Ajit Pai is a goofy jerk of a person. Making fun of him for looking like and being a goofball might be seen as “cheap,” if he wasn’t such a raging liar and corrupt official. The chairman of the FCC has used his position and the Republican majority to roll back the consumer protections offered by net neutrality regulations. Pai’s FCC has also tried to kick hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans off of broadband service in their most dire hour, while attacking the Lifeline program depended on by millions of low-income families. The commission members have also lied about virtually everything they have done, are doing, and plan to do.
When telecom shill Pai and the FCC opened up their proposed killing of net neutrality protections to the public, their comment system very quickly went down—leaving millions of voices that favored net neutrality protections ignored. Pai and his crew of vampires quickly blamed a a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for the comment system failure. For some time many have been calling Ajit Pai and his FCC a bunch of liars living in a bag of deceit, pointing to evidence that strongly implied the FCC was not telling the truth about an attack in order to avoid dealing with the very real public disappointment in the FCC’s new net neutrality policies. Meanwhile, real evidence of cyber-misconduct was largely ignored by the FCC: fraudulent accounts supporting the rolling back of net neutrality protections led to an enormous lawsuit in New York.
On Sunday, Pai released a statement that magically explained that yes, the FCC has been lying this whole time.
I want to thank the Office of the Inspector General, both for its thorough effort to get to the bottom of what happened and for the comprehensive report it has issued. With respect to the report’s findings, I am deeply disappointed that the FCC’s former Chief Information Officer (CIO), who was hired by the prior Administration and is no longer with the Commission, provided inaccurate information about this incident to me, my office, Congress, and the American people. This is completely unacceptable. I’m also disappointed that some working under the former CIO apparently either disagreed with the information that he was presenting or had questions about it, yet didn’t feel comfortable communicating their concerns to me or my office.
This fake DDoS attack didn’t happen during the Obama administration. We are truly through the looking glass here.
