© ReutersDirector of National Intelligence Avril Haines
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced in a statement on Monday that it was creating a new intelligence "center" focused on tracking so-called "foreign malign influence," reported Politico. This new entity, known as the Foreign Malign Influence Center, was mandated in the recent intelligence and defense budget authorization acts, representing the reality that the impetus for its creation came from Congress, and not the intelligence community.
Comment: Wherever, it came from the fascists who now rule America unchallenged.
For example, the most recent defense expenditure authorization required that the ODNI establish a "social media data analysis center" to coordinate and track foreign social media influence operations by analyzing data voluntarily shared by US social media companies. Based upon this analysis, the ODNI would report to Congress on a quarterly basis on trends in foreign influence and disinformation operations to the public. As envisioned by Congress, the intelligence community would determine jointly with US social media companies which data and metadata will be made available for analysis.
In short, the intelligence community, using data obtained from the social media accounts of American citizens, will report to Congress how this data influences the political decision-making of these same American citizens.
If this does not make the most ardent defender of the US Constitution ill, nothing will.
Comment: 'Tis a shame 'ardent defenders of the constitution' didn't get behind Trump when he was trying to salvage said constitution, eh Mr. Ritter?
Comment: Relevance seem to escape Biden. Observers reminded him: Working on fumes, Democrats are looking to distract, rather than offer an accurate perspective. All smoke, few mirrors.