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The Leak Was the Op – White House and Congress Demand New Powers, Think Restrict Act, in Aftermath of Classified Intel Leaks
Conservative Treehouse ^ | April 13, 2023 | Sundance

Posted on 04/14/2023 4:32:15 AM PDT by george76

Never letting a crisis go to waste is very useful tool, especially when the government creates the crisis. As CTH has said from the first discussion of the classified intelligence leaks, the “leak is the op.”

The intel leak is the operation created by the Intelligence Community to support new expanded powers for the Fourth Branch of Government. It should not be a surprise to discover the institution now leading the charge to give more power for U.S. intel agencies, is…. wait for it….. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

The SSCI is the organizational institution that supports the Fourth Branch of Government, the intelligence branch. The SSCI previously created a bipartisan Restrict Act, to deal with dangerous information on the internet.

According to SSCI Chairman Mark Warner, ‘The Restrict Act’ will give more power and authorities to the Executive Branch to deal with internet danger. Now the SSCI sees the classified intel leaks as evidence for the importance of the Restrict Act.

Well, butter my buns and call me a biscuit, surprise-surprise! Funny how that happens.

(Via NBC) – The Biden administration is looking at expanding how it monitors social media sites and chatrooms after U.S. intelligence agencies failed to spot classified Pentagon documents circulating online for weeks, according to a senior administration official and a congressional official briefed on the matter.

The possible change in the intelligence-gathering process is just one potential shift as officials scramble to determine not only how the documents leaked but also how to prevent another damaging incident.

[…] The president and other officials were dismayed when they learned the documents had been online for at least a month. “Nobody is happy about this,” said the senior administration official.

The administration is now looking at expanding the universe of online sites that intelligence agencies and law enforcement authorities track, the official said.

[…] If the administration tries to check online chatrooms more closely, it will have to navigate legal safeguards designed to protect Americans’ privacy and freedom of expression, former intelligence officials said.

Watching a public chatroom is fair game, but law enforcement agencies don’t have the legal authority to monitor a private online chatroom without probable cause, the former officials said.

“We do not have nor do we want a system where the United States government monitors private internet chats,” said Glenn Gerstell, former general counsel of the National Security Agency from 2015 to 2020.

[…] Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., said the leak raised yet more questions about how the government manages its secrets, only months after revelations that successive administrations appeared to have mishandled classified documents. […] “I think it’s time that Congress plays a role here in setting some parameters,” Warner said. (read more)

Just a few “parameters“…

Swear.

Promise.

Uh huh….

The Restrict Act, also known as Senate Bill 686 [SB686 HERE], also known as the bipartisan bill to empower the executive branch to shut down TikTok. Also known as the ‘online Patriot Act’.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cia; fbi; patriotact; ssci
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1 posted on 04/14/2023 4:32:15 AM PDT by george76
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2 posted on 04/14/2023 4:34:33 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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demand new powers act............more control for the elites


3 posted on 04/14/2023 4:35:00 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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1984 Introduction

https://youtu.be/XMrcJFrUgTM


4 posted on 04/14/2023 4:35:23 AM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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Have had highest security clearances as an active duty AF officer. I find it hard to believe a Mass guard would see anything. The NYT probably from other sources.


5 posted on 04/14/2023 4:44:29 AM PDT by larryjohnson (FReepersonaltrainer)
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To: ronnie raygun
demand new powers act...more control for the elites

...more control for corrupt evil 'elites'...

6 posted on 04/14/2023 4:52:04 AM PDT by GOPJ (It's NOT 'gender affirming care' - it's SEXUAL MUTILATION OF A YOUNG PERSON. Don't use their words.)
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Detailed Breakdown of the Criminals you Voted for that make up the US Congress.

36 have been accused of spousal abuse.
7 have been arrested for fraud.
19 have been accused of writing bad cheques.
117 have been directly or indirectly bankrupted- at least two businesses.
3 have done time for assault
71 cannot get a credit card due to their credit.
14 have been arrested on drug related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year.
380 of the 435 members of the US Congress making up 87% of them.


7 posted on 04/14/2023 4:55:20 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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The Redheaded libertarian:

Let’s talk RESTRICT Act, DATA Act, violations of the US Constitution, and the deep state infiltration of our Constitutional republic.

https://twitter.com/TRHLofficial/status/1645876766354071552


8 posted on 04/14/2023 5:01:10 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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Stand him against the wall and very publicly shoot him.

The punishment for treason must be death.

If a lawyer complains, detain the lawyer for 5 years

(he’s from Massachusetts and needs to be made example of)


9 posted on 04/14/2023 5:01:56 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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Yep, absolutely. The false flag was far too obvious.


10 posted on 04/14/2023 5:03:42 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year.

Really? 84 DWI arrests ÷ 52 weeks = 1.6 DWI arrests of Members of Congress, per week, every week, for an entire year?

Did you make this up yourself?

11 posted on 04/14/2023 5:08:09 AM PDT by Pilsner
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So the leak was/is akin to a mysterious drive-by shooting in a bad neighborhood, or a bank shootup or similar incident at a school or church organization, seemingly made-to-order to serve as a pretext to justify subsequent demands for a fresh round of gun control laws.


12 posted on 04/14/2023 5:08:36 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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BTTT


13 posted on 04/14/2023 5:12:47 AM PDT by nopardons
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Like they did with Russiagate

Create a rumor, “leak” it to the media, then use the media reports as a basis to start investigations


14 posted on 04/14/2023 5:20:18 AM PDT by digger48
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“So the leak was/is akin to a mysterious drive-by shooting in a bad neighborhood, or a bank shootup or similar incident at a school or church organization, seemingly made-to-order to serve as a pretext to justify subsequent demands for a fresh round of gun control laws.”

Yes...


15 posted on 04/14/2023 5:26:10 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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“Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely” comes to mind.


16 posted on 04/14/2023 5:26:30 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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It won’t really affect us here, since I’m sure they’ve already been monitoring us for 20 years.


17 posted on 04/14/2023 5:31:32 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: one guy in new jersey

Agreed. Somethings rotten in the state of Denmark


18 posted on 04/14/2023 5:34:56 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness ; Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat)
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The Bill of Rights is about to be cancelled “de facto” by the #JihadJunta.. Can’t have those pesky “rights” to destroy our “beautiful wickedness..”


19 posted on 04/14/2023 5:38:41 AM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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This whole thing stinks to high heaven. The Five Eyes media are celebrating that this was all done by a "fit, strong, armed, trained" man (that one from the UK Telegraph), the only thing missing is the MAGA hat.

And revealing the (unauthorized and illegal) scope of the secret US war against Russia before it gets hundreds of millions killed and our land poisoned isn't treason, it's patriotism.

If you believe a 21 year old ANG guy did all this alone and unmonitored, you probably believe Nixon was removed from office because he did something wrong, and JFK was killed by a nobody.

He had help, and very high level help at that to pull this off. FBI and CIA pulling our strings is bad enough - but what this reveals is that men who command troops are getting involved in our politics at the retail level.

Motus in fine velocior - Things speed up toward the end.

20 posted on 04/14/2023 5:43:59 AM PDT by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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