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Josephine Ann "Joey" Binkowski, beloved wife of the late Peter Binkowski, died peacefully at the age of 95 on November 17, 2022, at her daughter’s home in DuBois, PA, where she had resided for the last several years. Born in Mount Carmel, PA, she was the daughter of the late Teofil and Aniela (Gabauer) Prostko. Joey was a resident of Derby, CT, for over 60 years and was a devout member of St. Peter and St. Paul Church. She was employed as an Administrative Assistant for the P. Francini Construction Company for many years until her retirement. Joey was a dedicated wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She enjoyed champagne with her husband, cooking for her family and the challenge of a good crossword puzzle. After retirement, she helped care for her grandchildren. She prayed the rosary daily, and cherished having her family over for Sunday dinner. She is survived by her devoted children: Peter Binkowski and his wife Mary, of Broomfield, CO; Alan Binkowski and his wife, Janet of Pawcatuck, CT; Nancy Beaulieu and her husband, Ryan of Bethany, CT; and Carol Rehermann and her husband, Richard of DuBois, PA. She had thirteen cherished grandchildren and fifteen great grandchildren, as well as many nieces and nephews. She is also survived by her dear sister-in-law and lifelong neighbor, Maura Binkowski. She was the last surviving member of the Prostko family. Joey was predeceased by a brother, Joseph Prostko; and sisters, Catherine Rogevich, Helen Pilarsky, Genevieve Jason, Sister Jane Mary Prostko and Rita Strecker. Memorial donations may be made to a local food pantry and/ or St. Michael the Archangel Roman Catholic Church, 118 S. State Street, DuBois, PA 15801. Funeral services were held in Ansonia, CT. Local arrangements were handled by the Baronick Funeral Home & Crematorium, Inc. Online condolences can be sent to http://baronickfuneralhome.com/condolence

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The Fight for Arizona Election Trial: Lake v. Hobbs Day 1 - 12/21/2022

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“Let's all deck the halls and light the lights”-Mavis Staples, Christmas Vacation @ The Peckville Christmas House, in Peckville Pa. which is about 3 hours from DuBois. > 1130 Marion Street, Peckville, PA 18452 >> photo by Stella Nova

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By Derick Johnson > Veteran > Country Singer Lookie what we have here… a total of 5 more Executive Orders that all have National Emergencies in them that ole sleepy Joe has extended twice. All had expiration dates. All he had to do was just be the President who has the ‘most votes in History’ and be President 💯 Bahahahahahahahahahaha But thanks to the Law of War Manual June 12, 2015, timestamp… Donald John Trump riding down escalator to announce candidacy 4 days later, June 16, 2015, timestamp… Military Justice Act 2016, Supreme Court CONFIRMATION Military Law supersedes Civil Law and Courts, timestamp… Executive Order 13848 that declared a National Emergency to deal with the threat of Foreign Interference with the language SPECIFIC inside “NO Foreign interference” meaning all Washington Establishment and their Cronies… declared TWO MONTHS before the first Election under CIC Trump… meaning the only evidence would have been 2016 and prior ☠️ timestamps don’t lie 💯 Plus Executive Order 13912 which FEDERALIZED 1,000,000 National Guard and Ready Reserves to Active-Duty to deal with 4 unaddressed National Emergencies that Congress failed to address… We know why he ain’t Prezi ============================================ National Emergency - November 27, 2018 Executive Order 13851: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/29/2018-26156/blocking-property-of-certain-persons-contributing-to-the-situation-in-nicaragua Executive Order 13851 Extension 2021: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/11/16/notice-on-the-continuation-of-the-national-emergency-with-respect-to-the-situation-in-nicaragua Executive Order 13851 Extension 2022: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/24/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-expands-efforts-to-hold-nicaraguan-government-accountable Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and President of the Senate: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/11/10/letter-to-the-speaker-of-the-house-of-representatives-and-the-president-of-the-senate-on-the-continuation-of-the-national-emergency-with-respect-to-the-situation-in-nicaragua Two: National Emergency - May 15, 2019: Executive Order 13873: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/05/17/2019-10538/securing-the-information-and-communications-technology-and-services-supply-chain Executive Order 13873 Extension 2021: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/09/fact-sheet-executive-order-protecting-americans-sensitive-data-from-foreign-adversaries Executive Order 13873 Extension 2022: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/05/12/notice-on-the-continuation-of-the-national-emergency-with-respect-to-securing-the-information-and-communications-technology-and-services-supply-chain-2 April 2020 Report of 13873: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/eo-response-methodology-for-assessing-ict_v2_508.pdf Executive Order 13873 Extention 2021: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/09/executive-order-on-protecting-americans-sensitive-data-from-foreign-adversaries Executive Order 13873 Extension 2022: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/05/13/2022-10561/continuation-of-the-national-emergency-with-respect-to-securing-the-information-and-communications Letter to Congress, 2022: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/12/a-message-to-the-congress-on-the-continuation-of-the-national-emergency-with-respect-to-securing-the-information-and-communications-technology-and-services-supply-chain Three: National Emergency July 26, 2019: Executive Order 13882: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/07/30/2019-16383/blocking-property-and-suspending-entry-of-certain-persons-contributing-to-the-situation-in-mali Executive Order 13882 Treasury: https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/13882.pdf Executive Order 13882 Extension 2021: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/07/20/notice-on-the-continuation-of-the-national-emergency-with-respect-to-mali

1. TWITTER FILES PART 8 *How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign* Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media giant directly assisted the U.S. military’s influence operations. 2. Twitter has claimed for years that they make concerted efforts to detect & thwart gov-backed platform manipulation. Here is Twitter testifying to Congress about its pledge to rapidly identify and shut down all state-backed covert information operations & deceptive propaganda. 3. But behind the scenes, Twitter gave approval & special protection to the U.S. military’s online psychological influence ops. Despite knowledge that Pentagon propaganda accounts used covert identities, Twitter did not suspend many for around 2 years or more. Some remain active. 4. In 2017, a U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) official sent Twitter a list of 52 Arab language accounts “we use to amplify certain messages.” The official asked for priority service for six accounts, verification for one & “whitelist” abilities for the others. 5. The same day CENTCOM sent the list, Twitter officials used a tool to grant a special “whitelist” tag that essentially provides verification status to the accounts w/o the blue check, meaning they are exempt from spam/abuse flags, more visible/likely to trend on hashtags. 6. The CENTCOM accounts on the list tweeted frequently about U.S. military priorities in the Middle East, including promoting anti-Iran messages, promotion of the Saudi Arabia-U.S. backed war in Yemen, and “accurate” U.S. drone strikes that claimed to only hit terrorists. 7. CENTCOM then shifted strategies & deleted disclosures of ties to the Twitter accounts. The bios of the accounts changed to seemingly organic profiles. One bio read: “Euphrates pulse.” Another used an apparent deep fake profile pic & claimed to be a source of Iraqi opinion. 8. One Twitter official who spoke to me said he feels deceived by the covert shift. Still, many emails from throughout 2020 show that high-level Twitter executives were well aware of DoD’s vast network of fake accounts & covert propaganda and did not suspend the accounts. 9. For example, Twitter lawyer Jim Baker mused in a July 2020 email, about an upcoming DoD meeting, that the Pentagon used "poor tradecraft" in setting up its network, and were seeking strategies for not exposing the accounts that are “linked to each other or to DoD or the USG.” 10. Stacia Cardille, another Twitter attorney, replied that the Pentagon wanted a SCIF & may want to retroactively classify its social media activities “to obfuscate their activity in this space, and that this may represent an overclassification to avoid embarrassment.” 11. In several other 2020 emails, high-level Twitter executives/lawyers discussed the covert network and even recirculated the 2017 list from CENTCOM and shared another list of 157 undisclosed Pentagon accounts, again mostly focused on Middle East military issues. 12. In a May 2020 email, Twitter’s Lisa Roman emailed the DoD w/two lists. One list was accounts “previously provided to us” & another list Twitter detected. The accounts tweeted in Russian & Arabic on US military issues in Syria/ISIS & many also did not disclose Pentagon ties. 13. Many of these secretive U.S. military propaganda accounts, despite detection by Twitter as late as 2020 (but potentially earlier) continued tweeting through this year, some not suspended until May 2022 or later, according to records I reviewed. 14. In August 2022, a Stanford Internet Observatory report exposed a U.S. military covert propaganda network on Facebook, Telegram, Twitter & other apps using fake news portals and deep fake images and memes against U.S. foreign adversaries. public-assets.graphika.com/reports/graphi… 15. The U.S. propaganda network relentlessly pushed narratives against Russia, China, and other foreign countries. They accused Iran of "threatening Iraq’s water security and flooding the country with crystal meth," and of harvesting the organs of Afghan refugees. 16. The Stanford report did not identify all of the accounts in the network but one they did name was the exact same Twitter account CENTCOM asked for whitelist privileges in its 2017 email. I verified via Twitter’s internal tools. The account used an AI-created deep fake image. 17. In subsequent reporting, Twitter was cast as an unbiased hero for removing “a network of fake user accounts promoting pro-Western policy positions.” Media covering the story described Twitter as evenly applying its policies & proactive in suspending the DoD network. 18. The reality is much more murky. Twitter actively assisted CENTCOM’s network going back to 2017 and as late as 2020 knew these accounts were covert/designed to deceive to manipulate the discourse, a violation of Twitter’s policies & promises. They waited years to suspend. 19. Twitter’s comms team was closely in touch with reporters, working to minimize Twitter’s role. When the WashPost reported on the scandal, Twitter officials congratulated each other because the story didn’t mention any Twitter employees & focused largely on the Pentagon. 20. The conduct with the U.S. military’s covert network stands in stark contrast with how Twitter has boasted about rapidly identifying and taking down covert accounts tied to state-backed influence operations, including Thailand, Russia, Venezuela, and others since 2016. 21. Here is my reported piece w/more detail. I was given access to Twitter for a few days. I signed/agreed to nothing, Twitter had no input into anything I did or wrote. The searches were carried out by a Twitter attorney, so what I saw could be limited. Twitter Aided the Pentagon in its Covert Online Propaganda CampaignInternal documents show Twitter whitelisted CENTCOM accounts that were then used to run its online influence campaign abroad.https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-accounts/ If you want details about how I go about my reporting, a little more about myself, and further documentation & discussion, I just started a Substack. Sign up here: Lee FangInvestigations and observations about the public interest. Click to read Lee Fang, a Substack publication.https://leefang.substack.com/p/creating-a-substack

I wonder how many bots voted in this poll? If this is true, this would be the is the greatest TROLL payback ever.

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Karen Ann Weisner, age 79 of DuBois, PA died Sunday, December 18, 2022 at her home. Born on March 22, 1943 in McKeesport, PA, she was the daughter of the late Stephen and Betty Jane (Kisskadden) Tonkovich. On December 26, 1961 she married Jerome Weisner, Sr. He preceded her in death on November 29, 2005. Karen had been a bus driver for Clepper Bus Service for five years and had also worked at the DuBois Regional Medical Center. She was a member of St. Catherine of Siena Roman Catholic Church. Karen was an avid bowler in the DuBois area for over sixty years, she enjoyed trips to Salamanca and working on crafts and was a huge Pittsburgh Pirates and Pittsburgh Steelers fan. Karen is survived by her children; Shelly Caine and her husband Ed of Falls Creek, PA, Marrianne Gearhart and her husband Bud of DuBois, PA, Michael Weisner and his wife Suzi of Annapolis, MD and Jerome Weisner, Jr. and his wife Tammy of DuBois, PA, twelve grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by an infant granddaughter. Visitation will be held on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 from 4 – 7 PM at the Baronick Funeral Home & Crematorium, Inc. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Thursday, December 22, 2022 at 10 AM from St. Catherine of Siena Roman Catholic Church with Msgr. Richard Siefer as celebrant. Burial will follow in St. Tobias Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to DuSan Ambulance, 835 Beaver Drive, DuBois, PA 15801. Online condolences can be sent to http://baronickfuneralhome.com/condolence

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/ohio-teacher-sues-school-firing-her-not-using-students-preferred-pronouns?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=twjs An Ohio teacher filed a lawsuit against her former school after she said she was forced to quit for not using a student's preferred pronouns, which would have violated her religious beliefs. Vivian Geraghty was an English teacher at Jackson Memorial Middle School in Massillon until the district forced her to resign in August because she refused to participate in a student's social transition to another sex by using different pronouns and a different name than the student had at birth. The lawsuit, filed last week in federal court by the conservative legal nonprofit the Alliance Defending Freedom, said the school "unconstitutionally retaliated" against Geraghty for exercising her free speech and for her Christian beliefs. The school forced her to resign although no students filed complaints and education was not disrupted, the lawsuit stated. "Vivian treated every student with equality and respect, and it was unlawful for school officials to terminate her employment simply because she wanted to avoid using her voice to validate ideas that violate her faith and jeopardize her students’ wellbeing," said Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Tyson Langhofer. Teachers in other states have filed similar lawsuits for not participating in a student's social gender transition. In September, a former Kansas middle school teacher received a $95,000 settlement after she was suspended for not using a student's preferred name and pronouns.

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WHO'S IN THE NEWS: Harvey Weinstein Verdict Is In Fallen film mogul and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein has once again been found guilty. Weinstein was found guilty of rape, sexual misconduct, and forced oral copulation involving “Jane Doe # 1.” He was acquitted of all counts against “Jane Doe # 3.” The jury was hung on all counts involving Jennifer Newsom, wife of California governor Gavin Newsom. Weinstein is already serving a 23-year sentence in New York for rape. The 70-year-old is now looking at another 24 years in prison. FACT-O-RAMA! The Harvey Weinstein rape trial in New York kicked off the #MeToo movement. Kevin Spacey was also dethroned after numerous accusations of sexually harassing or assaulting teen boys.

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TWITTER FILES: PART 7 The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop How the FBI & intelligence community discredited factual information about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings both after and *before* The New York Post revealed the contents of his laptop on October 14, 2020 In Twitter Files #6, we saw the FBI relentlessly seek to exercise influence over Twitter, including over its content, its users, and its data. Unroll available on Thread Reader In Twitter Files #7, we present evidence pointing to an organized effort by representatives of the intelligence community (IC), aimed at senior executives at news and social media companies, to discredit leaked information about Hunter Biden before and after it was published. The story begins in December 2019 when a Delaware computer store owner named John Paul (J.P.) Mac Isaac contacts the FBI about a laptop that Hunter Biden had left with him On Dec 9, 2019, the FBI issues a subpoena for, and takes, Hunter Biden's laptop. nypost.com/2020/10/14/ema… Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dadHunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine in…https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/ By Aug 2020, Mac Isaac still had not heard back from the FBI, even though he had discovered evidence of criminal activity. And so he emails Rudy Giuliani, who was under FBI surveillance at the time. In early Oct, Giuliani gives it to @nypost Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dadHunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine in…https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/ Shortly before 7 pm ET on October 13, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, George Mesires, emails JP Mac Isaac. Hunter and Mesires had just learned from the New York Post that its story about the laptop would be published the next day. 7. At 9:22 pm ET (6:22 PT), FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan sends 10 documents to Twitter’s then-Head of Site Integrity, Yoel Roth, through Teleporter, a one-way communications channel from the FBI to Twitter. 8. The next day, October 14, 2020, The New York Post runs its explosive story revealing the business dealings of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. Every single fact in it was accurate. 9. And yet, within hours, Twitter and other social media companies censor the NY Post article, preventing it from spreading and, more importantly, undermining its credibility in the minds of many Americans. Why is that? What, exactly, happened? 10. On Dec 2, @mtaibbi described the debate inside Twitter over its decision to censor a wholly accurate article. Since then, we have discovered new info that points to an organized effort by the intel community to influence Twitter & other platforms Unroll available on Thread Reader 11. First, it's important to understand that Hunter Biden earned *tens of millions* of dollars in contracts with foreign businesses, including ones linked to China's government, for which Hunter offered no real work. Here's an overview by investigative journalist @peterschweizer 12. And yet, during all of 2020, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies repeatedly primed Yoel Roth to dismiss reports of Hunter Biden’s laptop as a Russian “hack and leak” operation. This is from a sworn declaration by Roth given in December 2020. fec.gov/files/legal/mu… 13. They did the same to Facebook, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “The FBI basically came to us [and] was like, ‘Hey... you should be on high alert. We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in 2016 election. There's about to be some kind of dump similar to that.'" 14. Were the FBI warnings of a Russian hack-and-leak operation relating to Hunter Biden based on *any* new intel? No, they weren't “Through our investigations, we did not see any similar competing intrusions to what had happened in 2016,” admitted FBI agent Elvis Chan in Nov. 15. Indeed, Twitter executives *repeatedly* reported very little Russian activity. E.g., on Sept 24, 2020, Twitter told FBI it had removed 345 “largely inactive” accounts “linked to previous coordinated Russian hacking attempts.” They “had little reach & low follower accounts." 16. In fact, Twitter debunked false claims by journalists of foreign influence on its platform "We haven’t seen any evidence to support that claim” by @oneunderscore__ @nbc News of foreign-controlled bots. “Our review thus far shows a small-scale domestic troll effort…” 17. After FBI asks about a WaPo story on alleged foreign influence in a pro-Trump tweet, Twitter's Roth says, "The article makes a lot of insinuations... but we saw no evidence that that was the case here (and in fact, a lot of strong evidence pointing in the other direction).” 18. It's not the first time that Twitter's Roth has pushed back against the FBI. In January 2020, Roth resisted FBI efforts to get Twitter to share data outside of the normal search warrant process. 19. Pressure had been growing: “We have seen a sustained (If uncoordinated) effort by the IC [intelligence community] to push us to share more info & change our API policies. They are probing & pushing everywhere they can (including by whispering to congressional staff).” 20. Time and again, FBI asks Twitter for evidence of foreign influence & Twitter responds that they aren’t finding anything worth reporting. “[W]e haven’t yet identified activity that we’d typically refer to you (or even flag as interesting in the foreign influence context).” 21. Despite Twitter’s pushback, the FBI repeatedly requests information from Twitter that Twitter has already made clear it will not share outside of normal legal channels. 22. Then, in July 2020, the FBI’s Elvis Chan arranges for temporary Top Secret security clearances for Twitter executives so that the FBI can share information about threats to the upcoming elections. 23. On August 11, 2020, the FBI's Chan shares information with Twitter's Roth relating to the Russian hacking organization, APT28, through the FBI's secure, one-way communications channel, Teleporter. 24. Recently, Yoel Roth told @karaswisher that he had been primed to think about the Russian hacking group APT28 before news of the Hunter Biden laptop came out. When it did, Roth said, "It set off every single one of my finely tuned APT28 hack-and-leap campaign alarm bells." 25. In Aug, 2020, FBI’s Chan asks Twitter: does anyone there have top secret clearance? When someone mentions Jim Baker, Chan responds, "I don't know how I forgot him" — an odd claim, given Chan's job is to monitor Twitter, not to mention that they worked together at the FBI. 26. Who is Jim Baker? He's former general counsel of the FBI (2014-18) & one of the most powerful men in the U.S. intel community. Baker has moved in and out of government for 30 years, serving stints at CNN, Bridgewater (a $140 billion asset management firm) and Brookings 27. As general counsel of the FBI, Baker played a central role in making the case internally for an investigation of Donald Trump FBI Took Michael Sussmann’s Allegation of Trump-Russia Ties Seriously, Former Official TestifiesThe 2016 claims from national-security lawyer Michael Sussmann alarmed the agency’s most senior officials, the FBI’s then-top lawyer testified at the criminal trial of Mr. Sussmann.https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-took-michael-sussmanns-allegation-of-trump-russia-ties-seriously-former-official-testifies-11652985514 28. Baker wasn't the only senior FBI exec. involved in the Trump investigation to go to Twitter. Dawn Burton, the former dep. chief of staff to FBI head James Comey, who initiated the investigation of Trump, joined Twitter in 2019 as director of strategy. 29. As of 2020, there were so many former FBI employees — "Bu alumni" — working at Twitter that they had created their own private Slack channel and a crib sheet to onboard new FBI arrivals. 30. Efforts continued to influence Twitter's Yoel Roth. 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 31. The organizer was Vivian Schiller, the fmr CEO of NPR, fmr head of news at Twitter; fmr Gen. mgr of NY Times; fmr Chief Digital Officer of NBC News Attendees included Meta/FB's head of security policy and the top nat. sec. reporters for @nytimes @wapo and others 32. By mid-Sept, 2020, Chan & Roth had set up an encrypted messaging network so employees from FBI & Twitter could communicate. They also agree to create a “virtual war room” for “all the [Internet] industry plus FBI and ODNI” [Office of the Director of National Intelligence]. 33. Then, on Sept 15, 2020 the FBI’s Laura Dehmlow, who heads up the Foreign Influence Task Force, and Elvis Chan, request to give a classified briefing for Jim Baker, without any other Twitter staff, such as Yoel Roth, present. 34. On Oct 14, shortly after @nypost publishes its Hunter Biden laptop story, Roth says, “it isn’t clearly violative of our Hacked Materials Policy, nor is it clearly in violation of anything else," but adds, “this feels a lot like a somewhat subtle leak operation.” 35. In response to Roth, Baker repeatedly insists that the Hunter Biden materials were either faked, hacked, or both, and a violation of Twitter policy. Baker does so over email, and in a Google doc, on October 14 and 15. 36. And yet it's inconceivable Baker believed the Hunter Biden emails were either fake or hacked. The @nypost had included a picture of the receipt signed by Hunter Biden, and an FBI subpoena showed that the agency had taken possession of the laptop in December 2019. 37. As for the FBI, it likely would have taken a few *hours* for it to confirm that the laptop had belonged to Hunter Biden. Indeed, it only took a few days for journalist @peterschweizer to prove it. 38. By 10 am, Twitter execs had bought into a wild hack-and-dump story “The suggestion from experts - which rings true - is there was a hack that happened separately, and they loaded the hacked materials on the laptop that magically appeared at a repair shop in Delaware” 39. At 3:38 pm that same day, October 14, Baker arranges a phone conversation with Matthew J. Perry in the Office of the General Counsel of the FBI 40. The influence operation persuaded Twitter execs that the Hunter Biden laptop did *not* come from a whistleblower. One linked to a Hill article, based on a WaPo article, from Oct 15, which falsely suggested that Giuliani’s leak of the laptop had something to do with Russia. 41. There is evidence that FBI agents have warned elected officials of foreign influence with the primary goal of leaking the information to the news media. This is a political dirty trick used to create the perception of impropriety. 42. In 2020, the FBI gave a briefing to Senator Grassley and Johnson, claiming evidence of “Russian interference” into their investigation of Hunter Biden. The briefing angered the Senators, who say it was done to discredit their investigation. grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/… 43. “The unnecessary FBI briefing provided the Democrats and liberal media the vehicle to spread their false narrative that our work advanced Russian disinformation.” 44. Notably, then-FBI General Counsel Jim Baker was investigated *twice,* in 2017 and 2019, for leaking information to the news media. “You’re saying he’s under criminal investigation? That’s why you’re not letting him answer?” Meadows asked. “Yes” Ex-FBI general counsel faced criminal leak probeThe revelation’s timing suggests that Republicans are seeking to undercut Baker’s credibility following a bombshell report in the New York Times.https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/15/fbi-general-counsel-criminal-investigation-1101774 45. In the end, the FBI's influence campaign aimed at executives at news media, Twitter, & other social media companies worked: they censored & discredited the Hunter Biden laptop story. By Dec. 2020, Baker and his colleagues even sent a note of thanks to the FBI for its work. 46. The FBI’s influence campaign may have been helped by the fact that it was paying Twitter millions of dollars for its staff time. “I am happy to report we have collected $3,415,323 since October 2019!” reports an associate of Jim Baker in early 2021. 47. And the pressure from the FBI on social media platforms continues In Aug 2022, Twitter execs prepared for a meeting with the FBI, whose goal was “to convince us to produce on more FBI EDRs" EDRs are an “emergency disclosure request,” a warrantless search. In response to the Twitter Files revelation of high-level FBI agents at Twitter, @Jim_Jordan said, “I have concerns about whether the government was running a misinformation operation on We the People.” Twitter’s top ranks riddled with ex-FBI employeesTwitter’s top ranks were riddled with ex-FBI agents and executives, stitching the company even closer to the federal agency now under fire for leaning on Twitter to meddle in the 2020 electio…https://nypost.com/2022/12/17/twitter-leadership-full-of-former-fbi-agents-linkedin-records-show/ Anyone who reads the Twitter Files, regardless of their political orientation, should share those concerns. /END

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