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Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) called out Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for a history of threatening witnesses at a hearing on government censorship Thursday.

At a meeting of the House Judiciary Committee, Plaskett interrupted witnessRobert F. Kennedy Jr. to note that he was being given more time to speak than expected.

"Is it going to be 10 minutes for every witness?" she asked.

"We'll give you five minutes, but we're pretty lax with this," Jordan stated.

"I've seen you gavel down on quite a number of witnesses," Plaskett noted. "Let's just watch the time for all the witnesses."

"And if you want to cut him off and censor him some more, you're welcome to do it," Jordan jabbed.

"Oh, that's not my job. That's your job," she replied. "Why don't you threaten a witness so that they can not want to be a witness?"

Most recently, Jordan threatened FBI Director Christopher Wray with contempt.

https://www.alternet.org/matt-taibbi/

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Matt Taibbi could face years in prison over 'false and misleading' testimony suggests House Democrat

Gideon Rubin and Raw Story April 21, 2023

A House Democrat has threatened journalist Matt Taibbi with imprisonment over his testimony before Congress last month in connection with the Twitter Files.

Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) in a letter to Taibbi alleges his March 9 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Weaponization “has since been revealed to be false and misleading.”

Plaskett’s threat to imprison a journalist drew instant rebuke and at least one call for her to resign.

“Lawmakers should not be sending these kinds of letters to journalists. Ironic this is from a ‘weaponization’ committee member,” media journalist and former Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter tweeted.

The Intercept’s Ryan Grim tweeted: “Dem Rep. Stacey Plaskett is threatening @mtaibbi with prison over his Twitter Files testimony. The testimony is actually accurate-though she’s referring to an error in a tweet that’s been corrected. That’s beside the point: To call for a reporter to be jailed is beyond the pale.”

Grim in a reply called for the congresswoman’s resignation.

“She should resign from Congress for this and at minimum should be removed from the committee. The press is not the enemy of the people and threatening reporters with prison — especially as we work to free Evan in Moscow — is reckless and dangerous,” he tweeted.

The letter, addressed March 13, cites an error Taibbi admitted to during an April 6 appearance on the Medhi Hasan Show on MSNBC among his chief transgressions.

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The letter, addressed March 13, cites an error Taibbi admitted to during an April 6 appearance on the Medhi Hasan Show on MSNBC among his chief transgressions.

“During that interview, Mr. Hasan pointed out that your March 9 tweet added a parenthetical [A] to the acronym CIS, changing the meaning of the term from ‘Center for Internet Security’ —a private organization —to ‘Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency,” Plaskett’s letter said.

“This mistake is important because, by adding an ‘A,’ you weren’t making a harmless spelling error. Rather, you were alleging that CISA – a government entity—was working with the EIP to have posts removed from social media. When presented with this misinformation, you acknowledged that you had made ‘an error’ by intentionally altering the acronym CIS and you subsequently deleted your erroneous tweet.”

She further alleged the Griftopia author’s reporting to be “rife with numerous other false or misleading claims.”

“I would like to provide you with an opportunity to correct the hearing recordto ensure accuracy in a congressional hearing and so that the public and their representatives are not misled,” her letter said.

https://www.mediamatters.org/congress/her-opening-remarks-house-judiciary-hearing-rep-stacey-plaskett-says-social-media

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Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) clashed with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Thursday after she accused Republicans of using a "playbook" that includes "false narratives" about the 2020 election and the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.

At a House Oversight hearing on government "weaponization," Plaskett blasted Jordan for only providing access to documentation minutes before the event. She compared the tactics to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) decision to give Fox News host Tucker Carlson thousands of hours of video from Jan. 6.

"This is unacceptable," she explained. "I'm ready for it. I don't know if a lot of other people are, but just as it was unacceptable for Kevin McCarthy to provide 41,000 hours of sensitive security footage to a biased talking head in an effort to rewrite what happened on January 6th."

"This is a new Republican playbook, apparently. Risk American safety and security to score political points," Plaskett insisted.

"The gentlelady's word should be struck," one Republican on the panel demanded. "That is out of line and outside the rules of this committee."

Plaskett objected.

"You don't get to determine what's struck down," Jordan snapped, declining to take down her words.

"This is a false narrative," Plaskett said of the hearing. "We're engaging in false narratives here, and we [Democrats] are going to tell the truth."

Following Plaskett's opening statement, Jordan felt the need to push back.

"You guys don't care," he remarked on Jan. 6. "You don't care. You don't want the American people to see what happened. The full video, transparency, you don't want that."

"And you don't want [the testimony of] two journalists who have been named personally by the Biden administration FTC in a letter," Jordan added. "They're here to tell their story. And frankly, I think they're brave individuals for being willing to come after they've been named in a letter from the Biden FTC."

"Is this your question time?" Plaskett asked.

"No, I'm responding to your ridiculous statements you made in your in your opening statement," Jordan shot back.

"OK, well, let's get on with it," Plaskett said.

"Oh, now we want to get on with it. So you can say all the things you want?" Jordan complained.

"I did in my opening statement as well as you had an opening statement," Plaskett pointed out. "You said what you needed to say in your opening statement. And I, as the ranking member, have used my time!"

Watch the video below from the U.S. House.

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