DHS Inspector General finds at least 348 cases where Trump forced migrant parents to leave the U.S. without their children apnews.com/article/az-sta…
This directly confirms that Kirstjen Nielsen, now trying to cash in on her role at DHS with cyber $, was a liar.
Nielsen testified to Congress in December 2018 that “every parent” who was deported had a choice to take their child back to their country and those who did not “made the choice not to have the child accompany them.”
She also told Congress in March 2019 that there has been “no parent who has been deported, to my knowledge, without multiple opportunities to take their children with them.”
Any company/speaker agency thinking about burnishing your board, convention, etc with her "cybersecurity expertise" should think twice about what the above means.
Not just role in this episode, ripping HUNDREDS of kids from parents, but her repeated lying/perjury on it.
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That is one way to describe a civilian airliner being forced down into authoritarian state territory by a Mig29, so that a passenger can be kidnapped...
Now, I get why the corporate comms team went as vanilla in tone as they could. This is an extraordinary situation in so many ways, meaning no PR team has a playbook for it. And it is really for govts to handle now (with some consequences for violating norms/laws), not an airline.
But @RyanairPress shouldn't also sugarcoat it. That rewards bad behavior and harms your own brand. Add in a line expressing concern about the unprecedented incident and the welfare of the passengers involved, including those taken off the flight.
A challenge for national security wonks today that is akin to that in 2017.
Will you speak to real threats or dodge doing so for fear of "being partisan?"
Back then it was speaking to Russian cyber attack.
Today, it is viral conspiracy theory surrounding The Big Lie.
Today, I gave a speech on key trends in digital security. Covered issues Ransomware to IOT to viral mis/disinformation that can shape real world beliefs, actions and even cause deaths.
By including events of Jan6 and pandemic as case examples, however, was said to be partisan.
As an analyst, you have to include those case examples. To do otherwise is to dodge. But to include them is to make a certain segment of the audience uncomfortable or even angry. Many will thus avoid it...This is disservice to facts and your responsibility as an analyst.
This message is 100% worth your watch and share, not just on Twitter, but Facebook etc
A message from a Republican leader and an iconic figure in our culture, who gets it, and maybe might pierce thru the fever dream too many fell into.
That is, please also share it with those co-workers, friends and family who don't realize the stakes of what is going on, and the near-miss to our democracy of what just played out.
In sifting thru video, I have seen not just the stupid things we all saw like the selfies and literally crapping on the floor. But people need to understand that there was also a harder, darker part...
Some background to Twitter's reference to risk of further violence as one of reasons for suspension of Trump:
This is circulating among extremist accounts.
It made Trump's reversal of pledging "peaceful transition" in video to tweeting he wouldn't be in DC that date worrisome.
IE, preplanned Jan17 militia events mostly outside DC, but Jan20 noise is about retaliation in DC, martyrdom for the woman killed in Capitol, etc.
Trump breaking his pledge, and making it known he would Not be in the city, not taking part in peaceful transition, read significant
That is yet another reason why I don't have much empathy now for the tired "Let's just move on" narratives. Trump chose not to be part of a peaceful transition, and then doubled down yesterday, even AFTER the deaths and riot. That has all sorts of ripple effects.
By the numbers, no person in all of human history has shared a greater number of conspiracy theories with a greater number of people than Donald Trump did through social media.
This pipeline is now cut off, which is a "really big deal."
For our LikeWar book, I actually read every Trump tweet, going back to his first.
The sheer scale of not just the lies and insults in mindnumbing obviously, but he was also notable for just how many conspiracy theories he fed fire too long before presidency.
It hit topics from well known ones like his birtherism to other ones that are even more despicable now like aiding anti-vaxxers. Indeed, on that last one, my worry was that after Biden came in, he would pivot back to that theme, to stoke anger and bring attention back to himself
Army Sec Ryan McCarthy: we weren't ready as "[we] had no wildest imagination that you could end up breaching the Capitol Grounds."
As both a nat sec specialist and an expect in imagining, let me call 100% BS on this.
-The threat of violence at the event was repeatedly warned about that very week,
-The intel chatter of the Capitol in specific was out in the open all the way down to them talking about specific access points,
-The scenario had happened at multiple other national parliaments and several state legislatures in the US,