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Originally posted by sdy:
TWITTER FILES: PART 7

in July 2020, the FBI’s Elvis Chan arranges for temporary Top Secret security clearances for Twitter executives so that the FBI can share information about threats to the upcoming elections.

Hmmmmmm. Those would probably be TS/SCI clearances because the information shared could reveal sources and/or means/method of collection.

Has anyone tracked Special Agent Chan down or has Elvis left the continent?

https://hotair.com/headlines/2...wn-customers-n518953

Yoel Roth, the then-Twitter Head of Trust and Safety, said he was informed by people in the intelligence community to “expect” attacks on individuals linked to political campaigns. Roth also swore there were rumors “that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden.” These warnings supposedly came right from the FBI. Roth’s testimony would conflict with that of SSA Chan, who said, to his knowledge, nobody provided warnings on the Hunter Biden materials.

Then we have one of the more remarkable pieces of information to be released from the Twitter: confirmation that Twitter was paid nearly $3.5 million for assisting the FBI with its processing requests.

Remarkable. Twitter was essentially contracted by the FBI, to the tune of millions of dollars, to report on users and remove non-criminal content the FBI found objectionable. One can’t help but think the money was effective in getting Twitter, and likely other social media companies, to do what the FBI wanted.

They couldn't make money the old fashioned way...like earning it being a good business.

I hope Wray is embarrassed by the revelations in TWITTER FILES: PART 7.

He probably isn’t though. Annoyed? Yes. Embarrassed? No, even though he sure as hell should be.

The Federal Bureau of political Interference.

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Originally posted by sdy:
https://hotair.com/headlines/2...wn-customers-n518953

Twitter was essentially contracted by the FBI, to the tune of millions of dollars, to report on users and remove non-criminal content the FBI found objectionable.

If that’s correct… If that’s correct, there are significant consequences for the republic.

That’s the kind of thing which needs to result in everyone doing lengthy sentences.

Americans used to denigrate countries that engaged in this kind of illegal government intervention- now half the country supports this treason at taxpayer expense. People need to be imprisoned or worse for this clear treason.

J. Edgar Hoover would be proud.

There is a certain amount of anxiety when anyone gets contacted by the FBI or IRS and that by itself leads to compliance by most people.
Roth is looking more like someone that has been duped because of this.
He was already inclined, because of his political viewpoint, to think Russians were promoting Trump and others on the right. Now he's being contacted and asked to be in the "club" of people with a security clearance and that massages his ego a bit, helping to motivate him to go along.
I suspect there was some of this within the agencies themselves. They knew they were doing the wrong things, but for the right reasons so that made it OK somehow.

Back in the Watergate days, the Plumbers had a similar motivation. The end justified the means.

Another in the JE Hoover would be proud camp. Here is a question we should be asking ourselves, how often in the history of the FBI have they done similar things? The answer is quite often, enough that it is institutionalize to do this and keep doing this.

I remember when Trump got elected, a local radio show (Larry Connors) had a former Justice Department conservative on who said it would take Trump 3 years to clean out the Justice Department and affiliated agencies if he aggressively went after them. This guy added, if Trump did not go after the libs/progressives/leftists in the Justice Department, the Justice Department would go after him.

FBI comments on Twitter revelations. Barefaced lies.

“In a statement to the New York Post on Wednesday, an agency spokesperson said: 'The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries.

'As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers.

'The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public,' the spokesperson continued.

'It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.' "…

FBI lashes out at Twittergate 'conspiracy theorists'
https://mol.im/a/11566697

Fuck the FBI. They have been weaponized and everyone knows it. They are disgusting political pawns at this point and beneath the trust of the public they serve. There may be good agents in the mix, but the agency is tainted beyond recovery until it is burned to the ground and rebuilt from scratch. They are an embarrassment to the profession.

Dang gearhounds, I wish you’d tell us what you really think instead of sugarcoating it. [/sarcasm mode]

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Originally posted by slosig:
Dang gearhounds, I wish you’d tell us what you really think instead of sugarcoating it. [/sarcasm mode]

Yeah, I know… it rankles me to no end with the number of consummate professionals I have worked with throughout my career that this organization that is touted as the cream of the crop is so riddled with corruption.

A fish rots from the head. That goes for the entire administration, not just the FBI.

"Disgraceful"

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Fuck the FBI. They have been weaponized and everyone knows it. They are disgusting political pawns at this point and beneath the trust of the public they serve.

They are basically the U.S. version of the KGB.

Yes, that bad.

We never got a full reporting of what the FBI did against Donald Trump- Before, During and After his Presidency.

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Originally posted by oddball:

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Fuck the FBI. They have been weaponized and everyone knows it. They are disgusting political pawns at this point and beneath the trust of the public they serve.

They are basically the U.S. version of the KGB.

Yes, that bad.

KGB means Committee for State Security. So I'd say the FBI is literally the same thing. They are an apparatus to defend the Deep State and little else. I can't imagine how anyone serious about a career in LE would want to be associated with them. They are the bad guys and the ones who end up on the wrong side of history every time.

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I can't imagine how anyone serious about a career in LE would want to be associated with them.

Well, that seems to be the thing. Everyone from Strzok to Baker was clearly "serious about a career in LE". It's just that the LE career they were serious about was a springboard to a cushy high-paying job in the private sector and/or political office.

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:

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I can't imagine how anyone serious about a career in LE would want to be associated with them.

Well, that seems to be the thing. Everyone from Strzok to Baker was clearly "serious about a career in LE". It's just that the LE career they were serious about was a springboard to a cushy high-paying job in the private sector and/or political office.

Right. But those guys weren't cops at heart, the good guys with a true calling to protect and to serve. Huge difference.

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Originally posted by slosig:
A fish rots from the head. That goes for the entire administration, not just the FBI.

Yup. The first step in the next Republican administration that has any balls at all should be the purging of all government leadership and, for God's sake, do a better job of vetting their replacements.