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Posted on 05/01/2025 10:22:16 PM PDT by logi_cal869
"Esteemed Comrades of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs! Today we ask you to review your files for any communications you may have had with unreliable elements who are critical of our Party and our leader. If you have had contact with journalists, researchers, or other subversives, we ask you to report these interactions in full to the senior comrades responsible for the important work of ideological vigilance. Also, please also indicate if you have encountered any suspicious use of the following terms…"
That’s not actually how Acting Undersecretary of State Darren Beattie communicated his request for information - snip =, but he may as well have. Beattie is one of President Donald Trump’s self-styled ideological commissars in the executive branch, and he seems to be taking to his duties with gusto.
According to the MIT Technology Review, on March 11 Beattie circulated a document among the then-staff of the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub, known as R/FIMI, an office that once “tracked and countered foreign disinformation campaigns,” and has since been shut down. - snip - Beattie wanted all “staff emails and other records with or about a host of individuals and organizations that track or write about foreign disinformation,” as well as “all staff communications that merely reference Trump or people in his orbit, like Alex Jones, Glenn Greenwald, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In addition, it directs a search of communications for a long list of keywords, including ‘Pepe the Frog,’ ‘incel,’ ‘q-anon,’ ‘Black Lives Matter,’ ‘great replacement theory,’ ‘far-right,’ and ‘infodemic.’”
Among the some 60 figures and organizations targeted by Beattie were the former U.S. cybersecurity official (and Trump appointee) Christopher Krebs, the entrepreneur Bill Gates, the open-source journalism organization Bellingcat, the commentator Bill Kristol, the Stanford Internet Observatory, and my Atlantic colleague Anne Applebaum.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
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BIGLY.
If you want to find ‘a government within a government’ the U.S. State Department checks all the boxes.
Dunk them the see if they float.
The state department has been a rogue mess for decades.
The Department of State exists to carry out the foreign policy of the President the United States, who at this time is Donald J Trump.
Anyone employed there who isn’t willing to do that needs to leave immediately.
Period.
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A veritable commie mushroom farm going back as far as Woodrow Wilson.
During Hillary Clinton’s time as Obama’s Secretary of State, the State Department favored individuals and organizations who donated to the Clinton Foundation, or who had sought interests with the State Department while also contributing to the foundation.
The reliably accurate Judicial Watch argued that emails between Clinton Foundation officials and top aides to the Secretary of State showed improper ties.
While investigations were launched, including a two-year inquiry by the Trump Justice Department, no evidence of wrongdoing was found. Clinton herself denied the allegations.
LOL The Atlantic LOL
Hillary Clinton: "You're looking for me? I haven't been at the State Department since 2013." 🧹 🌜
cnbc.com
Many who met with Clinton as Obama’s secretary of state donated to the Clinton Foundation
Tue, Aug 23 2016. The Associated Press
More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. It’s an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.
At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.
Donors who were granted time with Clinton included an internationally known economist who asked for her help as the Bangladesh government pressured him to resign from a nonprofit bank he ran; a Wall Street executive who sought Clinton’s help with a visa problem and Estee Lauder
executives who were listed as meeting with Clinton while her department worked with the firm’s corporate charity to counter gender-based violence in South Africa.
The meetings between the Democratic presidential nominee and foundation donors do not appear to violate legal agreements Clinton and former president Bill Clinton signed before she joined the State Department in 2009. But the frequency of the overlaps shows the intermingling of access and donations, and fuels perceptions that giving the foundation money was a price of admission for face time with Clinton. Her calendars and emails released as recently as this week describe scores of contacts she and her top aides had with foundation donors.
The AP’s findings represent the first systematic effort to calculate the scope of the intersecting interests of Clinton foundation donors and people who met personally with Clinton or spoke to her by phone about their needs.
The 154 did not include U.S. federal employees or foreign government representatives. Clinton met with representatives of at least 16 foreign governments that donated as much as $170 million to the Clinton charity, but they were not included in AP’s calculations because such meetings would presumably have been part of her diplomatic duties.
Last week, the Clinton Foundation moved to head off ethics concerns about future donations by announcing changes planned if Clinton is elected president. On Monday, Bill Clinton said in a statement that if his wife were to win, he would step down from the foundation’s board and stop all fundraising for it. The foundation would also accept donations only from U.S. citizens and what it described as independent philanthropies, while no longer taking gifts from foreign groups, U.S. companies or corporate charities. Clinton said the foundation would no longer hold annual meetings of its international aid program, the Clinton Global Initiative, and it would spin off its foreign-based programs to other charities.
Those planned changes would not affect more than 6,000 donors who have already provided the Clinton charity with more than $2 billion in funding since its creation in 2000. “There’s a lot of potential conflicts and a lot of potential problems,” said Douglas White, an expert on nonprofits who previously directed Columbia University’s graduate fundraising management program. “The point is, she can’t just walk away from these 6,000 donors.” Former senior White House ethics officials said a Clinton administration would have to take careful steps to ensure that past foundation donors would not have the same access as she allowed at the State Department.
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THAT has a GREAT ring to it!
Darren Beattie is 100% a patriot!
He was the editor and possibly the founder of REVOLVER NEWS.
Beattie investigated Ashli Babbitt’s killer, the Jan 6th “trap operation” to the nth degree, and the pipe bombers to within 90% of solving the crimes.
Shadilay. Did they search keyword Shadilay?
That's nearly 20 years of deeply rooted trash that too many here assume can be easily gotten rid of in a few months. I say give President Trump's appointees a little breathing room to clean out the mess rather than helping the compromised mass media impede their progress.
I do like Moggers' suggestion "Dunk them to see if they float". No doubt many should be put to that test but drowning the innocent in the process is just too 17th century for our times.
(oops - wrong witch dunking graphic)
According to MIT Tech Review, on March 11, Acting Undersecy of State Darren Beattie sent a document to “Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub” staff, (R/FIMI), that “tracked and countered foreign disinformation,” now shut down. Beattie wanted:
<><>all “staff emails and other records
<><>wrt individuals and organizations that track or write about foreign disinformation,”
<><>as well as “all staff communications that merely reference Trump or people in his orbit,
<><>Alex Jones, Glenn Greenwald, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
<><>a search of communications for keywords,
<><>‘Pepe the Frog,’ ‘incel,’ ‘q-anon,’ ‘Black Lives Matter,’
<><>‘great replacement theory,’ ‘far-right,’ and ‘infodemic’”
<><>some 60 figures and organizations targeted by Beattie
<><>former US cybersecurity official (and Trump appointee) Christopher Krebs
<><>entrepreneur Bill Gates,
<><>open-source journalism organization “Bellingcat,”
<><>commentator Bill Kristol,
<><>the Stanford Internet Observatory,
<><>the Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum.
<><>(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Great synopsis......some 20 years of deeply rooted Clinton/Obama trash. Hillary was selfishly
motivated, conniving for financial gain and the Clinton’s rank quest for eternal political power.
The Clinton’s have been conniving ever since their days in Arkansas.
You make Hillary sound more like Sauron of Mordor than a mere witch. I know I’ll rest a bit easier once she’s off our rock, if blessed with a longer life. Be well.
The Clintons knew they had a big problem wrt Hillary’s candidacy-——
Clinton Foundation donors were sucking up bigtime,
donating $millions to get face time w/ Secy of State Clinton.....
and, btw, Obama “knew nothing” about this.......snicker.
So Bill “gallantly” stepped up to sucker the voters
announcing changes if Hillary got elected president:
<><>he would step down from the foundation’s board
<><>he would stop all fundraising
<><>The foundation would accept donations only from US citizens
<><>and from what he described as “independent philanthropies,”
<><>would no longer take money from foreign groups, US companies, or corporate charities
<><>would no longer hold annual meetings of the Clinton Global Initiative begathon,
<><>and would spin off its foreign-based programs to other “charities.”
He failed to mention the planned changes would not affect more than 6,000 donors who had already provided the Clinton “charity” with more than $2 billion in funding since its creation in 2000.
You make Hillary sound more like Sauron of Mordor than a mere witch.
I know I’ll rest a bit easier once she’s off our rock, if blessed with a longer life.
Joe McCarthy was right. The Venona Papers proved it.
Beattie is like a dog with a bone. He will NOT let go of an issue until he has learned and exposed everything. At least, that’s how he was as a journalist, and I doubt if that is different in his new job.
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