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The Chris Hedges Report podcast with Kevin Gosztola on Julian Assange and the End of Press Freedom

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-with-63e

The legal action against #JulianAssange is poised to culminate in a #trial in the United States in 2023, and this book will help the #public understand the proceedings.

This new #book by #KevinGosztola, (2/21/2023) who has spent the last decade covering #Assange, #WikiLeaks, and the wider #war on #whistleblowers, tells the full story based on #testimony from dozens of witnesses. It examines #abuses-of-power by the #CIA and the #FBI, including a #spying operation that targeted Assange's #family, #lawyers, and #doctors. It outlines how WikiLeaks exposed the reality of American #wars, the #US #government's #unprecedented #indictment against Assange as a #publisher, and the #media's role in persuading the #public to " #shoot-the-messenger." #Guilty-of-Journalism offers a #balanced and #comprehensive #perspective on all the events leading up to what #press-freedom advocates have called the #trial-of-the-century.

#chrishedges #podcast #journalism #freepress #freespeech #politics #freeassange #weareallassange

The Chris Hedges Report with Kevin Gosztola

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Sylvia J

FBI must be abolished – former US presidential candidate

https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=QhcCDGW4SSo
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2022/december/19/twitter-files-make-it-clear-we-must-abolish-the-fbi/

The agency used its influence at #Twitter to #unconstitutionally crush #free-speech, retired congressman #RonPaul argues

The #FBI used proprietary backchannels at Twitter to infringe on Americans’ #FirstAmendment rights and should be “ #abolished,” former #US Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul stated on Monday.

While Twitter has previously skirted accusations of violating Americans’ right to free speech by arguing it is a private corporation, Paul pointed out that recently released internal communications between employees of the social media giant and #government officials in the FBI and other agencies confirm the platform was acting as a surrogate of the state.

“Now we have proof that the FBI (along with US intelligence agencies and the Department of Homeland Security) have been acting through ‘private’ social media companies to manipulate what Americans are allowed to say when they #communicate with each other,” the former Texas congressman wrote in his weekly column for his website, the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.

“We do not need the FBI and #CIA and other federal agencies viewing us as the enemy and attacking our #Constitution. #End-the-Fed…and end the #Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation!” Paul concluded, referencing his long-standing call to liquidate the US’ privately-held central bank.

FBI agents emailed Twitter Trust and Safety chief #YoelRoth about 150 times between 2020 and 2022, according to internal communications released by platform CEO #ElonMusk earlier this month, with most messages involving requests for #censorship. However, even as Musk was releasing the Twitter documents, former FBI general counsel turned Twitter lawyer #JimBaker was ‘vetting’ the messages, allegedly without Musk’s knowledge. When this was brought to the billionaire’s attention, Baker was dismissed – but not before he had reshaped the narrative.

Twitter has reportedly hired dozens of FBI agents and other intelligence and military veterans in recent years, raising questions about the platform’s impartiality even before a lawsuit filed by the Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general revealed earlier this year that employees were regularly meeting with representatives of US government agencies to coordinate the #banning and #suppression of certain accounts and narratives.

While Paul questioned the media’s failure to make the #TwitterFiles the scandal that he felt they deserved, he was encouraged by a recent survey showing 70% of Americans believe Congress must take action to end #collusion between #BigTech and #BigBrother.

The FBI said in a statement released following the publication of the Twitter Files that the agency “regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identified foreign malign influence actors’ subversive, undeclared, covert or criminal activities.” It added that “private sector entities independently make decisions about what, if any, action they take on their platforms and for their customers after the FBI has notified them.”

#files #doj #subpoenas

House Republicans Warn: Subpoenas Will Fly To The FBI Over 'Twitter Files'

Outspoken Members of the Incoming US House Republican majority have warned the FBI that subpoenas and hearings will be high on the agenda in the next Congress. This after the latest release from the Twitter Files shows direct contact between the...

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US #politics: Edward Kelley of Maryville, TN and Austin Carter, from Knoxville, TN were arrested Friday for plotting to assassinate 37 FBI agents that were investigating Kelly for the Jan. 6th attack on the Capitol.

It was an unnamed acquaintance, who alerted law enforcement to Kelley’s plans.

Imagine the headlines if they were Arabs, blacks or Hispanic. But this story will probably gets little to no attention locally or worldwide.

#Jan6 #DomesticTerrorism #MAGA #US #FBI #Terrorism

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/17/january-6-capitol-attack

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_The Federal Bureau of Investigation has purchased 5,000 licenses for an analytics tool for gathering open-source intelligence from multiple social media platforms.

Virginia-based Panamerica Computers will provide the law enforcement agency with licenses for Babel X, according to details published on SAM.gov on March 11. Babel X is a text analytics platform that allows users to search multiple online media websites and search by location.

The software is sold by AI data company Babel Street, which is led by Jeffrey Chapman, a former Treasury Department official. Earlier in his career, Chapman was a White House aide and intelligence officer at the Department of Defense, according to LinkedIn.

In documents issued during the procurement process, the FBI said that prospective vendors would need to offer a tool that can search a wide range of different social media websites in multiple languages. The award of the licenses could be worth up to $27 million.

“The tool shall be able to gather information from the following mandatory online and social media data sources: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Deep/Dark Web, VK, and Telegram,” the bureau said. It added that the ability to search Snapchat, TikTok. Reddit, 8Kun, Gab, Parler, ask.fm, Weibo, Discord. and “additional fringe platforms, and other encrypted messaging platforms,” would be a bonus.

In procurement documents, the FBI said information collected from online sources through the tool should be retained in the vendor’s systems before being exported to the bureau, and that the system should be able to continuously monitor sources.

The tool was sought by the Strategic Technology Unit within the FBI’s Directorate of Intelligence, which is responsible for managing internet search tools for social media exploitation of publicly available information.

The FBI’s Directorate of Intelligence is in the process of developing a comprehensive strategy that matches the social media exploitation needs of the agency’s workforce and mission, according to procurement documents.

https://www.fedscoop.com/babel-x-fbi-purchases-5000-licenses/

#Big-Brother #surveillance #FBI #corruption

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