Thread by @Dry_Observer

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube Maybe I should clarify a few points. Nothing the .@FBI, .@NSAGov, .@DHSgov, @thespybrief aren't aware of already.

But for Russian operatives approaching the point of no return, why you *want* a deal w/#Mueller.

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief Briefly, as I've said before, the US can impose a total lockdown of any aggressor's economy, but the worst part is we can lift that total sanction on *everything* for a mere pittance - a virtual gift, even.

For every intel operative & leader involved in this assault.

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief If you're thinking, "Wait, we'd never be able to execute an attack like this again if they turn us in" you may have missed what a fiasco it is already.

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief If you're protesting, "But that would decimate our overseas intelligence networks" you may have missed how swiftly they're descending into total annihilation already.

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief More on that in a moment, but consider, you're burning every intelligence asset - human or digital - and every financial asset - cash, #cryptocurrency, real estate, corporations, drugs, etc - that Russia & her partners have, with a thoroughness that defies description.

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief But this isn't just a story of what happens when certain operatives reach ADX Florence.

This is the open question of how many make it there in the first place.

Not because America can't reel people in. But because cleaning up loose ends appears to be an increasing priority.

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief "They can't talk if they're dead" is probably a mantra in certain quarters. Just remember that it could apply to *you.*

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief So what happens when the elements of, say, Russian intelligence who *aren't* on that chopping block have to deliver those who *are?*

Or deliver them to silence?

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief Complicating the situation?

Every aggressor has many of these assets and operatives deployed overseas.

Either they have to go fetch them, or they have to recall them home.

Yet simultaneously there are investigators prepared to arrest many of them before they can flee.

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief But if some defect, what possible cover could be presented?

Other than, say, arresting them?

Hence the puzzle facing these operatives.

Return home to possible "silence"? Get arrested overseas? Or make a deal overseas and get arrested. Or appear to be...

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief How many Russian intelligence professionals and diplomats have abruptly died in the last two years?

Or the last two months?

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief And how compromised is *everything*?

Let's start with #cryptocurrency, and the 420,000+ people who provided Dutch police personal information on the Hansa #Darknet site.

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief We're *starting* w/420,000+ users, et al.

"Undoubtedly someone will do a mass public search - or *has* done a mass search - on all #cryptocurrency identifiers. It's hard evidence. Other data points will crop up. Emails, names, pseudonyms, organizations, businesses, hang-outs."

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief "Take the map & superimpose #FARA, #FinCEN, #DeutscheBank, #Cypriot banks, money laundering, Transition emails, misappropriated copyrights, flipped witnesses, #Kompromat reaped by #botnets, online logfiles of everything, warrant-seized evidence, media subversion."

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief "PS. Add #Darknet sites - seized or active, intelligence operatives, data sources like the al Qaeda donation/money-laundering records taken during the Bin Laden raid, deep-cover Russian spies under "re"-issued IDs exposed by a #BigData search to check for the preceding ID."

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief Then take everything from Cambridge Analytica - & remember that "stimuli" is in discrete packets distributed by automated systems, often unaltered - & realize it shows *more* connections, *more* coordination, *more* flagged accounts.

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief And *then* layer everything else on top of this map.

4 million+ documents from Cohen, who could be repository or *the* repository of US Mob archives?

*Everyone* treasoning on Signal & WhatsApp?

& every *other* cataclysmic data blunder out there?

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief And you *literally* do all of this in the context of all but hand delivering not only the data but unprecedented data-processing power in dealing with it.

As you've broken it *all* down into discrete packages - #bitcoin searches, commercial encryption, PSYOPS stimuli - for them.

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief Embarrassing parallel problems from an embarrassingly incompetent conspiracy.

& yes, the other thing I ranted interminably about to the @FBI was how to parallel process arrests & convictions.

#RICO baby.

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief Consider just how *much* evidence the @FBI has to uncover deep-cover spies.

https://twitter.com/Dry_Observer/status/1017256373300682752

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief Remember that #cryptocurrency is a permanent, online, unerasable record of every nefarious transaction ever executed upon it.

& while the threads themselves form a map, it's what they lead *to* that forms the real map.

https://twitter.com/Dry_Observer/status/973199726622453760

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief A vast web of deceit now burning with fire and light.

And every deceiver is caught within the net they spun.

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief How many people in your network would betray you in a heartbeat?

How many *already* *have?*

How many would silence you?

All questions well worth considering.

@ericgarland @MingGao26 @YouTube @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @thespybrief 1.5 million files, you say, .@FBI? 4 to 6 terabytes of data?

And that's just the *first* *batch* of evidence for the trial of *one* spy you've caught?

My.

It's almost as though there are operatives who have outlived their usefulness.

@NSAGov have mercy

https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1022135042653528064