Posted on 01/05/2024 6:49:03 PM PST by bitt
The FBI on Wednesday finally broke its silence and responded to the revelations on Twitter of close ties between the bureau and the social media giant—ties that included efforts to suppress information and censor political speech.
“The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries,” the bureau said in a statement. “As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers. The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public. It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.”
Almost all of the FBI communique is untrue, except the phrase about the bureau’s “engagements which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries.”
Future disclosures will no doubt reveal similar FBI subcontracting with other social media concerns of Silicon Valley to stifle free expression and news deemed problematic to the FBI’s agenda.
The FBI did not merely engage in “correspondence” with Twitter to protect the company and its “customers.” Instead, it effectively hired Twitter to suppress the free expression of some of its users, as well as news stories deemed unhelpful to the Biden campaign and administration—to the degree that the bureau’s requests sometimes even exceeded those of Twitter’s own left-wing censors.
The FBI did not wish to help Twitter “to protect themselves [sic],” given the bureau’s Twitter liaisons were often surprised at the FBI’s bold requests to suppress the expression of those who had not violated Twitter’s own admittedly biased “terms of service” and “community standards.”
The FBI and its helpers on the Left now reboot the same boilerplate about “conspiracy theorists” and “misinformation” smears used against anyone who rejected the FBI-fed Russian collusion hoax and the bureau’s peddling of the “Russian disinformation” lie to suppress accurate pre-election news about the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
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Funding them, on the other hand, does not.
FBI still looking for person who planted pipe bombs ahead of Jan. 6 Capitol riot
By Robert Legare, Catherine Herridge, Andres Triay, January 6, 2024, CBS News.com
Washington — The individual who investigators say left two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties in Washington, D.C., the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack is still on the loose, and the FBI is offering a $500,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the person responsible.
The unsolved mystery continues to elude investigators three years later, even amid a public campaign providing detailed maps, security camera video and potentially identifying information. Investigators made public over two years ago footage showing the suspect walking through the Capitol Hill neighborhood around the time that the devices were believed to have been placed and published photos of the devices and photos and descriptions of some of the apparel the person was wearing.
The FBI says that the unknown individual wore Nike Air Max Speed turf shoes, a face mask, glasses and gloves and a gray hooded sweatshirt.
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Amen.
I don’t think there is ANYTHING insensitive, illegal or criminal that the FBI WON’T do, frankly. As long as it supports leftist and NWO goals, they’re good to go on persecuting and oppressing free Americans who aren’t Democrats.
The myriad of shows about the FBI this, the FBI that are a laughing stock joke. I see them and think ‘criminals.’
I don’t think it’s ‘just a few’ here and there. AFAIC, the whole organization needs to be disbanded, its employees fired and the buildings turned over to some other government organization so we can stop leasing empty buildings.
Trump wants increased funding for the FBI FOR A REASON......HE HAS A PLAN......AND REORGANIZING THE AGENCY WILL TAKE MONEY.
NO way that Trump will allow the FBI to be weaponized.
<>just as the Anti-Federalists predicted. it’s all come to pass.<>
LOL. Keep pondering your navel.
So you’ve already changed your opinion, and no longer believe the FBI should be defunded, now that you’ve been reminded that Trump wants to actually increase their funding. Got it, thanks.
Flexability is a virtue. If Donald Trump wants to fund the FBI, there must be a reason, but we both know that the FBI will not be permitted to keep its present organizational structure nor the upper echelon of its treasonous personel.
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