Democrats Pelosi Obama Biden Kept Immoral Unconstitutional NSA CIA FBI Domestic Ops Running Edward Snowden @Snowden 3h After the last couple years, hard to ignore the feeling that the CIA's Color Revolutions are coming home. We may come to regret spending decades normalizing the practice of disregarding elections, the precedent for ousting presidents. 258 1,333 77 6,334 Edward Snowden retweeted LindyMan @PaulSkallas Jan 5 I don't know what's going on over there. But I hope everyone is ok 181 411 107 4,130 Show this thread Edward Snowden @Snowden Jan 7 skim milk is a crime 2,998 2,289 459 32,983 Edward Snowden @Snowden Jan 7 look it had to be said 226 116 7 4,005 Edward Snowden retweeted Edward Snowden @Snowden 18 Jul 2022 people are like "I'm not going to eat the crickets." oh you're gonna eat the crickets, brother. they're gonna be everywhere. they're gonna put em in Hot Pockets. your kids are gonna be like "mom! i want the pizza crickets!" 2,165 5,803 1,302 36,068 Edward Snowden @Snowden Jan 7 delivering a sermon on the dangers of "seed oils" as he washes down his Whopper™ with a liter of Mountain Dew™ 409 658 73 11,048 Edward Snowden retweeted Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald Jan 5 The reason this matters - beyond the key role Obama and Pelosi played in preserving NSA domestic spying - is that a handful of establishment leaders in both parties agree on most things, and rule the country together as a club. Most members have no power: Joshua Reed Eakle @JoshEakle Jan 4 Replying to @JoshEakle "The fundamental problem in Congress is the centralization of power... As speaker, I'd decentralize and open up the process." @justinamash Show this thread 59 520 26 1,981 Show this thread Edward Snowden retweeted Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald Jan 5 The incident Amash is referencing is amazing. In the wake of the Snowden reporting, there was huge bipartisan support for reining in the NSA's domestic spying. Amash and John Conyers co-wrote a bill poised to pass. Then Obama got Nancy Peolsi to whip enough Dem votes to sink it👇 49 754 27 2,489 Show this thread Edward Snowden retweeted Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald Jan 5 Listen to this @justinamash clip, putting his finger on something vital: Joshua Reed Eakle @JoshEakle Jan 4 Replying to @JoshEakle "In Congress, there are basically 3, 4, or 5 people deciding everything right now." @justinamash Show this thread 84 811 48 3,039 Show this thread Edward Snowden retweeted Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald Jan 4 Adam Schiff is (for now) the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee - with immense power over Big Tech and FBI/CIA - so when he "requests" that Big Tech platforms ban journalists who are his critics, it's inherently coercive and, in any event, completely improper: Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi Jan 3 Replying to @mtaibbi 27.They also received an astonishing variety of requests from officials asking for individuals they didn’t like to be banned. Here, the office for Democrat and House Intel Committee chief Adam Schiff asks Twitter to ban journalist Paul Sperry: Show this thread 154 1,780 66 5,622 Show this thread Edward Snowden @Snowden Jan 4 This was more than 15 years ago now, but at the actual CIA, the default password used by the systems engineering team for *all kinds* of things was basically "password1234". Not a joke. Sam Bankman-Fraud @bankman_fraud Jan 4 Replying to @Snowden Was the password to the file "password" 577 2,552 246 20,302 Edward Snowden @Snowden Jan 4 The other ones were kept on the desktop in a spreadsheet called "passwords.xls" 300 527 28 7,501 Edward Snowden @Snowden Jan 4 The US gov, through the FBI, had the censorship units at major internet platforms on speed dial. Public figures that claimed such a year ago were cast out of polite society as lunatics. When it is now established to be true, the same polite people now shrug: "Trust the ruler." Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi Jan 3 Replying to @mtaibbi 24.They eventually settled on an industry call via Signal. In an impressive display of operational security, Chan circulated private numbers of each company’s chief moderation officer in a Word Doc marked “Signal Phone Numbers,” subject-lined, “List of Numbers.” Show this thread 230 3,221 117 11,864 Edward Snowden @Snowden Jan 4 There is the faintest sense of deja vu with this one. 92 334 11 4,088 Edward Snowden retweeted Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi Jan 3 12.Roth saw GEC’s move as an attempt by the GEC to use intel from other agencies to “insert themselves” into the content moderation club that included Twitter, Facebook, the FBI, DHS, and others: 55 1,991 48 9,942 Show this thread Edward Snowden retweeted Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi Jan 3 25.Twitter was taking requests from every conceivable government body, beginning with the Senate Intel Committee (SSCI), which seemed to need reassurance Twitter was taking FBI direction. Execs rushed to tell “Team SSCI” they zapped five accounts on an FBI tip: 87 3,026 151 11,159 Show this thread Edward Snowden retweeted Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi Jan 3 26.Requests arrived and were escalated from all over: from Treasury, the NSA, virtually every state, the HHS, from the FBI and DHS, and more: 84 2,766 118 10,944 Show this thread Edward Snowden retweeted Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi Jan 3 27.They also received an astonishing variety of requests from officials asking for individuals they didn’t like to be banned. Here, the office for Democrat and House Intel Committee chief Adam Schiff asks Twitter to ban journalist Paul Sperry: 1,086 11,848 2,089 32,991 Show this thread Edward Snowden retweeted Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi Jan 3 37.“I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR WORK LOAD”: Requests poured in from FBI offices all over the country, day after day, hour after hour: If Twitter didn’t act quickly, questions came: “Was action taken?” “Any movement?” 81 2,239 120 8,531 Show this thread Edward Snowden @Snowden Jan 3 "Bug," or "undocumented feature?" Breitbart News @BreitbartNews Jan 3 According to a recent report, a bug in Google Home smart speakers allowed for the installation of a backdoor account that could be used to control the device and access its microphone feed. trib.al/D7iYdnE 826 5,874 204 30,324