Posted on 11/06/2023 6:48:30 PM PST by mcenedo
New emails show officials at the Department of Homeland Security created a Stanford University “disinformation” group that censored Americans’ speech before the 2020 election, according to a House Judiciary Committee report exclusively obtained by The Post.
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Any government official involved with this massive suppression of free speech should be arrested, tried for treason and executed.
Isn’t it interesting, also, that the censorship happened BEFORE the election ... almost like there were plans, or something.
Interesting that the entity created to bring the various federal agencies together to deconflict investigations has become this trainwreck.
And who was the POTUS when this was happening if Trump could not control DHS censorship then the DHS is out of control and must be disbanded.
Hmmm ... Stanford University.
Also home the Sam Bankman-Fried and his parents, plus thousands of other lefties.
Agree.
F___ You, George Walker Bush for creating this monster.
JULY 31, 2020 : (Laurence Tribe appears on MSNBC speculates on what could happen if electoral college can make no clear decision in upcoming election ) Liberal Supreme Court Justice In Waiting Who Never Was Laurence Tribe gave away the ultimate Democrat election game plan to Joy Reid on MSNBC on July 31. As he explains, via massive use of mail-in ballots which, as we have already seen, cause chaos, confusion, and delay, the electoral college could be unable to choose a clear winner of the election. If no winner is determined by this January 20 then, according to Tribe, Nancy Pelosi would become president...if the Democrats retain control of the House.
JULY 31, 2020 : (Atlantic Council DFRL email states an “election integrity partnership” at the request of DHS and CISA -— see Stanford University, censorship, cyber security, social media ) One of EIP’s founding partners — the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab — described CISA’s central role in the alleged censorship effort in a July 31, 2020, email.
“I know the Council has a number of efforts on broad policy around the elections, but we just set up an election integrity partnership at the request of DHS/CISA and are in weekly comms to debrief about disinfo,” the lab’s senior director Graham Brookie wrote. —— via NY Post
2019 : (Stanford U law prof Pamela Karmen testifies for impeaching Trump)
FEBRUARY 8, 2021 : (Stanford U law prof Pamela Karlan gets job with the DoJ slated to last into Aug 2022, continues to get paid by Stanford while also working for government) Karlan joined the department on Feb. 8, 2021, shortly after President Biden’s inauguration, and served about 17 months as principal deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights
JULY 1, 2022 : (Stanford U law prof Pamela Karlan steps down 2 months early from DoJ job the day before DoJ was obligated to turn over docs in FOIA request by AAF) WASHINGTON — Stanford University law professor Pamela Karlan, ...quietly left the Justice Department this month as a conservative group ratcheted up attacks on an “unethical” arrangement in which she continued to earn nearly $1 million a year from Stanford while working for the government.
Karlan joined the department on Feb. 8, 2021, shortly after President Biden’s inauguration, and served about 17 months as principal deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights before she departed on July 1 (2022) with little fanfare.
Karlan’s role was slated to last until at least Aug. 22 and possibly run into September, meaning she stepped down about two months earlier than planned. She left one business day before the department delivered documents to the American Accountability Foundation pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, bringing more attention to her unusual pay provisions.
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2020 : (Twitter internal email sets up censorship working group -— see Stanford U) A 2020 internal email from Nick Pickles, then public policy director at Twitter, set up a working group with nine disinformation non-governmental organizations (NGOs): First Draft, Centre for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD), International Republican Institute (IRI), Atlantic Council/DFRLab, Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), Brookings, National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI).
Who is going to do the arresting and prosecuting? It won’t be the disgusting Merrick Garland’s DOJ.
These criminals are all on the same side and are at present completely above the law because they ARE the law in how they choose to enforce it and prosecute people.
Agreed. Perfectly appropriate to the crime.
Not only that, but deliberately creating a group for nefarious political purposes, conducting election interference, and likely using government space, equipment, and supplies to do it. This is as bad as the Clinton's using The Lincoln Bedroom, and holding coffee klatches in The White House to raise campaign funds...and Al Gore making fund raising calls from his White House Office. "No controlling legal authority" he said. The conduct of the DHS has to be a serious violation of The Hatch Act. But nothing will happen.
JULY 2020 : () In July 2020, [FBI agent Elvis] Chan arranged for Twitter executives to get top secret security clearances so the FBI could share intelligence about possible threats to the upcoming presidential election. The next month, Chan sent Roth information about a Russian hacking group called APT28. Roth later said that when the Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop broke, “It set off every single one of my finely tuned APT28 hack-and-leak campaign alarm bells.” Even though there was never any evidence that anything on the laptop was hacked, Roth reacted to it just as the FBI had conditioned him to do, using the company’s hacked-materials policy to suppress the story as soon as it appeared, just as the agency suggested it would, less than a month before the election.
I would like to know who the 4 Stanford students were.
MAY 2020 : (DHS email) DHS acknowledged that it could not “openly endorse” a centralized portal to flag information in a May 2020 email released in the staff report, which cleared the way for Stanford’s EIP to take up the effort in July of that year [2020].
The task force used a tactic known as “switchboarding” to refer to removal requests from state and local officials to Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites, which CISA-CFITF Director Brian Scully confirmed in testimony in the bombshell case Missouri v. Biden —— NY Post
2016 : () Foreign disinformation became a focus of the U.S. government after Russia’s state-sanctioned attempts to interfere in the 2016 election, which relied in part on bots and trolls to amplify falsehoods disseminated through social media.
Following the election, Congress passed a bipartisan law, the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which established the State Department’s GEC.
Since then, government entities charged with combating foreign disinformation have proliferated. —— The Intercept
2017 : (FBI establishes FITF -— see Censorship) In the fall of 2017, the FBI established the Foreign Influence Task Force. -— The Intercept
2018 : (DHS establishes CFITF-— see Censorship) In 2018, the Department of Homeland Security established the Countering Foreign Influence Task Force.
-— The Intercept
2021 : (DHS’s CFITF is updated to include a misinfo/disinfo/malinfo team) In 2018, the Department of Homeland Security established the Countering Foreign Influence Task Force — which in 2021 was updated to include a misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation team — as well as a Foreign Influence and Interference Branch and last year [2022], the Disinformation Governance Board. -— The Intercept
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