Comment by karaterobot | Hacker News Reader

Comment by karaterobot | Hacker News Reader

> Insider spoke to multiple people who claim Thiel became a “confidential human source” for a Los Angeles-based agent named Johnathan Buma — a term that indicates a long-running relationship with the FBI

> Neither Thiel nor the FBI commented to Insider about the report. And one of Insider’s sources is Charles Johnson, a far-right political figure and blogger that Insider acknowledges has spread a mix of accurate and false information in the past.

How would Johnson know about a long term relationship between Thiel and Buma, if all he did was introduce them? Is the implication that the FBI leaked a confidential source, or that Thiel told him about it, or... and stay with me here... should we assume this person who has spread false information in the past is doing it again?

What’s it matter in either case he’s burned and any value as an informant vanished when the claim left the first person’s mouth, whether it was true or not.

I think it would matter to Thiel if he was alleged to have been informing to the FBI about his friends or business partners.

His friends and business partners would know better than to believe it if it's a lie, and, if it's true or they are worried about being narc'd on (by Thiel or anyone) to the FBI, they have bigger problems to worry about than this

I had thought Charles Johnson had moved left politicaly? I haven't looked at his blog in a long time (15 years?)

This is a different Charles Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_C._Johnson

He’s scum!

There is Charles F Johnson, the operator of Little Green Footballs, who indeed has moved left.

And there's Charles C Johnson who the NYT called "A troll on steroids" https://web.archive.org/web/20230204213533/https://www.nytim...

Insider's source is the second, Charles C Johnson, which instantly makes me think this whole think is marlarkey.

P.S. Charles F Johnson absolutely loathes Charles C Johnson.

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