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Twitter Files Thread: The Spies Who Loved Twitter
From FBI to DNI the DNI to "OGA," the full thread on Twitter and its intelligence partners
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1.THREAD: The Twitter Files TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES"
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- After weeks of “Twitter Files” reports, the FBI issued a statement Wednesday.
It didn’t refute allegations. Instead, it decried “conspiracy theorists” publishing “misinformation,” whose “sole aim” is to “discredit the agency.”
3. They must think us unambitious, if our “sole aim” is to discredit the FBI. After all, a whole range of government agencies discredit themselves in the #TwitterFiles. Why stop with one?
4. The files show the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government – from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA.
5. The operation is far bigger than the reported 80 members of the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), which also facilitates requests from a wide array of smaller actors - from local cops to media to state government.
6. Thousands upon thousands of official “reports” flowed through the FITF and the FBI’s San Francisco field office.
7. On June 29th, 2020, San Francisco FBI agent Elvis Chan wrote to pair of Twitter execs asking if he could invite an “OGA” to an upcoming NGO-sponsored conference:
8. OGA, or “Other Government Organization,” is often a euphemism for CIA, and according to multiple former intelligence officials and contractors.
9. Chuckles one: “They use it to seem mysterious to outsiders.”
10. “Other Government Agency (the place where I worked for 27 years),” says retired CIA officer Ray McGovern.
11. It was an open secret at Twitter that one of its executives was ex-CIA, which is why Chan referred to that executive’s “former employer.”
- The first Twitter executive abandons all pretense to stealth and emails that the employee “used to work for the CIA, so that is Elvis’s question.”
- Senior legal executive Stacia Cardille, who had good op-sec by Twitter standards, replies, “I know” and “I thought my silence was understood.”
- Cardille then passes on conference details to recently-hired ex-FBI lawyer Jim Baker.
- “I invited the FBI and the CIA virtually will attend too,” Cardille says to Baker, casually adding: “No need for you to attend.”
16 . The government was in constant contact not just with Twitter but with virtually every major tech firm.
- These included Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, Reddit, even Pinterest, and many others.
MORE AT THE LINK….
Twitter Files Thread: The Spies Who Loved Twitter
Imagine being this addicted to unimportant, superficial woo woo shit like social media. What unfulfilled lives these losers must lead.
This isn't exactly behavior worthy of respect.
You forgot to add, “but if Twitter and the FBI silenced lefties before an election, we’d burn down cities nationwide.”
I wouldn't say anything of the sort, you dumb prick. Fuck off.
I liked in that interview, when Whitney and James, compared it to the George Floyd debacle.
What if such an incestuous relationship had existed between the Minneapolis Police, and Big Tech? What if they had suppressed that George Floyd video? How would the left have felt then?

Do they really believe such an incestuous relationship between the state and big tech has no power to shape events and culture?
