Foundation for Freedom Online, Mike Benz.
What do you make of the Weaponization Committee Report on the actions of the FBI to censor Americans even globally?
The foreign policy establishment destroyed and censored the 1st Amendment rights of domestic U.S. citizens. They targeted not just ordinary American citizens, they targeted American journalists. Now, the same thing was done with respect to the Indian election in 2019. That is you had the Atlantic Council DFR Lab [Digital Forensics Research Lab] working with the Dept of Homeland Security to censor voices around elections in India and Brazil. My foundation, Foundation for Freedom Online, is how millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money went to censoring the Brazilian elections. Now we are censoring now just foreign discourse in Ukraine, but domestic discourse because that domestic discourse impacts the money flows. If people stop supporting the Ukraine in their hearts and minds, they will stop supporting the Pentagon, the State Dept., the CIA, USAID, and the National Endowment for Democracy's money flows to support that war. So it's important for them to rig the public debate so that people stay misinformed, and that appears to be exactly what the FBI is doing here.
I have been told by several producers and corporate media outlets that they had been told verbally but not in writing that they had been told to not question the conflict in Ukraine or the U.S. role in it or what the White House and the State Department. In particular, don't question the motives of Vladimir Zelenskyy or his integrity. Is that coming from the same people?
Yeah, so this is also part of the consensus preservation apparatus, the censorship industry loves. When there is something that requires the whole of society unified consensus to carry out, such as a pandemic response, or a response to a climate emergency, or a response to a war, there is this inter-agency consensus process between the DoD, the State Department, the Intelligence community and the global economic stakeholders around the Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Council, and the corporations who donate to them and who draft off of the activities of the National Security State, so, yes, absolutely, this is coming from that same crowd.
Renee Diresta [and her work in The Atlantic] comes up over and over from people in different industries, from different disciplines, talking about how key she is in managing the narrative by a whistleblower nurse with regard to childhood vaccines. She's been one of those people spending time on social media for years trying to downplay any questions about childhood vaccines. And, of course, when the Covid pandemic came along and the jab there, the same thing. Who is she exactly, Mike?
Well, it's kind of extraordinary because my foundation, Foundation for Freedom Online, actually busted the fact that she was formerly at the CIA. We found the inaugural video of the place where she now works, the Standford Internet Observatory, where her boss, Alex Stamos, is bragging that they've recruited this CIA recruit. Now, this blew my mind, for anyone who knows Renee DiResta knows that she is essentially a Forrest Gump figure in the censorship industry. She is everywhere at every pivotal
She's formerly worked with NATO Stratcom