Thread by @pepesgrandma

🔥🔥🔥Holy Cow! John Brennan is linked to global disinfo and anti conservative orgs! You see, the Intelligence Studies Project (ISP) that John Brennan and two other ex CIA belonged to was involved in the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) thru the Global Disinformation Lab (GDIL). It’s also affiliated with the illiberalism Studies Program.

Plus, I have a massive surprise at the end!

Remember the Texas National Security Network? It’s the entire University Of Texas state wide campus’s and its orgs. They all work together interchangeably.

Part of this Network is the LBJ School of Public Affairs. LBJ is where ex CIA John Brennan, Paul Pope, and Stephen Slick run the Intelligence Studies Program.

Both Global Disinformation Lab cofounders (Ryan Williams and Kiril Avramov) are from LBJ.

Ryan Williams headed up the Global Disinformation Labs Project Evergreen. Where they used a Policy Research Project team from the LBJ School of Public Affairs to write a database of global policy responses to disinformation.

Brennan, Pope, and Slicks Intelligence Studies Project is at LJB and often sponsored events for the Global Disinformation Lab. Just one big happy family.

The Global Disinformation Lab proclaimed an outright partnership with the Global Disinformation Index. And also worked with each other on a Disinformation Risk Assessment.

Here are the Global Disinformation Labs affiliates.

-illiberalism Studies Program
-Intelligence Studies Project
-Strauss center
-Clements center
-Center for European Studies university Texas Austin
-Center for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES)

* Intelligence Studies Project is ran By Strauss and Clements at LBJ.

Biden’s State department worked with them too. Liz Allen the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public was their go to.

“Really appreciate US Dept of States efforts in working to understand and countering mis- and disinformation. Looking forward to jointly collaborating on these efforts!”

♦️The Illiberalism Studies Program:

“Addresses questions related to democratic backlash, the spread of authoritarianism, post-liberalism, the far right, populism and nationalism.”

“Adherents of illiberalism argue that, in the face of a liberalism that has “gone too far,” it is time to reassert the rights of the collective, or of an alleged silent majority, by restoring national sovereignty in various spheres: politically, by rejecting supranational and multilateral institutions in favor of the nation-state and preferring a strong leader.”

Plus I have a 110 page report where they compare republican Christians to Russians:

“Marlene Laruelle explores the parallel between US Christian nationalism and the Russian case of a blending of the Russian Orthodox Church with the political language of the Putin regime.

♦️Now the Global Disinformation Lab works on more than disinfo.

They work with the Army Cyber Institute of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to the tune of $250,000. This also involves Threatcasting which I have previously discussed during my CTI League files exposé. I don’t trust this disinfo lab in this arena.

They also run Project Tearline, where the military even gave it its own website. Tearline.mil

♦️ Now for even more big news! John Brennan was involved in a US Election LBJ Policy Research Project headed by Stephan Slick.

This also involved Chris Krebs, Michael Daniel, Nick Rasmussen, & more.

I have this below mentioned 243 page report and Brennan talks Russiagate outta the wazoo. I think a lot of X folks in the Spygate corner would be extremely interested in this.

“Working in collaboration with Nicholas Rasmussen, an Intelligence Studies Project Senior Fellow who serves as the director of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, Slick & his students will draft a final report to counterparts at Office of the DNI that includes recommendations to defend against future attempts to influence elections.

Sources to follow!

Let’s begin with sourcing the affiliates to the University Of Texas - Austin’s Global Disinformation Lab ( GDIL).

-illiberalism Studies Program
-Intelligence Studies Project
-Strauss center
-Clements center
-Center for European Studies university Texas Austin
-Center for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES)

Intelligence Studies Project (ISP) is at LBJ, and is ran by Strauss and Clements.

If you look under the referenced thread in my top post, you will find sourcing for Brennan, Pope, and Slick being at ISP. And for Strauss and Clements running it.

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Next, lemme provide a few pieces of evidence on the Global Disinformation Lab (GDIL) being partnered with the Global Disinformation Index (GDI).

♦️ Contract between GDIL and GDI

a. Compilation of media list and associated contact information for domain outreach, to the reasonable satisfaction of GDI.

b. Development of a keyword list which meets GDI’s reasonable standards in capturing adversarial
narratives in the United States of America.

c. Cleaning and anonymisation of all content for media domain review.

d. Review of at least 70 domains based on methodology and providing all relevant data entry for the
operations and content reviews, including all quantitative scores and qualitative notes for each domain that has been reviewed.

e. A summary of the key findings and trends for the media market in English (not to exceed 30 pages).

f. Organisation of an event and co-production of associated collateral activities for the public launch of the study.

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“The Global Disinformation Index (GDI) has released a report on disinformation risks within the United States media market. This research was led by GDI and was conducted by a team of researchers from the Global Disinformation Lab (GDIL) at the University of Texas at Austin from June to October of 2022.

This study looks specifically at a sample of 69 English and Spanish news websites, although for this study, only content in English from these sites was reviewed. The sample of sites was defined based on reach, (using each site’s Alexa rankings, Facebook followers, and Twitter followers), relevance, and the ability to gather complete data for the site. 

The study was designed to categorise each of the 69 sites as either minimum-, low-, medium-, high- or maximum-risk. These risk ratings were based on where the site’s overall index score fell within the distribution of all the scores in the dataset. That means the risk rating can be interpreted as the level of disinformation risk relative to the other domains included in the study.
Accordingly, a rating of minimum risk in this study does not imply that disinformation will never appear on a given site. All newsrooms are vulnerable to disinformation risks, ranging from everyday human error to more nefarious tactics. Conversely, a maximum-risk rating does not imply that specific pieces of disinformation have been identified on a given site. Rather, the index looks at a wide variety of practices and mitigation strategies to holistically measure a given site’s overall disinformation risk level.”

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Here’s the Global Disinformation Labs report done for the Global Disinformation Lab.

Conservative news was all ranked pretty high for disinformation. And made up, “The ten riskiest online news outlets.”

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The Global Disinformation Lab was first created for Russian disinformation. It is housed within the Univ of Texas Center for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES).

“Kiril and I worked together with the GDIL team to get the lab up and running, as the study of Russian disinformation was pivotal to the work of the lab, which is housed within CREEES,” said Neuburger. “Disinformation is a global issue, and we must approach it with that in mind, with our eyes wide open to the major global players.” 

“In 2020, Kiril Avramov (LBJ fellow) established the GDIL with Mary Neuburger, director of the Center for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), and Ryan Williams, a Ph.D. candidate at the LBJ School who now serves as the lab’s deputy director.

A 2019 initiative chaired by Neuburger hired four faculty positions, including Avramov, from three colleges across campus. The GDIL was then formed as a hub for connecting UT faculty interested in global disinformation and providing student research and training opportunities.”

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Project Evergreen at the Global Disinformation Lab (GDIL) created the Global Disinformation Policy Database (GDPD).

GDPD has its own website. And Project Evergreen has a weird workspace. I’ll review this all later.

♦️“Project Evergreen is an initiative of the Global Disinformation Lab at the University of Texas. Our goal is to develop a database of global policy responses to disinformation and misinformation.“

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♦️Formed in the Spring of 2022, Project Evergreen and the Global Disinformation Policy Database (GDPD), live at The University of Texas at Austin. The Project team working on the GDPD is split between the graduate students working on their final graduate project, the Policy Research Project (PRP housed at LBJ), and undergraduate students who serve as research assistants within the Global Disinformation Lab (GDIL).”

“Undergraduate research assistants sift through thousands of links to potentially relevant websites, looking for pertinent policy “leads”. Once a lead is confirmed, it is handed off to the PRP, who then spend hours qualitatively coding the policy, as well as filtering out duplicates or mistakes. If a policy makes it past both the undergraduate researchers and the PRP team, then it is added to the GDPD.”

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♦️Bidens Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Liz Allen, HOSTED this event with the Global Disinformation Lab at the LBJ School of Public Affairs! (Odds are the Intelligence Studies Project paid for this.)

“Really appreciate U.S. Department of State ‘s efforts in working to understand and countering mis- and disinformation. Looking forward to jointly collaborating on these efforts!”

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Here Liz Allen is posting a photo of herself with Dr. Michael Mosser (Executive Director, GDIL. And this was a day BEFORE the event. Must have been a busy trip. 😏

“Energizing meeting with UTAustin's Global Disinformation Lab UT_GDIL, where we discussed international collaboration on maintaining a healthy global information space.”

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♦️Ex CIA, Stephan Slick, was named the first Director of the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas at Austin at LBJ School of Public Affairs.

He was appointed as a Professor at the University's Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the same time.

Stephan slick signed the Hunter Biden laptop letter.

In August 2020 he made a statement in a letter declaring President Trump "dangerously unfit" and lacking the "character and competence" to hold the office.

♦️ 2016 - Steve Slick addressed the tools of propaganda and misinformation used by the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration during the November 2016 U.S. Presidential election.

Slick warned that adversaries of the United States will probably test the Trump administration as a way to gauge U.S. policy responses and will to respond to these acts.

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I have tons of data, so I’m gonna bounce around a little bit. And why do all the places that hold these orgs have Russia in the name?

♦️Next we have the illiberalism Studies Program. Which is partners with the Global Disinformation Lab.

This addresses questions related to democratic backlash, the spread of authoritarianism, post-liberalism, the far right, populism and nationalism.

Definition of illiberalism:

“By illiberalism, we define a strain of political culture, a set of institutional reforms (such as assaults on an independent judiciary) and broader societal processes (such as declining trust in liberal democratic institutions) that, over the past two decades, has emerged in response to liberalism as experienced by various countries. Adherents of illiberalism argue that, in the face of a liberalism that has “gone too far,” it is time to reassert the rights of the collective, or of an alleged silent majority, by restoring national sovereignty in various spheres: politically, by rejecting supranational and multilateral institutions in favor of the nation-state and preferring a strong leader with large powers over a parliamentary system; economically, through at least partial protectionism; culturally, by refusing multiculturalism and minority rights in favor of an essentialist definition of the nation, its members, and its genuine cultural attributes.”

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♦️This is housed at the GW's Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES

“IERES is part of The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, one of the world’s leading schools of international affairs and the largest school of international affairs in the United States. Located in the heart of Washington, D.C., its mission is to educate the next generation of international leaders.”

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Illiberalism Studies Program, there’s multiple reports inside this 110 page document. I’m showing excerpts from two. See the contents listing for those available.

These reports are a good representation of what’s happening to Christians in our country.

♦️ Christian Nationalism as an Illiberal Interpretation of Religion

“Marlene Laruelle explores the parallel between US Christian nationalism and the Russian case of a blending of the Russian Orthodox Church with the political language of the Putin regime.”

♦️ Explaining Demographic Changes in the 2024
Election

“One of the surprising results of the 2024 election was the percentage of racial and
ethnic minorities that voted for Donald Trump, especially men.”

“One of the goals of this panel is to discuss racial and ethnic heterogeneity among
churches and how that may be connected to the results of the 2024 election.”

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All major things will be outta the way after I review the project John Brennan and Chris Krebs participated in.

How I found this was I was looking at the LBJ Policy Research Projects. So I decided to look into this one further. It’s sorta just added in because it’s extremely interesting.

The end report that I will share below this discusses US election disinformation and foreign election interference.

John Brennan also tells the entire spygate story!

♦️Fall 2021 - 60868 - PA 682GA - Policy Research Project (PRP) on Global Policy Issues

Foreign Election Interference.

“Countering Foreign Election Interference and Influence Instructor: Stephen Slick Client: Relevant Federal Agency and/or Policy Center (TBD) MGPS Seats: 15 Ideal for: Students interested in national security, intelligence, covert action (active measures), foreign security services and government reform Travel: Travel is likely to Washington, DC for research interviews and to present the final report with recommendations Meets: Tuesday 2-5 p.m.”

“2016 U.S. presidential election was conducted in an environment shaped to an unknown degree by covert operations mounted by the Russian security services. Intelligence on election interference and influence by Russia and other foreign states was not shared with the American public before the election, and the topic emerged as a point of bitter and destructive partisan, intergovernmental and societal disagreement. A number of federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies acted — both alone and together — to counter similar attempts by Russia to influence the 2018 and 2020 elections.”

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When you want something bad enough, you find it. 🙌🏻😹

This article includes an interview of Stephan Slick below it.

This is the LBJ Policy Research Project (PRP) mentioned above. Next post, I’ll share the document, which was not easy to find.

“A PRP this fall by LBJ Professor Stephen B. Slick is taking a fresh look at one of the most significant dangers to American democracy in recent history: efforts by foreign states to influence and damage the integrity of U.S. elections. Slick and his students are assessing efforts by Russia and other states in 2016 and examining how the federal government responded to counteract similar attempts in 2018 and 2020.”

“Working in collaboration with Nicholas Rasmussen, an Intelligence Studies Project (ISP) Senior Fellow who serves as the director of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, Slick and his students will draft a final report to counterparts at Office of the Director of National Intelligence that includes recommendations to defend against future attempts to influence elections. In recent weeks, students have met and interviewed Rasmussen, Obama administration cyber "Czar" Michael Daniel and former CIA Director John Brennan, a UT senior fellow.
Slick, director of UT's Intelligence Studies Project (ISP)and a 28-year veteran of the CIA's clandestine service, talked to us about foreign election interference, the conditions that make influence operations more likely to succeed, and the goals of this PRP. One of his students, Jeremy Workman (MGPS), also told us about his work on the project.”

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I thoroughly enjoyed reading the Russiagate parts in this document. John Brennan was still pushing the Russiagate lies in 2021. 🤦🏻‍♀️

The Russiagate part is very lengthy and it reviews each time period.

“Spring 2016

The Central Intelligence Agency Director at the time, John Brennan, met with Russian intelligence counterparts in March 2016, unaware that the GRU had successfully used a
spearfishing attack to acquire 50,000 emails from Clinton Campaign advisor John Podesta’s computer just a week earlier. When this hack was detected and exposed, it did not set off alarm bells because foreign hacks of presidential campaigns were relatively routine.

In May, Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, disclosed that “foreign intelligence services [were]
tracking this election cycle like no other,” including the Russians. On June 14th, the Democratic National Committee announced that Russian hackers had compromised their internal server throughout the past year. The Washington Post’s reporting on the DNC hack concluded that “the breach was traditional espionage.” These were the first signs that Russian interest in the
2016 election cycle would be different and more intense, but they were understood as routine counterintelligence challenges at the time. This was also the first notice to the public on Russian interference.

Many policymakers, including National Security Advisor Susan Rice, learned about
the cyber-attack through the media rather than through intelligence briefings. The scope of Russian interference would not be recognized until the late summer of 2016 and not fully understood until well after the election.”

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This is one of the PRP’s used to get team members for the Global Disinformation Labs Project Evergreen.

LBJ School Of Public Affairs Policy Research Project (PRP)

Spring 2023 - 60098 - PA 682GB - Policy Research Project on Global Policy Issues

GLOBAL DISINFORMATION POLICY DATABASE
Instructor: Kiril Avramov
Client: Global Disinformation Lab (GDIL) at UT Austin

“The Global Disinformation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin (GDIL) is developing a database of global policy responses to misinformation and disinformation. Our project seeks to connect multidisciplinary researchers with the data they need to understand how states are responding to “information disorder.””

“Not dissimilar to the Global Terrorism Database or a global rating and ranking such as the Freedom in the World Index, this project will comprehensively catalog (by country) responses to disinformation and misinformation, information operations capabilities, and proposed legislation and emerging conversations.”

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