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Tech billionaire Peter Thiel was an FBI informant (www.businessinsider.com)

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[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Wow that is fucking wild.

Sounds like they deserve each other lol

[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

So he's a ghoul and a snitch.

[+] Bonehead@kbin.social -30 points 1 year ago

Don't forget gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But yeah, super super gay...

[-] alabasterhotdog@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago

Funny, as the subtext of your comment suggests, grossly, that there is something wrong with that.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’m reading it as “he’s a gay Republican, and Republicans don’t like gays, and in fact are actively trying to make the lives of gays a living hell, so it is entirely appropriate to rub his face in it”.

It’s the same reason I refer to Lady Graham the way I do, since it’s an open secret that he’s a huge closet case, but politically, he openly, loudly, and consistently supports legislation and judicial nominees who are extremely homophobic. I want Lady Graham to feel as deeply, profoundly miserable as he has made the entire non-heterosexual community feel at many, many points over his political tenure.

We must be intolerant of intolerance… and, in the interest of making him and other shitty people like him feel the societal revulsion against them in a very personal way, though I realize it walks very close to the line, I’m completely willing to rhetorically stab a shitstain like him in the back with his own bigoted daggers.

[-] alabasterhotdog@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

We'll simply have to agree to disagree on that, as I see shaming anyone for being gay as a pretty shitty thing to do, regardless of context.

[-] Bonehead@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I wasn't shaming him for being gay. I was poking fun at his overreaction to being outed that had a Streisand effect and publicized it more than Gawker ever could.

[-] Bonehead@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I see you're not familiar with Seinfeld. Thanks for making me feel old...

[-] alabasterhotdog@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

I mean, I'm more familiar with the 30 years of evolving values since the show aired.

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

His gayness being outed was the catalyst for a lot of bad

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Spying on MAGA and Trump.

[-] Poayjay@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

“Thiel, Johnson said, was directed by the FBI not to report on his interactions with Donald Trump or other US political figures.”

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Yet he did.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 8 points 1 year 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 0 points 1 year ago

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

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