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 ...
Tom Nichols: Hoisted on your own petard.
You filthy swine. Now you get a taste of your own medicine. More pain is coming for your ilk, much more. /spit
I will admit: This makes me smile.
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Yep, I read the headline and I thought “GOOD!”
The left calls things a “witch hunt” when the elected go after the bureaucrats, but they call it justice when the bureaucrats go after the elected.
I’ve wondered if she was successful in securing Quadafi’s gold for her brothers.
It would be correct to label the State Department a hostile foreign power.
Agreed.
Target rich environment.
Tom Nichols is a Resistance POS neocon.
“I’ve wondered if she was successful in securing Quadafi’s gold for her brothers.”
Probably not. The Libyan provincial militias were very dogged and skilled in tracking down deep state operators who tried to flee Libya with artwork, treasures and gold.
Open pit graves for disposing of deep state actors were operational and busy around the Tripoli aireport for months. Spec Op contractors from Africa suffered terrible loses as they tried to flee Libya.
It’s rumored among the diplomatic corps that Israel has a recording of Hillary screeching as deep state losses mounted during the initial days of the Libyan civil war. That Hillary screech probably meant that her couriers lugging sacks of gold got caught and beheaded.
I fail to see the problem here.
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