Good day all. Yet another data dump from the Twitter Files occurred Saturday, (December 24th), and it’s a doozy. It turns out that it wasn’t just the FBI that was working to suppress the 1st Amendment rights of the American people, but the whole host of three letter agencies in Washington D.C.
The Twitter Files have already shown the world just how much contempt the bozos, Progressives, meatheads and Liberals, have for the 1st Amendment, Conservatives in General and the Greatest President of the 21st Century, Donald Trump. It has also shown how the FBI was directly targeting anyone they perceived as a threat to the Biden campaign and later maladministration. Now it looks like all the CIA, DoD and other agencies were also in on the act. Here are some of the details from the Daily Wire:
Journalist Matt Taibbi released a new installment of “The Twitter Files” Saturday afternoon that showed that the FBI was not the only government agency that was in regular contact with Twitter about content on the platform.
This is going to be one Hell of a Christmas present.
Taibbi said that the State Department, Department of Defense, and Central Intelligence Agency were also involved in contacting the platform about potential foreign propaganda on the platform.
Internal company emails showed that FBI agent Elvis Chan asked Twitter executives if he could invite an “OGA” — Other Government Agency — to an upcoming conference.
If you haven’t noticed, the fine hand of Elvis Chan is all through the Twitter Files. He’s the one who was sending Yoel Roth and the others at Twitter lists of accounts that they wanted shut down, some of them obviously satirical in nature. Now it seems that Elvis, instead of leaving the building, was also acting as a middle man for all the other agencies as well.
The email referred to a Twitter employee, whose name was redacted, and said that people from the employee’s “former employer,” which a Twitter executive acknowledged meant the CIA, were specifically inquiring about the invitation.
One of Twitter’s head lawyers said in internal company communications that the fact that employee used to work for the CIA was supposed to be a secret.
One of the other little details that has been coming out is just how many former FBI, CIA, NSA and other three letter agency members went to work for Twitter and other Big Tech companies.
“The government was in constant contact not just with Twitter but with virtually every major tech firm,” Taibbi said. “These included Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, Reddit, even Pinterest, and many others. Industry players also held regular meetings without government.”
The ONLY reason any of these agencies should have been talking with Twitter and other Big Tech companies was in the course of a criminal investigation, and the intelligence agencies should have had no contact with them at all. Instead, it looks like they were all indulging in an orgy of civil rights violations.
Taibbi said that the FBI was “clearly tailoring” its searches on the platform to look for potential content violations that Twitter could take action on. Ex-FBI lawyer Jim Baker, who was involved in a lot of controversy surrounding his involvement in different investigations into former President Donald Trump, even thought that the FBI’s actions were strange.
“Odd that they are searching for violations of our policies,” Baker said in an email.
Actually it makes sense. It looks like it was meant to give the FBI some cover in case any of this came out. I don’t think they ever expected someone like Elon Musk to come in, buy out the entire company, lock, stock and barrel and then release all the internal documents on what the Federal Agencies were doing in violation of the Constitution of the United States.
The Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) flagged the “fringiest” conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election to the social media company.
What the Hell was this “Task Force” doing? If there were actual foreign governments pushing conspiracy theories, they would have been a lot more subtle in what they were producing, and there wasn’t anything they could come up with that could beat what our own Home Grown conspiracy theorists could dream up. I won’t even bother with the question of why this task force even exists.
The Twitter Files showed that Twitter was at times under pressure from to take action on accounts that federal law enforcement claimed were tied to foreign governments, even though it didn’t have enough evidence to come to the same conclusion as those law enforcement agencies.
That was probably due to the accounts were not foreign, but Americans who, frankly, don’t trust the United States government. (Such as the nuts known as Sovereign Citizens) Most foreign governments know that it would be a waste of time creating fake accounts to push conspiracy theories. They can’t compete with our Home Grown nut cases.
The Twitter employee who allegedly worked at the CIA in the past said that one claim from the State Department about Russian influence operations was not supported by the company’s conclusions because the company had “a lack of technical evidence.”
He also said that government pressure was increasing because they wanted to give attribution to the countries responsible for the influence campaigns.
40. “Due to a lack of technical evidence on our end, I’ve generally left it be, waiting for more evidence,” he says. “Our window on that is closing, given that government partners are becoming more aggressive on attribution.”
41. Translation: “more aggressive” “government partners” had closed Twitter’s “window” of independence.
“‘Other Government Agencies’ ended up sharing intelligence through the FBI and FITF not just with Twitter, but with Yahoo!, Twitch, Clouldfare, LinkedIn, even Wikimedia,” Taibbi added. “Many people wonder if Internet platforms receive direction from intelligence agencies about moderation of foreign policy news stories. It appears Twitter did, in some cases by way of the FITF/FBI.”
If you were wondering about the apparent coordination when people’s accounts were blocked across multiple platforms, there is your answer. They were following the instructions from the FBI. Of course, when people started saying that this was happening, they were accused of being conspiracy theorists.
Federal law enforcement also flagged for Twitter suspicious accounts that could have been tied to foreign operatives that were promoting narratives about Ukraine and coronavirus vaccines. The accounts were tweeting “Ukraine ‘neo-Nazi’ Propaganda’” and claiming that the administration was corrupt in determining which countries that it sent vaccines to.
One of these “Theories” was that Joe Biden helped orchestrate the 2014 coup in the Ukraine and put his boy, Hovernose on the board of directors of Burisma. I don’t know about the former, but the Hunter Biden Laptop does seem to confirm the latter, which was why the FBI and the Deep State went to such lengths to suppress that story.
“This is a difficult speech dilemma. Should the government be allowed to try to prevent Americans (and others) from seeing pro-Maduro or anti-Ukrainian accounts?” Taibbi concluded.
That’s a very simple answer. Hell NO! There, was that so hard to figure out?
“The line between ‘misinformation’ and ‘distorting propaganda’ is thin. Are we comfortable with so many companies receiving so many reports from a “more aggressive” government?”
Apparently, Twitter 1.0 was quite comfortable handling all the reports and requests. As I’ve said before here and in other posts, the old Twitter never expected any of this to come out. Then they pissed off the Richest man on Earth, one who is a firm believer of Free Speech. He bought the company, discovered just how bad things were, and the results were the Twitter files. With any luck, this may bring down the entire house of cards in Washington. (One reason the Deep State is so dead set to “Get Trump!” If he wins reelection, this time he’s going in hammer and tongs)
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At this point, it’s probably quicker to list all the Federal agencies that *weren’t* leaning on Twitter. Not that Twitter really minded.