BARTIROMO: “So talk to us about the main revelations from all of these Twitter files. There’s been a lot, I want you to suppress it into what’s most important for us.”

TAIBBI: “I think the major revelation of the Twitter files so far is that we’ve discovered an elaborate bureaucracy of what you might call public-private censorship. Basically, companies like Twitter have a system by which they receive ten tens of thousands of requests for action on various accounts, typically through the DHS and FBI, but these requests were coming from basically every agency in the government. We’ve seen them from the HHS, from the Treasury, from the DOD, even from the CIA, and they will send basically long lists of accounts in Excel spreadsheet files and ask for action on those accounts. And in many cases, Twitter is complying.”

BARTIROMO: “Yeah, I mean we’ve been talking about the fact that the if FBI had a task force of 80 agents or 80 people at at the FBI who were tasked with just dealing with social media, but it was many more than that, right? You’re estimating up to a thousand people throughout government.”

TAIBBI: “Right, because that foreign influence task force only refers to the people in the FBI, DHS and the Director of National Intelligence Office. But actually, this includes people in a variety of agencies, both federal and state. We’ve seen requests from basically all 50 states, most of those go through DHS to Twitter. So, I would estimate that personnel somewhere between 500-1,000 people. That’s just based on what we’ve seen so far. It may be more than that.”

[This doesn’t look like a case of an occasional overstep. It looks much more like a nascent Big Brother program within DHS, the DoJ, and even Congress. We need to get to the bottom of this immediately and identify every single gov’t official that attempted to interfere with the American right to free speech. — Ed]