Sunday 18 December 2022

Musk, Taibbi and Lieu

Ted Lieu: 
Dear @mtaibbi: I’m on the House Judiciary Committee that has oversight over the @FBI and you are lying. 

The FBI has lots of agents chasing child sex predators and terrorists. Please stop undermining and lying about federal law enforcement. 
Matt Taibbi: 
Being on that committee you should know: 

- How much has been spent, and how many DHS/DOJ employees have been assigned, to monitoring and flagging social media? 

- Why is the FBI asking for "location information" about ordinary Americans and media outlets like @RSBNetwork ?
Jon Nicosia @NewsPolitics
The FBI replies to @mtaibbi "The FBI regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identified foreign malign influence actors’ subversive, undeclared, covert, or criminal activities. Private sector entities independently make decisions about”
Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi
This FBI response is disingenuous on multiple fronts. None of this expains flagging the silly jokes of ordinary Americans with low follower counts. Also, they are clearly not doing this in service of investigating crime. This is about domestic intelligence and opinion control. 
Elon Musk @elonmusk Replying to @mtaibbi and @RSBNetwork 
Congressman Lieu, were you aware of this program and did you approve it? Simple questions require simple answers.
My question is - why is a Chinaman photographed hobnobbing with and physically embracing drag queens be doing in Congress in the first place, let alone being on a committee overseeing an American governmental institution?

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