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The FBI's investigation of Trump as a "national security threat" is itself a serious danger. But J. Edgar Hoover pioneered the tactic interc.pt/2M9UpVz
Hoover had the FBI conduct a counter-intelligence investigation on the progressive, elected) Vice President Henry Wallace for years - because they believed his pro-peace views on Russia suggested he was a Kremlin stooge. A Vox article compared expressly compared Wallace & Trump:
This was the 2003 book by the right-wing Mona Charen - "Useful Idiots" - about liberals who wanted better relations with Russia and who denounced CIA/Pentagon propaganda about the threat posed by Moscow: amazon.com/Useful-Idiots-…
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This long-time Brookings spokesman for the US Security State, and newly incarnated #Resistance icon, instructs his liberal flock to be more loving toward NSA & CIA and more supportive of surveillance-increasing laws once Trump is gone. Don't worry, @benjaminwittes, they will be:
Last week, @warkin quit NBC & published a letter condemning the network (& media generally) for using ex-Generals & CIA agents as "analysts" & thus being conduits for war propaganda. On @democracynow, he warned of liberals' reverence & love for FBI & CIA democracynow.org/2019/1/9/willi…
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This tweet is correct about Chomsky's long-held, absolutist free speech views. But it's not just Chomsky. From Berkeley to ACLU, free speech absolutism has long been a central, defining belief of the left, which never used to trust institutions of authority with censorship power:
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Glenn Greenwald
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1/ Anti-corruption rhetoric was central to @JairBolsonaro's victory. His Vice President, General Hamilton Mourão, just received a stroke of huge luck: his son was given a mega-promotion by the state bank along with a *tripling* of his salary. Congrats! www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2019/01/…
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