Twitter files - cia

[Procta]

Pretty lengthy breakdown of the CIA implementing itself to be the sole arbitrator of "truth"

https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1793666016704356735

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... continues in following tweets replied to the OP tweet

[2011change]

WTF does the CIA do any good to make America great? (SRS)

[~Hades~]

WTF does the CIA do any good to make America great? (SRS)

So it’s a catch 22. While they absolutely do SOME good, they are also a terrorist organization. Just like the fbi. Sure the boots on the ground guys help but the top brass and the covert groups fuk things up for every day people every single day. They are rogue operations.

[JUSA]

So it’s a catch 22. While they absolutely do SOME good, they are also a terrorist organization. Just like the fbi. Sure the boots on the ground guys help but the top brass and the covert groups fuk things up for every day people every single day. They are rogue operations.

I'm pressed to think of what good the do, overall. Sure, they protect us from, "the bad guys" and such, but in many cases those are bad guys solely because of foreign policy which does me no good and only enriches evil people. A bunch of Religious zealots wound up because we treat them like dirt and overthrow their countries on a dime, now they're rather justified in disliking the West, so we need the CIA to save us?

Which, that is just on face level with no credence to the rather obvious drug running they do or all the off the books bullchit that really makes them no different than the cartels or other organized crime operations, if even 1/10th of what is rumored had happened.

[~Hades~]

I'm pressed to think of what good the do, overall. Sure, they protect us from, "the bad guys" and such, but in many cases those are bad guys solely because of foreign policy which does me no good and only enriches evil people. A bunch of Religious zealots wound up because we treat them like dirt and overthrow their countries on a dime, now they're rather justified in disliking the West, so we need the CIA to save us?

Which, that is just on face level with no credence to the rather obvious drug running they do or all the off the books bullchit that really makes them no different than the cartels or other organized crime operations, if even 1/10th of what is rumored had happened.

think about how many cases the cia and fbi are tasked with

yes those phggts absolutely cause problems at home and abroad but thats not even close to all they do

its no different than blaming everything on the jews or astronauts. yes there are chit jews, chit astronauts, chit cia guys and chit fbi guys. doesnt mean they all are tho

at least the cia fuks people up globally. the fbi fuks up americans every day. id say the fbi is more of a direct threat to americans but thats like comparing one cancer to another cancer