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Intel Agencies Leak Data: National Security State?
May 10, 2025
We discuss intel agencies leaking private data to media outlets like the NYT and Aspen Institute. We explore potential national security state involvement and censorship simulation before elections. This raises questions about free speech and government influence. #IntelAgencies #DataLeak #NationalSecurity #Censorship #FreeSpeech #GovernmentInfluence #AspenInstitute #NYT #TwitterFiles #MissouriVBiden
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Now, in 2021, the NSA broke into my
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private text apps and read them and then
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leaked them to the New York Times
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against me. That just happened again to
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me last week. Um, and I'm wondering how
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common that is for the intel agencies to
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work with so-called mainstream media
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like the New York Times to hurt their
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opponents. Well, that is the function of
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these interstitial government-funded
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non-governmental organizations and think
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tanks like for example, we mentioned the
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Atlantic Council which is you know
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NATO's think tank but other groups like
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the Aspen Institute which draws the lion
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share of its funding from the State
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Department and other government
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agencies. You know the Aspen Institute
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was busted doing the same thing with the
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Hunter Biden laptop censorship. You
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know, you had this strange situation
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where the FBI had advanced knowledge of
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the pending publication of the Hunter
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Biden laptop story and then magically
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the Aspen Institute, which is run by
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essentially former CIA, former NSA,
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former FBI, and then a bunch of sort of
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civil society organizations, uh, all
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hold a mass, uh, stakeholder simul
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censorship simulation, a 3-day, uh,
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conference. you know, this came out and
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Yel Roth was there. This is a big part
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of the Twitter file leaks and it's been
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mentioned in multiple congressional
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investigations, but somehow the Aspen
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Institute uh which is basically an
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addendum of the National Security State
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uh got the exact same information that
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the National Security State spied on
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journalists and political figures to
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obtain and not only leaked it, but then
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basically did a joint coordinated
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censorship simulator in in September.
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mber two months before the election in
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order just like with the censorship of
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mail and ballots to be in ready position
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to pre-ensor anyone online amplifying a
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news story that had not even broken yet.
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The Aspen Institute. So I mean which is
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by the way I'm spent my life in
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Washington. It's kind of a I mean Walter
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Isacson formerly of Time magazine ran it
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for former president of CNN. Um I had no
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idea it was part of the national
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security state. had no idea its funding
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came from the US government. You're this
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is the first time I've ever heard that.
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But given assuming what you're saying is
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true, it's a little weird that Walter
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Isacson left Aspen Institute to write a
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biography of Elon Musk. Strange or no?
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Yeah. Um, you know, I don't know. I I've
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I haven't read that book. I I from what
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I've heard from people, it's a
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relatively fair treatment. I you just
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total speculation but I suspect that
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Walter Isaxson has struggled with this
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issue and may not even firmly fall in
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one particular place uh in the sense
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that you know Walter Eisenson did a
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series of interviews of Rick Stangle uh
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actually with the Atlantic Council and
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and in other settings uh where he
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interviewed Rick Stangle specifically on
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the issue of uh of you know the the need
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to get rid of the First Amendment and
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the threat that free speech on social
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media poses. to democracy. Now, at the
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time, I was very concerned. This was
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between 2017 and 2019 when he did these
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Rick Stangle interviews. I was very
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concerned because Isacson expressed what
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seemed to me to be a highly sympathetic
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uh view about the Rick Stangle, you
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know, perspective on killing the First
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Amendment. Now, he didn't formally
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endorse that position, but it left me
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very skittish about Isacson. But what I
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should say is at the time I don't think
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very many people in fact I know
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virtually nobody in the country um uh
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had any idea how deep the rabbit hole
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went when it came to the construction of
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of the censorship industry and the the
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the how deep the tentacles had grown
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within the military and the national
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security state in order to buoy and
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consolidate it. Much of that frankly did
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not even come to public light until uh
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until even last year. You frankly some
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of that was galvanized by Elon Musk's
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acquisition in the Twitter files and the
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Republican turnover in the House that
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allowed these multiple investigations.
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uh the lawsuits like Missouri v.