it would continue posting to its Twitter account after receiving the label.

A spokesman for the state media outfit told Crikey, "The ABC doesn’t currently have any plans to shut down all its Twitter accounts. ... We’re liaising with Twitter regarding changes to account verification and labels."

Some critics have suggested that ABC News' favorable coverage of the Australian government's quarantine camps, COVID protocols, and clampdowns on lockdown protesters was indicative of government ties stronger than the organization lets on.

\u201cThank you @elonmusk for labeling @abcnews a government-funded media group.\n\nHere is an Australia throwback when they were rolling out quarantine camps.\n\n https://t.co/J3codnr3ur\u201d
— An0maly (@An0maly) 1681706952

New Zealand state media, 'government-funded'

RNZ, which reportedly receives nearly $50 million a year from the government, has threatened to leave the platform over its new label.

Megan Whelan, head of content for the state broadcaster, said in a Twitter statement Sunday, "RNZ’s editorial independence is enshrined in our charter and editorial policy. Twitter’s own policy defines government-funded media as cases where the government 'may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content', which does not apply to RNZ."

"Not only is our editorial independence protected by the law, we guard it vigorously. Over the next few days, we will be considering our options," continued the statement. "Including talking to Twitter to have the label removed or revised, or as other public media around the world have done, leave the platform," continued the statement.

British state media, 'government-funded'

Although the BBC persuaded Twitter to change its designation from "government-funded media" to "publicly-funded media," the British government has highlighted that it has directly funded counter-information campaigns at the BBC.

For instance, on March 24, 2022, the British government stated that the "BBC gets emergency funding to fight Russian disinformation" to the tune of £4.1 million. The purpose of this funding, which was extra to the so-called public funding raised by the mandatory license fees imposed upon the British citizenry, was "to help it increase trusted and independent content to counter disinformation about the war in Ukraine."

The BBC contended last week that it was "independent," and Musk, in turn, said that the state media broadcaster was one of the "least biased" outlets.

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Elon Musk leaves BBC reporter stunned after he turns the tables, puts reporter on hot seat in wild interview: 'You just lied!'



Elon Musk has gone viral after he sat down for an interview with BBC reporter James Clayton and pressed Clayton on a couple of controversial topics. Musk was so direct and unrelenting in his responses that Clayton later admitted, "Several times it felt like he was trying to interview me."

On Tuesday evening, Musk and Clayton sat down for an in-person conversation, which Clayton claims had been spontaneously arranged earlier that day. The two touched on various topics, including the massive layoffs that have occurred at Twitter since Musk took over last year as well the "government-funded" media label that was recently added to the BBC's Twitter account.

However, two aspects of the conversation have drawn particular interest on social media since the interview aired live on Twitter Spaces and the BBC: the supposed rise in hateful content on Twitter and COVID misinformation. During these discussions, Clayton appeared so surprised and uncomfortable that he repeatedly attempted to steer the discussions in another direction.

First, Clayton asserted that he had "personally" noticed a rise in hateful content on Twitter since Musk's takeover. When Musk pressed him for an example of such "hateful" content, Clayton demurred and spoke generally about comments that could be considered "slightly racist or slightly sexist." When Musk then asked for a specific example of hate speech that should be censored on Twitter, Clayton came up empty.

"I don't actually use that feed any more because I don't particularly like it," Clayton stammered.

"You said you've seen more hateful content, but you can't name a single example, not even one," Musk countered.

Clayton continued to avoid giving an example, but Musk would not let him off the hook. "Then I say, sir, that you don't know what you're talking about," Musk stated, adding that the premise of a rise in hate speech was "false."

"You just lied!" Musk claimed.

Clayton denied the allegation and insisted that other "organizations" had reported a rise in hateful tweets in recent months. When Musk continued to demand an example, a seemingly exasperated Clayton claimed that they weren't "getting anywhere" and suggested they just "move on."

\u201cPerfect illustration of how scumbag reporters lie:\n\nThis BBC hack claimed he's seen more hate on Twitter. When asked, he can't name a single example because he hasn't look. Then claims @ISDglobal -- funded by US, EU and neoliberal billionaires - said it:\n\nhttps://t.co/Z0F8eGm1wp\u201d
— Glenn Greenwald (@Glenn Greenwald) 1681306786

Clayton then wanted to talk about Twitter removing warnings about possible misinformation about COVID, but Musk fired back immediately: "Has BBC changed its COVID misinformation?"

After a brief silence, Clayton retorted that the "BBC does not set the rules upon Twitter, so I'm asking you," but Musk refused to restrict his answers to fit Clayton's framing.

"COVID is no longer an issue," Musk noted before accusing the BBC of peddling misinformation about the COVID policies related to masking and the vaccines.

"Does the BBC hold itself at all responsible for misinformation regarding masking and side effects of vaccinations and not reporting on that at all?" Musk asked.

When Clayton made no reply, Musk pressed on: "And what about the fact that the BBC was put under pressure by the British government to change [its] editorial policy?"

Clayton then responded hesitatingly, "This isn't an interview about the BBC," to which Musk immediately quipped, "Oh, you thought it wasn't?" Clayton then reacted with a nervous chuckle and a disclaimer that he was not an official "representative of the BBC's editorial policy."

"Let's talk about something else," Clayton once again pivoted, while Musk remarked slyly, "You weren't expecting that."

That four-minute exchange from their larger, 90-minute interview can be heard in the tweet below.

\u201cBREAKING: @ElonMusk shut down this pro-censorship BBC reporter and left him scrambling on how to justify his own questions on misinformation and the supposed rise in hate speech. \n\nListen till the end.\u201d
— TexasLindsay\u2122 (@TexasLindsay\u2122) 1681273441

Clayton later called it "a whirlwind of an interview," and the BBC seemed pleased that Musk agreed to label the outlet "publicly funded," rather than "government-funded." Clayton also seemed surprised that, after their conversation ended, Musk continued to chat with some of those who had joined them on Twitter Spaces.

"Ok so usually the interviewee leaves the interview. Elon musk now taking questions on Spaces," Clayton tweeted.

\u201cOk so usually the interviewee leaves the interview. Elon musk now taking questions on Spaces\u201d
— James Clayton (@James Clayton) 1681274745

Musk appears to be a night owl. He told Clayton that he often does not retire for bed until sometime between 3 and 6 a.m.

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