Matt Taibbi files a supplemental thread to his review of DHS/FBI instructions, through the still undisclosed portal. [Twitter File Supplemental Here]
Just a reminder… how the ‘asks’ actually took place is still a mystery, Taibbi & Weiss et al are only privy to the internal actions and discussions after the inbound requests arrive. Put another way, we are blind to the method of the DHS/FBI portal into the network. I do not believe that secrecy is accidental.
[Twitter File Supplemental Here]
The essence of Taibbi’s supplemental report is based on a few internal emails amid the group following DHS/FBI and ODNI officials telling the Twitter rulers they were not cracking down hard enough on the platform content.
As Taibbi notes, “The questionnaire authors seem displeased with Twitter for implying, in a July 20th “DHS/ODNI/FBI/Industry briefing,” that “you indicated you had not observed much recent activity from official propaganda actors on your platform.”
Twitter official Yoel Roth then responded to the U.S intelligence community in a series of back-and-forth conversations, and internally to the Twitter censorship group.
As noted by Taibbi, “[Roth] was not “comfortable with the Bureau (and by extension the IC) demanding written answers.” Taibbi then seems to pull out the pretending not to know things card and ponders, “the idea of the FBI acting as conduit for the Intelligence Community is interesting, given that many agencies are barred from domestic operations.”
Gee, ya think? Go figure.
Within the short thread the Intelligence Community is responding to Twitter with citations from mainstream media publications like the Wall Street Journal. However, the citations from the journal are sourced from the same Intelligence Community citing them as evidence.
It’s the proverbial and circular use of the wrap up smear.
Intel community seeds media with false or manipulated narrative. Media prints false or manipulated narrative. Intel Community then uses media printed story as citation to tell Twitter to act on it.
Hmmm, where have we seen this before?
The key term here will become “API policies” .
That will become the key money shot in this. Twitter needs to share that API, it’s functional aspects as well as their stated policies.
…you said, “money shot”…
In defense of DH$/FB!, 0’Bama had to be protected because, “L’etat c’est 0’Bama”…
Pelosi used the wrap up smear.
Sidney Blumenthal has been operating this way for decades and is how the 1st dossier was introduced. These people are slimes. Years ago as a kid we as a family went to Monticello, the weekend Natalie Wood drowned. I had two conversations during that visit that I have never forgotten. The first was about Black Irises in the Colonial Garden and the effort to revive them, the other was about Jefferson’s “dinner book”. Jefferson kept a book in which he wrote tidbits in which he could use against political opponents during dinner parties. He could introduce information. No different than citing articles or dossiers.
At this point is there a difference between the Permanent State and the Democratic Party. I think not, these people are one in the same.
It will be interesting, once the Twitter Slack chats are finished being searched if they will get to search the government portal.
Pressure from the Foreign Influence Task Force laundered thru the FBI. Yoel is uncomfortable providing written answers. Is he feeling the pressure of a subtle threat of a potential charge of lying to the FBI?
+1 to Daily Mail for the lovely Hunter Hairpulling photo
Disgraced FBI official turned Twitter general counsel Jim Baker signed letter THANKING Bureau officials for helping him SUPRESS Hunter Biden laptop story, latest Twitter Files reveal
“Even the woke Twitter execs began to think the government had gone too far.” Yeah, right, sure they did.
Pelosi explained the “wrap up smear” in detail at a press conference.