A new report by the House Judiciary Committee documents how the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency “has facilitated the censorship of Americans directly and through third-party intermediaries.” The agency, under the administration of President Joe Biden and under the leadership of Jen Easterly (pictured), ramped up efforts to flag “misinformation and disinformation” on social media. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

The following is but one of the now daily viewings of the signs of the times, the signs of the last of the last days for those willing to see and discern well and wisely. Evil is not hidden. The signs of the times are not kept from knowing. The following is proof. If a person would only look, listen, and then understand. For the hearts and minds of men and women are inherently evil. Working evil continually. Contrary to the delusion and lies told and believed in our time. The coming end of the world as it has been known.

The following has taken place in America. This is not some fiction, some imagined future possibility of an imaginative fiction writer.

Our present reality once was only the active imaginations of well-known fiction writers such as H.G. Wells, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and others put on paper with ink and pen. Their fertile imaginations and their created fictions could not ever imagine the present reality — nor the reality to come.

Much of which is already here…

Keep the people drugged — legalize every drug, create drugs to escape reality, keep the majority heavily medicated, anesthetized to reality, push them into their fantasy worlds, scare them to near death, and thus keep them controlled. Indoctrination. Lies. And constant surveillance all under the pretext of peace and security. For their own good. To make the world a better place.

What is created and administered, presented as in the best interests of the people, the pursuit of peace and security is at its heart sinister. And it can be no other way. Not really. Not if a person is a Bible-believing, Bible literate, Bible fluent, Bible discerning Biblical worldview individual, for they then know and believe, from not only the Word of God but through daily observation and experience that;

The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 6:5

Woe to those who scheme iniquity,
Who work out evil on their beds!
When morning comes, they do it,
For it is in the power of their hands.

Micah 2:1

We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

1 John 5:19

These words are not ancient and only applicable to men and women of times past, nor are they misplaced, mistaken words without weight or merit.

The world is consumed in evil. And this evil only grows. Intensifies. Becomes more brazen and emboldened. No longer hiding in the shadows in whispers. Now the darkness is sown in the light of day, shouting, screaming, preaching, teaching, making the laws lawlessness, and supplanting that which was good with that which is evil.

Ironic, and very telling, that all these in high places, high offices, demand being addressed as “honorable” when all they work to do is dishonor God, dishonor themselves, and spread all that is dishonorable among the people.

That which is presented by the world as being your friend, there to help you, your brother to protect you is all founded on the shifting mud of lies given to the mouths, the minds of people from only one source — the father of lies, the Adversary, the devil.

The bringer of confusion, mayhem, rebellion, fear, pain, and death. Whose permanent residence is in the depths of the pit of hell. Taking so many there with him.

As the people bow and follow all that he is the creator of while rejecting the Way, the Truth, and the Light leading to Life, the Lord Jesus Christ, God as their father, the Holy Spirit as their Comforter and Helper, and the Word of God.

Preferring the evil ways of evil men and women.

Imagine that. For that is no fiction. That is the way of the world. And becoming more visible, more heard as just another sign of the times. These last of the last days as they have been known from the beginning times.

Do not be deceived. This is NOT political in nature. Not merely the latest development in America. This is NOT liberal vs. conservative, Democrat vs. Republican as portrayed and adopted by almost everyone — including the overwhelming majority of those professing to be Christians.

Do not continue being deceived in thinking and being convinced this is all a cultural war, a political war. Utter nonsense!

If this were merely political in nature, and the goodness of people was able to stop it, an election would stop it and change things that would have, could have already happened. Yet the days grow more evil by the day. And no matter what man or woman is in high office, no matter the outcome of any election, no matter the hearts and minds of people vainly, foolishly imagining they are the power, they can create some Utopia or idealistic land and society on earth, in America — such ignorance and delusion! For it has never been and never will be.

Our best days lie behind U.S. What we were at our creation as a nation and through our first decades ad century of existence, and then during the 1930s and 1940s was the best of U.S.

And there is no going back. No matter what may be said or written. No election, no ballot measure, no politician of any color cloth, red nor blue nor independent can or will restore this lost nation.

For we are in the throes of the escalating and growing more intense by the hour spiritual war. That every one of us is partaking of no matter if we acknowledge this fact or not.

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Tuesday, July 18th, 2023

The U.S. Government’s New ‘Ministry of Truth’: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Mission creep is a serious problem in the federal government, and the ongoing investigations by House Republicans into “weaponization” of government misdeeds have shown how pervasive and deep the problem can be.

The FBI, Justice Department, CIA and even the Internal Revenue Service all look as we have seen, like tempting operatives for use against political opponents or to run interference for allies. But what about an agency that is supposed to protect us against cyber threats? A new interim report from the House Judiciary Committee highlights politically motivated mission creep where we might least have expected it: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

CISA, an agency of the Department of Homeland Security, was created in 2018 with a simple, non-political mission statement: “To prepare for, respond to, and mitigate the impact of cyberattacks.” As reported here previously, CISA works to prevent state-sanctioned hackers from attacking and compromising America’s digital infrastructure. The agency exists to warn companies and government entities of pending computer vulnerabilities. It also works to stop ransomware attacks on American companies and their computer networks, and to minimize damage from cyber exploits by foreign and domestic sources. In short, CISA’s mission brief was to watch out for attacks on our digital “boxes and wires.”

Instead, as the House Judiciary Committee report documents, CISA “has facilitated the censorship of Americans directly and through third-party intermediaries.” The agency, under the administration of President Joe Biden and under the leadership of Jen Easterly, ramped up efforts to flag “misinformation and disinformation” on social media. According to documents the committee obtained only through subpoena, CISA considered the creation of an anti-misinformation “rapid response team” capable of physically deploying across the United States to stamp out what it would decide constituted such “misinformation.” The agency went, for example, from ensuring the digital security of American voting systems to censoring criticism of those systems.

The internal communications of agency staff and members of its outside advisory group show they knew they were on thin legal ground. Members of CISA’s advisory committee agonized that it was “only a matter of time before someone realizes we exist and starts asking about our work, ” the report said.

After the Biden administration was sued in federal court, CISA outsourced its censorship operation to a non-profit group funded by CISA itself. The Judiciary Committee report charges that the outsourcing was an implicit admission that CISA knew that its censorship activities were unconstitutional. CISA, meanwhile, said that it outsourced material to another agency to “avoid the appearance of government propaganda.”

Today, a look at the agency’s website and Twitter accounts shows only its statutory activity – issuing warnings about ransomware attacks and “zero-day” exploits, warning about hardware vulnerabilities, and some educational advice for ordinary Americans on staying safe during their online activities. This is important work, as the US is under constant cyberattack from state-sanctioned, or state-tolerated, hackers operating from Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. These hackers extort millions of dollars from companies and institutions through overt attacks that can cripple their networks and computers. Cyber criminals go in hard, looking for cash, while cyber espionage attacks attempt to go in quietly, harvesting secrets without detection. Stopping them at the firewall is a matter of national security.

So, to dilute that mission with a politically motivated dive into censorship is unconscionable and dangerous. The Judiciary Committee is right to pursue this inquiry to prevent CISA from going off the rails again, as their own mission pledges.

There is more to see here, however, and more to root out than just a thwarted attempt by a government bureaucracy to police the political speech of the American people in violation of the First Amendment. It is the use of funded or politically affiliated non-profit groups to do the government’s dirty work for it. Note that when pressed by a pending lawsuit over its actions, CISA offloaded its “election misinformation” activity to a non-profit organization called the Center for Internet Security (CIS). It was this group, CIS, that served as a singular conduit for election officials to report what they alone determined were false or misleading claims about elections to the large social media platforms of Facebook and Twitter, according to the report.

This parallels the behavior of the Justice Department under then Attorney General Eric Holder during the Barack Obama administration. The Government Accountability Institute did research into the DoJ’s pattern of using “consent decrees” to force private companies with threats of anti-discrimination lawsuits to donate funds to one or more designated non-profit organizations on a list helpfully provided by the Justice Department. These groups were largely “social justice warriors” who would then use the money to exert political pressure. This practice was immediately banned by the Trump administration when it took office in 2017, but that ban was quietly reversed by Biden four years later.

CIS enjoyed government funds for its work, much of which is focused on anti-cyberattack activity, as it should be. But its actions in enforcing censorship of “election misinformation” were revealed in the now-famous dump of internal chatter known as “the Twitter files.”

Not only that, but the woman who in October 2020 made the fateful decision for Twitter to censor the New York Post‘s 2020 scoop about Hunter Biden’s laptop, Vijaya Gadde, became a member of CISA’s “Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Misinformation and Disinformation” subcommittee after the Biden administration took office. Gadde, you may recall, was unceremoniously fired by Elon Musk on his first day of owning Twitter.

Gadde was a member of this subcommittee, known as the “MDM Subcommittee,” which also counted Dr. Kate Starbird of the University of Washington, and Suzanne Spaulding, a former legal adviser for the CIA. According to a report in The Intercept, this committee in 2022 recommended that CISA closely monitor “social media platforms of all sizes, mainstream media, cable news, hyper partisan media, talk radio and other online resources.”

The MDM committee’s report urged the agency to take steps to halt the “spread of false and misleading information” and recommended that CISA stay up to date with the ongoing research on “debunking vs. pre-bunking” information that the committee tars as either unknowingly false (misinformation), deliberately planted by hostile foreign actors (disinformation), or what it termed “malinformation,” defined in its report as “information that may be based on fact, but used out of context to mislead, harm, or manipulate.”

What the Judiciary Committee’s work so far has highlighted is the creation of “feedback loops”: that an agency of the government can create and use advisory boards to go well beyond its statutory mission, giving it cover for exercising power Congress never meant it to have.

How many more federal agencies are doing similar things?

Peter Schweizer, President of the Governmental Accountability Institute, is a Gatestone Institute Distinguished Senior Fellow and author of the new book, Red Handed: How American Elites are Helping China Win.