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Did Federal Censors Swing the 2020 Election?

Libertarian Institute, November 14, 2022 Did Federal Censors Swing the 2020 Election? by Jim Bovard | Nov 14, 2022     Did the Russiagate conspiracy entitle the federal government to censor Americans forever? Did federal shenanigans swing the 2020 election? A new report reveals how a new federal agency and federal grantees exploited a 2016 […]

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New York Post: Democrats desperate to censor anyone that disagrees with them

New York Post, November 2, 2022 Democrats desperate to censor anyone that disagrees with them by James Bovard Federal agencies are censoring what you see online to protect America’s “cognitive infrastructure.” A report Monday from the left-wing Intercept revealed shocking details on how the FBI and Department of Homeland Security secretly affected the 2020 election […]

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My First Bash on Presidential Records Act (2004)

Yesterday’s New York Post piece on the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home discussed why the Presidential Records Act was a sham. I have been hitting this theme for almost 20 years.  Here’s my first piece on the topic – an excerpt from my 2004 book The Bush Betrayal (St. Martin’s Press).   This article was […]

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Feds Tried to Suppress My USA Today Articles – FFF Podcast

Lots of laughs as I joined Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling to talk about the Justice Department trying to squelch my articles at USA TODAY Opinion in the The Future of Freedom Foundation podcast. We also whupped up on the non-recession recession and a heap of other BS out of Washington. In his lead-in, Jacob […]

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Washington Times on Justice Dept. Effort to Suppress My USA Today Articles

washingtontimes.com  July 7, 2022 Records reveal Obama administration’s secret campaign to silence opinion writer By Ryan Lovelace Newly revealed Justice Department records show the Obama administration’s hidden censorship tactics to silence writer Jim Bovard’s criticism of then-Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. A top Justice Department official sought to intimidate USA Today into no longer […]

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Justice Department Pressured USA Today To Stop Publishing Me in 2015

Published by Libertarian Institute,  and republished by Counterpunch In 2015, Justice Department press chief Brian Fallon bitterly complained to USA Today editors about my articles walloping Attorney General Eric Holder, including”Eric Holder’s Lawless Legacy,” [Feb. 3, 2015] and “Eric Holder’s Police Shooting Record? Dismal,” [Aug. 20, 2014].  Fallon (who later became presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s […]

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The Latest Media Assault on Freedom

The Latest Media Assault on Freedom   b y James Bovard Prominent journalists are calling for the media to champion a “pro-democracy” bias in how they portray politicians and government agencies. But tub-thumping for democracy — or at least for politicians who claim to be pro-democracy — is a poor substitute for exposing the proliferation of […]

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