Posted on 09/15/2022 4:26:03 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Two journalists surface today with two different aspects to the same big picture story. First, Julie Kelly notes the DOJ is using social media chat messages as evidence in court against J6 detainees: “DOJ and Big Tech are working seamlessly to excavate private messages and info from deleted accounts to use as incriminating evidence for J6ers.” (link) Second, Miranda Devine is writing in the New York Post about Facebook spying on private messages to identify people who questioned the outcome of the 2020 election (link)
This ‘surveillance system‘ has been of great interest to CTH for several years, in part because it is a key aspect of the domestic intelligence system now operating as a functioning part of the Fourth Branch of Government. The overwhelming majority of the investigative resources within the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) are used in this whole of network monitoring system.
I cannot emphasize the importance of the connections enough.
Surveillance of domestic communication, to include surveillance of all social media platforms, is now the primary mission of DHS. The information is gathered by social media, funneled by direct portals into the DHS network then distributed to DOJ-NSD and FBI officials as well as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. This communication surveillance network is what DHS, created as an outcome of the Patriot Act, is all about.
The four pillars of the Fourth Branch of Government are: DHS, ODNI, DOJ-NSD and the revised/political FBI. All four pillars were created as an outcome of the Patriot Act. These institutions – as specifically named – represent the domestic surveillance state. The subsidiary institutions like TSA etc, exist under their authority. There is no oversight or counterbalance to this system. The Fourth Branch exists using the shield of “national intelligence” to hide their activity.
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
Under the FBI collaboration operation, somebody at Facebook red-flagged these supposedly subversive private messages over the past 19 months and transmitted them in redacted form to the domestic terrorism operational unit at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, without a subpoena.
“It was done outside the legal process and without probable cause,” alleged one of the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
“Facebook provides the FBI with private conversations which are protected by the First Amendment without any subpoena.”
These private messages then have been farmed out as “leads” to FBI field offices around the country, which subsequently requested subpoenas from the partner US Attorney’s Office in their district to officially obtain the private conversations that Facebook already had shown them. (read more)
July 26, 2021, (Reuters) – A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.
Until now, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list and so has largely consisted of content from Islamist extremist organizations such as Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos – often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence – and other publications and links flagged by U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.
The firms, which include Twitter (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share “hashes,” unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it. (read more)
Big brother has been taking steroids and now has ‘roid rage.
Mark Levin has just said his emails were given to the J6 Committee. Doesn’t know how.
Always assume there is no privacy online. The fedboys are watching me post this right now.
The old far Left was not really opposed to the idea of HUAC ... only that they weren’t the ones using it to go after regular, patriotic Americans.
Just as their ideological heirs are going after regular, patriotic Americans with this J6 witch hunt.
Questioning clear voter fraud is now a prosecutable offense.
What the actual f***.
It's similar to having your car stolen, then when you call the cops, the thieves prosecute you for interfering in the theft.
If Levin is 1/2 the constitutional lawyer he says he is, he should break them.
Here are Levin’s emails:
Nov 8, 2016: I hate Trump!
Nov 9, 2016: I love Trump!
Sen. Hawley GRILLS Ex-Facebook VP on Them Colluding With Biden Admin video 4:38 - September 15, 2022
Reporting Americans for covid "misinformation" coordinating directly with the CDC and the WH.
Des Moines teen who killed rapist sentenced to probation, ordered to pay $150K
True.
Oh how Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot would have loved our government!
LOL! Touche.
I listen to only an hour of him as a filler when I’m cooking dinner. Until Tucker.
I cook with Bluetooth headphones in. 😁
Obviously members of law enforcement, the DAs office and the judiciary are involved in human trafficking.
That is really sick. Those prosecutors deserve what her rapist got.
I hate to say it but I’m one of those who warned people to stay the heck away from FB and Twitter years ago, to prevent exactly the kind of deeds we’re seeing now. You could see way back then the potential for shenanigans and it sure didn’t take them long once they got a call from Obama, did it?
What Constitution? The one Garland and them crap on daily?
Twitter too.
The victim had been prostituted out, and the guy she stabbed had been a John of hers several times.
The reason the court threw the book at *her* is that she stabbed him to death in his sleep: the court said he was not an active threat, or words to that effect.
There’s a reason people don’t like lawyers. But sometimes cases involve no good answer.
I read the article. In the situation she was in, and her age, his being asleep means nothing to me.
The prosecutors don’t deserve to breath the same air as her IMO.
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