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The Feds’ Election Interference Didn’t Stop After 2020, It Just Got More Sophisticated
The Federalist ^ | 12 Aug, 2024 | Ben Weingarten

Posted on 08/12/2024 6:16:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Federal agencies used the pretext of foreign interference in the 2020 election to surveil and suppress domestic news.

merica’s speech police are reassembling to once again influence our elections. At the same time the security state is creating potential pretexts for renewed censorship by issuing warnings of cyberattacks that could “hinder public access to election information,” they are also reprising old claims of coming Russian election interference on behalf of Donald Trump.

The little-noticed development comes in a report from the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) on the DOJ’s efforts to “Coordinate Information Sharing About Foreign Malign Influence Threats to U.S. Elections” — a euphemism for the chief law enforcement agency’s prior censorship activities.

During the 2020 election, as revealed in litigation, congressional oversight, and reporting, national security and law enforcement agencies used the threat of foreign misinformation and disinformation on social media to U.S. elections as a pretext to surveil and suppress domestic news and opinions deemed derogatory to our ruling regime.

An alphabet soup of agencies coerced, cajoled, and colluded directly and via cutouts with social media companies to get those companies to squash all manner of wrongthink on election integrity and outcomes at mass scale.

While the OIG explicitly omitted the “FBI’s information sharing with social media companies with respect to domestic actors” from its report, the DOJ’s response to the office’s recommendations will likely have substantial bearing on Americans’ speech.

That response, appended to the report, comes in the form of a DOJ memo revealing that the law enforcement agency has now codified its protocols for reporting purported “foreign malign influence” information with social media companies, and is redoubling its efforts to do so in the run-up to the 2024 election.

In fact, the FBI has been implementing new Standard Operating Procedures since February.

Under those procedures, the FBI is required to identify “specific, credible, and articulable facts that provide high confidence for assessing that the information at issue relates to activity attributable to a foreign government, foreign non-state actor, or their proxy engaged in an FMI [foreign malign influence] operation.”

The Bureau is also required to include a disclaimer — akin to one authorities often included in censorship requests from 2020 — explaining it “does not request or expect” recipients to take any specific action based on shared information......


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: arrestwraytoday; defundthefbi; fbi; fbisedition; foreignmeddling; hoax; socialmedia
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1 posted on 08/12/2024 6:16:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The deep state has not been cleaned at all. It has only been reinforced.


2 posted on 08/12/2024 6:16:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Including an assassination attempt.


3 posted on 08/12/2024 6:17:26 AM PDT by alstewartfan (Child slavery, rape and drug OD's mean nothing to Roberts and Barrett. )
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To: MtnClimber

Stop it


4 posted on 08/12/2024 6:18:07 AM PDT by Singermom
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To: MtnClimber

By their election interference, the federal and state apparatchiks are giving aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States. These apparatchiks need to be tried, convicted, and sentenced for their crimes, and the sentence should be carried out in public.


5 posted on 08/12/2024 6:23:18 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


6 posted on 08/12/2024 6:24:20 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber

The biggest issue in this campaign should be the fact that Kamala Harris knew about and covered up FOR FOUR YEARS the mental incapacity of the President of the United States. That is arguably the greatest scandal in the history of the Presidency as it had to involve nearly everyone in the Federal Government who had an interaction with Biden, everyone in the media who ever interviewed Biden, as well as the current Democrat candidate who is receiving the same protectionist treatment.

WHY IS THIS SCANDAL NOT BEING ADDRESSED???


7 posted on 08/12/2024 6:24:39 AM PDT by MikeyB806
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To: MtnClimber

Bttt.

5.56mm


8 posted on 08/12/2024 6:28:10 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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To: MtnClimber

You are right. It’s deeper.

Sometime in 2025 Red States will be openly discussing leaving the Union.


9 posted on 08/12/2024 6:28:44 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: alstewartfan

I bet it will not be the last one.


10 posted on 08/12/2024 6:29:09 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: MtnClimber
As long as the democrat party benefits from these numerous actions there will be no desire on the part of their supporters to stop it.

The only way to stop what is going on is to remove Democrats and RINOS from power.

11 posted on 08/12/2024 6:41:28 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Pray for Biden: Psalms 109: 8)
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To: MtnClimber

.


12 posted on 08/12/2024 6:47:51 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: MtnClimber

Notice the Republicans deafening silence on election fraud?


13 posted on 08/12/2024 6:51:54 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: MikeyB806

Kudos——deserves a repeat.


The biggest issue in this campaign should be that
<><>Harris knew, and covered up, the mental incapacity of the President of the US.
<><>arguably the greatest scandal in the history of the Presidency
<><>the coverup involved those in the Federal Govt who interacted with Biden,
<><>involved everyone in the media who ever interviewed Biden,
<><>the current Democrat candidate is receiving the same protectionist treatment.


14 posted on 08/12/2024 6:52:33 AM PDT by Liz
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To: laplata

Look what happened last time states tried to exit the union


15 posted on 08/12/2024 6:53:52 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: MtnClimber

Dear FBI: here is election information that I wish to share.

1. Kamala Harris was assigned the role commonly identified as ‘Border Czar’ by Joe Biden.
2. Kamala Harris is not a Natural Born Citizen of the United States, as the centuries-old historic use of the term defines it. That renders her ineligible for both the office she holds and the one she aspires to hold.
3. Kamala Harris is almost certainly the most radical leftist candidate to ever run for President... certainly from among Democrat party representatives.
3a. If he were running for President instead of Vice President, Tim Walz might very well take that distinction.
4. Kamala Harris is not Israel’s friend, and probably not Taiwan’s, either.
5. When Democrat voters last had a choice (the 2020 primary season), Kamala Harris finished dead last and was the first Presidential candidate to exit the race once the primaries started.
6. Kamala Harris is only a national figure now because she chose to service SF mayor Willie Brown.
7. Kamala Harris is not an African-American.

That’s enough for now. Have at it, agents.


16 posted on 08/12/2024 7:09:57 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes, it did, making the target of such attacks that much more important.


17 posted on 08/12/2024 7:14:22 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: alancarp
Oh, I guess there's one more thing that I'm sure will be labeled as 'disinformation':

(If you can't see this -- and I can't -- it says "VP Kamala Harris cast tie-breaking vote to let IRS track workers' tips so they can be taxed". Source: @BreitbartNews on X.com.)

18 posted on 08/12/2024 7:18:44 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
Look what happened last time states tried to exit the union

We're not leaving. Let's just throw the communists out of the Union.

19 posted on 08/12/2024 7:21:14 AM PDT by Politically Correct (A member of the rabble in good standing)
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To: Michael.SF.
The only way to stop what is going on is to remove Democrats and RINOS from power.

When Republicans get elected they seem to morph into RINOs or democRATs very quickly. Like a switch was flipped. I often wonder if the FBI is blackmailing everyone.

20 posted on 08/12/2024 7:22:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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