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KateBadb 🏴‍☠️
Yep I agree with you there, In theory Congress is supposed to provide oversight. The problem is that oversight only works if politicians are willing to scrutinise people on their own side as well. Once politics becomes pure tribal loyalty like the current cult of the orange thing, formal checks and balances start weakening very quickly.
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Kali 🌻🍉
Kali 🌻🍉@sleeping_kali·
@KateBadb @Restitutor_ It's the job of Congress to do what she did, that's my point Sure, she could have done her job a bit more quietly, but it's still her job
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Restitutor@Restitutor_·
Sharing this again. The demonization of the CIA you're seeing has a purpose, and it's not good. Read the defector literature. I've tried to summarise below. #OperationLUNA
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Over the course of the Cold War and in the years that followed, defectors from the KGB, GRU, and other Soviet-bloc intelligence services repeatedly described the same objective within Soviet 'active measures': to discredit the CIA in the eyes of the public. Across memoirs, interviews, congressional testimony, and archival records, they outlined efforts to portray the CIA as corrupt, criminal, incompetent, or responsible for instability abroad. The goal, as they explained it, went beyond reputational harm. It was to ensure that warnings and assessments issued by U.S. intelligence would no longer be believed. What follows are direct statements from those defectors, spanning more than forty years, presented in their own words. Defector Testimony: YURI BEZMENOV (KGB, First Chief Directorate) Source: Love Letter to America (1984) -"The highest art of warfare is not to fight at all but to subvert anything of value in your enemy's country... to discredit their leaders and their intelligence services, exposing them to the public as corrupt or inefficient." Source: Lecture, Los Angeles (1983) -"To discredit the CIA in the eyes of the American public was a primary task. If the people lose faith in their own intelligence, they lose the ability to defend themselves." ION MIHAI PACEPA (Head of Romanian DIE; worked jointly with the KGB) Source: Disinformation (2013) -"The KGB's main enemy was the CIA, which had to be discredited by any means." Source: Red Horizons (1987) -"Moscow ordered us to spread anything that would damage the CIA. The purpose was to make the CIA appear as a criminal organization in the eyes of the world." OLEG KALUGIN (KGB General; head of Active Measures) Source: Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives (2000) -"Discrediting the CIA and the FBI was always among our main objectives. We spent years planting stories that portrayed the CIA as incompetent or evil." Source: Spymaster (2009) -"The heart and soul of the KGB was active measures... aimed at discrediting the CIA and other American institutions." STANISLAV LEVCHENKO (KGB, Tokyo rezidentura) Source: On the Wrong Side: My Life in the KGB (1988) -"One major line of active measures was to attack the CIA. We were instructed to place stories portraying the CIA as the source of coups, assassinations, and turmoil." VASILI MITROKHIN (KGB archivist) Source: The Mitrokhin Archive, Volume I (1999) -"Department A devoted substantial resources to discrediting the CIA, portraying it as responsible for political repression, assassinations, and international tension." STANISLAV LUNEV (GRU colonel) Source: Through the Eyes of the Enemy (1998) -"Stories blaming the CIA for unrest in other countries were standard practice. The goal was to weaken trust in American intelligence." ANATOLIY GOLITSYN (KGB, Department D - strategic deception) Source: New Lies for Old (1984) -"A principal objective of Soviet strategy was to discredit the CIA so that its warnings would not be believed." Source: Interview (1985), cited in The Perestroika Deception (1995) -"The Soviets worked to destroy the credibility of the CIA. Without an intelligence service the public trusts, a nation is blind." ARKADY SHEVCHENKO (Under-Secretary-General at the UN; highest-ranking Soviet defector) Source: Breaking With Moscow (1985) -"The Soviet leadership encouraged every allegation against the CIA. Any scandal that weakened the CIA was considered a victory for Soviet foreign policy." OLEG GORDIEVSKY (KGB, London rezidentura) Source: KGB: The Inside Story (1990) -"The KGB fed material to Western journalists designed to portray the CIA as dangerous, untrustworthy, or engaged in crimes." ***A note of caution is warranted regarding figures (especially public) who repeatedly and conspicuously attack their own intelligence agency, the CIA, using the same recurring frames described here.***

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KateBadb 🏴‍☠️
Yes, technically the CIA isn’t a domestic investigative agency like the FBI. However, intelligence gathering, threat analysis, monitoring FIMI, and maybe making national security decisions could be vitally important in the near future to exposing wrongdoing. But my point is bigger than that. Once every institution capable of scrutinising government power gets discredited, gutted or turned into the enemy, who exactly is left to hold power accountable? Because history suggests governments rarely regulate themselves voluntarily. "Who guards the guards?", so to speak.
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Kali 🌻🍉
Kali 🌻🍉@sleeping_kali·
@KateBadb @Restitutor_ The CIA isn't an investigative body It's intelligence, and they "run operations" which is completely different than conducting an investigation
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KateBadb 🏴‍☠️
Oversight is important. Blindly destroying institutional trust in every investigative body is something very different. The problem comes when governments, administrations or political movements begin systematically undermining intelligence agencies, watchdogs, courts, journalism, inspectors, or oversight mechanisms altogether. Because eventually you reach a point where nobody credible is left to investigate wrongdoing inside government itself, and for those of us watching from Europe, this appears to be what is happening in the US. The CIA, FBI and similar organisations absolutely deserve scrutiny and oversight. But there is a difference between: holding institutions accountable and convincing the public that every institution capable of investigating power is inherently illegitimate. Once every check and balance is dismantled or publicly discredited, accountability becomes almost impossible, it's exactly what this administration wants, to be a power unto themselves and answerable, to nobody. That’s when democracies start drifting into something far more dangerous and American democracy really is drifting apart under the orange thing.
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Kali 🌻🍉
Kali 🌻🍉@sleeping_kali·
@Restitutor_ @KateBadb Especially if the call is coming FROM A MEMBER OF CONGRESS That's called "oversight duty" or "holding them accountable" So take your PROPAGANDA AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS YOU USEFUL IDIOT
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KateBadb 🏴‍☠️
It's not just about old investigations anymore, but part of a broader political struggle over institutional legitimacy itself. I see, it as a deliberate and calculated plan. Because once the public no longer trusts: 👎 intelligence agencies, 👎 courts, 👎 journalism, 👎 elections, 👎 or oversight mechanisms, then accountability becomes far easier to dismiss as political persecution, and all of this is already in motion... That may be one of the most consequential shifts in modern American politics.
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KateBadb 🏴‍☠️
Yes, it paints her as the perfect far-right poster girl for the outrage economy on Twitter, pretty on the outside, ugly on the inside. The UK is facing concerted attacks from several foreign influence campaigns and we don't need more intolerance imported in, neither does anywhere else in Europe, to be honest
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KateBadb 🏴‍☠️
Ah yes, Eva Vlaardingerbroek. The woman who promotes "great replacement" rhetoric, speaks at CPAC Hungary, appears alongside Tommy Robinson, pushes demographic panic narratives, and was deemed by the UK Home Office to be "not conducive to the public good" is now presenting herself as a victim of authoritarianism because she cannot enter Britain. Fascinating. Reuters fact check on her "replacement" claims: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Vlaar… The Guardian on the UK travel decision: theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j… The Times on far-right activists barred before the Robinson rally: thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar… It is also remarkable how often these supposedly patriotic nationalist ecosystems overlap internationally: 🔸️CPAC Hungary 🔸️Orbán-aligned networks 🔸️anti-EU rhetoric 🔸️"great replacement" narratives 🔸️anti-migrant panic 🔸️and transnational culture-war grievance politics Apparently nationalism now means attending conferences funded abroad while telling everyone else they are victims of globalism. The irony writes itself.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek@EvaVlaar

Starmer has just admitted he banned me and other commentators from traveling to the UK because we would “set back communities.” Yet mass third-world migration doesn’t bother him as it only sets back the one community he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about: the White native population.

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KateBadb 🏴‍☠️
Sit down and shut up. America already uses digital identity systems. REAL ID. Biometric passports. Social Security-linked verification. Online tax authentication. Facial recognition at airports. Digital driver’s licences. Banking KYC identity checks. Apple Wallet IDs. You are not fighting digital identity. You are reacting to a British constitutional speech because the words "Digital ID" now trigger an entire online conspiracy ecosystem. Also slightly ironic hearing this from a politician whose own state government relies heavily on digital identity verification systems for everything from licensing to healthcare administration. The modern culture war really is: "Things we already use every day suddenly become tyranny when another country says them out loud"...
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KateBadb 🏴‍☠️
@OckersM I see my spell checker and speech-to-text ran away with what I actually wrote, I've ended up with a few extra words, but you get the basic sense of what I 🙃 😁
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KateBadb 🏴‍☠️
There is something deeply concerning about the growing overlap between parts of the transatlantic populist right, CPAC-linked networks, former Orbán-aligned political infrastructure in Hungary, and figures who repeatedly amplify anti-EU and anti-globalist narratives. Even though Hungary is no longer under Viktor Orbán’s leadership, serious questions are still being asked about the legacy of his government’s relationship with Russia and the role Hungary played as a networking hub for nationalist-populist and Kremlin-compatible political ecosystems. Recent leaked audio controversies involving former Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó have intensified scrutiny over alleged coordination with Moscow around EU matters and sanctions. Reuters: reuters.com/business/media… Reuters: reuters.com/business/media… The Guardian: theguardian.com/world/2026/mar… At the same time, CPAC Hungary became a symbolic meeting point for sections of the international hard right, anti-EU movements, culture-war politics and anti-globalist networks. Reuters: reuters.com/world/europe/u… So when UK figures connected to wealthy anti-establishment networks openly align with CPAC-style politics and former Orbán-linked ecosystems, people are entirely justified in asking serious questions about: 🔸️ influence, 🔸️ funding networks, 🔸️ ideological convergence, 🔸️ and who benefits from the erosion of democratic trust and European unity. None of this proves direct Russian control. But the overlap between Kremlin-compatible narratives, former Orbán-aligned political infrastructure, anti-EU rhetoric and transnational populist movements is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.
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KateBadb 🏴‍☠️
Vi har väldigt liknande problem här i Storbritannien också. Ett litet antal väldigt högljudda människor försöker reducera hela människor till hudfärg, religion eller ursprung, samtidigt som de ignorerar de mycket större faktorerna bakom kriminalitet, fattigdom, segregation och socialt utanförskap. Och helt ärligt, som britt känns hela idén om att vara "renrasig" ganska absurd för mig ändå. Storbritannien är ju i princip ett hopkok av folk från tusentals år av migration, invasioner och kulturellt utbyte: kelter, romare, saxare, vikingar, normander och många fler från Europa och resten av världen. Människor har alltid flyttat runt, blandats och utvecklats tillsammans. En människas värde sitter inte i blod, hudfärg eller bakgrund. Det sitter i hur man behandlar andra människor. Det betyder oändligt mycket mer än ras någonsin kommer göra.
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KateBadb 🏴‍☠️ retweetledi
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★Viggo ˗ˏˋ⚡︎ˎˊ˗@inexorable_swe·
Jag är en “renrasig” vit svensk, men jag avskyr hela idén om att hudfärg, ras eller religion skulle avgöra vem som är “svensk”. Djävla nonsens. Det finns människor som är svarta, utomeuropeiska eller muslimer som jag respekterar långt mer än vissa så kallat “rena svenskar”. Människors värde sitter inte i blod, hudfärg eller bakgrund. Brottslighet i Sverige handlar inte om hudfärg. Det handlar mycket mer om klass, sociala förutsättningar, segregation, ekonomi och vilket samhälle människor växer upp i. Att reducera allt till ras är bara lathet för folk som fördjävla låg iq. TYDLIGEN.
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KateBadb 🏴‍☠️
Yes, definitely. It's not just coming from russia, It is coming from other fronts as well, um, they weren't they want a government they can control. Whether one likes him or not, Starmer has been one of the more benign PMs in recent times, but if you read what people write about him, you would think he was an absolute monster.
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M.Ockers
M.Ockers@OckersM·
@KateBadb We are currently under a huge propaganda attack by russians. Pretty sure about it. Huge issues created from nothing and yet real grifters virtually ignored.....looks sus to me
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KateBadb 🏴‍☠️
@OckersM Yup, although looking at what she supports, it's not just American money I think... M.Ockers our politics can't get any more crazy than it is already😵‍💫
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M.Ockers@OckersM·
@KateBadb It's kinda funny they think she has any legitimacy. Let them waste their money on her 😉
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KateBadb 🏴‍☠️
@OckersM Yep, as soon as I hear her name, I think of an iceberg lettuce, but yanks don't know that...
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M.Ockers
M.Ockers@OckersM·
@KateBadb Choosing Liz for this is a blunder however as 99.9% of British people know she's utterly useless.
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