John Miles – Sputnik Aug 24, 2024
The West is looking to shut down criticism of its foreign policy in Ukraine and Gaza, according to one former CIA analyst.
Opposition to the Telegram encrypted messaging platform is driven by the West’s desire to surveil online activity and suppress criticism of its foreign policy, according to ex-CIA analyst Larry Johnson.
The analyst made the claim during an interview with Sputnik after news broke that Telegram founder Pavel Durov had been arrested by French authorities after his private jet landed at an airport outside Paris.
“I think the charges are all implausible, false,” said the co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. “They’re charging him reportedly with terrorism. And with fraud. So this clearly smacks of a trumped up political case.”
“They’re going to charge him with terrorism because he has refused to censor certain groups, people that support Hamas are allowed to communicate freely on Telegram. Telegram is one of the few channels that actually allows information that’s critical of Western policy to go on. I think that’s really at the root of this.”
Durov reportedly faces a number of charges relating to Telegram’s lack of moderation, which authorities claim implicates him in the sharing of content related to terrorism, drug trafficking, fraud, and money laundering.
The platform has become known as a home for political dissidents in the West, who are able to publish content that is discouraged or disallowed on other online platforms.
“There was a time when [Durov] was considered friendly with [French President Emmanuel] Macron,” Johnson recalled. “But that’s clearly come and gone because this kind of arrest would not have happened without Macron’s knowledge and approval.”
“It’s possible that he’s being turned into a bargaining chip. But the question is, who’s going to bargain for him? He walked away from Russia,” he noted, recalling that the tech entrepreneur left the country in 2014. “The fact of the matter is he left Russia and accepted French citizenship, and has chosen to reside in the [United] Arab Emirates. So he’s not high on the priority list of Russian intelligence to get him back by any stretch. He’s of no use to Russia in that regard.”
“I think the Westerners – the French in particular – have made a mistake in grabbing him because they think that this is going to somehow create leverage or create an issue with Russia.”
Previously Durov claimed during an interview with journalist Tucker Carlson that the FBI had attempted to encourage one of Telegram’s engineers to create a backdoor in the application for the use of Western intelligence agencies.
Johnson claimed that criticism of the US-backed proxy war in Ukraine and Israel’s military operation in Gaza on Telegram particularly chafed Western authorities. The social media app TikTok was similarly attacked by US legislators earlier this year when legislation was passed to ban the app after this fall’s presidential election.
The pro-Israel lobby has been implicated in the passage of the bill, with Anti-Defamation League executive Jonathan Greenblatt lamenting the popularity of pro-Palestine content on the platform. Zionist settlers have sought to colonize Palestine and displace its indigenous population since the founding of Israel in 1948.
“I think the major issue with respect to the West is the coverage that [Telegram] provides about what’s going on in Ukraine and the coverage he allows with respect to the Israeli genocide against Palestinians in the Middle East and in Gaza and the West Bank,” Johnson claimed. “I think particularly the last issue has rankled the Israelis quite a bit. And they’ve been looking to shut him down. The French reportedly have been looking to shut Telegram down. So we’ll see.”
“Even if you’re a Russian billionaire you’ve got a big, fat target on your back,” he warned.
“They’ve already gone after Dimitri Simes,” Johnson noted. “Dimitri is an American who became a naturalized American [citizen] in the 1970s because he was a dissident against the Soviet Union, against the Communist Party. And now the very country that he fled to for freedom and protection has turned on him and has unleashed our version of the secret police on him.”
“If it can happen to someone like Dimitri it can happen to anybody.”
What probably drives them is the end of capitalism is getting close, and that will be the end of their power which great riches bring. They will lose being able to stay above the law once they no longer control the parliaments which create and repeal laws. To be in control of all laws to stay above and beyond them before their money system dies and they become powerless like the rest of us, they need a totalitarian state so they can control by force the bureaucrats their money was once able to buy.
B´naiB´rit + ADL = jew Gestapo/SS/SD in one
we should not vote anyway ! they are all corrupt,
pervert, bought or blackmailed . our politicians
are the dirt of society !
VOTE BOYCOT ! I dont vote anyway .
” Telegram founder Pavel Durov had been arrested by French authorities after his private jet landed at an airport outside Paris.”
https://healthimpactnews.com/2024/free-speech-issue-telegram-founder-with-more-than-100-biological-children-accused-of-protecting-child-sex-traffickers/
I happen to have made a one night intermezzo in Paris Monday / saw some very short slices of the interview this till now unknown to me type had with ….no good….
CIA O
If the internet gets totally controlled like the global cbdc moneystream & the 15 minute gettos then “they” can skip any form of FEMA camps or Gulag….and in that case my note on the graphene oxide black goo during the opening party of the 1992 Barca games is not completely in line with a comfy travel..
But I am used to that already for at least 10 year or so….the guy behind “the facts stranger than fiction vids” -Johnson – or is that the name of his videoman- was the first who noticed the same intensity of noia para suspicion – this place is not exactly paradise- that I got familiar with….could he trust the woman that he was together with / would she not put something in the omlet she was baking for the two of them..?
Thoughts about Ibrahim Traore the young miltary leader of Burkina Faso passed my mind when I arrived yesterday at the Gare du Nord / noting all the African railway personell at the Gare du Nord / Gare de Lyon for going south of Paris the same…they seem to be in harmony with their autochtone colleagues btw.
One advertisement picture of a French African athlete who was announced as the Avatar of the Gare ( the chief of security) stood out / only a blind man would have not noted it…
Giscard d´Estaing was the French President who recognised the neocolonial ties that France still had with its former colonies & these ties are in the process of big change with France at its losing end….
Mike Stone- whosoever that may be- is right of course / I happen to get very close to the chief perps of the “mossad art” group who wired the WTC at 911 for destructioin…that the work of Victor Thorn pen name of Robert Scott Makufka ( entering his name in the search machinery in this Thalys train thru the sunny meadow hills direction southern France : no entrance & I just happen to watch thru the window herds of sheep yes yes / mais oui sheople
Dr. Pierre Gilbert 1995 https://www.bitchute.com/video/x8fN4JSlghzX/ ” on pourrait vous faire de zombies” French is a beautiful language / “zombee” / the accent on bee makes it an attractive word yet the reality is far away from it.
CIA O
If the internet gets totally controlled like the global cbdc moneystream & the 15 minute gettos then “they” can skip any form of FEMA camps or Gulag….and in that case my note on the graphene oxide black goo during the opening party of the 1992 Barca games is not completely in line with a comfy travel..
But I am used to that already for at least 10 year or so….the guy behind “the facts stranger than fiction vids” -Johnson – or is that the name of his videoman- was the first who noticed the same intensity of noia para suspicion – this place is not exactly paradise- that I got familiar with….could he trust the woman that he was together with / would she not put something in the omlet she was baking for the two of them..?
Thoughts about Ibrahim Traore the young miltary leader of Burkina Faso passed my mind when I arrived yesterday at the Gare du Nord / noting all the African railway personell at the Gare du Nord / Gare de Lyon for going south of Paris the same…they seem to be in harmony with their autochtone colleagues btw.
One advertisement picture of a French African athlete who was announced as the Avatar of the Gare ( the chief of security) stood out / only a blind man would have not noted it…
Giscard d´Estaing was the French President who recognised the neocolonial ties that France still had with its former colonies & these ties are in the process of big change with France at its losing end….
France is still sucking its former colonies in Africa dry….
Mike Stone- whosoever that may be- is right of course / I happen to get very close to the chief perps of the “mossad art” group who wired the WTC at 911 for destructioin…that the work of Victor Thorn pen name of Robert Scott Makufka ( entering his name in the search machinery in this Thalys train thru the sunny meadow hills direction southern France : no entrance & just happen to watch thru the window herds of sheep yes yes / mais oui sheople
Dr. Pierre Gilbert 1995 https://www.bitchute.com/video/x8fN4JSlghzX/ ” on pourrait vous faire de zombies” French is a beautiful language / “zombee” / the accent on bee makes it an attractive word yet the reality is of course far away from it.
Moutons moving in the IoT(a) Interner of Things a= abattoir
CIA O