Is Matt Mackowiak the NSA's Biggest Fan?
A review of Matt Mackowiak's hate tweets about Edward Snowden & history of fanboying for government surveillance.
Update March 31, 2025: included information about Mackowiak's former NSA officer employee
In my previous post, I discussed the on-going coordinated harassment that I have been experiencing from Matt Mackowiak and his followers due to my disclosures about election interference being bought and paid for by the Department of Defense from by previous employer New Knowledge (later renamed Yonder).
The company had been heavily staffed with National Security Agency (NSA) analysts , including cofounder Ryan Fox who I discussed in early 2018 I had discussed Edward Snowden’s disclosures of the PRISM surveillance system being used execute warrantless surveillance of American citizens.
Even Fox, did not object to the leak as a whole so much as he was concerned about the safety of his colleagues and national security due to Snowden not redacting the the names and locations of those involved in covert operations, which put their lives in danger.
Mackowiak seems to think that Americans were not entitled to know about the illegal mass surveillance of their private communications calling Snowden a “traitor” and a Russian spy. I’ve included several examples of his anti-Snowden rhetoric at the end of this post
Mackowiak’s firm employed a former NSA officer
One of Mackowiak’s former employees is a former NSA officer of 20 years named Aaron Pluto. Pluto has since moved on to other ventures.
Friends with Twitter Files author Michael Shellenberger?
Perhaps the biggest twist in this whole story is that Mackowiak claims to be friends with Michael Shellenberger who in his Twitter Files coverage has reported extensively on New Knowledge and the US Intelligence Community’s active projects to influence the public through social media.
Matt Mackowiak’s associations with the NSA & CIA
Mackowiak has had multiple former NSA and CIA operatives on his podcast Mack on Politics, but somehow didn’t know that the NSA was organized under the Department of Defense.
Matt Mackowiak’s Edward Snowden Hate Tweets.
