[Daily Caller] The FBI paid Twitter millions as a reimbursement for the time the company spent processing the FBI’s requests, according to internal documents published by author Michael Shellenberger Monday, in the most recent installment of Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s ongoing "Twitter Files."
Wait until it is discovered that these embedded 'former' intelligence agency Twitter employees were still on the FBI payroll and simply.... 'detailed' to Twitter.
In an email with the subject line "Run the business — we made money!" an employee, whose name was redacted, reports to then-Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker, that the FBI paid Twitter nearly $3.5 million dollars between October 2019 and February 2021, Shellenberger reported. Baker, a former FBI agent, was the agency’s general counsel during Operation Crossfire Hurricane, and approved the surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page via improper use of the Steele dossier, according to a report by the Justice Department’s inspector general.
The FBI and Twitter enjoyed a close relationship in the run-up to the 2020 elections, with the FBI promising "no impediments to information sharing" between the two groups in a Sept. 16, 2020 meeting between social media executives and intelligence community staff. In a previous installment of the "Twitter Files," journalist Matt Taibbi said he had not found evidence that the FBI or intelligence community was involved in Twitter’s decision to suppress access to a New York Post story about a laptop owned by Hunter Biden, but new documents from Shellenberger indicated that the FBI was, in fact, involved.
The Post’s original October 14, 2020, story was based on a laptop, apparently belonging to Biden, containing a 2015 email linking then-Vice President Joe Biden to his son Hunter’s business dealings with the Ukrainian gas company Burisma. Prior to the story’s release, the FBI issued warnings to social media platforms that there was likely to be a Russian "hack-and-leak" operation prior to the election — Twitter’s then-head of trust and safety Yoel Roth testified that he had been explicitly warned of a leak targeting Hunter Biden — despite not having any evidence of such an operation being underway, Shellenberger reported, citing the testimony of FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan.
"Everybody works for somebody."
~ John Kiriakou 'Doing Time Like A Spy', page 80. |
We simply must pass this Omnibus 2023 funding bill and ensure our FBI and other government agencies (OGA), have uninterrupted resources.
Why must we be deluged by these senseless agent recruitment conspiracy theories ?