Matthew Miller

In 2024, Cambodia, the central hub for these crimes, faced controversy when the United States sanctioned a local tycoon and senator linked to former Prime Minister Hun Sen for alleged involvement in trafficking and forced criminality.

According to Matthew Miller, then U.S. Department of State spokesperson, quote, the United States is imposing sanctions on Cambodian tycoon Lai Yong Phat, his conglomerate LYP Group Co., Osmach Resort, and three hotels owned or controlled by Lee for their role in serious human rights abuses related to the treatment of workers subjected to forced labor in online investment scam operations.

Bradley Smith, the Treasury's acting Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, stated that the sanctions are intended to disrupt triad operations and those of their affiliates.

More than 200 high-profile individuals, including politicians, generals, and business leaders connected to Southeast Asian cyber-scam centers and human trafficking networks, have been sanctioned by the United States, the United Kingdom, and other Western nations.

But this is also part of the government officials as well.

So you look at someone like Matthew Miller, who was the spokesperson for the State Department for Secretary of State Blinken and the Biden admin, who comes out later and says he has no doubt that Israel has committed war crimes.

No doubt in his mind that Israel has committed war crimes.

And yet when he stood on the podium, he denied it on a daily basis.

So how do you, where does that fit into your story?

Well, I talk about it in specifically about that framing where and in fact, there's a spot in the chapter on the Biden admin where Matthew Miller, the former spokesperson for the State Department under the Biden admin, essentially make like his his phrasing makes this argument that nothing before October 7th justifies October 7th.

But October 7th justifies everything thereafter.

Like this is the logic.

Mm-hmm.

You, Matthew Miller, the spokesman for the State Department, when he was pushed in the newsroom by journalists, would say things like, you know, "Israel is a sovereign state, and the United States can't tell a sovereign state what to do."

Mm-hmm.

And the journalists in the room would laugh-

Yes

... because they knew how absurd his statement was.

And actually, one, it was, I think it was Matt Lee from the Associated Press said, um, you know, "Unless we invade them." And Matthew Miller's response was to laugh at that and say, "Good one, Matt." You know, like, it's, it's just this, like, absurdity of, well, of course we tell sovereign states what to do.

That's, that's why we use sanctions, that's why we use all sorts of leverage-

But I also believe that the Prime Minister has led us down a road, and we have been part of it, that has, in essence, created a genocide in Gaza.

And then there's former State Department spokesperson Matt Miller, who spent more than a year as the face of the Biden administration's, um, foreign policy and repeatedly defended Israel against allegations of war crimes and genocide in Gada- Gaza.

He later admitted on a podcast, uh, interview with Sky News that, yes, Israel committed war crimes.

I don't think it's a genocide, but I think the, um...

We cannot be more clear on this.

The United States does not provide funding to the Taliban, said Matthew Miller, a State Department spokesperson, at a briefing last year.

The Inspector General Report calls that assertion into question.

The State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development have continued to provide money to the U.N. to assist ongoing humanitarian efforts in the country.