The FBI got a mite pushy with Twitter, and even Yoel Roth became alarmed
Here’s a Twitter files supplemental from Matt Taibbi. The gist of it is that the FBI started telling Twitter to find nefarious election-influencing foreign actors and had trouble taking “there really aren’t many at all” for an answer. Roth was asked to answer what looked to him like interrogatories, the answers of which could be used against him and/or Twitter. It’s a bit cinematic, like the moment in a movie when one of the protagonists realizes those friendly guys from the government or the police aren’t really his friends after all.
Here’s the NY Post on the subject:
San Francisco FBI agent Elvis Chan pressured former Twitter trust and safety chief Yoel Roth in July 2020 for more information about how they prevented bad actors from using the platform, according to screengrabs of email correspondence posted by Taibbi.
Chan was not satisfied with Twitter’s indication that it “had not observed much recent activity from official propaganda actors on your platform,” the emails show…
Roth, in return, commented on the persistence of the agency, stating that he was “perplexed” by the probing inquiry.
Roth added that he was not “particularly comfortable with the Bureau (and by extension the [Intelligence Community]) demanding written answers.
And perhaps this is the most propitious moment to remark on the wonderfulness of the FBI agent’s name, truth being stranger than fiction: Elvis Chan.
Newsweek’s angle on the Twitter files appears to be: Republicans POUNCE!
There’s also a newer Twitter files installment, this time by Shellenberger and dealing with the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story. It’ll take me a while to deal with that, perhaps later today or tomorrow, but I’ve included the link so you can find it easily and read it.
And in addition, Elon Musk put a poll up at Twitter yesterday asking whether he should step down as head of Twitter and the answer was “yes.” But I’m with the writer “bonchie” at RedState on this: I believe that Musk knew that would be the result and was planning on doing this anyway. It wouldn’t make sense for the hands-on running of Twitter to become his full-time job. Time will tell, though.
The name “Elvis Chan” encouraged me to Google “Chinese Elvis Impersonator” and I got back this which has this amazing piece of text:
Trained by authentic homosexuals in the art of theatre in the 80s, Paul Hyu has appeared as an actor in theatres up and down the UK, including the West End shows Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Miss Saigon, The Wind in the Willows, The Wheel of Life as well as working in Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, USA, Canada and Barbados.TV & film credits include the stuff listed here on IMDB and a lot of radio drama mostly for the BBC. Read on and discover the wonderful & sexy world of Paul’s alter-ego ChineseElvis and how you can get a little less conversation and a little more action, if only for a short and expensive time.
Musk anti votes – Russian Bots
Dissolve the FBI. It is hopeless.
“Roth added that he was not “particularly comfortable with the Bureau (and by extension the [Intelligence Community]) demanding written answers.”
A Trotskyist gets his first hint that Stalinists have their eyes upon him.
“…not particularly comfortable…”
…but willing, nonetheless!
And able!!
(Um, we should believe what Yoel Roth says, hints at, suggests, implies, tells us… because…because…why, exactly?)
Oh, right! It must have been the “WRITTEN answers” part of the scam.
And so…Yoel does have a point! He saw those flashing red lights bright and clear, flashing the ever-important message: NEVER, they flashed, leave any written evidence!
Use a vat of concentrated hydrofluoric acid. Take the building too.
Roth, continued….
“In Sept 2020, Roth participated in an Aspen Institute “tabletop exercise” on a potential “Hack-and-Dump” operation relating to Hunter Biden.
“The goal was to shape how the media covered it — and how social media carried it”—
https://twitter.com/ClimateAudit/status/1604914355383869440?cxt=HHwWgICl-cvG5sUsAAAA
H/T Hans Mahncke twitter feed.
+ Bonus…featuring Adam Schiff (if you can stomach it):
“ICYMI, the House Intelligence Committee was formed in 1977 to supervise the Intelligence Community after CIA abuses came to light, specifically spying on American citizens.
“Under Schiff’s leadership, the Committee that was formed to prevent such abuses is now perpetrating them.”—
https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1604900492710187021?cxt=HHwWmsC4_daf4MUsAAAA
Now THAT’S one cute little “Transformation” of America…
Basically, seems that all the FBI really did was orchestrate a “Steele Dossier” Part 2….
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitter-files-how-fbi-moved-quash-hunter-laptop-story-and-after-ny-post-bombshell
Barry Meislin:
Not exactly. More the reverse (or is it the obverse, or the converse – I forget which is which). In the Steele dossier they pretended that Russian lies (“disinformation”) were truth. With Twitter and Hunter’s laptop, they pretended that truth was Russian disinformation.
Russian disinformation and the FBI are versatile.
Geoffrey Britain:
Good analogy.
The FBI is what postmodernism looks like when if infests law enforcement. Calling the bureau a rogue agency is an understatement.
So you build a company and presumably take some pride in running it. When the FBI comes asking questions about your customers. How can your first instinct not be – “Go to hell!”
Yes, the flip side of the coin, so to speak, as your latest post explains.
I was referring more to the deeply COLLUSIONAL aspect of it, planting “evidence” (that is, innuendo and falsehoods) and then using that “evidence” to “prove” whatever had to be “proven”…all this buttressed by “expert” testimony from the usual suspects (in the Brennan-Clapper-Comey mold).
(There’s a REASON why they all accused Trump of “COLLUSION”—it’s their weapon of choice…)
Art Deco is right. The FBI shouldn’t be reformed. It should be killed, the buildings burned, the remnants torn down and the land laced with salt.
If a private company were to behave as the FBI, it would go broke and everyone there would lose their jobs. We need to fire everyone with the FBI. Even those who aren’t shown to have been actively criminal. Treat them all just as we treat people in the real world.