For those oohing and aahing that RU uses fake news to phish, here the IG report on FBI doing same in 2007. https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2016/o1607.pdf …
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Replying to @emptywheel
can we ooh and ahh both events? I didn't support FBI fake news campaign but also upset about Russian election hacks
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Replying to @marvelle @emptywheel
Right. I hope it's okay to be upset by any government using power to harm people, in any country. Even if some upset by it are hypocrites.
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Replying to @mattfwood
Ultimately the FBI was trying, and did, stop bomb threats. My point was abt differentiating purpose from technique
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Replying to @emptywheel
Ah, got you. Because I bet the point many people (wrongly) took is that Dems complaining about it now are hypocrites.
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Replying to @mattfwood
Wrongly in the sense that people missed their guess at your point, not wrong in the sense that there is no hypocrisy.
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Fair--I surely did not make point clear. Think reports on intel techniques should never pretend only one adversary uses @marvelle
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