Neither is the Honorable Ted Lieu, apparently.
As Musk releases information on the Child-porn-to-Jan-6 switching tactics used by the FBI to artificially boost the number of “Internal (right-wing, of course) insurrectionists” being “investigated”. (The short version: That more agents are put to work looking for insurrectionists MUST mean that there’s a whole SLEW of ’em out there to be found!)

But Taibbi can take care of himself….
…along with the obliterating backup of an FBI whistleblower…:
“Taibbi Hits Back After Rep. Ted Lieu Calls Him A Liar”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-whistleblower-slams-ted-lieu-says-he-was-moved-child-porn-cases-focus-j6

Twitter as a corporate entity with tendrils deep in the government has become the mother company

To destroy those demons, EVERYTHING is permitted.
Encouraged.
Legalized.
Trumpeted.
This is what is referred to as “The Soul” of the Democratic Party.

One might have assumed that those who really ought to know better would understand what’s going on.
But one would be, in all too many cases, dead wrong.
In their defense, one COULD make the claim that the “low dishonest decade” started almost 90 years ago, while Auschwitz was 80 years past; and who could POSSIBLY remember all that after such a long time has gone by…?

That will, of course, never happen.

Because Republican house members only care about bringing pork back to their districts so as to be re-elected.

I don’t know whether Roth was the only one who got the FBI’s emails, but my guess is that Gadde (the Twitter attorney) got some too. They were the 2 head censorship honchos. This was in addition to 80 FBI agents working on Twitter, people like James Baker embedded there, and weekly face-to-face meetings with at least Roth and perhaps others. Perhaps also phone calls? Then of course there were other agencies of various kinds, some of them governmental and some NGOs, etc.

I’ve noticed that Taibbi is not the most precise writer in the world. Of course, he’s working under great pressure on this, including time pressure.

Then 4. says that 150 emails passed between the FBI and Yoel Roth over an 11 month period. Well, … Roth is only one person, or was he thee person in contact with the FBI? That number 150 doesn’t seem like a lot to me, though maybe there were many others through other channels.

OTOH, almost all these emails are likely inappropriate or illegal.

44.The takeaway: what most people think of as the “deep state” is really a tangled collaboration of state agencies, private contractors, and (sometimes state-funded) NGOs. The lines become so blurred as to be meaningless.

Fusion GPS founded by Glenn Simpson, the weasel formerly of the Wall Street Journal, was a contractor to the FBI and, for a time, had complete access to the entire NSA surveillance database. Unbelievable. I’m surprise that NSA head Adm. Mike Rogers, who blew the whistle on this, stayed out of jail. And hasn’t been Epsteined.