… Both were targets of the U.S. government’s use of Twitter and social media to manipulate election outcomes.
While current conservative headlines are filled with discussion surrounding revelations of Twitter being used by U.S. government officials to control and manipulate public opinion, it is worthwhile reminding everyone how this process was first triggered – and then look at how the intelligence community applied the lessons to the USA in 2020.
The Obama administration first created the public-private partnership with Twitter and Facebook to support the “Arab Spring” uprising. As a consequence, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was the first elected official to be taken out by former President Obama’s deployment of Twitter as a community activist tool for revolution in 2011. In direct and consequential ways, Egypt was the BETA test for a process that surface a decade later in the United States during the 2020 election.
Using and influencing social media was a tool created by the Obama state department, as noted years ago in Mic.Com:
[…] In countries like Egypt, Tunisia, and Yemen, rising action plans such as protests made up of thousands, have been organized through social media such Facebook and Twitter. “We use Facebook to schedule the protests” an Arab Spring activist from Egypt announced “and [we use] Twitter to coordinate, and YouTube to tell the world.” The role that technology has taken in allowing the distribution of public information such as the kinds stated by the aforementioned activist, had been essential in establishing the democratic movement that has helped guide abused civilians to overthrow their oppressor. (link)
(NationalPulse) The most popular Twitter hashtags in the Arab region in the first three months of this year were “Egypt”, “Jan25”, “Libya”, “Bahrain” and “protest”.
Nearly 9 in 10 Egyptians and Tunisians surveyed in March said they were using Facebook to organise protests or spread awareness about them. All but one of the protests called for on Facebook ended up coming to life on the streets.
These and other findings from the newly released second edition of the Arab Social Media Report by the Dubai School of Government give empirical heft to the conventional wisdom that Facebook and Twitter abetted if not enabled the historic region-wide uprisings of early 2011. (link)
Fast forward to 2020, and those same elements deployed against the Egyptian government were deployed in the United States in a coordinated public-private partnership with Twitter, Facebook and social media.
The U.S. government control over these social media platforms is ultimately what lies at the heart of the latest Twitter Files release.
Within the Twitter file release, you will find Twitter’s lead censor, Yoel Roth, meeting with an official from the U.S. Dept of National Intelligence (DNI). From the testimony of FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan, we know that official was Shelby Pierson. Chan was speaking under oath in an ongoing first amendment lawsuit against the Biden administration for manipulating and censoring speech on social media.
To see the connective tissue between the events in 2011 (Egypt) and the events a decade later in 2020 (USA), it is worth noting a discussion that took place in early 2020 between Shelby Pierson and former CIA Director Mike Morell.
Mike Morell was made CIA Director after General Petraeus was removed in 2012 by then DNI James Clapper at the behest of President Obama. With his new position, Mike Morell was the Obama official who gave testimony to congress about CIA operations in/around the Libyan Benghazi compound attack on 9/11/11. Morell was put into this position to protect Hillary Clinton and President Obama for the crisis they created in Libya, the covert arms sales to Libya, and ultimately the Benghazi attack that stemmed from State Dept and CIA efforts to retrieve those illegal weapons.
During the 2016 Presidential election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Mike Morell was a key voice helping to frame the narrative that Russia was planning to interfere in the election. Morell, no longer in government and working for Clinton, was another 2016 vector seeding the Trump-Russia narrative to the media while Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele worked outside sending various files to FBI allies to assist the fraudulent framework.
Mike Morell is a key Clinton/Obama loyalist and tool of the national security state. Morell is now a CBS intelligence analyst and contributor.
Back to Shelby Pierson…. In early January 2020 Ms. Pierson and Mr Morell were discussing the upcoming presidential election from the perspective of how the U.S. Intelligence Community would be engaged. Emphasis mine:
(Via CBS) – In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Shelby Pierson, a career intelligence official recently named the Intelligence Community Election Threats Executive within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Pierson details past, present and future election security threats facing the U.S., and explains how the intelligence community has partnered with other government agencies to boost visibility into foreign interference efforts.
She explains how the threat landscape has broadened since 2016, and tells Morell what new vectors foreign adversaries may consider using in 2020. Pierson also offers new insights into Russia’s systematic efforts to interfere in the 2016 and 2018 midterm elections. This is the latest installment of a continuing series on “Leadership of the IC,” featuring currently-serving senior leadership within the U.S. intelligence community. (link)
Keep in mind, Shelby Pierson is the key official from the ODNI office, talking to FBI liaison Elvis Chan about frameworks for social media censorship and the specific needs of the U.S. government in October 2020. At the same time, it is Shelby Pierson who is coordinating withe Twitter Executive Yoel Roth.
I urge readers to read the full CBS transcript above get a sense Ms. Pierson from the context of her conversation with fellow traveler Mike Morell in January 2020.
Then, not coincidentally, we go to the CTH archives from February 2020:
February 23, 2020 – […] Sending shockwaves through the intelligence community, it was reported yesterday that newly appointed Acting DNI Richard “Ric” Grenell asked the intelligence community, specifically including Shelby Pierson, to produce the underlying intelligence within the briefing she gave to the House Intelligence Committee.
Well, what do you know…. All of a sudden today, anonymous intelligence officials are reporting to CNN that Ms. Pierson “overstepped” her position, was “misleading” in her briefing, and “mischaracterized” the underlying intelligence. Imagine that.
Washington (CNN)-The US intelligence community’s top election security official appears to have overstated the intelligence community’s formal assessment of Russian interference in the 2020 election, omitting important nuance during a briefing with lawmakers earlier this month, three national security officials told CNN.
The official, Shelby Pierson, told lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election with the goal of helping President Donald Trump get reelected.
[…] “The intelligence doesn’t say that,” one senior national security official told CNN. “A more reasonable interpretation of the intelligence is not that they have a preference, it’s a step short of that.
[…] One intelligence official said that Pierson’s characterization of the intelligence was “misleading” and a national security official said Pierson failed to provide the “nuance” needed to accurately convey the US intelligence conclusions.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where Pierson is a senior official, did not respond to CNN’s request for comment. (more)
Why would Shelby Pierson and Joseph Maguire intentionally blindside the White House?
The briefing was obviously spun by HPSCI Chairman Adam Schiff and democrats on the House intel committee; and there was no intelligence presented during the briefing to support the claims made by Pierson, Democrats and media. (2020 LINK)
What you see now surfacing is evidence of the framework of 2020 election manipulation from the DNI office. That government manipulation later manifests in the public-private partnership between the U.S. government and Twitter, as highlighted in the releases of the Twitter files.
One note of caution. I will draw attention to a very similar framework now rolling out with the Twitter File releases that we saw in the John Durham investigation. Notice how both Bari Weiss and Matt Taibbi are drawing attention to the Twitter executives, but NOT drawing any attention to the government officials. This does not appear to be coincidental.
Bari Weiss could have easily identified the head of the Twitter head of the “Strategic Response Team” an intelligence official named Jeff Carlton. She didn’t. Similarly, Matt Taibbi could have identified the official from the DNI office in contact with Twitter executive Yoel Roth, ODNI official Shelby Pierson. He didn’t.
Just as John Durham structured his public investigative releases to cast the unlawful shadow on only those people outside government, so too is Weiss and Taibbi structuring their public reviews of the Twitter files to draw attention only to the Twitter executives outside government.
The officials from the U.S. government, who are transmitting through the DHS portal to Twitter, are not being named and identified, why not?
From Taibbi and Weiss and Taibbi again, we are getting an outline of actions taken by Twitter officials, but we are still blind to how the information, requests and demands come into Twitter from the U.S. government, and who specifically is sending them.
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The conclusion is Taibbi and Weiss are both doing the same as James Baker – protecting the government. Any guess this is actually at the approval of Musk? Perhaps Musk is making a case for spending 44 billion on a defective product the previous owners were aware of.
A more direct access to the files is required.
“protecting the government”…means and methods.
Perception management.
“Taibbi and Weiss are both doing the same as James Baker”
Anyone still typing has either been deemed a non-threat or is, whether consciously or not, contributive to the UniParty’s see-sawy dialectic. That’s the litmus.
Then there’s the fact that both typing and the reading of said typing, is hardly storming the Bastille, no matter no hard-hitting the prose may be.
It’s a ton of feathers vs ton of rocks sort of thing. Which is heavier when you’re wanting to knock down the castle gate? A battering ram or hard-hitting prose?
Bet the cia and fbi are behind the 2016 riots and antifia
Not the first time. See COINTELPRO, Gladio, Gene Sharp…nobody joins political groups except the FBI.
WRay Epps had nothing to do with the capitol insurrection in Michigan or DC, or the kidnapping, or the pipe firecrackers…
When you’re betting on a uniparty sure thing, you can’t lose.
(D-N.Y.)Mondaire Jones was the latest member of Congress to come to Epps’ rescue…
Cover-Up Artists for Undercover Operatives
amgreatness.com/2022/09/26/cover-up-artists-for-undercover-operatives/
Hmmm strong masculine presence is what this is all about. Doesn’t really matter where it comes from. Personally I have ZERO desire to project strength and I care not for men hellbent on it.
However weak women and weak men (certain kind) have been trying to shortchange it good masculinity. It was more important for them to wrest power and the goal was to get different groups to fight. It’s all so very clever.
Good to know, however, I see nothing coming from this.no indictment,no prison time, maybe a few slapping of wrists.and certainly not the main perps.
Bruce Ivins committed suicide before he could be investigated for the al qaeda anthrax letters.
Lots of talk about how twitter suppressed information (and people) to rig elections
Not a peep about how it suppressed information and people to push lockdowns and jabs
Seems like a limited hangout
FWIW, Pence wrote a book about how he saved the world with lockdowns thanks to “national security” Russia hoaxers and “public health” global grifters.
15 days to slow the spread? 15 ways to blow your cred.
“I’m deeply disturbed by calls to defund the FBI.”
The World According to Mike Pence
brownstone.org/articles/the-world-according-to-mike-pence/
We’re disturbed that Pence is contemplating a run for president.
Lock him up too!
I am deeply disturbed to ever hear the name Mike Pence spoken aloud or in print.
It is deeply disturbing! 😱
I thought the title of his book was— The Art of Betrayal.
Elon Musk brands Twitter a ‘crime scene,’ as House GOP say they’ll ‘roll out the red carpet’ to get him to testify at Hunter Biden hearings about laptop censorship
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11524807/Musk-brands-Twitter-crime-scene-GOP-want-testify-Hunter-Biden-hearings.html
John Paul Mack Isaac, the computer shop owner, stated last week on the Joe Pags show, a popular radio broadcast out of San Antonio, that there was plenty of evidence on the laptop pointing to Joe’s Pay to Play scheme while he was VP.
And the FBI kept the laptop under wraps as long as they could
The hunted becomes the hunter: President’s drug-and-hooker loving-son plots DEFAMATION suits against Fox News, Eric Trump and Rudy Giuliani – and probes repairman who handed in his infamous laptop
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11524113/Hunter-Biden-plots-defamation-lawsuits-against-Fox-News-Eric-Trump-Rudy-Giuliani.html
Then changed their minds when Hunter looked up the meaning of the words discovery and traitor.
John Podesta’s niece was part of Twitter’s ‘Trust and Safety’ team?
Fauci’s daughter left last year.
She found a new diversity hustle in woketopia.
Elon’s Twitter Is Still Infiltrated with Former FBI and CIA Agents – These Agents Are Frantically Scrubbing Their LinkedIn Accounts, Read the List Here
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/elons-twitter-still-infiltrated-former-fbi-cia-agents-agents-frantically-scrubbing-linkedin-accounts-read-list/
BOOM! Twitter Owner Elon Musk Suggests Blame for Child Exploitation on the Platform May Rest with Yoel Roth
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/boom-twitter-owner-elon-musk-suggests-blame-child-exploitation-platform-may-rest-yoel-roth/
Yoel Roth wrote his PhD thesis arguing in favor of children being able to access adult Internet services.
Yoel Roth also argued in favor of children having sex with their high school teachers. And Roth posted that on Twitter.
That might explain a lot.
Yoel’s university dissertation was on the gay hookup app Grindr. His kind are degenerate scum and too many of them are in positions of international influence.
Imagine, you are a bank manager and your bank has been robbed with the robbers getting away scott free for many years.
During the robbery your customers were sequestered and silenced for hours with many being personally attacked and injured, not to mention the lost of their funds.
Post the robbery you uncover actual communications of the robbers emails and texts conversing and planning with some of your bank employees prior to the “planned heist”meaning you know WHO specifically planned, staged, conducted and helped with the robbery but all you will say is there was a robbery and the bank is a crime scene?
So basically the bank manager acknowledges the bank was robbed and people were injured but he/she doesn’t appear to want to identify the actual robbers by name and doesn’t seem to want to turnover/expose the found communications.
Does this sound like a bank manager who wants to truly get to the WHOLE truth or just partial truths? True transparency does not have a filter or a layer of protection. It is all or nothing otherwise it’s not transparency and just more selective narration.
What kind of bank manager wouldn’t immediately provide the names of the robbers and ALL the evidence including the robbers found actual communications?
PS – The only thing that would make this hypothetical story worse is if the bank manager also knew there was a secret door the robbers used to get into the bank and also get all the depositors personal information and the manager chose not to mention the secret door to anyone.
What would make it worse is if those investigating the crime were in on it. That’s the only way your bank manager could get away with a secret door.
Now imagine the bank manager, isn’t a bank manager.
Boom.
Lights on, Sundance.
Thank you.
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1600316966182715393.html
List of FBI/CIA Agents Still Employed at Twitter
1. Kevin Michelena (https://http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-p-michelena/) – current Twitter Sr. Corporate Security Analyst. Ex FBI Intelligence Analyst 12 years
2. Doug Hunt (https://http://www.linkedin.com/in/doug-hunt-425b1a24/) – current Twitter Senior Director. Ex FBI Special Agent 20 years.
3. Mark Jaroszewski (https://http://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-jaro/) – current Twitter Director Corporate Security/Risk. Ex FBI 20 years.
4. Douglas Turner (https://http://www.linkedin.com/in/turnerdoug378/) – current Twitter Senior Manager, Corporate and Executive Security Services. Ex FBI 14 years. Ex Secret Service 7 years.
5. Patrick G. (https://http://www.linkedin.com/in/p983785738393098886385/) – current Twitter Head of Corporate Security. Ex FBI Special Agent 23 years.
6. Karen Walsh (https://http://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-walsh/) – current Twitter Director – Corporate Resilience. Ex FBI Special Agent 21 years.
7. Russell Handorf (https://http://www.linkedin.com/in/handorf/) – current Twitter Senior Staff Technical Program Manager. Ex FBI 10 years.
8. Michael B. (https://http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelbertrand33/) – current Twitter Senior Corporate Security Manager. Ex FBI 23 years.
9. Vincent Lucero (https://http://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-lucero-25410714a/) – current Twitter Senior Security Manager. Ex FBI Special Agent 22 years.
10. Kevin L. (https://http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-l-a5704b125/) – current Twitter Corporate Security Manager. Ex FBI Special Agent 25 years.
11. Matthew W. (https://http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-w-613664184/) – current Twitter Senior Director of Product Trust, Revenue Policy, and Counsel Systems & Analytics. Ex FBI 15 years.
12. Claire O. (https://http://www.linkedin.com/in/claireobrienpdx/) – current Twitter Senior Corporate Security Analyst. Ex FBI 8 years.
13. Bruce A. (https://http://www.linkedin.com/in/bruceapplin324/) – current Twitter Director, Corporate Security. Ex FBI 23 years.
14. Jeff Carlton (https://http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-usna/) – current Twitter Senior Manager. Ex FBI & CIA Intelligence Analyst 3 years.
“The officials from the U.S. government, who are transmitting through the DHS portal to Twitter, are not being named and identified, why not?”
The petulant, emotionally fragile children posing as senior executives at Twitter were easily manipulated by government operatives. It was a playground full of Trump-hating pre-schoolers. Classic useful idiots. The feds simply saw an opportunity and exploited it.
https://www.belfercenter.org/person/michael-morell
The US Fed Gov SUCKS.
The limited hangout continues.
Obama did so many things that were treasonous, that endangered the American people. Ousting Mubarek was one of them, going into Libya without congressional approval and spearheading the ouster of Gaddafi was another. Turning a blind eye to Putin’s occupation of Crimea was another. Allowing the disaster unfold in Benghazi without sending help was another, and so on and so on. The world was a dangerous place under Obama, as it is with Joe.
“Orchestrating” the Benghazi with “lock her up ” ….there…fixed it.
Get ready for “Moochelle”
Dangerous because there is, to this day, no rule of law. In fact there seems to be Anarchy. The FBI is in control of twitter. The FBI controls what a lot of people think. The FBI is a major part of our Department of Justice.
attention: sundance
“ALL hired since @realDonaldTrump was elected.”
• Elon Musk Should Probably Do A Little Housecleaning (NR)
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Apparently the FBI is not even prosecuting crimes against children. Remember the Gymnastics Team? And all of the child porn sites being taken down by EM?
Going after any decent person trying to communicate the truth and ignoring everything else that is completely against any moral standards anywhere. Even Mr. Putin is protecting children.
When you observe the quality of individuals involved in peddling this garbage it’s such a disappointment to see the American people so easily duped by them.
Tell tell sign: Shelby Pierson is sporting a Dr Deborah Birx scarf. (yes, I’m being a tad snarky this morning)
Turkey gobbler neck. 😉
What’s happening is that we’re experiencing the 21st Century version of the “modified, limited hangout” created back in the Watergate days by Haldeman and Erlichmann–we get just enough information to identify that there was wrongdoing and sleight of hand to distract you from looking at the real culprits, or in this case, the obongo WH, the post obongo shadow government, and the Gang of 8. I’m sure that Weiss and Taibbi were carefully chosen for the job by the Beltway because at the end of the day, they can’t allow Trump to be rehabilitated by the revelations.
This is becoming a “prisoner” swap with the Dems giving up Brandon (via Hunter and the altar of public opinion) and the GOPe ‘gives up’ MAGA with a Trump indictment and a great reset for 2024; cue the “it’s their turn” candidates to take the debate stage please.
So what exactly are we fighting to restore?
Let’s not be so fast to beatify Musk….it’s now HIS coffee shop (at least by intended outward appearance).
Am reminded of the famous quote by FPOTUS H. W. Bush,
Also….from the first installment of Twitter files…
22. Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence – that I’ve seen – of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem…
That is just flat out wrong. Plenty of gov involvement in laptop story and every other story I’m sure. Ammo for the leftys to use.
Again, these exposes expose the EVIL and CORRUPTION of our federal government by the MAOcrats and NeverTrumpers. They are CRIMINALS and TRAITORS all.
Came across this in Twitter. Seems as Elon still has some house cleaning to do. Lots of former CIA and FBI agents still working there. He names them all.
Interesting interview between Jan Jekielek and Miranda Devine; the FBI/CIA involvement in Twitter, the Laptop from Hell and election interference.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/miranda-devine-the-concerted-cover-up-of-biden-family-scandals-from-the-laptop-to-china_4912212.html?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy&rs=SHRDJNQS
Info appears to have been scrubbed (or at least buried several pages down -Duck Duck Go now seems to be no better than Google – but I recall reports at the time of the “Arab Spring” of Google’s (Eric Schmidt’s) active involvement, including sending personnel to Egypt. Eric Schmidt being a big supporter of Hillary Obama and her Presidential campaign.
P.S. Recall that B. Hussein Obama refused to help the protestors in Iran, seeking regime change. But was all over “helping” overthrow the then relatively friendly leaders in Egypt and Libya … which was the makings of a new caliphate around the southern Mediterranean.
The same B. Hussein Obama that likely came to the U.S. on a foreign student visa – under the name Barry Soetor0 – from Muslim Indonesia.
The same B. Hussein Obama that sent pallets of cash to Iran, and with the “Iran deal” that Iran never signed, de facto enabled continuation of its nuclear weapons program.
The cat is out of the bag because both of these individuals names are all over the reporting of this, especially the reporters and those wanting to dig and find the actual “crime scenes”. Steve Bannon was right when he said Elon Musk purchased a crime scene for $44 billion!