{"id":1612,"date":"2022-12-31T15:53:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T15:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2022-12-31T15:53:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T15:53:50","slug":"fbi-now-going-after-its-critics-as-conspiracy-theorists-spreading-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/opinion\/fbi-now-going-after-its-critics-as-conspiracy-theorists-spreading-misinformation\/paul-crespo\/2022\/12\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Now Going After Its Critics as \u2018Conspiracy Theorists\u2019 Spreading \u2018Misinformation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>ANALYSIS<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Be very afraid. It just keeps getting worse. Under Joe Biden, the FBI is daily being further weaponized against its critics and critics of the administration\u2019s chosen narratives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the disclosures that the FBI was in regular contact with Twitter employees to ensure they censored speech they designated \u2018misinformation,\u2019 the Bureau attacked anyone who criticizes them by, you guessed it &#8211; calling it \u2018misinformation.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also called these FBI critics &#8211; \u2018conspiracy theorists.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a favorite leftwing buzz phrase often used to smear conservatives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most recent outrage came when the FBI made a statement to FOX News this week after journalists posted screenshots of messages showing how FBI agents communicated with top Twitter officials relating to reports and potential posts about Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its response statement, rather than addressing the valid concerns, the Bureau slammed its critics as \u2018conspiracy theorists\u2019 spreading misinformation.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And one legal expert, constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley, is sounding the alarm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He told\u00a0FOX News that it is a &#8220;menacing thing&#8221; for the nation\u2019s\u00a0largest law enforcement agency\u00a0to declare that &#8220;combatting disinformation&#8221; is one of its top priorities,\u00a0and then attack free speech advocates for criticizing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Epoch Times&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_app\/constitutional-law-professor-issues-warning-after-fbi-criticizes-conspiracy-theorists_4949333.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&amp;src_src=Morningbrief&amp;utm_campaign=mb-2022-12-29&amp;src_cmp=mb-2022-12-29&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=V%2B19H1HIDvAalGInwPPIkCWU2iSmmNcPO%2FXnzKmmmBu9DPosOwUF5iQWrDovTQhqRFaH\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>A spokesperson for the FBI&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/fbi-responds-to-musks-twitter-files-says-conspiracy-theorists-trying-to-discredit-bureau_4938649.html?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Morningbrief&amp;utm_campaign=mb-2022-12-29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a>&nbsp;Fox News, in response to several \u201cTwitter Files\u201d installments, that \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d are \u201cfeeding the American public misinformation\u201d and said they are trying to discredit the bureau and its agents.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>That statement, Turley&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2022\/12\/27\/turley_highly_inappropriate_for_fbi_to_call_critics_conspiracy_theorists_spreading_disinformation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a>&nbsp;Fox News, is \u201cdisturbing\u201d because the FBI has allegedly \u201cattacked many of us who were raising free speech concerns and called all of us collectively \u2018conspiracy theorists spreading disinformation.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cIt was highly inappropriate, because the FBI has said that combatting disinformation is one of its priorities. So, it is a very menacing thing when you have the largest law enforcement agency attacking free speech advocates,\u201d Turley, a professor of law at George Washington University who served as an expert witness during former President Donald Trump\u2019s first impeachment inquiry, told the outlet.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The FBI&#8217;s outrageous response&nbsp;comes after journalist Michael Shellenberger&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_app\/constitutional-law-professor-issues-warning-after-fbi-criticizes-conspiracy-theorists_4949333.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&amp;src_src=Morningbrief&amp;utm_campaign=mb-2022-12-29&amp;src_cmp=mb-2022-12-29&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=V%2B19H1HIDvAalGInwPPIkCWU2iSmmNcPO%2FXnzKmmmBu9DPosOwUF5iQWrDovTQhqRFaH\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;about the outrageous FBI-Twitter collusion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat I quickly put together is a pattern where it appears that FBI agents, along with former FBI agents within the company [Twitter], were engaged in a disinformation campaign aimed at top Twitter and Facebook executives, as well as at top news organization executives to basically prepare them, prime them, get them set up to dismiss Hunter Biden information when it would be released.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turley noted that Twitter\u2019s new owner&nbsp;Elon Musk&nbsp;\u201chas confirmed that the FBI paid social media companies to help them deal with what they called disinformation, which most of us call censorship.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turley added to FOX that the FBI &#8220;were in continuous communication [with Twitter], as were other agencies, targeting specific citizens and specific posters to be banned or suspended.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat really does smack of an agency relationship and that could violate the first amendment,\u201d&nbsp;he warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But be very afraid, because things are now getting worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the FBI may also be coming after anyone who points out this clear and demonstrated FBI-Big Tech collusion for being a \u201cconspiracy theorist\u201d spreading \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Opinions expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of Great America News Desk.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANALYSIS \u2013 Be very afraid. It just keeps getting worse. Under Joe Biden, the FBI is daily being further weaponized against its critics and critics of the administration\u2019s chosen narratives. Following the disclosures that the FBI was in regular contact with Twitter employees to ensure they censored speech they designated \u2018misinformation,\u2019 the Bureau attacked anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[208,39,78,181],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-censorship","tag-fbi","tag-joe-biden","tag-opinion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>FBI Now Going After Its Critics as \u2018Conspiracy Theorists\u2019 Spreading \u2018Misinformation\u2019 - Great America News Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/opinion\/fbi-now-going-after-its-critics-as-conspiracy-theorists-spreading-misinformation\/paul-crespo\/2022\/12\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FBI Now Going After Its Critics as \u2018Conspiracy Theorists\u2019 Spreading \u2018Misinformation\u2019 - Great America News Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ANALYSIS \u2013 Be very afraid. 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