Ken Klippenstein: Why I Left The Intercept

Ken Klippenstein discusses why he is moving on from The Intercept. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Your Support is Crucial to the Show: tyt.com/team
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"I resigned from The Intercept today in order to pursue a new kind of journalism here on Substack, one more hard-hitting than what’s possible in the corporate world. The Intercept has been taken over by suits who have abandoned its founding mission of fearless and adversarial journalism, and I can’t continue in an environment where fear of funders is more important than journalism itself. On a brighter note, though, I’m leaving DC to move back to Wisconsin, excited to embrace independence both in my journalism and from the Washington bubble.
The reason so much of the news media sucks is they aren’t writing for you. They’re writing for their sources in Washington, for the industries they cover, for rich people, and for fancy awards committees. Just take a look at the ads they run: for investment banks, defense contractors, oil companies. Unless you’re in the market for any of these products, they aren’t writing for you."
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[@Kavafy]

Ken Klippenstein is the real name of the assistant from Microsoft Office.

[@TheCrabError]

so disappointing, i thought the intercept was better than this. I had no clue about the changes ☹️

[@JohnCavendish-ql4jc]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA HIHIHI HIHIHI HIHIHI

[@JohnCavendish-ql4jc]

Can I quote you ?

[@JohnCavendish-ql4jc]

If you order lobster and the waiter brings you crab, It's a Crab Error.

[@JohnCavendish-ql4jc]

This the funniest joke ever !! I mean by far.

[@JohnCavendish-ql4jc]

I want to use your comment as a line to hit on women in bars. I would go over to a girl and I would sigh..and she'll be like..Oh what's wrong, rough day? Then I'll be like, no I'm just disapointed, I thought the Intercept was better than this. I had no clues about the changes..and she's gonna be like. What the hell are you talking about ?..So I'll be like. Hey you wanna go to my place or something ?....

[@elmonstro1635]

Cenks smile when klipety klips said it’s good to be home 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@plp666]

Thanks for having Ken on!! ❤

[@lyndakorner2383]

The real reason he left is about the hit piece he wrote smearing whistle-blower David Grusch, the former liaison for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office on the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (U.A.P.) Task Force that Congress established. In his official duties, Grusch, who held the highest security clearances in the Federal government under his Title 50 authorities and who had been read into more than 2,000 special-access programs, conducted formal interviews with more than 40 high-ranking officials with high security clearances who said that they were part of a compartmented special-access program that was capturing and reverse-engineering materials and technologies from non-human intelligences (N.H.I.). He demanded to be read into said program, but he was illegally denied. And, he asserts that he suffered reprisals for his efforts. He filed a formal complaint with the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community who opened an investigation, found the allegations "credible and urgent," in his words, and referred Grusch to Congress where he gave more than eleven and a half hours of closed-door classified testimony, and other evidence, to the intelligence committees and who provided the House of Representatives with unclassified sworn testimony, under oath and under the penalty of perjury, in a public hearing last year. Grusch asserts that a rogue element within the military-industrial complex has been operating this program across the public and private sectors illegally and without Congressional oversight by abusing carve-outs from this oversight in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Last year, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer introduced the U.A.P. Disclosure Act of 2023, which passed the Senate but which was inexplicably gutted by key House Republicans before being included in the annual defense-appropriations bill. The pending legislation defined non-human intelligences and referred to them 22 times, and the pending legislation also made abusing the carve-outs in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 in order to conceal N.H.I.-related programs explicitly illegal. The Atomic Energy Act of 1954 is the reason that the Department of Energy is the nexus of the cover-up, and Klippenstein's father is highly placed within that department. Klippenstein's father even studied, and published research on, life in the atmosphere of the moon, Titan. Klippenstein admits that he was fed information from members of the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense in order to write the hit piece smearing David Grusch, and, presumably, these individuals are some of the same people Grusch has accused of exacting reprisals against him. And, presumably, Klippenstein is on the payroll of the public-private organization (operating mainly within other organizations) in order to maintain the secrecy and to discredit any information about the operation through Intelligence Community tradecraft. Grusch, himself, has said that this rogue element has "a sophisticated disinformation campaign," and journalist Leslie Kean has said that her sources have told her that this campaign's budget is larger than the budget of the capturing and reverse-engineering of the N.H.I. materials and technologies.

[@lyndakorner2383]

Why is "The Young Turks" lacking objectivity with regard to Klippenstein? He is making fools of you. A little bit of research into his background is all anyone needs to know in order to realize that he is slimy, duplicitous, and manipulative.

[@Globovoyeur]

I've been hearing claims that the government is hiding alien technology, and even the bodies of aliens, for all my adult life (I'm 77.) The latest alleged UFO whistleblowers are Luis Elizondo and your David Grusch. Why do you suppose no one has ever produced a piece of alien hardware or a sample of tissue from an alien body -- or even clear video of an alien spacecraft? The simplest answer is that no one has ever produced real evidence because no one HAS real evidence.

[@jesse_cole]

I'm pretty sure Ken Klippenstein got all his jobs in media based on his name alone. That's the most "I work in news" name I've ever heard.

[@NewerSwagger-gp3hj]

You re describing "HAVING A GREAT REPUTATION". Ken is EXCELLENT at his job. That's why he s standing out. That's why you know his name...

[@lyndakorner2383]

Research Klippenstein's father. There is a reason Klippenstein was the person who wrote that hit piece smearing whistle-blower David Grusch last year. Klippenstein is slimy and duplicitous.

[@jesse_cole]

@@NewerSwagger-gp3hj OK, settle down and learn what a joke is.

[@MrChub65]

Thanks!

[@alexanderthompson-rq7nx]

yes

[@free2express08]

❤

[@jeffreysmith2069]

Once a- snake shed's it-' -skin, it-'s still a snake.

[@montanamountainmen6104]

Who cares if some dude walks off the job. Millions do it everyday and have for ever.

[@Unpopularity]

It's not easy to just replace all people. It affects the stability of staff and employer strategies along with longterm viewership.

[@juanwilliams3423]

Not true another cover up hachet job by crazy individuals

[@montanamountainmen6104]

@@Unpopularity Everyone is replaceable.

[@Poxell91]

Ken Klippenstein is one of the best investigative journalists in the country. You don't replace talent like his just by saying so.

[@robinnewhouse1563]

​@@Poxell91you mean the guy with a Twitter meltdown because ppl make fun of the looks of majorie garbage Greene? He is just another grifter.

[@gallardosbull]

Excellent conversation. Manes me worried for journalism yet inspired!

[@vernonbandy2597]

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[@vernonbandy2597]

B

[@pvampman]

Isn't this the same guy that wrote that hit piece on David gresh about the UFOs?

[@free2express08]

I really appreciate this interview and Cenk and Ana's fair questions.

[@-Empowered]

This was Excellent

[@julianvega2677]

I used to follow the intercept, but they lost me maybe ten years ago. Whatever change they made a year ago didn't make it more enticing. I agree that we are generally experiencing issues with top heavy management and administration. Happening also at universities. Maybe ken could write about that. What is the perceived motivation for doing that? The truth is that ken jumped from a sinking ship that obviously isn't going to make it, as Cenk point out. He decided to make a dramatic exit and advertise his new substack.

[@Bobsbusters]

Tyt is honest- 😂

[@alexanderthompson-rq7nx]

yes, they are regardless of the emoji you used

[@thesinaclwon]

Kenny Klips!!!!

[@user-hz9dw5ly5t]

Anna! ❤

[@ericpmoss]

We see this same sort of administration-heavy org charts polluting universities.

[@faafafineartist]

♥

[@johnpincombe9824]

Kenny Klips🫶🏼

[@stevensica5918]

Eva Longoria. WTH does she have to do with charity?

[@AuthurFreeman]

If y’all ever sell out ima diss tf outta yall. Im a rapper but I gotta stay incognito 🥸

[@ceterisparibus8966]

What?

[@robinnewhouse1563]

They sold out a long time ago. Where the disks track?

[@AuthurFreeman]

@@robinnewhouse1563 I don’t think so yet bc they’re still able to talk 💩 about Israel so far. When they discontinue and are unable to say Jew or Zionist or israel then we’ve confirmed they’re not like us

[@roseorozco1384]

Don't trust Eva Longoria

[@ceterisparibus8966]

Why not?

[@yiarkungfu]

Kenny Klips!

[@naejin]

OMG, was Ken a auctioneer or something? His pronunciation is so fast. I don't think I could keep following him if he didn't keep saying um & uh to slow him down.

[@Savethepeople2004]

Ken is off to bigger and better things

[@alexanderthompson-rq7nx]

yes

[@Kryojenix]

Ken costs nearly 3 times to subscribe to as what the Intercept does, dangit!

[@haiderk3246]

TYT Rocks 🙏

[@Rascal2944]

Sounds to me like they didnt like his style of reporting.

[@johnpjones182]

Please don't bring up UFO's.

[@davidludden260]

i will certainly miss the Intercept😔

[@SajidM12]

Fantastic journalist joins the team.

[@darrenchapel3791]

I’ve always liked Ken but it seems like he’s being overly critical of the intercept in an insanely difficult position. Everyone else in independent media is hurting and doing something similar. Maybe they shouldn’t have hired all those extra people/general counsel, but they were trying to solve the problem by doing that.

[@Kryojenix]

Maybe. Maybe not. Difficult times.

[@NewerSwagger-gp3hj]

Ken was doinf a great job there... that's sad.

[@garyrutledge7639]

So have the bets started yet on how soon we'll next be seeing, "Why I'm leaving TYT" by Ken Klipenstein?

[@TopTop000]

From Glenn Greenwald and the Snowden story to one of its reporters working as press secretary for The Squad . The intercept is a joke now

[@SM-lz2nc]

diversify yo bonds

[@lau_dhondt]

good man

[@garretjones9425]

What the hell is the intercept?

[@Kryojenix]

Whoa - scoop!

[@spaghetti.lee-69]

His " Hit Piece" on UFO whistleblower David Grusch was SHAMEFUL. Dont think we Forgot Kenny-Boy !!

[@YEC999]

Why does he say "it is good to be home?"

[@silkcitysocialist420]

Did you listen to the video/story? He was is a former TYT colleague. It's the first thing Ana says.

[@YEC999]

@@silkcitysocialist420 Ah that's why it's strange...

[@RevDrKNA-qw7yp]

The WP lost its claims of honesty and integrity long before it began losing money

[@garretjones9425]

BORING!!!!!

[@tylerharris4392]

the media industry is going downhill

[@marksilvernail4420]

Did you just wake up Rip Van Winkle?

[@YEC999]

Well the Intercept didn't become sh**t 1.5 years ago it turned to shit at least 8 years ago so: not interested..

[@grahamjones5400]

Kenny went from one right-wing billionaire funded company to another right wing billionaire funded company.

[@lyndakorner2383]

Anyone who thinks Klippenstein has any credibility at this point is a fool.

[@aquamanvonfloozerhoffen5067]

Finally, an answer to the nagging question the nation has been begging to have answered: Why did Ken Klippeinstein leave The Intercept?

[@AWildBard]

I was curious.

[@aquamanvonfloozerhoffen5067]

@@AWildBard 🤣"I was saying Boo-urns..."

[@Etheralysium]

The intercept was the newspaper that published. Edward snowden's leaks and was run by Glenn greenwald. I think the story is very interesting. If you don't, then stop watching and watch something else.

[@josephhuman7390]

Who or What is Intercept? I listen to a lot of News, Young Turks, Ben Shapiro, Breaking Points, Rising, Fox News, Megan Kelley, I never of Intercept, I'll have to check it out .

[@ericpmoss]

They have been excellent for years. I don't think the current execs are editing stories to mislead, but are more killing stories that are 'inconvenient'. So I don't think one has to worry about being lied to, but more that you just won't see all the stories you would have otherwise.

[@josephhuman7390]

@@ericpmoss ok I get what your saying, thanks.

[@JohnCavendish-ql4jc]

Glenn Greenwald was cofounder. I think it belongs to this French-American-Iranian bilionaire Pierre Omidyar.

[@user-sw7lz6cr7k]

Everyone is having financial issues and layoffs at all time high! But it Trumps fault no worries! another 4 years of Biden and we good!

[@davidvasquez6197]

Who's blaming Trump or Biden? Media is oversaturated. That's why they're struggling

[@eatmorenachos]

@@davidvasquez6197 oversaturated? BALONEY. News organizations are losing ad revenues to the Internet. More and more newspapers are closing every day. The ones that survive are being gobbled up by hedge funds, horse squeezing them for every dime and laying people off.

[@NewerSwagger-gp3hj]

Bidencomic is doing great. You have cognitive issue. By all metrics ( that's how WE know and mesure reality) USA is doing great. Fo touch some grass.

[@CobConstantz]

God damn which is it Ana? Klippen STINE or Klippen STEEN? JESUS unprofessional bullshit say the name correctly or not at all

[@talyahr3302]

Calm down lol

[@brtecson]

is there a diff

[@KTee-ks6fo]

To may to, to mah to

[@johnpjones182]

I always thought pronouncing it with a long i was an inside joke among them. Who knows?

[@sunshinesun101]

OMG This Commentary TOTALLY Reminds of the REASONS Jimmy Dore and Dave Rubin LEFT the YOUNG Terrds years AGO...Jimmy and Dave mentioned the trauma-drama, lack of diversity in thought but focus on DEI, lack of investigative stories, and over all ANNA K. distracting clothes...

[@Fatherturtle-im1ec]

Jimmy Dore is a right wing hack, And really all you got is talking about clothes?

[@LovelyIslandVacation-ch6wo]

why don’t you go watch them and their lame shows.. you can hear the same right wing talking points over and over until you die because right wingerism is a state of refusing new ideas or learning anything new.. how much anti woke bitching can you listen to white dudes spout before you get bored?

[@BlondeManNoName]

Jimmy Dore went from spitting in Alex Jones' mouth to sucking him off.

[@Stereolab2000]

Two of the greatest jerks on social media: Jimmy Bore and Rave Dubin. They deserve nothing but ridicule.

[@stackhat8624]

umm, Ken is talking about leaving The Intercept. You didnt even watch the video

[@jerryjones2818]

You act like " The Intercept" is a nationaly known publication. I consider myself a news junkie and have never heard of it.

[@Etheralysium]

If you don't know The Intercept You're probably not the biggest political junkie. It was the newspaper that published Edward snowden stuff and it was run by Glenn Greenwald.

[@YEC999]

Well than you are not really. The Intercept was founded by the Ebay founder Peter Omidyar "That journalism has a healthy future". They startet really good by publishing the sowden files. But then they became the typical system shills. Glenn Greenwald left and now it is a woke shithole..

[@jerryjones2818]

@@Etheralysium A newspaper? What kind of distribution? National? Local? Online?

[@Etheralysium]

@@jerryjones2818 everything's distributed on the internet now, but this one is full internet. Did you not see what I said though? It's where Edward Snowden's leaked The NSA spying program. It's not a small paper. It's a very big news company that works on the left end of the spectrum.

[@peachydls341]

Most uninteresting tyt segment of all time

[@tethergobrrr]

As someone with no particular talent, but who’s pretty good at administrative stuff like business analysis and statistics, I’ve ended up in countless bullshit jobs that shouldn’t exist. I’ve given up adding to the problem and am only working with animals from now on.. honest physical work that actually needs to be done.

[@JohnCavendish-ql4jc]

Same here. I used to be a computer engineer. Now I'm a hair dresser for squirrels.

[@tethergobrrr]

@@JohnCavendish-ql4jc I used to refer to myself as unskilled white collar labour during my time in public disservice. The one thing I did achieve was financial security for myself- used to call my wage the ‘big dole’ - government paying me lots to do nothing as opposed to very little to do nothing (under pressure) like standard welfare. My last work was as a handmaiden/estate agent for cats but I’ve moved to a rural area for family and am about to start working with Australian native animals (which will involve continuing to be an estate agent for colonisers favourite four legged mass murderers).

[@JohnCavendish-ql4jc]

@@tethergobrrr Don't bellittle your old work. It's a Human experience as worthy as any. You socialize, you gossip, you have fun at lunch, you fantasize about the newly hired hot accountant, you help decorate the Office Christmas tree...And now you're taking Care of animals...a New chapter. It's like that " little boxes" song except you're outdoors now, no longer in a box...

[@tethergobrrr]

@@JohnCavendish-ql4jc It was worse than you think.. I’ve depoliticised what I did by minimising it. A habit of living under gag laws for decades! I don’t know how much you know about Australia’s immigration system. Basically, I did less, worse than nothing. The better I was at what I did the more trouble I made. Better systems of surveillance, control, detention mean more of all those things. Identifying a risk manufactures an identified risk and a whole lot of work, etc etc I took the job - lots of roles, one contract - to change the culture and found a whole lot of people just like me doing things we didn’t necessarily believe in, protecting ourselves with the mantra that it was better we did it than someone who actually did believe in it. It’s true I learned a lot. I don’t judge people in those jobs. When I was in the trap, I was in the trap, until I had enough money to get out of it.

[@epicdroid-of3wo]

When people wake up they will finally leave TYT.

[@jodyhoskins6409]

The red pill is actually TYT , I was a cult member of Trump, all his flags, Israel worship, all of that, I thought I was a real American, I went Catholic - after I found out that the Protestants took out 7 books in the Bible. When you go Catholic you get educated. Mary the saints all of it. You wouldn't understand, because I never understood, I used to watch TYT meltdown like 100 times.. Trust me, Republicans are worse you don't even realize. You will never get it. Trust me I loved liberal tears, I always said Trump 2020; Trump went after his own ex press secretary , she was so loyal. You need to escape the cult mine. George Soros is not after you. Trump was pro life now he's not, Republicans banning the Bible. Seriously. Go independent..

[@1901jd]

i mean you believe easily debunked bullshit bro so idk what to tell you