I don’t believe Leah Files went on the Shawn Ryan Show with bad intentions. From what I can tell, she went on excited and as a fan of Shawn Ryan. Things changed because of how she was treated when she arrived, and she felt wronged by Shawn Ryan. The problem and question is: did Shawn have reason to wrong her? How did this happen? I’ve listened to and observed both sides of this argument. Leah was “recruited” onto the Shawn Ryan Show by his longtime editor. From what’s being described, Shawn did not know much about Leah Files and was given information on her beforehand stating she was not the credible source she markets herself to be. When the two of them sat down together, it did not start off on a good foot. Leah describes that a Shawn Ryan producer told her not to name any names within 30 minutes of starting the show. She describes being muzzled before the show even started. Leah claims to have evidence of this exchange but has pledged never to release it in order to protect the individual’s name. Interestingly, she herself already published the individual’s name in question. She also, despite claiming never to do so, published the name of the editor who “recruited” her onto the show. For someone very sensitive about sharing first names publicly, I find it problematic that she has been reckless with other people’s first names in this situation. Shawn Ryan has neither confirmed nor denied this “no naming names” exchange. So right now we are going off of hearsay. If he did give her a muzzle, he should explain why. That being said, Leah did have the opportunity to present her ideas despite the preconceived notions and the alleged muzzle. Certain topics discussed were not off limits, and neither were the names. The information she presented on these topics—like the petrodollar, Brad Parscale and Clock Tower X, TPUSA financials, etc.—was very underwhelming. When Shawn asked if she was an economist, she answered, “Yeah, I mean…” and then went on to pretend she knew about the petrodollar, saying “I have so many people saying that this is going to be the thing that takes over…” That makes no sense. The petrodollar already took over. This answer is one example of Shawn sitting there probably thinking, “Those preconceived notions are actually true—she doesn’t really know what she is talking about.” But there are a few others to note… In the very beginning Shawn was talking about Green Beret Nap Time and said specifically he did not want to name his name… then Leah named his name about 3 minutes later (Chase). Shawn was probably like, what the hell…When Shawn asked about her CIA experience she gave a choppy answer and then said she actually worked for a government contractor (Booz Allen or PwC—not sure off memory) who did work for the CIA. She also said she had a TS security clearance, which is not a high-level (TS/SCI) clearance. With a TS she certainly did not have access to big-time government secrets. I’m sorry—I know many with clearances throughout my hometown of Northern Virginia. My wife got a TS for admin work for a government contractor. It’s not a big deal. So Shawn is probably going back to the tip he received before the interview that her CIA experience is not consistent with how she markets herself… and was probably like, what the hell… Also, her description of Brad Parscale and Clock Tower X. She first referred to Parscale as the CEO of Salem Media, of which he is the Chief Strategy Officer. Maybe just a mistake, fine. But she then describes the most nefarious thing they do as sending text messages around the US to propagandize for Israel. That is one thing they are doing; however, it’s much worse than that. Clock Tower X is creating a web infrastructure to manipulate LLMs (LLM poisoning) to provide more favorable answers for Israel. Brad Parscale is also responsible, per the FARA registration, to spread pro-Israel media using Salem Media in order to win support amongst young people for the pro-Israel cause. The Charlie Kirk show runs on Salem Media and renegotiated a podcast deal after Charlie passed away. Charlie was seeking independent distribution options prior to his death, as he was aware of Parscale’s foreign ties… none of this was discussed. On most topics, there seemed to be a disconnect between how Leah presents herself in Substack articles and how she presented herself on Shawn Ryan. There are two sides to this story, but I can definitely see why Shawn Ryan had some issues and doubted her credibility, don’t you? I can also see Shawn Ryan turning to his editor who “recruited” Leah in and being like, what the hell? The story is that editor “walked out” because of all of this… I’m wondering if he got the boot. But I’m speculating… I believe it can fairly be said that neither side looks that great here. I can understand how Leah felt wronged, but I can also see why Shawn was unhappy with the guest. Leah’s reaction, though—to now turn on Shawn, Candace, Baron Coleman, etc. because she is getting backlash for a bad interview, and people are unhappy with her now insinuating that Shawn is a deep state actor because they couldn’t get along—in my opinion, is wrong. She cites Shawn’s investments. He had those investments before she ever went on the show. She was still excited to do so and was a fan prior. So she was a fan of this deep state foreign agent? His investments have been public on his LinkedIn for some time now. Candace Owens chimed in and described her experience in response to Leah, saying that Shawn let her talk about whatever she wanted, and she named plenty of names in a Shawn Ryan Show appearance with 6.3 million views—his fifth-best show ever. Candace Owens naming names is much more of a problem than Leah Files naming names. I am starting to believe that the “no naming names” thing is not true. But I am happy to be proven wrong on that. Candace chiming in caused Leah to fire back, and now we have all of the DMs back and forth. Leah wrote up a Glacier hit piece to go after Shawn Ryan and “expose him as a deep state actor,” and then Candace did a Glacier ad read on her show, which sent everyone into a frenzy. As it turns out, much of Leah’s findings on Glacier are not suspicious at all—just a company adjusting per federal law requirements for their product offering. Leah can have the opinion that Glacier is an inferior service to other competitors, but who really cares? If you want something more secure, don’t get it. But the claim that Glacier is data collecting to send everything to Israel is an absolutely false claim and a damaging lie. The threat Leah is making now, in her latest Tik Tok live is that she going after Candace, Baron, and the whole network... Have fun, I guess? But it's not helpful, in the least. We are living in a world where the powers at be behave however the heck they want, and alternative media is THE ONLY source we have to hold them accountable. This behavior destroying the infrastructure of the literal last hope we as a people have at free speech. It's not good.