{"id":689963,"date":"2026-02-19T19:50:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=689963"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:50:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:50:52","slug":"boasberg-rubber-stamps-doj-request-to-keep-fbi-twitter-payments-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=689963","title":{"rendered":"Boasberg Rubber-Stamps DOJ Request To Keep FBI-Twitter Payments Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Twitter files hit in December of 2022, they revealed that\u00a0<em><strong>the Biden administration had paid Twitter at least $3.4 million\u00a0between October 2019 and February 2021<\/strong><\/em> to reimburse the pre-Musk, left-leaning social media giant for a flood of requests.<\/p>\n<p>During this period, \u00a0the Biden DOJ was going after <strong>vaccine skeptics, lab-leak proponents, 2020 election &#8216;deniers,&#8217; Catholic parents, Hunter Biden laptop \/ Burisma content, and conservative news outlets<\/strong>. We also learned that the FBI&#8217;s Elvis Chan and crew were holding weekly meeting with Twitter on &#8220;misinformation,&#8221; and flagged thousands of accounts for the above.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Days after the Twitter files were released<\/strong>, watchdog group Judicial Watch sued the Biden DOJ, which oversees the FBI, over a FOIA request demanding to know how much the FBI paid Twitter from 2016 onward. The FBI initially refused, but eventually released 44-pages of documents\u00a0<strong>with the key payment details redacted &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>claiming the data\u00a0was protected under FOIA&#8217;s &#8220;Exemption 7(E),&#8221; which lets agencies hide info about law enforcement methods if releasing it could help criminals or enemies dodge detection.<\/p>\n<p>The current DOJ (<strong>US Attorney Jeanine Pirro&#8217;s office) <\/strong>objected to the release of the redacted information&#8230;&#8230;.explained herein.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/boasberg-rubber-stamps-doj-request-keep-biden-fbi-twitter-payments-secret\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/boasberg-rubber-stamps-doj-request-keep-biden-fbi-twitter-payments-secret<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>It seems clear that Judicial Watch has done yomans work to protect Freedom for US Citizens &#8212; they deserve thanks and support!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Twitter files hit in December of 2022, they revealed that\u00a0the Biden administration had paid Twitter at least $3.4 million\u00a0between October 2019 and February 2021 to reimburse the pre-Musk, left-leaning social media giant for a flood of requests. During &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=689963\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689964,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689963\/revisions\/689964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}