the 2016-current false Russian collusion narrative is possibly the largest fraud and misuse of law enforcement/intelligence personnel in the history of the United States. abuses from the NSC downward. where is Durham?
and btw f*#k CrowdStrike, Fireye, Trend Micro and all the individual geeks who participated in this historic farce.
John Brennan used a interagency fusion cell which produced a substandard intel product on Putin's strategic objectives - but one that was used later to conflate the false Russian conspiracy with the Trump campaign.
(didn't even touch on how classification was used to thwart oversight, hide wrongdoing, and continue the slander of innocents in the public sphere) and to date nothing has been done to hold people accountable, nothing - including those who should have stood up and did not.
people know things can go off the rails & clusterfucks happen but when there is no accountability, no correction, no redress it is simply demoralizing. individuals need to be held to a higher standard not a lesser one when they are part of these communities; that hasn't happened.
"The FBI’s increasing preference for political action over bona fide investigations is part of its overall decadence—laziness, incompetence, and eagerness to integrate with the ruling class" (h/t @ginthegin) amgreatness.com/2021/01/31/how…
quote: "Penetrating, and otherwise surveilling the target, follows from profiling. Penetration is a legitimate tool of investigation, a bet that undercover agents will find useful truths. But penetration pursuant to profiling becomes a means of manufacturing appearances...
..to validate prejudice. And that naturally leads to using the penetrators to bring forth the behavior that would validate the penetration—in other words, to provocation and to spreading the government’s most convenient lies."
quote: "improving communication between policymakers and scientific & technical experts is crucial given the dual-use nature of artificial intelligence. indeed, a prohibition on weapons outside of human control would not be counterproductive to technological development."
quote: "positive obligations for meaningful human control do not need to prohibit autonomous point-defense weapons, such as anti-missile defenses, as long as these a) include a routine non-autonomous mode where the weapon will not use force without a human confirmation; and..