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Government officials, according to Matthew Connelly, spend around $18 billion a year to keep secrets. More specifically, the DOJ spends about $40 million a year on litigation to fight the release of records.
Lexipol, a private consultancy geared towards providing services to law enforcement in the US, has come up with a recommendation to law enforcement to set up a “Misinformation/Disinformation Unit.”
Covert PR operations involving the secret profiling of over 3,000 people and organisations considered “critics” of the pesticide industry recently made headlines around the world.
The New York Times and Media Matters, along with the Washington Post and CCDH, align in a last-minute, tag-team blitz to silence Democratic Party critics.
The two available tools for searching cached pages on the Internet disappeared within weeks of each other and within weeks of the November 5th election.
Large organizations like Axios, CNN and the New York Times obviously know who they are hiring. The fact that these organizations choose to select Israeli spies above everybody else raises serious questions about their journalistic credibility and their purpose.
Gallup’s annual confidence survey shows 68% of Americans will not relieve themselves on a journalist in flames.
In a sequel to the pandemic panic, politicians and elite media are calling for a European-style speech clampdown, this time using the weather as an excuse.