The Progressive Commentary Hour 4.2.24

Patrick Bergy is an IT security specialist, a former candidate for Supervisor of Elections, and an army veteran of the Afghanistan war. After leaving the military, he deployed around the world working as a military contractor providing IT support for the Department of Defense. One of Patrick's most notable projects was in pioneering social media psychological warfare, also known in the military as Interactive Internet Activities. This was at a time when social networks and smart phones were just taking off and Patrick understood their potential threat to American democracy and election integrity. IIA is basically the IT infrastructure behind fake news. In 2014, he started to speak out after observing how it was used in relation to the Michael Brown incident which sparked riots in cities. Patrick has written three books including an autobiography of his experiences, "Victim of the Swamp: How the Deep State Destroyed the 40 Year Old Private" and more recently two volumes of "Operation Shadowgate" about the efforts to suppress the banned documentary film Shadowgate and a tell-all about the nefarious collaborations between the government and the military industrial complex, the story behind Hunter Biden's laptop, and election corruption, and events leading up to January 6th.