TWITTER FILES - CIA

X ^ | May 23, 2024 | Michael Shellenberger

[Twotone]

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the most famous of the 18 US government agencies that comprise the Intelligence Community (IC) of the United States of America. Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), the law strictly prohibits CIA employees or contractors from spying upon or running clandestine operations against American citizens on US soil.

But now, a new Twitter Files investigation reveals that a member of the Board of Trustees of the CIA’s mission-driven venture capital firm and ostensibly “former” IC and CIA analysts were involved in a 2021-2022 effort to take over Twitter’s content management system.

The effort also involved:

— a long-time IC contractor and senior Department of Defense R&D official who spent years developing technologies to detect whistleblowers (“insider threats”) like Edward Snowden and Wikileaks’ leakers;

— the proposed head of the DHS’ aborted Disinformation Governance Board, Nina Jankowicz, who aided US military and NATO “hybrid war” operations in Europe;

— Jim Baker, who, as FBI General Counsel, helped start the Russiagate hoax, and, as Twitter’s Deputy General Counsel, urged Twitter executives to censor The New York Post story about Hunter Biden.

https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1604902028852924416

These existing or former IC employees, contractors, or intermediaries weren’t satisfied with simply controlling Twitter. They also wanted to use PayPal, Amazon Web Services, and GoDaddy in a totalizing effort to de-platform, de-monetize, and excommunicate from the Internet entirely those individuals that the IC et al. deems to be a threat.

There is much that we still do not know about the effort. We do not know if officials within the CIA or any other IC organization ran the operation. It is possible that the only individuals involved in the effort were the ones we discovered. And none of the individuals involved responded to our request for information except for one.

But thousands of pages of Twitter Files and documents contained therein paint a clear picture of an organized operation by existing or former IC employees and contractors, using well-established IC tradecraft, to take control of Twitter’s content moderation.

Our investigation comes at a moment when governments and intelligence agencies around the world are stepping up their efforts to monitor and censor their citizens. It thus has large implications for policymakers and the public in Western nations that look to the US as a model for free speech and citizen control of the military.

This is a joint Public-Racket investigation. The authors are @Shellenberger @MTaibbi and @GalexyBrane . As always, the only condition we agreed to in publishing this was to first publish on X. At the end of this thread, we explain why and how this investigation began.

Here we go...

[Twotone]

I imagine there's more on this on their Substack accounts, but thought this was worth posting...

[DesertRhino]

This is why they flipped out when Elon decided to buy Twitter.

[VanShuyten]

An excellent, if a little long, read. A really good example of government working against free speech through pressure on platforms.

[RitaOK]

The wheels of a little bit of justice ocurring in the United States, need to start turning now, in order that Trump can not be seen as orchestrating it as the 47th president.

These revelations have been setting the “predicate” for the coming action, well under the current, corrupted Executive Branch of government— explicitly Resident Joseph R Biden.

There must be a few white hats peppered throughout the US Justice Department. They just aren’t in the DC version of the Department.

[OrioleFan]

Obama’s minions are like cockroaches in the 3-letter agencies.

[algore]

Twitter is no more.

There are no twitter files, only X-files

[RitaOK]

So true.

If POTUS Trump had not lost, I’m afraid the depth and breadth of these Marxist embeds, throughout every American institution— particularly our universities, who raised them as such, would not be so screaming obvious to normal working Americans. Until it was too late. And it may be.

They pulled off a colour revolution right here, in country, against Americans. Imho. 🤬

[EasySt]

Musk Tweeted that the Federal Government has backdoor code in “X”.

That’s probably why most of the 150K people that were removed from Twitter on January 8, 2021 are prevented from returning. They were selected by our government for permanent censorship. Like me, @EasyStreet4.

[RitaOK]

Sorry to be so late responding, Easy!

The embedded DC BHats are everywhere, performing a Colour Revolution right here in the USA, and you got selected to prove it. Permanently.

Glad Elon has gotten to the bottom of it! If your ban can be unwrapped , he’s just the guy to try to do it. Thanks for your post. Sheesh.

PS: John Solomon said on Bannon’s WarRoom that documents from Whistleblowers are coming for publication this week the news will shock— on biden and hunter making Far more gazillions than has squeaked out, so far.

Translation, I think, will not be surprising for we of Q nation, but for the long awaited details of exactly what, where, when and how.

We already know the Whosits. 😃
And, the polishing off of the 25th Ammendment has begun.

If they push out the Obama machine, Q is doubtless ready to unload on Obama, since he has been on the calendar anyway, since his birth.😁