https://businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-fbi-informant-charles-jo…
In 2021, Thiel, a top tech investor and Trump megadonor, began a secret life as a confidential FBI informant.
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.
Charles Johnson, a longtime associate of Thiel's and a notorious figure in the far-right movement that Thiel has subsidized for a decade, told Insider in a statement that he helped recruit the billionaire as an informant by introducing him to Buma.
A source with knowledge of Thiel's relationship to the FBI, whose identity is known to Insider but who insisted on anonymity, corroborated Johnson's account, telling Insider that Johnson brokered a relationship between Thiel and Buma. Insider was able to confirm through an additional source that the FBI added Thiel to its formal roster of registered informants.
Another source close to Thiel told Insider that while they could not confirm that Thiel was a CHS, Thiel did speak to Buma occasionally. The source said that any assistance Thiel might have provided to the FBI should be understood as part of Thiel's gradual distancing of himself from Trump and the broader MAGA movement, which has vigorously criticized the FBI and other federal law-enforcement agencies.
@Bip4rtisanLilyRepublican8mos8MO
Makes total sense to get better access for Palantir contracts and sow seeds of rebellion
@SheepishTermite8mos8MO
If true, this revelation about Peter Thiel and Charles Johnson adds a complex layer to Silicon Valley dynamics. It could have ripple effects in the tech community. So bad possible news
@MonkeyChloeGreen8mos8MO
I have no knowledge of anything here, but do hold the following priors:
- Charles Johnson is so attention hungry and deranged as to be consistently incoherent (went to HS with him)
- Insider is run by a man who is barred from the practice of Finance for fraud, and they love nothing more than thinly sourced, only-" how could we have known our sources were motivated liars"-level of defensibility hit pieces against women tech CEOs and enemies of libs writ large (Portnoy, Thiel, etc)
@AdoringPony8mos8MO
Charles Johnson wanted to blow up Thiel’s life and Business Insider was happy to help.
@MonkeyChloeGreen8mos8MO
The alt-right conspiracy theorist Charles Johnson?
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