Twitter Files Extra: How the Files Could Help Incoming Investigators

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-18 23:37:18 | Updated at 2024-12-19 03:07:56 3 hours ago

Twitter Files Extra: How the Files Could Help Incoming Investigators
Racket News ^ | 12/18/24 | Matt Taibbi

Posted on 12/18/2024 3:35:44 PM PST by CFW

Two years ago, Twitter emails offered voters a peek at state censorship. Now, they can be a road map for incoming investigators. Where they might search for wrongdoing

In May, 2022, an agent from the FBI’s San Francisco office sent Twitter Trust and Safety Chief Yoel Roth a formal inviation to join an “exclusive group” for “an Executive-level roundtable” on June 8th of that year that would include the Assistant Director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, Bryan Vorndran. Roth was unavailable, so he passed the invite to other team members, who balked for a strange reason.

“I’m guessing they’re probably not being super-careful with the Covid protocols, so unfortunately I think I should pass,” said one Twitter employee.

“Can confirm they are mask-free at the FBI office in SF,” Roth wrote:

Roth added, however: “I’m pushing a little just because the FBI SF folks have been great partners, and sincerely are eager to foster more collaboration…”

This seeming offhand comic exchange in the Twitter Files featured a Justice Department attachment:

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In its invite, the FBI named another “roundtable” attendee, a White House National Cyber Director. This helped us understand that the FBI at least sometimes mediated with Twitter on behalf of the White House. It also had names and email addresses of two more San Francisco FBI employees (not shown above), one titled “Private Sector Coordinator.” Most importantly, it contained a line about the Bureau valuing its relationship with Twitter “directly and through the Domestic Security Alliance Council (DSAC).”

When we ran a check on “DSAC,” we found the FBI sometimes passed sensitive information to Twitter through a “DSAC Portal,” a secure line through which executives were briefed on everything from Covid to the UK government’s call to remove more “covert hostile state material,” especially related to Russia.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: censorship; cr; taibbi; twitterfiles

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Taibbi sent out the above article (full article available at link} to his subscribers earlier today. He just sent out an email update stating:

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This morning’s story about the Twitter Files and the possibility of new speech investigations came on the heels of good news I heard of late, suggesting the cavalry might be coming on First Amendment issues.

Now, there’s word of an ugly development in a fight over the continued funding of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center. Gabe Kaminsky of the Washington Examiner, the young reporter whose extensive digging on GEC beginning in 2023 was crucial in shining a light on its funding of “blacklisting” efforts, reports that the agency, scheduled to be shuttered, may get a “one-year lifeline”:

According to a congressional source familiar with the matter, the GEC provision was a private demand from Senate Democrats in exchange for Republicans getting a provision aiming to protect small businesses from certain fines approved by the Biden administration under a bill called the Corporate Transparency Act.

I’m still trying to clarify what’s happening, but I want readers to know that if the GOP or the incoming administration sells out voters on the speech issue, you’ll hear about it here. The GEC escaping the chopping block would be a blow. More to come.

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This is all rather complicated and unless you have kept up with the Twitter file releases over the years and are paying attention to the Continuing Resolution being negotiated at the moment, you probably aren't interested in all this information. If that is the case, just skip over this thread.

1 posted on 12/18/2024 3:35:44 PM PST by CFW

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