[familyop]

"Secondly, if half of what is bandied about about the President's plans are true (and you know, not all of that is on 8chan or Twitter/#QAnon), it bids fair to upend pretty much all of the existing power structure in DC, *including* the CIA -- so that the purported datamining about "how quickly memes spread" or "how long till people give up" or even "which ips are involved" wouldn't matter, because there might not be a CIA in its current form."

Yes. Here's something from the news about a couple of decades back. The Agency was being reordered to work more from offices and less in the field: to make it more compatible with "women's jobs."

Here's something from news after the recent general election. The President and some of his people are reordering the C.I.A. to have many more field agents again, to better protect them and to focus more on serving our armed forces again. That's its real job.

Some of the information from some of the individuals using 4chan, 8chan and other boards is useful only to participants for further processing. Outsiders only add much noise around their comments. The noise shouldn't matter much. Anyone who has truly useful information can offer it, but trolls, conspiracy theory fans and others will be largely ignored and only sometimes mocked. There are two kinds of cognitive dissonance. One is useful, and the other is not.

As for artificial intelligence (AI), Drudge is another source of humor on that. Watch out! The robots are coming!

[familyop]

Surely, this couldn’t have anything to do with the Agency Snow White (office) and seven dwarfs (supercomputers) thing in Q’s comments.

House Committee To Look At New FISA Bill This Week
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3620369/posts

(surveillance legislation slipping through under the noise)