The indictment is WILD. She's "accused of extorting a former consultant for her 2018 House of Delegates campaign along with a second person with whom the consultant was allegedly having an affair, according to the indictment" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Wrong "The World" (should be the Jia Zhangke one, which is linked in next post in thread) bsky.app/profile/upne...

At ASPR, analysts with top-secret clearances who work with intelligence agencies on biodefense, emerging CBRN threats, were fired. They focused on threats from “state actors, any type of threat, whether it it’s intentional or accidental,” said a former HHS official. 4/4.

And credit to @asafeliashalev.bsky.social, who first reported on the filing: bsky.app/profile/asaf...

"Will geofence same targeted churches running digital ads that are both pro-Isreal and anti-Palestinian"

"Will identify Social Media influencers to hire in exchange for favorable coverage"

"Will optimize SEO traffic so that favorable coverage is increased and unfavorable information is decreased."

A couple slides that caught my eye:

I will note from the outset that the filing (see screenshot) seems to be saying that some of their planned activities are "still undecided and fluid."

But it's still a fascinating document to to read through. Here's the full filing, some highlights to come: efile.fara.gov/docs/7653-Ex...

This seems pretty nuanced, no? The techniques discussed in the application (if we're talking about the same one) include logging into Telegram tokens/keys on a seized iPhone, and powering on the iPhone and "using the Telegram application to login to the Subject Account on Telegram’s online webpage"