{"id":1782319,"date":"2022-12-21T06:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T11:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782319"},"modified":"2022-12-21T07:18:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T12:18:31","slug":"are-fbi-cia-agents-sheep-dipped-at-other-big-tech-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-fbi-cia-agents-sheep-dipped-at-other-big-tech-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Are FBI &#038; CIA Agents \u201cSheep Dipped\u201d at Other Big Tech Companies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fare-fbi-cia-agents-sheep-dipped-at-other-big-tech-companies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782319&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/8647444857_c1b33ebff3_k.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>According to the latest drop of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShellenbergerMD\/status\/1604895371360374784\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cTwitter Files\u201d from Michael Shellenberger<\/a>, \u201cAs of 2020, there were so many former FBI employees \u2014 \u2018Bu alumni\u2019 \u2014 working at Twitter that they had created their own private Slack channel and a crib sheet to onboard new FBI arrivals.\u201d It appears that Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nameredacted247\/status\/1600316966182715393?s=51&#038;t=ECtwDIb8Sks2wsqXPzjc5w\">still has 14 employees<\/a> on the payroll who worked at the FBI and CIA.<\/p>\n<p>The problem isn\u2019t just confined to Twitter. My colleague and Federalist contributor Ben Weingarten recently wrote an article for the New York Post, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/09\/inside-revolving-door-between-democrat-deep-state-and-big-tech\/\">Inside revolving door between Democrat Deep State and Big Tech<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In addition to covering what was happening at Twitter, Weingarten details a broader number of suspicious links between Silicon Valley and U.S. intelligence agencies. Given the near-constant string of deep-state scandals and social media censorship we\u2019ve endured in recent years, a big question we should all be trying to answer right now is, \u201cWhat exactly are all these spooks doing at tech companies?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So far, the answer appears to be: \u201cThey\u2019re almost certainly up to no good.\u201d After the first batch of \u201cTwitter Files\u201d dropped, it was revealed that Elon Musk fired Twitter Deputy General Counsel James Baker. Prior to going to work at Twitter, Baker was a top lawyer at the FBI from 2014 to 2017. In that capacity, he played a significant role in shepherding FBI\u2019s baseless and illegal Russiagate investigation. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, it\u2019s probably safe to assume one of the reasons Baker exited the FBI was to dodge any accountability for the FBI\u2019s reckless and politically motivated attempt to investigate the president of the United States. Twitter was a pretty soft landing. <\/p>\n<p>Or at least it was, until it was revealed that Baker, who was still employed at Twitter as of a few weeks ago, got fired after he intercepted the internal company communications Musk was giving to journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss to expose the censorship and misdeeds of the company\u2019s previous management. Nobody has quite figured out what he was doing, but there\u2019s widespread speculation Baker may have removed Twitter communications with the FBI or other damning info before it could become public. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, large global corporations need high-level, discreet corporate security, and potentially for benign purposes the particular skillsets that former law enforcement and intelligence personnel provide. However, the situation with Baker makes the problem plenty obvious. If you\u2019re inclined to automatically trust the professionalism and integrity of the FBI and CIA, please have your head examined. <\/p>\n<p>I want to know how many of these FBI and CIA agents are \u201csheep dipped.\u201d In the intelligence world, \u201csheep dipping\u201d is a term of art. It describes a tactic whereby a member of the military is \u201cofficially discharged from service\u201d to do covert work. In secret, they are still eligible for rank promotions and military benefits. <\/p>\n<p>I first learned the term from my father, because he was \u201csheep dipped.\u201d He worked for the CIA in Laos in the early 1960s lead-up to the Vietnam War. He was a young Marine officer. During his year in Laos, his normal service records were replaced with records saying he was separated from the Marine Corps, to allow the government to deny any responsibility if anything happened to him. When he returned from Laos, they swapped out the files saying he\u2019d left the Marine Corps with his regular service record, all as if nothing unusual had happened. <\/p>\n<p>Suffice it to say, during this episode, dad witnessed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikiwand.com\/en\/Air_America_(airline)\">CIA\u2019s involvement in drug smuggling<\/a> and other unsavory behavior. The whole episode left a very bad taste in his mouth. <\/p>\n<p>Fun fact I learned earlier this year: The man in charge of CIA operations in Laos when my father was there was the legendary spymaster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikiwand.com\/en\/Ray_S._Cline\">Ray Cline<\/a>. One Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory relates that Lee Harvey Oswald, who was still serving in the Marines when he briefly defected to the Soviet Union, didn\u2019t really defect. He was sheep dipped and working for the CIA on an intelligence-gathering mission inside the Soviet Union. <\/p>\n<p>The whole crazy escapade, according to the tale, was possibly organized by Cline, the local CIA station chief at the same time and place as one of Oswald\u2019s previous overseas deployments. For what it\u2019s worth, Cline also happens to be the former father-in-law of Stefan Halper, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2022\/03\/08\/the_curious_case_of_stefan_halper_longtime_zelig_of_american_scandals_who_crossfired_trump_818108.html\">dubious paid informant<\/a> who was the FBI\u2019s source for much of their bogus Trump-Russia investigation.<\/p>\n<p>In case, you\u2019re keeping track, why yes, I did just draw a line, albeit not a particularly straight one, that connects the Kennedy assassination and the Russiagate scandal. (It would have been too digressive to mention Cline and Halper\u2019s connections to Watergate and Iran Contra, but I think you get the drift.) <\/p>\n<p>Now, as clarification, I should say that \u201csheep dipping\u201d seems to apply mostly to the intel community\u2019s use of military personnel and isn\u2019t necessarily an all-purpose phrase for CIA or FBI undercover work. One of the most annoying things about being subjected to years of completely credulous Russiagate and Steele dossier coverage was every pundit suddenly becoming an armchair expert on espionage and throwing around phrases such as \u201cSIGINT\u201d when we all know they just learned what signals intelligence was 15 minutes ago. <\/p>\n<p>But the point here isn\u2019t to offer up conspiracies about the Kennedy assassination. It\u2019s to make the point that one reason conspiracy theories are so easy to believe is that it\u2019s well-known the Deep-State Industrial Complex employs a lot of tactics such as sheep dipping that are expressly about manipulation and deception. <\/p>\n<p>Combined with so many official denials over the years that turned out to be lies, this makes it impossible to believe intel agencies when they say they aren\u2019t doing something. It was very much denied that American soldiers were in Southeast Asia when my dad was in the jungle learning how to eat soup with chopsticks. More recently, we have very dishonest denials about domestic spying by Obama intelligence officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/john-brennan-dishonesty-long-record\/\">John Brennan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/432931-dem-rips-clapper-he-needs-to-stop-making-excuses-for-lying-to-the\/\">James Clapper<\/a> that in a just society should have led to criminal charges. <\/p>\n<p>The FBI response to \u201cTwitter Files\u201d revelations that they were working behind the scenes with the social media network and encouraging censorship is about the furthest thing from reassuring. \u201cThe FBI regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identified foreign malign influence actors\u2019 subversive, undeclared, covert, or criminal activities,\u201d an FBI spokesman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newspolitics\/status\/1603895440008654848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told journalist Jon Nicosia<\/a>. \u201cPrivate sector entities independently make decisions about what, if any, action they take on their platforms and for their customers after the FBI has notified them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on what we know, there\u2019s absolutely no reason not to assume that, of the numerous former FBI and CIA employees at Twitter, some weren\u2019t either informally or directly working for intel agencies. Further, it is incredibly alarming that the watchdogs that are supposed to protect us from rogue government agencies eroding our rights can\u2019t be bothered to investigate this. <\/p>\n<p>For most of my life, the corporate media, and the activist left in particular, treated these agencies with extreme skepticism. Revelations such as these would formerly have set off klaxons in newsrooms. <\/p>\n<p>But now? \u201cPeople\u2019s brains are so drowning in partisan muck that the Bernie\/AOC left \u2014 which still pretends to find the CIA and FBI nefarious if you force them to take a stance \u2014 refuses to care about the grave dangers in what [Matt Taibbi] reported about FBI\u2019s role [at Twitter],\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1604841524717621248\">says Glenn Greenwald<\/a>. Worse, Greenwald observes that their shared partisan obsessions mean that the left has completely surrendered to the corporatist imperatives of liberal institutions such as the media. \u201cThe only real enemies they see are the Trump movement and GOP. That\u2019s why I use \u2018left-liberal\u2019: their core worldviews have merged,\u201d he further observes. <\/p>\n<p>With the exception of an under-resourced conservative media and a few independent lefty journalists such as Taibbi and Greenwald \u2014 who have dared to stay true to ideals that most of the journalists now trying to discredit them claimed to hold six years ago \u2014 no one is interested in solid evidence suggesting intel agencies have been secretly curbing Americans\u2019 First Amendment rights, and possibly doing so to explicitly influence elections. <\/p>\n<p>The fact that so few people are curious about the nexus between intel agencies and Big Tech, even when the evidence is staring them in the face, should be a national scandal. Americans deserve to know the truth about whether our intel agencies are being used against citizens. We should be concerned that the full extent of what they\u2019ve done \u2014 and what they likely continue to do \u2014 to us will never be known. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Mark Hemingway is the Book Editor at The Federalist, and was formerly a senior writer at The Weekly Standard. 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