Mon Apr 17, 2023 – 2:26 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — With the recent leak of alleged classified Pentagon documents comes a further escalation in the information war. The response from the U.S. national security state is to take drastic measures to prevent another dangerous outbreak of factual information from ever happening again.
The RESTRICT Act
Introduced into the Senate in early March, the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology Act has been described as the “online Patriot Act.”
Drafted by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence – effectively the legislative branch of the U.S. secret state – it is a demonstration of the influence of a permanent bureaucracy determined to increase its own freedom and power – at the expense of that of the American people.
Damage control
As NBC reported on April 12:
The Biden administration is looking at expanding how it monitors social media sites and chatrooms after U.S. intelligence agencies failed to spot classified Pentagon documents circulating online for weeks…
The possible change in the intelligence-gathering process is just one potential shift as officials scramble to determine not only how the documents leaked but also how to
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