Some fantasist on #ABCNewsRadio saying #Trump is going to go hard against #Putin in #Alaska.

Who is this delusional whacko #DanielFried?

#USPol #auspol #Ukraine #RussianInvasion

#DanielFried echoes this sentiment. “I spent 40 years in the #State Dept, & you didn’t collect names or demand email records…I’ve never heard of such a thing”—at least not in the American context, he clarifies. It did remind him of Eastern European “Communist Party minder[s] watching over the untrusted bureaucracy.”

He adds: “It also approaches the compilation of an #EnemiesList.”

#Trump #law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #privacy #InfoSec #democracy #RevengePolitics

…included among the nearly 60 individuals & orgs caught up in #DarrenBeattie’s information dragnet are #BillGates; the #opensource #journalism outlet #Bellingcat; fmr #FBI special agent #ClintWatts; #NancyFaeser, #Germany’s interior minister; #DanielFried, a career #State ofcl & fmr US ambassador to Poland; #RenéeDiResta, an expert in online #disinformation who led research at #StanfordInternetObservatory; & #NinaJankowicz, a researcher who briefly led the #DHS Disinformation Governance Board.