Jack McPherrin: The Greatest Threat to Americans’ Freedom, Rights, and Security Comes from Within

The gradual release of the “Twitter Files” Elon Musk, along with his team of independent journalists, clearly shows the need for Washington to be drained once and forever.

Nowhere is this more necessary than in the U.S. intelligence and security apparatus, which—despite ostensibly existing to protect Americans and safeguard our freedoms—poses a greater threat to the United States than the foreign actors they are supposed to protect us from.

Although I cannot give an exhaustive account of all the files that were released, I encourage you to look through them. full documentation released to date. Despite the mainstream media’s attempts to downplay the significance of the files, the findings are extraordinary.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is perhaps the worst offender. The Twitter Files are largely dedicated to the FBI’s role as censors, including the Hunter Biden laptop case. Within hours, the New York Post’s 2020 story being published, the FBI—through Twitter and its other tentacles within the media—implemented a total clampdown, alleging that it appeared to be “Russian interference.” This is despite Elvis Chan, FBI agent, saying so. “Through our investigations, we did not see any similar competing intrusions to what happened in 2016.”

While some Twitter executives and employees reacted negatively to the assertion that there was no evidence of tampering and violations of Twitter policies, Jim Baker, Twitter Deputy General Counsel, stated that Hunter Biden materials were either leaked or hacked and thus a violation Twitter policy. Baker, uncoincidentally, was formerly general counsel for the FBI, and a chief actor in the banning of President Trump’s account post-January 6. The rest is history: the story was suppressed, and President Biden won the election—with evidence strongly suggesting If the story had been allowed to circulate, Trump would have won.

The FBI’s relationship with Twitter was not relegated to this one isolated event. Matt Taibbi (an author of the files released) labels Twitter an “anonymous”. “FBI subsidiary,” Through confidential channels, hundreds of emails were exchanged by FBI agents with Twitter executives. Many of the emails involved direct requests to flag moderation posts. Twitter almost always answered the question with alacrity when prompted. A particularly telling email sent by Stacia cardille, a Twitter legal executive, to Baker asking whether there were any “impediments” Twitter and the FBI may share classified or confidential information with each other. Baker’s response: “FBI was adamant no impediments to sharing exist.”

As mentioned, the FBI wasn’t the only intelligence agency to do this. Twitter executives also met weekly with the Department of Homeland Security, (DHS), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The State Department and Central Intelligence Agency were also heavily involved. These organizations were part of the Foreign Intelligence Task Force. They used the excuse that “foreign meddling” It was able to justify increasing its domestic surveillance and censorship mandate, even though there is little evidence of any interference. These agencies shared intelligence with Twitter as well as with Facebook, Microsoft Reddit and Reddit, Yahoo!, Twitch., Twitch., Cloudflare. LinkedIn.

Even the Department of Defense (DoD) had its hooks in Twitter, using the social media company to aid the Pentagon’s psychological operations to influence public opinion against foreign adversaries. Twitter allowed the DoD to operate fake accounts—and amplify their reach—to create deep fakes and disseminate false propaganda.

These agencies—along with public health services such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—even worked with Twitter to suppress what they unilaterally deemed to be COVID-19 “misinformation.” Exemples include banning former New York Times Alex Berenson, journalist and the “throttling” and restricting of Harvard epidemiologist Dr. Martin Kulldorff’s account. The basis of scientific inquiry has always been to challenge established theory and present contrarian views. Anything that is contrary to the official government narrative is not only anti-science, it also directly causes mass suffering and economic calamity due to the near-infeuble lockdowns or myriad mandates.

The campaign against coronavirus “misinformation” Twitter is not the only place where this was displayed, as seen via the current investigation by Attorneys General Eric Schmitt (R-MO) and Jeff Landry (R-LA) into the government’s censorship enterprise throughout the pandemic. The joint statement is: “The discovery so far demonstrates that this Censorship Enterprise is extremely broad, including officials in the White House, HHS, DHS, CISA, the CDC, NIAID, and the Office of the Surgeon General; and evidently other agencies as well, such as the Census Bureau, the FDA, the FBI, the State Department, the Treasury Department, and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.”

I wonder if we would see a situation similar to that of Twitter if we dug more deeply into Facebook and YouTube’s internal communications, not to mention other technology companies such as Google, and Apple? What about major media corporations like CBS, ABC and NBC? We would, I believe.

It is important to be clear that not all who work in our intelligence and security agencies, as well as the majority of federal government employees, should be considered willing agents of this shadow war against America. Many of these people are patriots or public servants who joined because they felt a duty to their country.

These institutions have been so corrupted that their leadership has been systematically compromised. There is no way to save them. Rather than serving the whims of globalist organizations, financial oligarchs, the military industrial complex, and warmongering political elites, our security and intelligence apparatus—not to mention the rest of our bloated government bureaucracy—must be re-oriented to serve the interests of the American people if our constitutional republic is to survive.

Jack McPherrin ([email protected]) The Heartland Institute’s research editor.

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