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Title : Irony meets Justice. Plus: Does the Constitution forbid unmasking the newsfakers?
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Irony meets Justice. Plus: Does the Constitution forbid unmasking the newsfakers?
Dershowitz has this to say about Mueller's grand jury in DC:“It gives the prosecutor a tremendous tactical advantage… the case now can be brought not in Northern Virginia, which is a swing area, sometimes Democrat, sometimes Republican… but the District of Columbia, which is always solidly Democratic and has an ethnic and racial composition that might be very unfavorable to the Trump Administration.”Dersh won't come right out and say it, but he doesn't want this administration's fate to be decided by a bunch of African Americans. Me? I love the idea. I think it's bloody marvelous. Trump got into office via the most flamboyantly, openly racist campaign I've ever seen, and I'm old enough to recall Wallace in '68. Agent Orange should have had sufficient imagination to foresee what might happen.
Irony, meet Justice. Justice, meet Irony. I think you two are going to get along. In fact, I hope you have a long and happy marriage.
Does the First Amendment protect Russia? Here's an interesting conundrum...
The FBI monitored social media on Election Day last year in an effort to track a suspected Russian disinformation campaign utilizing "fake news," CNN has learned.
On Election Day, dozens of agents and analysts huddled at a command center arrayed with large monitoring screens at the FBI headquarters in Washington watching for security threats, according to multiple sources.
FBI analysts had identified social media user accounts behind stories, some based overseas, and the suspicion was that at least some were part of a Russian disinformation campaign, according to two sources familiar with the investigation.
The FBI declined to comment for this story.
For the FBI, this was uncomfortable territory, given the First Amendment's free speech protections even for fake news stories. "We were right on the edge of Constitutional legality," a person briefed on the investigation said. "We were monitoring news."Is that really on the edge of legality? What's wrong with monitoring? I monitor news. So do you.
To monitor is not to censor. Identifying the true origin of an alleged "news" story is not the same as intruding on an individual citizen's right to privacy. Identifying a foreign nation as the source of a widely-distributed bit of newsfaking is no reason to shout "Orwell!" at the FBI.
The FBI and the intelligence community never had any moral qualms about investigating jihadist propaganda. I have no doubt that the American intelligence community knows a thing or two about the people who produced Dabiq and Insight. (A few paranoid souls have suggested that the American intelligence community is the creator of Dabiq and Insight.)
So why hesitate to tell the world just who was behind those pre-election "news" stories which falsely spoke of a police raid on Hillary's home? Why shouldn't the FBI reveal the true authorship of this story, which was reprinted by Infowars? Dunno about you, but I'd like to know more about the shit-shoveler who shoveled this shit into our faces.
The German government distributed a glossy magazine called Signal which was available in the United States until December of 1941. Personally, I would have had no problem with the continued distribution of that periodical in the U.S. even after the declaration of war. Why? Because there was never any secret as to who was behind Signal. Everyone knew that it was a Nazi magazine.
Hidden sponsorship of propaganda materials is a different matter.
I do not favor censorship, but in certain cases -- particularly those involving hostile foreign actors -- I think that the FBI would be doing the country a service if they pulled away the mask to show whatever lies beneath. I've read the First Amendment. Nothing in it forbids the Bureau from performing this function.
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