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Government Corruption
Tucker Carlson Calls on Elon Musk to Release Docs He Says Will Show Twitter Acted as ‘An Arm of Government Intel Agencies'
2022-12-14
[MEDIAite] Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed that Twitter has been functioning as a ward of the deep state because it employs people who previously worked at certain U.S. government agencies.

On Tuesday, Carlson even called on new Twitter CEO Elon Musk to release information related to these employees’ actions at the company that he alleged will prove his claim.

"Let’s say you’re trying to staff a social media site," he began. "How many spies would you hire? Well, probably none. Spies have nothing to do with the mission of a social media company. They would not be needed and you wouldn’t hire any opera singers either. Yet for some reason, Twitter seemed to need a lot of spies."

The host went on to state that Twitter’s upper management ranks "were absolutely loaded with people who once did intel work for government agencies — at least 15 of these people and possibly many more."

He noted that James Baker, the company’s former deputy general counsel, worked for the FBI. Carlson listed several Twitter employees by name who used to work for the government and stated this shows the company is peppered with spies who worked for the bureau and other agencies such as the CIA and NSA.

"And it wasn’t just American intel officers that found a home at Twitter," he continued before citing a former Twitter employee who claimed that foreign government "operatives" worked at the company and had access to private user data."

Carlson turned his attention to Musk.
Posted by:Besoeker

#13  Our position is substantially better with him in ownership than it was before he spent $40B of theoretical money to buy an asset that his no chance of being profitable. I don’t have any complaints that he has not turned out to be Cyrus the Great.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-12-14 20:54  

#12  I wonder if Twitter was commmunicating with Facebook and others.
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-12-14 13:37  

#11  Sundance from Conservative Treehouse has a good take on this. She suggests, and I agree, that Elon is playing good cop.

If you review all the twittergate releases, it is always the private sector actors that get highlighted. Twitter employee did such and such.

They do not highlight govt employee xyz did such and such to influence twitter policy at the instruction by the Director of DHS, at the Direction of FBI. The names and positions of govt power that were influencing twitter to do its bidding were left out. Some call that a lie of omission.

Regardless, the premise she argues is the illusion of choice. Twitter needs to rehab its image before the 2024 election so to regain its legitimacy as it pivots to support the Establishment Candidate Ron DeSantis.

If people on the right think Twitter is led and controlled by govt, and twitter supports Ron - the thinking is that the normies will be more hesitant in supporting Ron if it looks like twitter is run by Deep State and he is their candidate.

Hence Elon good cop; twitter employees bad cop. Govt pulling twitter strings is mostly omitted and severely down played.
Posted by: mossomo   2022-12-14 12:59  

#10  Ref #9: My guess they all have active interagency liaison offices feeding data and Deep State narratives back and forth. Kinda the way it works in that community as I recall.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-14 09:37  

#9  
I am waiting to see what OLD-Twitter has related to the suspected interaction with other Social Media outlets to control the narrative.
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-12-14 07:31  

#8  Neither. He will shift to the Left in a careful, gradated maneuver that will seem like the Right so disappointed him he grew to entertain the idea of making the Left 'better'.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-12-14 06:52  

#7  Flies to the Bahamas with Tucker Carlson and Rudy Giuliani to fly FTX guy back to the States ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-14 06:50  

#6  
OK Place your bets.
While I sincerely wish him no harm.
I seriously suspect the DC SWAMP has other ideas.

So place your bets, how will the DC Swamp handle Musk?

Dies from sudden brain cancer, Havana syndrome
Dies trapped in a EV car fire,
Transgender Ex-employee attacks him,
Hangs himself,
IRS - Prison - RIP
Covid-19 and dies,
Terrorist attack on HQ building
Russia because of his Ukraine Support
Plane explodes in midair over a large body of water,

Or what?


Posted by: NN2N1   2022-12-14 06:46  

#5  /\ Tony Fauci's Wuhan contacts can assist with that one.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-14 06:44  

#4  #1 - B, prolly not TikTok. Those are CCP brand
Posted by: Frank G   2022-12-14 06:34  

#3  Confucius bawl, "Wait in this hall
Full of mirrors till government call.
Be confident, please.
All have several degrees
Behind Chinese-American wall."
Posted by: Menhadden Ulumble3061   2022-12-14 01:14  

#2  Gateway Pundit - Feds in the Shadows: Leaked Documents Indicate over 300 Members of Oath Keepers May Be Current or Former DHS Employees – Not Clear How Many Are Federal Operatives

Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-14 00:44  

#1  The host went on to state that Twitter’s upper management ranks "were absolutely loaded with people who once did intel work for government agencies — at least 15 of these people and possibly many more."

Embedded agents? Absolutely shocking. I'm certain such an anomaly won't be found at other media platforms such as Facebook, CNN, TikTok, LinkedIn, WAPO, etc.

[sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-14 00:12  

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