SCOOP: The inspector general for USAID — the largest foreign aid agency in the United States — quietly launched an investigation into a taxpayer-backed grant to a terror-tied NGO.
Months later, the Biden administration wired that same charity more cash:
BREAKING: The Washington Examiner has obtained testimony from two ex-FBI agents ahead of the House GOP's weaponization hearing that paint a dim portrait of the bureau.
Read the testimony here first.
Breaking: Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz are vowing an investigation into the State Department funding the Global Disinformation Index, which is secretly blacklisting and trying to defund conservative media.
Gaetz says subpoenas could be on the horizon. 👀
NEW: In a lengthy email to
@mtaibbi
on Friday morning, Newsguard's CEO Gordon Crovitz refuted that the purported disinformation tracker is "U.S. government funded."
In 2021, the Department of Defense awarded $749,387 to Newsguard.
BREAKING NEWS: Microsoft, which subscribes to the State Department-backed Global Disinformation Index's blacklist of conservative news, has suspended its relationship with GDI and is launching an internal review,
@dcexaminer
confirms
Part 2 DISINFORMATION INC:
The U.S. Department of State has funneled $330,000 to the Global Disinformation Index, which is secretly blacklisting and aiming to defund conservative news outlets, according to records reviewed by the
@dcexaminer
BREAKING: An Israeli firm that successfully recovered $90M in Hamas-owned cryptocurrency alongside Israel’s Ministry of Defense is now investigating digital wallets handled by the terrorism-tied U.N. Relief and Works Agency,
@dcexaminer
learns
BREAKING: Weaponization Subcommittee Chair Jim Jordan has subpoenaed CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, CISA Director Jen Easterly, and GEC's James Rubin to obtain records on the Biden admin's alleged collusion with Big Tech on censorship,
@dcexaminer
learns
BREAKING: Senate Republicans are investigating allegations the Department of Justice spied on congressional staffers while they probed the agency, including during its handling of the Trump-Russia inquiry, Crossfire Hurricane,
@dcexaminer
learns
NEW: Republican billionaire Ron Lauder has now made the decision to pull out from funding University of Pennsylvania over antisemitism concerns.
The revelation comes after Lauder said he'd "re-examine" his financial support level.
@dcexaminer
Ex-deputy director of the CIA testifies to
@Jim_Jordan
that he decided to sign onto a letter with intelligence officers calling the Hunter Biden laptop story “Russian disinformation” after Antony Blinken called him.
“Because I wanted [Biden] to win the election,” he said
SCOOP: The Global Disinformation Index is refusing to disclose basic info about its operations, like board members, in a move that tax experts warn raise huge legal and ethical red flags
GDI's nonprofits allege harassment. Read here for the full story
SCOOP: Nikki Haley’s New Hampshire director lobbied in 2020 for 1630 Fund — the year the left-wing dark money group spent $410M supporting Biden/Democrats
His name? Tyler Clark: he also lobbied in 2023 for the American Federation of Teachers and ACLU
NEW: Rep. Bobby Rush has largely voted remotely since May 2020, when the practice was authorized.
But while doing so, he has spent about $61K on travel/events and even proxy voted on traveling days, a DCNF review of records dating back to May 2020 found.
Scoop: Newly leaked data to me from a whistleblower in the ad industry sheds light on how Group M, a major media investment group, blacklisted conservative media outlets and labeled them as "disinformation" or "hate speech" before the 2020 presidential election.
BREAKING: Starting in 2011, the FBI secretly coordinated without congressional approval alongside hospitals to strip U.S. citizens of their rights to own, use or buy firearms, according to a trove of internal documents obtained by
@dcexaminer
EXCLUSIVE story today in
@FDRLST
— Ibram X. Kendi was paid nearly $45,000 by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for a three-hour lecture.
The critical race theory activist also made the school delete his remarks from a private server. Story below:
Newly unearthed emails between the Obama White House and Hunter Biden further show Joe Biden "lied" about being unaware of Hunter's foreign business dealings,
@RepJamesComer
tells
@dcexaminer
NEW: The State Department-funded Global Disinformation Index is likely violating federal law by redacting its financial disclosures exclusively mailed to
@dcexaminer
— despite GDI blacklisting conservative media for "opaque ownership structures" 🧵
NEW: Fix the Court, an Arabella Advisors-linked group demanding Supreme Court "transparency" for financial disclosures, is in complete disarray after unwittingly leaking its donors to
@dcexaminer
"I just fucked up," its director Gabe Roth tells me.
Asked about how much J6 footage has been released, Capitol Police tells me "all footage" has.
But when asked to what entity, the spokesperson admits the footage has not been released to the American people but rather to the J6 Committee and the DOJ.
SCOOP: The Department of Homeland Security/its CISA had privately "recommended" the State Department contact the Election Integrity Partnership, which worked to suppress speech on social media before the 2020 presidential election, according to internal emails
Breaking:
@dcexaminer
obtained two emails in connection to
@JudiciaryGOP
's Facebook subpoena showing how the NGO Center for Countering Digital Hate quietly amassed influence in the Biden White House as an "expert" to thwart alleged COVID disinformation.
A NEW
@dcexaminer
analysis of federal documents reveals the Tides Center — a massive left-wing dark money group financing recent pro-Hamas protests — has been routed over $81 million in taxpayer-backed contracts/grants since 2006.
Adam Kinzinger’s PAC counts ex-Trump aide Sarah Matthews - who testified before him for J6 committee hearing - as a media contact
She testified in July. How long has she been employed by Country First?
EXCLUSIVE: DHS-tied “misinformation” researcher Kate Starbird, who recently appeared on 60 Minutes, personally advised Big Tech on content moderation — she testified behind closed doors to Congress 🧵
@dcexaminer
reviewed the transcript, which hasn't been publicly released
A veteran prosecutor quietly advising Trump-Special Counsel Jack Smith donated $5,600 to Biden's campaign and almost $7,000 to other Democrat causes between 2018 and 2022, financial disclosures show
NEW
@dcexaminer
New: Congressional Republicans, led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, are demanding the FBI "remove" records on Americans pressured into waiving away their gun rights through 'unconstitutional' means.
@dcexaminer
EXCLUSIVE: Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is launching an investigation into GoFundMe after the platform removed the Canadian 'Freedom Convoy' fundraiser.
@realDailyWire
The Department of Homeland Security hired a literal former spokesperson for the PLO and put her in charge of vetting "asylum" seekers
While working as an Asylum Officer, she remained an open pro-Hamas extremist who hates all Jews who don't condemn Israel
The FBI secretly pressured Americans into signing forms that relinquish their rights to own, buy or even use firearms, according to a trove of internal documents and communications obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
See the full story here.
NEW: Pre-K students in Illinois were told to draw a "trans pride flag" and "dance to a song about rainbow colors," documents reviewed by
@realDailyWire
show.
You can be “a boy or girl or both or neither, or something else," the Pre-K students were told.
NEW: PayPal is facing pressure from
@SenMarcoRubio
and
@SenTedCruz
to remove the account of Black Lives Matter Chicago after it amplified pro-Hamas content on social media.
"PayPal should vigorously enforce their Terms of Service," Rubio told me
New: The Center for Countering Digital Hate, a “disinformation” tracker sued by
@elonmusk
and subpoenaed by
@Jim_Jordan
, has shared close ties to British gov’t officials and staffers, records show
NEW: The top-ranking DOJ prosecutor in DC — supervising Jan. 6 cases and whom allegedly refused to prosecute Hunter Biden in DC — represented various Qatari entities, including its Hamas-tied government, and banks accused of financing terror
READ:
NEW from
@JerryDunleavy
and me: The FBI has received a series of questions from Jim Jordan over its handling of “secret informants” amid revelations the program has been marred by red flags -- such as paying Christopher Steele and Igor Danchenko.
Biden’s DOJ is pushing for a special master to be appointed in the Mar-a-Lago probe who has donated thousands to Democrats and was tapped by Cuomo to review sex harassment allegations against him.
NEWS: Embattled Biden judicial nominee Adeel Mangi issued an apology to the Senate Judiciary Committee Saturday for failing to disclose his role at a 2022 event w/ anti-Israel activists that was unearthed by
@dcexaminer
last week
EXCLUSIVE: READ Republican PA Senate candidate Kathy Barnette’s
@Kathy4Truth
DD 214 military documents confirming her service.
Barnette forwarded the documents minutes ago, claiming she’s light on staff, reacting to news of her campaign not sending WEX/WFB the docs.
NEW: Following multiple
@dcexaminer
“Disinformation Inc” reports, Microsoft has removed conservative websites from its blacklist amid an internal investigation, according to internal data and whistleblowers
It’s unclear if this is permanent.
BREAKING: McAuliffe-Linked Law Firm, NSBA Fighting Student Who Said She Was Gang-Raped, Asks Supreme Court To Alter Title IX To Diminish Victims Rights
- via
@lukerosiak
in
@realDailyWire
The staffer in Sen. Cardin's office who reportedly filmed himself having sex and, according to Rep. Max Miller confronted him over Israel support, looks to have published a Buzzfeed article titled "11 Photos that Will Totally Change Your Mind About Iran"
Sen. Richard Blumenthal's family bought between $250K - $500K worth of Intel stock before the Democrat voting in favor of the government handing
semiconductor manufacturers (like Intel) billions in cash.
First piece with
@DailyCaller
News Foundation
In September, we reported at
@DailyCaller
that the FBI secretly stripped 15 Americans of their gun rights.
Now,
@dcexaminer
has exclusively obtained 8 internal FBI documents showing more Americans lost their rights than previously known.
BREAKING: Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich's wife helps lead the New Mexico organization accused by Jewish musician
@matisyahu
of antisemitism for canceling his show this week, records show
NEW: Anti-Israel organizers behind the violent DNC protest Wednesday can thank left-wing dark money kingmakers ranging from DNC megadonor George Soros to Arabella Advisors for keeping their lights on, documents reveal.
@dcexaminer
NEW in
@DailyCaller
-- Biden's new "racial equity" committee counts two members who lead nonprofits that have raked in over $15.7 million between 2016 and 2020 from George Soros' Open Society Foundations network, according to a review of grants.
Scoop: Biden's State Department sent congressman Darrell Issa a letter doubling down on its $100,000 grant to the Global Disinformation Index, which
@dcexaminer
revealed is covertly blacklisting conservative media
The letter can be read in full below
Scoop: Ex-Twitter executive Vijaya Gadde suggested to her Department of Homeland Security advisory committee colleagues they coordinate with the Global Disinformation Index, a state-funded entity blacklisting conservatives, according to documents.
Scoop: Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy admitted he made false claims about his voting history after
@dcexaminer
confronted the 2024 Republican contender with state election records.
New: Left-wing Wisconsin judge Janet Protasiewicz was backed by the same activists paying Marc Elias as he now sues over congressional maps.
The indirect financial ties means the justice should recuse from the major case, Republicans tell
@dcexaminer
NEW: Top virologists who initially flirted with the COVID-19 lab leak theory, but reversed course, oversaw projects that have received $25 Million from Dr. Anthony Fauci's NIH, according to government records reviewed by
@dcexaminer
A man who entered the U.S. Capitol on January 6 faces 20 years. Footage shows police let him go in, and he says an officer told him he could.
Alan Dershowitz, his attorney, told
@realDailyWire
, "He just intended to protest."
See the full story below.
NEW: Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaigns from 2016 and 2020 are being fined $15,000 for employing illegal aliens, according to a ruling not yet made public by the FEC.
NEW: Parents in Knox County, Tennessee, are suing the Board of Education after a mask mandate was implemented for 60,000+ students.
@pnjaban
's law firm, representing the TN group, tell
@realDailyWire
the mandate is an "overreach of power."
NEW: A Beverly Hills charity funded by Hollywood celebs like Adam McKay and Kendall from Succession are behind extreme climate protests, like the tomato soup Van Gogh vandalizing in 2022, according to tax forms and other docs reviewed by
@dcexaminer
Here are portions of the documents:
1)
@dcexaminer
was leaked censorship grant records from protected source the State Department gave to lawmakers
2) State Department claims without evidence full House committee is source and threatens to obstruct ongoing investigation
SCOOP: The Ford Foundation is the latest top liberal grantmaker that informed
@dcexaminer
it will not be donating in the future to the Palestinian terror-tied Alliance for Global Justice.
NYT reports today on the lawsuit filed by
@FDRLST
and
@realDailyWire
against the State Department on GDI being funneled $100K while censoring conservative media — a grant revelation first reported in
@dcexaminer
nearly a year ago
NEW: The Daily Wire and Federalist, joined by the State of Texas, are suing the State Department for "one of the most egregious government operations to censor the American press" in history, extensively citing GDI reporting from myself in
@dcexaminer
Scoop: John Catsimatidis, a billionaire/Trump megadonor, tells
@dcexaminer
he's ruling out supporting DeSantis for president because the governor doesn't answer his phone calls
Catsimatidis says DeSantis doesn't answer his Florida friends' calls either
NEW: The January 6 Committee hired an investigative consultant married to a top gov't official that two watchdogs tell the
@DailyCaller
News Foundation may have a major "conflict of interest"
Pelosi fled the podium during a presser Thursday after being asked if her husband trades stocks based on info she gives
"No absolutely not," she said, after the
@DailyCaller
News Foundation first reported on Paul's chip stock buy before a subsidy vote.
PT 3: DISINFORMATION INC
Microsoft's Xandr, which follows Global Disinformation Index's conservative blacklist, has been internally flagging sites and taking steps to defund/deplatform them, according to data leaked to
@dcexaminer
and whistleblowers.
NEW, Disinformation Inc: The State Department-backed National Endowment for Democracy granted over $315K in 2021 to the Global Disinformation Index, which is secretly blacklisting conservative news.
The Biden administration could soon face subpoena from the House GOP in connection to a congressional investigation on apparent censorship of conservative media,
@dcexaminer
scoops this morning
Exclusive: GOP
@RepTroyNehls
is asking Tesla CEO Elon Musk for his help to ensure the safety of the Texas power grid as Americans buy more electric vehicles.
New: The White House has quietly poached a senior attorney from the DOJ who worked on the Trump classified documents investigation, which Republicans have decried as politically motivated
Story here:
NEW: Outed members of an Iranian government-controlled propaganda network tied to Joe Biden's Iran Envoy Rob Malley—who's on leave over an investigation into his handling of classified material—have scored 10 visits to Biden's White House since 2022:
NEW: Self-described ‘nonpartisan watchdogs’ pressuring Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito to report certain trips and gifts pocketed millions $$$ in 2022 from the largest Democratic dark money network in the US - Arabella Advisors
Gretchen Whitmer has repeatedly sought to slam her GOP challenger Tudor Dixon for her "special interests" ties.
Nevertheless, Whitmer's campaign has raked in over $1 million from billionaires and around $48K from Hollywood celebs since 2021.
NEW: Well-funded “disinformation” monitors are secretly blacklisting + trying to defund conservative news outlets, likely costing the news companies huge ad dollars, according to sources familiar with the matter, memos, and emails obtained by
@dcexaminer
SCOOP: Harvard, MIT, UPenn, + Cornell are being investigated by the House Ways and Means Committee over their tax-exempt status as part of a probe into their “failure to protect Jewish students from discrimination and harassment,”
@dcexaminer
learns
Washington Post ‘Clarifies’ Error-Riddled Hit Piece On Top Anti-CRT Investigative Journalist
"The piece was fundamentally dishonest,” Rufo told
@FDRLST
. “It was hyper-partisan and the reporter, frankly, is a hack.”
The Washington Post is set to publish a story tomorrow taking aim at conservative groups requesting documents from universities over their ties to “disinformation” tracking and the US government, according to a source familiar with the matter.
NEW tonight: Judge Tanya Chutkan for the new Trump 2020 election case poured thousands $$ into Barack Obama's campaign coffers and also boosted Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), according to financial disclosures reviewed by
@dcexaminer
Emails between Hunter Biden + Obama White House may escalate House GOP's inquiry into the Biden family, lawmakers tell
@dcexaminer
The emails were obtained by
@America1stLegal
and show numerous examples of Hunter scoring WH influence when Dad was VP.
GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville disclosed in a filing he snagged up to $265,000 worth of Intel stock just days before Joe Biden signed the CHIPS Act into law.
The purchase is ripe for voters to be alarmed, watchdogs told me.
House Republicans are calling for DOJ to immediately search Joe Biden's Senate records at the University of Delaware for classified documents, which have been quietly hidden from the public eye for years,
@dcexaminer
learns
In 2021, UC Berkeley quietly funded a deep-pocketed liberal dark money nonprofit with ties to the 'defund police' movement.
The payment has come to light following a watchdog obtaining all of California's expenditures for FY 2021.
Exclusive: The Biden administration is being sued by a federal watchdog for keeping ethics waivers for officials at the Department of Education hidden from the public eye.
November 2019: FBI is said to become aware of *authenticity* of Hunter Biden laptop
March 2023: FBI director Christopher Wray refuses to to verify the contents of Hunter Biden’s hard drive were not part of foreign disinfo campaign.
Tonight on
@IngrahamAngle
, I discussed our "Disinformation Inc" series in the Washington Examiner detailing how the Department of State is bankrolling a group secretly blacklisting and trying to defund the free press.
Breaking News in Disinformation Inc. World
Oracle is officially severing its relationship with the State Department-funded Global Disinformation Index, which has been secretly blacklisting conservative media outlets,
@dcexaminer
exclusively confirms.
WATCH: Gaza journalist Plestia Alaqad shows the reality of life in Gaza – watching Israel destroy your neighbors’ homes and lives, knowing that it will destroy yours next.
Over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, half of them children under 15, are living this nightmare right now.