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Leah Files arrived on the Shawn Ryan Show booked to do what she does: follow the money. The plan was TPUSA’s finances, the audit Charlie Kirk requested eight days before he was killed, and the surveillance state built around Flock Safety cameras now in thousands of American towns. Naming names is the job. Right before cameras rolled she was told she could not name Andreessen Horowitz or Peter Thiel. You cannot follow the money if the money is off-limits.
After the taping she followed it anyway. Shawn Ryan is an investor in Anduril, Shield AI, and Sesh. Those companies are backed by the same people she was told not to mention. Anduril’s founder met Netanyahu and senior Israeli officials; the company is building an Israel operation. Shield AI is backed by a16z. Sesh’s round was led by 8VC of Joe Lonsdale, Palantir co-founder, whose firm has a strategic partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Defense. Flock itself is funded by a16z and Thiel’s Founders Fund. The host who platforms independent-patriot conversations has money in the exact surveillance and dual-use tech stack his guest was restricted from discussing.
Shawn delayed the episode, citing serious concerns about the truthfulness of her statements. He then released the full unredacted interview so viewers could judge, while defending the investments as support for technology that protects the American warfighter. In the same window he described a woman whose episode he would never air. Files says the version that taped was already watered down and that she told them afterward she did not want it released on those terms. She also documented efforts by others connected to the network to keep her off the show.
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