Twittergate deepens: FBI Refuses to reveal
how many social media firms it is secretly
influencing - amid accusations it broke
the law by pushing Twitter to remove accounts
and hand over user location details, new
trove reveals
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Keith Griffith
&
Harriet Alexander
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/17/2022 6:48:55 AM
The FBI has refused to say how many social media companies it works with, defending their actions after it emerged that agents from the bureau regularly met with Twitter executives and handed over lists of accounts they found questionable.
Officials from the bureau even asked for Twitter to hand over the locations from where the Twitter accounts were being operated, in a disturbing move that many saw as an attack on the First Amendment.
One user targeted by the FBI, who goes by @Lexitollah, said: 'Seems like prima facie 1A violation.'
Charlie Hurt, the opinion editor of The Washington Examiner, said it was 'a clear violation of the First Amendment.'
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jinx 12/17/2022 7:54:38 AM (No. 1358704)
It's time for FBI director Wrey to go.
33 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
billa57 12/17/2022 8:03:02 AM (No. 1358711)
They feel that they don't have to obey the wishes of the American people or their elected officials. All the conspirators need to go to prison and the FBI needs to be gutted and rerpaired.
28 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
mobyclik 12/17/2022 8:12:31 AM (No. 1358717)
I'll finish your comment for you, #1:
''It's time for FBI director Wrey to go.--TO JAIL!''
37 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Cat Ballou 12/17/2022 9:22:57 AM (No. 1358769)
The FBI is not responsible. The FBI is a government office made up of individual people that make decisions. These individuals hide under the cover of FBI and get away with it. We need leadership that is willing to get down in the mud and wrestle with the swamp creatures of Washington. Do we have it?
11 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 12/17/2022 9:24:20 AM (No. 1358771)
The FBI is an organized crime outfit, NOT "law enforcement".
Time to eliminate the FBI.
26 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 12/17/2022 9:26:17 AM (No. 1358776)
Re #2, "repaired" is a pipe dream. There will NEVER be a "good version" of the FBI, if there ever was a good version. Too much power, and too much political influence to make this sort of a "law enforcement" agency on a federal level workable.
19 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rama41 12/17/2022 9:47:22 AM (No. 1358797)
The silence of the MSM tells me they have always been aware and complicit.
29 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
bpl40 12/17/2022 9:57:54 AM (No. 1358807)
All of FBI and Wrey - out lock , stock and barrel. Leave a residual organization for archival and coordinating purposes - no investigative authority and turn the rest over to the States.
11 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 12/17/2022 10:19:44 AM (No. 1358833)
The operative Knotseez are seeking advice from Attorney General Merrick "Gestapo" Garland.
10 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Krause 12/17/2022 10:40:11 AM (No. 1358847)
The democrat party, and the government departments they own, are enemies of the people.
16 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
chagrined 12/17/2022 11:22:21 AM (No. 1358876)
Yeah poster #4, his name is Donald Trump!
11 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 12/17/2022 5:10:28 PM (No. 1359031)
The FBI doesn't have to answer to anybody because everything they do or say is "classified" and "top secret". Also, their hands are clean if they direct private businesses to do various things, just as the CIA was innocent of wrong doing when they worked with the mob to have JFK killed.
5 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
judy 12/17/2022 6:05:54 PM (No. 1359051)
Uhhhh…Dems try abccbsnbccnnmsnbc….newspapers, magazines, Google, Facebook, you tube, …..what do republicans have…newsmax……
9 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
goodbyedems 12/18/2022 10:55:53 AM (No. 1359488)
Another day another issue with Republicans ...especially the leadership .....leading with deafening silence. Let's start with McConnell & McCarthy writing yet another "strongly worded" letter to cease and desist and asking for "bipartisan support." Yea, that should do it.
7 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
curious1 12/18/2022 10:59:58 AM (No. 1359496)
Individuals in the agency made these decisions and followed their orders. Such acts call for prison and/or the gallows for all concerned, as well as the people outside the agency directing them to do this. And the elimination of the agency from the fedguv. Along with several other unconstitutional departments.
3 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Zigrid 12/18/2022 11:18:15 AM (No. 1359505)
It will take years to undo the damage the democrats have done to our country....I'm sure they are smiling and happy with their results and understand that any Washington whistleblowers are afraid for their lives...like Seth Rich...crooked Hillary and king obama will take them out...so expecting jail time for these criminals is not very certain...but...who would have expected that Elon Musk would step up and help US...the democrats house of cards...at some point will fall...
2 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/18/2022 11:47:30 AM (No. 1359525)
It's time to call the FBI the DBI , the Democrat Bureau of investigation.
1 person likes this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 12/18/2022 12:30:09 PM (No. 1359551)
The FBI is like a car that starts to 'nickle and dime' you to the breaking point.
You can fix this and that but it's a never ending stream of problems.
Eventually, some how, some way, you have to replace it, maybe !
In this case, elimination and replacement is warranted. It's not fixable !
The question then becomes, do we really want a federal level 'police force' ?
If the answer is 'no', fine, you're finished.
If the answer is yes, them make sure that the replacement is extremely limited
in what it can do. Keep it small, restricted and have COMPLETE oversight with
HEAVY penalties for 'errors'. In other words, keep it on a tight leash !
The same approach could apply to any number of federal agencies that have been
created over the years and now have maybe, just maybe outlived the need for them !
1 person likes this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 12/18/2022 4:53:51 PM (No. 1359662)
How many?
I can't give you an exact number, but I can say with assurance that it is ALL of them (including this one)
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