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New Schiff leak claim from whistleblower echoes years of similar accusations
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Longtime Trump political foe Democrat Sen. Adam Schiff for years has been accused of leaking classified documents — long before the release of a «bombshell» whistleblower testimony claiming the California lawmaker approved leaking classified information in order to discredit the president during the Russiagate probe, Fox News Digital found.
Schiff, who served in the U.S. House for more than two decades before securing his spot in the U.S. Senate in 2024, is facing heightened scrutiny following FBI Director Kash Patel declassifying claims from a Democrat whistleblower that Schiff approved the release of classified information on Trump that allegedly «would be used to indict President TRUMP,» according to the report.
The whistleblower, who reportedly had worked for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee for more than 10 years, made the claims to the FBI in 2017. Schiff had access to classified information while serving on the House Intelligence Committee during his tenure in the lower chamber, including serving as its chair from 2019 to 2023.
«In this meeting, SCHIFF stated the group would leak classified information which was derogatory to President of the United States DONALD J. TRUMP. SCHIFF stated the information would be used to indict President TRUMP,» according to the whistleblower documents.
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Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff and President Donald Trump have been political foes stretching back years. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images; Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
The whistleblower «stated this would be illegal and, upon hearing his concerns, unnamed members of the meeting reassured that they would not be caught leaking classified information,» the report added.
Schiff has denied the allegations, with his office telling Fox News Digital Aug. 12 that the allegations were «absolutely and categorically false.»
But this isn’t the first time Schiff has been accused of leaking classified information to the public, with accusations following him since at least the first Trump administration. Fox News Digital took a look back at Schiff’s political history in recent years and gathered the times he previously had been accused of leaking classified materials.
The August declassified whistleblower accusations are «just the latest in a series of defamatory attacks from the President and his allies meant to distract from their plummeting poll numbers and the Epstein files scandal,» a Schiff spokesperson told Fox Digital when approached for comment on the allegations, after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the whistleblower’s account a «bombshell.»
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«These baseless smears are based on allegations that were found to be not reliable, not credible, and unsubstantiated from a disgruntled former staffer who was fired by the House Intelligence Committee for cause in early 2017, including for harassment and potentially compromising activity on official travel for the Committee,» the spokesperson continued. «Even Trump’s own Justice Department and an independent inspector general found this individual to not be credible, have ‘little support for their contentions’ and was of ‘unknown reliability,’ and concluded that his accusations against Members of Congress and congressional staff ‘were not ultimately substantiated.’»
Sen. Adam Schiff has repeatedly slammed claims he leaked classified information, including in August when he slammed Democratic whistleblower claims of leaking as «baseless smears.» (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
‘Leaked classified information that had been provided to him’
Just days after former President Joe Biden was sworn-in as president in January 2021, Trump’s former acting director of national intelligence and U.S. ambassador from his first administration Ric Grenell took to X to list out «facts» regarding Schiff.
«Facts,» a Jan. 22, 2021, post on X that is no longer available on the social media site read. The X post received media attention and was preserved in reports at the time, such as the Washington Examiner.
He listed off: «Schiff wouldn’t return my call to coordinate on DNI reforms. – the reforms were asked for by career officials for years. -Schiff complained when I appointed the 1st female head of counterterrorism (a career person). -Schiff & team regularly leaked classified information.»
Grenell’s message was in response to Schiff claiming in an interview with The Hill that Grennell and former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe under the first Trump administration «bent intelligence work products to the president’s will.»
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Ric Grenell served as President Trump’s acting director of national intelligence during his first term, and ambassador to Germany and as special presidential envoy for Serbia and Kosovo peace negotiations. (Getty Images)
«The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, probably the most devastated of all of the agencies by terrible leadership of people like Rick Grenell and John Ratcliffe,» Schiff said during a video interview at the time.
Fast-forward to 2023, former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who served under the first Trump administration, also accused Schiff of leaking classified docs.
«Adam Schiff lied to the American people, and during my time as CIA director and secretary of State, I know that he leaked classified information that had been provided to him,» Pompeo said in January 2023 during a Fox News interview.
Pompeo continued that he «held back» sharing information with the House Intelligence Committee due to not feeling «comfortable» when Schiff led the panel.
A representative for Pompeo told Fox Digital in August that the former Trump official stands by his 2023 comments on Schiff.
Schiff’s office slammed Pompeo’s remarks at the time as «another patently false and defamatory statement.»
Mike Pompeo served at different times as President Trump’s CIA director and secretary of the State Department under the president’s first term in office. (Tristan Wheelock/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump had also accused Schiff of leaking classified documents under his first administration, claiming in 2018, he was the «one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington.»
«Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information. Must be stopped!» Trump continued wrote in one X thread at the time.
Schiff shot back at the time that Trump’s X post was a «false smear.»
«Mr. President, I see you’ve had a busy morning of ‘Executive Time.’ Instead of tweeting false smears, the American people would appreciate it if you turned off the TV and helped solve the funding crisis, protected Dreamers or…really anything else,» Schiff responded to Trump in February 2018.
As Trump railed against the alleged leaks during his first term, reports spread that the Department of Justice subpoenaed Apple for account data of House Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, including Schiff, between 2017 and 2018. The DOJ, which was led by Jeff Sessions at the time, was searching for individuals who leaked to the media about Trump’s alleged ties to Russia.
The investigation dragged, including after Bill Barr was tapped as Trump’s attorney general in 2019 through the end of Trump’s first term, the New York Times reported in 2021, citing sources familiar with the investigation.
The Justice Department’s internal watchdog, under the Biden administration, opened an investigation into the subpoenas and published a report in 2024 that found the Trump DOJ did not comply with established procedures when it sought the records.
«We are glad that the Department of Justice Inspector General conducted a thorough investigation, and that the Inspector General has recommended safeguards to further protect the media, and to safeguard the separation of powers,» a spokesperson for Schiff said following the release of the report, according to Reuters in 2024.
As the 2020 campaign heated up, Trump continued accusing Schiff and other House Democrats of leaking, with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence at the time scaling back its security briefings with Congress that year as high-profile Democrats promoted concerns that Russia was interfering in that election.
«Director Ratcliffe brought information into the committee, and the information leaked,» Trump said in August 2020. «Whether it was Shifty Schiff or somebody else, they leaked the information. … And what’s even worse, they leaked the wrong information. And he got tired of it. So he wants to do it in a different forum, because you have leakers on the committee.»
Schiff denied leaking any classified intelligence in 2020, but said he could not confirm the same for other House Democrats.
«I haven’t. My staff hasn’t. I can’t speak for what all the members of the committee have done or not done, including a lot of the Republican members,» Schiff told CNN’s Dana Bash in 2020, following Trump claiming «Shifty Schiff» may have been behind another leak of intelligence given to the House Intelligence Committee at the time.
President Donald Trump has called for Sen. Schiff be «held accountable for the countless lies he told the American people in relation to the Russiagate scandal,» White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in August. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)
The Trump administration continued its laser-focused hunt to identify and suss out internal federal government leakers during the second administration, with a White House official telling Axios in June, «We are declaring a war on leakers.»
The comment came in response to a leak of an internal assessment of the Trump administration’s bombing a trio of Iranian nuclear facilities that claimed the strikes were not ads effective as the president said.
Federal agencies such as the FBI, Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security have leveraged using polygraph tests on staffers suspected of leaking information under the second Trump administration.
Alleged mortgage fraud, ‘Russiagate’
Trump and Schiff have long been political foes.
This was underscored during Trump’s first administration when Schiff served as the lead House manager during the first impeachment trial against Trump in 2020. It also was highlighted when Schiff repeatedly promoted claims that Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
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Schiff landed in hot water earlier this spring, when the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) sent a letter to the Department of Justice in May sounding the alarm that in «multiple instances,» Schiff allegedly «falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms, impacting payments from 2003-2019 for a Potomac, Maryland-based property.»
He is currently under criminal investigation for mortgage fraud, Fox Digital previously reported. The California Democrat has denied any wrongdoing, claiming the matter is a «baseless attempt at political retribution.»
Days after Trump first posted about Schiff’s mortgages in Maryland and California in July, the president’s director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, declassified documents that reportedly show «overwhelming evidence» that then-President Barack Obama and his national security team allegedly laid the groundwork for what would be the yearslong Trump–Russia collusion probe after Trump’s election win against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016.
«It lays out, these over 100 documents that you’re referencing, that I declassified and released, spells out in great detail exactly what happens when you have some of the most powerful people in our country directly leading at the helm, President Obama and his senior-most national security cabinet, James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper and Susan Rice and others, essentially making a very intentional decision to create this manufactured, politicized piece of intelligence with the objective of subverting the will of the American people,» Gabbard told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in July following the release.
Schiff was an incredibly vocal lawmaker amid the Russian collusion claims, most notably when the House censured him in 2023 over his promotion that Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia. Schiff served in the House representing California from 2001 to 2024, when he was sworn-in as a senator after his successful 2024 campaign to serve in the nation’s upper chamber.
Schiff also served on the Jan. 6 select committee, which investigated the breach of the Capitol building in 2021 by Trump supporters following then-President Biden’s election win.
At the 11th hour of Biden’s tenure on Jan. 20, Schiff was among lawmakers who served on the committee who were granted preemptive pardons. The subcommittee concluded Trump’s actions played a key role in promoting the breach of the Capitol and recommended Trump be criminally prosecuted.
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Biden specifically granted preemptive pardons to «Members of Congress and staff who served on the Select Committee, and the U.S. Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers who testified before the Select Committee.»
President Joe Biden pardoned members of the Jan. 6 select committee on his final day in office. (Evan Vucci/The Associated Press)
Schiff, however, had publicly railed against the prospect of Biden doling out preemptive pardons, saying it would set a poor precedent.
«First, those of us on the committee are very proud of the work we did. We were doing vital quintessential oversight of a violent attack on the Capitol,» Schiff said during an interview on ABC News in December 2024. «So I think it’s unnecessary.»
«But second, the precedent of giving blanket pardons, preemptive blanket pardons on the way out of an administration, I think is a precedent we don’t want to set,» he added.
Charges stemming from the Jan. 6 case were dismissed following Trump’s decisive win in the 2024 presidential election against then-Vice President Kamala Harris.
The White House responded to the whistleblower’s declassified testimony claiming Schiff approved the release of classified information to damage Trump, and doubled down on Trump’s stance that Schiff be «held accountable for the countless lies he told the American people in relation to the Russiagate scandal.»
«This is obviously a bombshell whistleblower report,» Leavitt said at a Tuesday White House press briefing. «Hopefully more people in this room will cover it as such.»
«I understand Kash Patel, last night, declassified a 302 FBI document showing that a whistleblower, who is a Democrat, a career intelligence officer who worked for Democrats on the House Intel Committee for more than a decade, repeatedly warned the FBI in 2017 that then-Rep. Adam Schiff had approved leaking classified information to smear then-President Donald Trump over the Russiagate scandal,» Leavitt said.
In August, a representative for Schiff confirmed a legal defense fund was established for the senator in response to Trump and his allies.
«It’s clear that Donald Trump and his MAGA allies will continue weaponizing the justice process to attack Senator Schiff for holding this corrupt administration accountable,» Marisol Samayoa, a spokesperson for Schiff, told Fox News Digital Tuesday evening of the legal fund. «This fund will ensure he can fight back against these baseless smears while continuing to do his job.»
Titled «Senator Schiff Legal Defense Fund,» the fund was filed with the Internal Revenue Service Thursday, The New York Times first reported.
White House spokesman Harrison Fields called Schiff a «fraud» and «corrupt politician» when approached for comment Tuesday regarding the legal fund.
«Adam Schiff is a sleazy and corrupt politician who betrayed his oath to the Constitution by prioritizing his selfish and personal animosity toward the President over the interests of the American people,» Fields told Fox News Digital. «No amount of money can shield Adam from the truth that he is a fraud.»
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Fox News Digital reached out to Schiff for additional comment on the matter but did not immediately receive a reply.
Fox News Digital’s Andrea Margolis contributed to this report.
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En la Rusia de Putin, hacer chistes sobre la guerra en Ucrania o sobre religión te puede llevar a la cárcel
Ser comediante es una cuestión de riesgo en Rusia. Una broma mal calibrada sobre la guerra en Ucrania y chistes religiosos o sobre el gobierno de Vladimir Putin te pueden llevar a la cárcel.
El standupero ruso Artiom Ostanin lo sabe muy bien. Alguien lo denunció por bromear sobre Jesús y sobre un veterano de la “Operación Militar Especial”, el eufemismo elegido por el Kremlin para aludir al conflicto armado. Para Rusia, el que hable de guerra se arriesga a una temporada en una celda.
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“Hoy en Rusia, hacer chistes políticos o religiosos conlleva un riesgo real de persecución penal. No se trata de la sensibilidad pública ni de la reacción social, sino de un sistema represivo de aplicación de la ley”, dijo a TN la activista rusa Olga Romanova, directora de la ONG Rus Sidyashchaya (Rusia detrás de las Rejas).
Por qué es juzgado el comediante Artiom Ostanin
Ostanin está acusado de “incitar al odio y ofender los sentimientos religiosos». Pero también por liderar un “grupo criminal organizado”. Intentó escapar, pero fue detenido en Bielorrusia, la aliada leal de Putin. Sus abogados dijeron que fue golpeado.
La causa empezó a inicios de 2025. Alguien lo denunció por dos bromas hechas en diciembre de 2024 en un club de comedia en el centro de Moscú. En el juicio ya testificaron decenas de testigos que contaron cómo se sintieron ofendidos por las bromas. Artiom Ostanin, en el tribunal de Moscú (Foto: Cortesía/The Moscow Times)
El fiscal del Tribunal de Distrito de Meshchansky de Moscú pidió condenarlo a cinco años y once meses de prisión. El juicio seguirá el lunes.
Según el sitio opositor Mediazona, uno de los chistes involucró a un veterano de guerra, aunque jamás mencionó que había peleado en Ucrania.
La broma se sustentó en una pelea con un hombre sin piernas que se trasladaba en una patineta en el subte y se lo llevó por delante.
“Me estaba mirando como si hubiera estacionado en un espacio para discapacitados. No podría pensar en nada mejor que inclinarme y decir: ‘No vayas tan rápido’. En ese momento, una anciana se apareció detrás de mí y comenzó a gritar que estaba siendo grosero. ¿Y por qué carajo soy grosero en esta situación? Fui literalmente atropellado en el subte. El tipo fue volado por una mina, decidió tomar una esquina a toda velocidad, y de alguna manera yo soy el grosero”, afirmó.
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El chiste sobre Jesucristo es más inocente aún: “Yo solo informé a la gente. ¿Y sabes qué hicieron? Me crucificaron”, dijo Ostanin en su show. También habló sobre los abdominales de Cristo, un lenguaje que testigos en el juicio calificaron como “demoníaco”.
“La actuación contenía burla, ridículo, desacralización y una actitud cínica hacia Jesucristo”, dijo un experto que testificó en el juicio.
“Alto riesgo”
“Cualquier broma, declaración u opinión que no se ajuste plenamente a la postura oficial de las autoridades rusas puede ser motivo de persecución. Si esa broma, opinión o declaración atrae la atención de blogueros del llamado segmento ‘patriótico’, las acusaciones administrativas o penales se vuelven casi inevitables”, dijo a TN la periodista de Mediazona Daria Guskova, que cubrió la historia desde su exilio en Lituania.
Además, afirmó: “El Código Penal ruso contiene numerosas disposiciones que pueden utilizarse con este fin, desde ‘desacreditar’ al ejército ruso hasta insultar los sentimientos de los creyentes”.
Grigory Vaipan, abogado de la ONG rusa Centro Memorial Defensa de los derechos humanos, dijo a TN. “Las bromas políticas y religiosas exponen a cualquier persona en Rusia a un alto riesgo de procesamiento”.
“El gobierno ruso utiliza una amplia gama de leyes con este fin, desde aquellas que prohíben la ‘incitación al odio’ o el ‘insulto a los sentimientos religiosos’ hasta las que suprimen cualquier tipo de discurso contra la guerra en el contexto de la agresión rusa contra Ucrania”, aseguró.
En este difícil contexto represivo, Romanova contó que “los chistes sobre la guerra en Ucrania están prohibidos”.
“Las leyes son deliberadamente vagas, lo que permite a las autoridades castigar la ironía, la sátira e incluso los comentarios neutrales”, afirmó.
Soldados ucranianos disparan contra drones rusos (Foto: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
Ostanin no es el único comediante en problemas.
“Ya hay personas en Rusia que fueron condenadas o están siendo investigadas por chistes, monólogos, publicaciones en redes sociales y declaraciones públicas”, dijo Romanova.
Para la activista, “los comediantes, blogueros y artistas corren un riesgo especialmente alto porque el humor, por su naturaleza, implica ironía y crítica”.
“El caso de Artiom Ostanin forma parte de un patrón más amplio: el Estado está destruyendo sistemáticamente el espacio para la ironía pública, la sátira y la libertad de expresión. En la Rusia actual, el humor ya no es una forma segura de autoexpresión y las autoridades lo tratan cada vez más como una amenaza», concluyó.
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Pero la censura no solo alcanza a comediantes.
El estreno de la obra teatral Democracia, basada en una pieza homónima de Iósif Brodski, fue suspendido en Moscú tras la denuncia de grupos cercanos al Kremlin, según informó el canal de Telegram Ostorozhno Nóvosti.
La presión es extrema. Varias figuras públicas y diputados criticaron la exitosa película ‘Cheburashka-2’, protagonizada por uno de los personajes infantiles más queridos en la antigua Unión Soviética y en Rusia. ¿La causa? No promueve la moral conservadora que impulsa Putin.
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Portland mayor demands ICE leave city after federal agents use tear gas on protesters ‘Sickening decisions’
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The mayor of Portland, Oregon, is calling on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to leave his city after federal agents deployed tear gas at a crowd of demonstrators, including young children, outside an ICE facility over the weekend.
Mayor Keith Wilson characterized the protests on Saturday as peaceful, as federal agents reportedly used tear gas, pepper balls, flash-bang grenades and rubber bullets against the anti-ICE demonstrators.
Wilson urged ICE agents to resign and for the agency to leave Portland, denouncing their «use of violence» and the «trampling of the Constitution.»
«Today, federal forces deployed heavy waves of chemical munitions, impacting a peaceful daytime protest where the vast majority of those present violated no laws, made no threat, and posed no danger to federal forces,» he said in a statement on Saturday.
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Mayor Keith Wilson characterized the protests in his city as peaceful, as he called for ICE to leave. (Ali Gradischer/Getty Images)
«To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. Through your use of violence and the trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame. To those who continue to make these sickening decisions, go home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children. Ask yourselves why you continue to work for an agency responsible for murders on American streets. No one is forcing you to lie to yourself, even as your bosses continue to lie to the American people,» the mayor continued.
The mayor added that this nation «will never accept a federal presence where agents wield deadly force against the very people they are sworn to serve.»
«I share the impatience with those who demand we use every legal tool at our disposal to push back against this inexcusable, unconscionable, and unacceptable violence against our community,» Wilson said. «I share the need to act. Actions that can withstand the scrutiny of the justice system take time – and we cannot afford to lose this fight.»
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Federal agents deployed tear gas at a crowd of demonstrators, including young children, outside an ICE facility in Portland. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Portland officials are working to operationalize an ordinance, which went into effect last month, that imposes a fee on detention facilities that use chemical agents, the mayor said.
«As we prepare to put that law into action, we are also documenting today’s events and preserving evidence. The federal government must, and will, be held accountable,» he wrote.
«Portland will continue to stand firmly with our immigrant neighbors, who deserve safety, dignity, and the full protection of the communities they help build,» he continued. «We are also proud of the Portlanders who showed up today in peaceful solidarity, demonstrating the strength and clarity of those shared values in the face of federal overreach.»
This comes amid national unrest and bipartisan scrutiny of immigration enforcement tactics following two killings of U.S. citizens by federal immigration agents last month in Minneapolis.
The Trump administration has faced bipartisan scrutiny over its immigration enforcement tactics following two killings of U.S. citizens by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis, and Alex Pretti was fatally shot on Jan. 24 by Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez while he was recording immigration enforcement operations in the same city.
Pretti, an ICU nurse, appeared to be attempting to assist a woman agents had knocked down when he was sprayed with an irritant, pushed to the ground and beaten, according to video and witness accounts. An agent was later seen pulling Pretti’s lawfully owned firearm from his waistband before other agents fired several shots, killing him.
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“As Nasty As They Wanna Be”: qué hay detrás del álbum más censurado en la historia del rap
En 1990, la industria musical de Estados Unidos vivió un hecho inédito: por primera vez, un álbum fue declarado “legalmente obsceno”. El protagonista de este episodio fue 2 Live Crew, un grupo de rap originario de Miami, cuyo tercer disco, As Nasty As They Wanna Be, no solo desató controversia por su contenido, sino que también reconfiguró los límites entre arte, moral y legalidad.
Formado en la década de los 80, 2 Live Crew se caracterizaba por sus letras explícitas, ritmos acelerados y una actitud desafiante que rompía con los códigos de la época. El grupo, liderado por Luther Campbell (conocido como Luke Skyywalker), ya era un referente del subgénero Miami bass, pero no fue hasta el lanzamiento de As Nasty As They Wanna Be, el 7 de febrero de 1989, que se convirtieron en un fenómeno nacional.
El disco, repleto de referencias sexuales y lenguaje explícito, fue el mayor éxito comercial de la banda y obtuvo la certificación de platino de la Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
La polémica que rodeó el álbum terminó de definir su lugar en la historia. “Con letras explícitas, ritmos provocadores y una actitud desfachatada, 2 Live Crew se metió directo en el ojo de la tormenta cultural”, señaló Indie Hoy.
La llegada al mercado de As Nasty As They Wanna Be coincidió con una creciente preocupación social e institucional por el contenido de la música popular, en especial el rap, que para muchos sectores conservadores representaba una amenaza para los valores tradicionales.
La controversia alcanzó su punto máximo en 1990, cuando un tribunal del distrito de Florida declaró a As Nasty As They Wanna Be como “legalmente obsceno”, un fallo sin precedentes en la historia de la música estadounidense. El disco, que ya incluía el clásico sello de advertencia parental, pasó a ser el primer álbum en recibir tal calificación jurídica.
Según el fallo, el contenido de las canciones era tan explícito que excedía los límites de la libertad artística y podía ser considerado un delito.
Dos días después de la sentencia, un vendedor de discos de Florida fue arrestado por vender una copia del álbum a un policía encubierto. “La detención convirtió a 2 Live Crew en leyenda. No por romper récords de ventas, sino por entrar a los libros de historia como los primeros músicos en ser procesados por el contenido lírico de su obra”, destacó Indie Hoy.
El impacto del proceso judicial fue inmediato. Figuras públicas, como David Bowie, manifestaron su apoyo a la libertad de expresión artística. Incluso académicos de renombre, como Henry Louis Gates Jr., testificaron a favor del grupo durante el juicio.
Este episodio no solo consolidó la fama de 2 Live Crew, sino que también abrió un debate sobre el papel del Estado frente a las expresiones culturales consideradas ofensivas o disruptivas.
El juicio contra 2 Live Crew no solo marcó un antes y un después en la industria del rap, sino que también sentó un precedente legal de alcance duradero. El disco, que representó el final de la relación del grupo con el sello Skyywalker Records —renombrado luego como Luke Records tras una demanda de George Lucas por el uso del nombre—, pasó a ser un símbolo de la lucha por la libertad artística en Estados Unidos.
La controversia en torno a As Nasty As They Wanna Be se inscribió en una larga tradición de enfrentamientos entre músicos y el sistema judicial. Casos como el arresto de Jim Morrison en 1969 en Miami por “exposición indecente”, el hostigamiento sufrido por Billie Holiday por interpretar “Strange Fruit” o la persecución política contra Fela Kuti en Nigeria por sus letras contestatarias muestran que el arte musical ha sido históricamente terreno de disputa y resistencia.
A pesar de la censura inicial y los problemas legales, el álbum de 2 Live Crew resistió el paso del tiempo como un recordatorio de los riesgos y desafíos que implica empujar los límites del discurso público. “Más allá del debate sobre el tono de sus letras, lo cierto es que su caso marcó un antes y un después en la relación entre música y legalidad”, concluyó Indie Hoy.
As Nasty As They Wanna Be no solo fue un éxito comercial, sino que se transformó en un punto de inflexión en la discusión sobre los límites de la libertad artística y la intervención estatal.
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Julieta Díaz contó por qué no funcionó su noviazgo con Luciano Castro en medio de la separación con Griselda Siciliani
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El New York Times asegura que la Argentina podría firmar un acuerdo con EE.UU. para recibir deportados
