Posted on 07/13/2023 6:24:50 PM PDT by Antoninus
Here's something you don't see every day. The FBI posted the following on Twitter:
In reference to the false assertions about investigating parents at school board meetings, #FBI Director Wray told the House Judiciary Committee that the Bureau is not in the business of policing speech. Read more here: https://t.co/dZSUPgpAwS pic.twitter.com/7jebphhgIb— FBI (@FBI) July 12, 2023
Then, directly under this post appears the following:
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The FBI’s statement is misleading. On May 18, 2023, former FBI agent Steve Friend testified before the House Judiciary Committee that he and others were directed to surveil and document parents attending school board meetings.Source: c-span.org/video/?528159-…
twitter.com/realstevefrien…
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Thank you Mr. Musk. (I think he will go down as one of the people kids read about in history books)
Glenn Greenwald referenced the following in a podcast this week:
12 June 2022: Mint Press News: Meet the Ex-CIA Agents Deciding Facebook’s Content Policy
by Alan Macleod
In previous investigations, this author has detailed how TikTok is flooded with NATO officials, how former FBI agents abound at Twitter, and how Reddit is led by a former war planner for the NATO think tank, the Atlantic Council. But the sheer scale of infiltration of Facebook blows these away. Facebook, in short, is utterly swarming with spooks...
https://www.mintpressnews.com/meet-ex-cia-agents-deciding-facebook-content-policy/281307/
There needs to be more fact checking.
“FREE” is the biggest offender. If You are forced to pay for my benefits is there any “Free” anywhere in the transaction? If you are forced to pick my cotton is there any “Free” anywhere?
Well ‘Fact-checking’ the FBI is easy: If there is the slightest political implication to anything they say, it is a lie.
MISLEADING = outright lie. I have NO ROOM for an agency funded by congress under another branch of our REPUBLIC being allowed to circumvent our law...laws. I am SO glad I pay taxes in advance. /s ....Fed is lucky I even give them a plug nickel. But I pay every cent owed by Law that they refuse to follow and am damn proud of it....YES SIR....do they need more? I would be happy to pay!. s/.../s Hey Mr. Wrey...can I hang you today / It is our republic / and it happens to be the law/ (sung to Olivia Newton Johns -Please Mister Please)
Awesome but I’m guessing Elon is under investigation now.
Are you kidding? It’s only a matter of time before he does a perp walk. Remember, they can indict a ham sandwich.
Yep…..they will get him just like they did with trump…..no one is 100% clean
The only people on Facebook anymore are grandmas!!!
Fogeybook, or Fedbook, whichever one is more accurate, is the fannypack of social media sites at this point.
The FBI way back when.
According to friends interviewed after actress Jean Seberg’s suicide, she experienced years of aggressive in-person surveillance, amounting to constant stalking, as well as burglaries and other means of intimidation.
These newspaper reports make clear that Seberg was well aware of the surveillance.
FBI files show that she was wiretapped, and in 1980, the Los Angeles Times published logs of her Swiss wiretapped phone calls.
U.S. surveillance was deployed while she was residing in France and while traveling in Switzerland and Italy.
The FBI files reveal that the agency contacted the FBI legal attachés in the U.S. embassies in Paris and Rome and provided files on Seberg to the CIA, Secret Service and military intelligence to assist in monitoring Seberg while she was abroad.
Two weeks after Seberg’s death in 1979, the FBI admitted what it had done nine years previously.
FBI records show that Hoover kept President Richard Nixon informed of FBI activities related to the Seberg case through Nixon’s domestic affairs chief John Ehrlichman. Attorney General John Mitchell and Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst were also kept informed of FBI activities related to Seberg.
At the time of the FBI’s admission of its activities, onetime columnist Joyce Haber said, “If I were used by the FBI, I didn’t know it. ... I am certainly shocked to learn that the FBI engaged in planting stories with news people.”
Romain Gary, Seberg’s second husband, called a press conference shortly after her death at which he blamed the FBI’s campaign against Seberg for her deteriorating mental health. Gary claimed that Seberg “became psychotic” after the media had reported the false story — planted by the FBI — that she was pregnant with a Black Panther’s child in 1970. Gary stated that Seberg had repeatedly attempted suicide on the anniversary of the child’s death, August 25.[11]
Aftermath-—According to FBI documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act,[72][73] six days after the discovery of Seberg’s body, the FBI released documents admitting its defamation of Seberg, while making statements attempting to distance the agency from the practices of the Hoover era. The FBI’s campaign against Seberg was further explored by Time magazine in a front-page article titled “The FBI vs. Jean Seberg.”
Media attention surrounding the FBI’s abuse of Seberg led to an examination of the case by the Church Committee of the U.S. Senate, which noted that despite the FBI’s claims of reform, “COINTELPRO activities may continue today under the rubric of investigation.”
In his autobiography, Los Angeles Times editor Jim Bellows describes events leading up to the Seberg articles, expressing regret that he had not vetted the articles sufficiently. He echoed this sentiment in subsequent interviews.
I’m still banned.
I wonder how many conservatives are banned on Twitter.
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