Authored by Andrea Widburg via AmericanThinker.com,
The moment the New York Post reported on some of the sleazy, corrupt details contained on Hunter Biden’s hard drive, Twitter and Facebook, the social media giants most closely connected to the way Americans exchange political information, went into overdrive to suppress the information and protect Joe Biden. In the case of Facebook, though, perhaps one of those protectors was, in fact, protecting herself.
The person currently in charge of Facebook’s election integrity program is Anna Makanju. That name probably doesn’t mean a lot to you, but it should mean a lot – and in a comforting way — to Joe Biden.
Before ending up at Facebook, Makanju was a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. The Atlantic Council is an ostensibly non-partisan think tank that deals with international affairs. In fact, it’s a decidedly partisan organization.
In 2009, James L. Jones, the Atlantic Council’s chairman left the organization to be President Obama’s National Security Advisor. Susan Rice, Richard Holbrooke, Eric Shinseki, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Chuck Hagel, and Brent Scowcroft also were all affiliated with the Atlantic Council before they ended up in the Obama administration.
The Atlantic Council has received massive amounts of foreign funding over the years. Here’s one that should interest everyone: Burisma Holdings donated $300,000 dollars to the Atlantic Council, over the course of three consecutive years, beginning in 2016. The information below may explain why it began paying that money to the Council.
Not only was the Atlantic Council sending people into the Obama-Biden administration, but it was also serving as an outside advisor. And that gets us back to Anna Makanju, the person heading Facebook’s misleadingly titled “election integrity program.”
Makanju also worked at the Atlantic Council. The following is the relevant part of Makanju’s professional bio from her page at the Atlantic Council (emphasis mine):
Anna Makanju is a nonresident senior fellow with the Transatlantic Security Initiative. She is a public policy and legal expert working at Facebook, where she leads efforts to ensure election integrity on the platform. Previously, she was the special policy adviser for Europe and Eurasia to former US Vice President Joe Biden, senior policy adviser to Ambassador Samantha Power at the United States Mission to the United Nations, director for Russia at the National Security Council, and the chief of staff for European and NATO Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. She has also taught at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and worked as a consultant to a leading company focused on space technologies.
Makanju was a player in the faux Ukraine impeachment. Early in December 2019, when the Democrats were gearing up for the impeachment, Glenn Kessler mentioned her in an article assuring Washington Post readers that, contrary to the Trump administration’s claims, there was nothing corrupt about Biden’s dealings with Ukraine. He made the point then that Biden now raises as a defense: Biden didn’t pressure Ukraine to fire prosecutor Viktor Shokin to protect Burisma; he did it because Shokin wasn’t doing his job when it came to investigating corruption.
Kessler writes that, on the same day in February 2016 that then-Ukrainian President Poroshenko announced that Shokin had offered his resignation, Biden spoke to both Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. The White House version is that Biden gave both men pep talks about reforming the government and fighting corruption. And that’s where Makanju comes in:
Anna Makanju, Biden’s senior policy adviser for Ukraine at the time, also listened to the calls and said release of the transcripts would only strengthen Biden’s case that he acted properly. She helped Biden prepare for the conversations and said they operated at a high level, with Biden using language such as Poroshenko’s government being “nation builders for a transformation of Ukraine.”
A reference to a private company such as Burisma would be “too fine a level of granularity” for a call between Biden and the president of another country, Makanju told The Fact Checker. Instead, she said, the conversation focused on reforms demanded by the International Monetary Fund, methods to tackle corruption and military assistance. An investigation of “Burisma was just not significant enough” to mention, she said.
Let me remind you, in case you forgot, that Burisma started paying the Atlantic Council a lot of money in 2016, right when Makanju was advising Biden regarding getting rid of Shokin.
In other words, there’s a really good chance that Sundance was correct when he wrote at The Conservative Treehouse:
That’s right folks, the Facebook executive currently blocking all of the negative evidence of Hunter and Joe Biden’s corrupt activity in Ukraine is the same person who was coordinating the corrupt activity between the Biden family payoffs and Ukraine.
You just cannot make this stuff up folks.
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Hope is all we got? We got hopelessness, too.
We got Righteous Anger; but only if we get really fucking pissed off.
Auntie is about ready to go ballistic.
Easy, Leonard.
The swamp runs side and deep! This is why I have tried to get folks to understand why it is taking so long to start seeing high level perp walks. It will happen and it will be Biblical.
I’m ready for a Sigourney Weaver solution.
This is me holding my breath. Dream on.
Swamp critters taking out fellow swamp critters? I doubt it.
‘Nuther chunk of human waste littering the landscape.
And how do all these dirty f*ckers even sleep?
Very well, knowing they are doing all of this for the little people’s benefit.
BTW – They are IN the big club, but you ain’t!
In 1980 I took my wife to Poland to visit the place where Dad was born, near by Gdansk. It was the time of the Moscow Olympics, the US team didn’t participate. In order to feed the Olympians, the soviets pull out the traditional Stalin and Ukraine deal, they were stealing all the food from the soviet satellites countries which of course included Poland. It was nearly impossible to find meat or fresh produce except by going to small farms. I took my wife and a distant relative to a restaurant called Orbis, it was own by the party and you had to pay with hard currency. That evening we had Beluga caviar, smoked Baltic salmon, pheasant and “cote de boeuf” (the European version of prime ribs).
As you said, you have to belong to the club. We didn’t but we had the money. Meanwhile the Polish people were starving. In regular restaurants (owned nevertheless by the state) it was everyday “Dzien byz miesny” (day without meat). This is what that “papa oscar sierra” wants for American people.
Equality of misery for us and a banquet for themselves.
0bama’s policies were designed to reduce the middle class and increase dependency. I have no doubt the Harris, feat. Biden administration will return these Trickle Up Poverty policies.
A friend has a brother-in-law from Poland. His father was a General in the Polish Army under the Soviets. This guy immigrated and became a professor and consultant. They brought the father over and it turned out he was loaded. He had Gold bars out the ying yang and suitcases full of $100 bills.
He would tell my friend stories about how the system worked under communism. All the corruption and crooked deal making was done in Gold and US currency. The FOREX on the black market made trading Dollars for Zlotys extremely lucrative as the common folks would trade at high beyond the official rate.
I know I’m been shown people like that. When we arrived in Gdansk (wife and I) we were told that we needed to exchange our money via official site. My distant relative introduced to a State banker who for $20 by passport (2) would stamp them saying we did the change officially, then we would change our $ for about 3 1/2 time the currant exchange rate.
On mattresses stuffed full of dirty money!
I hope someone will post this article on Farcebook. I gave it up a few years ago.
I’m shocked, shocked i tell you. I can’t believe Facebook and Mark would hire such a person to verify the truth on their platform.
Specifically since Biden entered in a open war with some of the former Eastern Bloc country such as Poland and Hungary.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/10/18/joe-biden-blasts-hungary-poland/
Why any Republican/Conservative still uses Facebook is beyond me.
Facebook is good for gay hookups.
That’s why Republican/Conservatives still flock there.
