• PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Hol’ up….

    Ignoring all the other crazy:

    In a written statement to Insider, Johnson said he was stepping forward as a CHS to support Buma’s effort as a whistleblower to bring about what Buma believes to be necessary reforms in how the FBI handles informants. Johnson said that he was exposing Thiel’s work as a CHS as retribution for what Johnson perceives to be bad decision-making by the Founders Fund, Thiel’s venture-capital firm.

    Johnson also told Insider he felt betrayed that Thiel did not invest in Johnson’s own startups, which he had expected Thiel to do in exchange for introducing him to Buma.

    You can just “out” an FBI informant because you think he didn’t return a favor? Is that legal?

    They’re both trash.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    In the summer of 2021, Insider has learned, Thiel began providing information as a “confidential human source,” or CHS, to Johnathan Buma, a Los Angeles-based FBI agent who specializes in investigating political corruption and foreign-influence campaigns.

    Vance accused the bureau of “harassing faithful Christians” and pledged to block all of President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice nominees in retaliation for the Trump prosecutions.

    He retains a 10% stake in Palantir, a data company that has sold more than a billion dollars of software and related services to the federal government, including the Pentagon, the CIA, the National Security Agency, and the FBI.

    Johnson told Insider that he believes that the relationship has been severed but declined to offer details; Buma wrote in his statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he was ordered to cease contact with all his sources in late 2022.

    Buma came forward in August as a whistleblower, alleging that the FBI under Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr shut down his efforts to determine whether Rudy Giuliani had been compromised by a Russian asset.

    In a statement prepared for the Senate Judiciary Committee, Buma said that FBI headquarters had closed his most valuable human sources, including one code-named “Genius,” who had reported on far-right figures involved with planning the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.


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  • exixx@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    As if I needed another reason to hate him. He’s fucking garbage