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Ralph Cerchione Profile picture
@Dry_Observer
Sep 6, 2018 • 173 tweets • 1018 min read • Read on X
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ So, to list of other things .@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury could use in a #BigData search to pull any remaining deep-cover spies:

Yes, as I've noted before, you can pull all the "re-issued" credentials, then check for any preceding ID.

But that's just a start.
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ That's an obvious thing .@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury could do, given the supposed tendency of deep-cover operatives to request "re-issuing" of a "lost" ID that never existed in the first place.
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ Then there are the Russian government pensions so often mentioned by @LouiseMensch.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch Or just anyone caught up in the .@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury investigation.

Kremlin number trolls based in the West.

Or anyone showing on markers from #cryptocurrencies to @ericgarland's files on media subversion.
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch Or as people show up as suspects, you can simply check into the background of anyone whose sketchy past is literally sketchy...

Almost like a vague narrative of a murky past, rather than an actual past. .@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch With those more obvious suspects, .@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury can again simply see if the paper trails for those individuals goes all the way back.

Or if it jump many years & then dead ends in a child's gravestone in an out of the way cemetery.
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch But in the meantime, when running mass searches...

Does someone list obvious data points on a resume?

Did they ever go to that high school or university?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch What tax records exist for them?

No, not what they paid, but whether there's a tax record at all.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch Are certain Social Security numbers getting issued at strange times, or not showing up on records since infancy, despite a supposedly long career?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch The key thing - beyond the people who are on radar *already* - is to find markers that already exist in accessible databases.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch Most people aren't home-schooled, cash-only day laborers.

Especially not in professional careers.

Those who are, or who legitimately spent time doing that, should be easy to spot.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch So, re-issued records, tax filings, Social Security number usage, gaps in a verifiable work history - which again goes back to tax records on most legitimate businesses - & gaps in educational history. .@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch Are there fields such as media, politics, sci-tech research & others where someone could have access to significant information &/or influence without the scrutiny of a top-secret-clearance background check? .@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch Again, if you reduce these searches to some embarrassingly parallel problems as you sift records you already have and which are often already digitized, you may find interesting correlations. .@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch If law enforcement needs probable cause, they can clearly start with people already under review for the many, many crimes being unearthed in this giant #RICO of RICOs. .@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch Counterintelligence presumably can search most government records already. .@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch I already shared a means for leveraging a host of embarrassingly parallel problems with a simple data architecture for potential exascale &/or basic quantum supercomputing with the .@FBI.

They can advise .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury if this needs to be done at scale.
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch But in the meantime, .@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury, do you really need to justify asking for the basic background of people working on remotely critical government projects from your contractors, and then running a search on all of it?
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch Again, narrow to the most critical niches.

Check your people.

Expand from there.

There are doubtless large databases you don't have to justify checking at all.

Military & Federal law enforcement. Critical Federal contractors. Etc. .@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch Not recklessly or intrusively.

But we clearly have an issue with long-term subversion.

And while we hope to have decimated those networks permanently at the end of this saga, there's no reason to leave any stone unturned. .@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch Again, I may have some breakthroughs for post-zetascale & quantum supercomputing, among other things.

Let me know if you need anything else, be it processing power or other breakthroughs.

Russia seems to think I have options for you. .@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch Which brings us to another potential source of evidence.

When I submitted information to the .@FBI in Sept 2017, it appeared to get through, though I received no response & eventually went to Twitter.

.@NSAGov tip site was blocked when I submitted.
.@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch Despite my (apparent) success in reaching the .@FBI, .@NSAGov remained blocked despite my trying to access their tip-submission page multiple times from multiple locations.

Perhaps this was a temporary site glitch, though it seemed odd.
.@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch Russia, on the other hand, seems *quite* interested in what I have to say.

Here are my blog's visitors for the week as of yesterday.

A blog which has not been updated in over two years.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch Whether or not, say .@DARPA or .@DeptofDefense is interested in what disruptive technology I have to share, *Russia* seems to be.

But then, I've given them good reason.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense So why is this my daily view as of yesterday?

Wherein Kyrgyzstan is still giving a good accounting of itself.

And Russia is, well, my audience.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Why is this my monthly view, as of yesterday?

Showing 500+ hits-a-*day* on a blog that hasn't been updated in *two* *years?*
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense One hint might be found in something I shared on 6/23/14 about breaking down algae in biodigsters.

Oil peaked globally the next day, & its price descent tracked my tweets closely for the next several months.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Russia's economic collapse - 40+% of per-capita GDP - was credited to the precipitous drop in oil and gas prices.

My commentary on algae in biodigesters appears to have been the catalyst.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Otherwise, it's an amazing coincidence. And all archived with the Library of Congress.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Yes, you can dump algae into biodigesters & produce all the methane (natural gas) that you need.

Which wipes out a *lot* more than natural-gas extraction.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
futureimperative.blogspot.com/2011/07/amazon…
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense A biodigester is a covered trench lined with block, w/a slurry of waste & water decomposing inside.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense So you can replace manure w/algae, throw in ruminant microbes from a sheep or cow (found in their cuds & outer stomachs) & rot it all down.

And yes, this is all public domain. You're welcome.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Most algae reproduces exponentially & most are autotrophic - requiring no complex organic molecules.

So recycle your CO2, exhaust (CO2/water) & decayed organics back in & you have an inexhaustible supply.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense You can also produce vast supplies of fertilizer, charcoal & other products w/it (most of which is in the relevant blog article, actually, though I discuss scaling up elsewhere).
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Leftover organics? Dried out, & you're just a low-oxygen burn away from charcoal. & that's your *waste.*

Used slurry or charcoal can be used as organic fertilizer.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Charcoal locks up carbon in your soil for many years. So pull millions of tons of carbon from the atmosphere.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Charcoal can also replace coal in power plants, it just burns cleaner & hotter. Or it can adsorb compressed natural gas.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Don't believe it? Just dig the trench. Given time & microbes - your algae *will* rot down on schedule.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Practical #Nanotech? Solar = to photosynthesis? Why not use the algae & bacteria we already have? Clean/efficient/cheap.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Natural bacteria/algae can't be patented; even a poor villager w/a sheet of plastic & a trench can afford this.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Compressed natural gas can replace gasoline in normal cars - requires canisters, hoses & a switch on the dashboard.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Funny how many companies promote their #algae research - the public domain is open to everyone. No need for patented tech.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense The Saudis said at the oil crash’s outset they could pump at $2/barrel. What do they know that most didn't?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
npr.org/sections/money…
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense A cheap, unlimited supply of clean methane & GTL produces unlimited oil at $25/barrel.

And that's without counting an effectively free feedstock & energy source for the conversion.
chemlink.com.au/gtl.htm
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Assuming you still *want* oil, with clean natural gas generating limitless electricity or pure-silica solar panels.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Clean energy? Raw heat, sand & a bit of recycled copper make pure-silica solar panels; less efficient than rare earth, but literally printable… from *sand.* #3DPrinting

Or simply cast.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Effectively free heat beyond the melting point of glass, recycled copper & #3Dprinting means solar panels for everyone.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense The greatest cost to recycling metal, paper, plastic & glass? Again, raw heat, now virtually free.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Recycle key waste streams & you have raw materials for #3Dprinters/#CNCs/#RepRaps.

Clean, almost free fuel/fertilizer/electricity for world’s poor is the best investment imaginable.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Every NG power plant on Earth will realize they can run on #biogas, #recycle their exhaust & sell their refuse as #commodities.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense And that's just the beginning. Charcoal is better at steelmaking than coke, just wasn't as cheap. Now add free power.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense No one owes you a market. Much less a toxic, $3 trillion+/year revenue stream that is killing the planet.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense With all that implies for energy, commodities, inflation and the economy. And human welfare.

So, oil with an effective cap of $25/barrel or lower vs solar & natural gas that are practically free.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Anyone left in oil will be selling feedstocks & lubricants.

Which brings us back to Russia.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Russia’s economy - her per-capita GDP - fell 40+% from 2013 through 2015 in the wake of the 2014 oil crash.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
google.com/search?q=russi…
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense What will a demand drop of 4 – 8 million/day - or more - do to them?

Collapse in demand from the economy & renewables + vast oversupply = crash.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense In mid-2014, 25% of Russia's economy & 50% of her government revenues came from oil/gas.

Russia exports oil, gas & weapons.

And her various criminal enterprises.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense We have already hit the key tipping point where new solar/wind are cheaper than new coal plants.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Coal is effectively finished as an energy source - as of 2016, the top 4 US producers lost 99% value in 5 years.

Gas & oil are on the same path.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense We could talk about global asset forfeiture, the implosion of their intelligence/organized-crime networks & the impact of the US power to cut them off from the global economy.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense If our banks don't countersign you, no one this side of North Korea will.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense So in fairness, Russia would ample reason for their intense interest, if that were the whole of it.

Of course, that's not even *half.*
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Since I've referenced what I originally sent to the .@FBI let's start there (feel free to check your sources):
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "In the late 2000s I came up with a currency innovation that also turned up as a critical element of the cryptocurrency bitcoin."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "I do not know if my idea preceded bitcoin or not, but they may have developed it independently and concurrently regardless."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "Nevertheless, my familiarity with a partially decentralized non-digital currency gives me a certain insight into the concept."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense " · Specifically, the mutual verification of transactions was meant as a way of pushing out and exposing criminals, not promoting them."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Despite the use of encryption & darknets in these transactions, illicit exchanges are extremely vulnerable to mass exposure given both vulnerabilities to the darknets themselves and changes in existing technologies.
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense " · The key weakness is that verifying transactions and spreading out transmitted data through a large number of computers not under your direct control means critical information is still very accessible..."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "...especially when finding and decrypting that data proves far easier than is generally understood."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "Given the Mueller investigation looking into hackers and other darknet and cryptocurrency issues associated with Russia..."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "...as well as events such as the Equifax hack, this seemed like a propitious time to share what I know."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense " · This problem has metastasized for so long as a means of letting as many dangerous people as possible get drawn in."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "These technologies are essentially a living deathtrap for criminals, and I did not want to tip law enforcements hand, whether everyone was aware of the following trump cards or not."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "First, darknets either operating through multiple nodes or as peer-to-peer networks have an interesting legal weakness when child pornography is being shared over them."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense (Actually the redacted stratagem shared was less useful than later ones & I'd forgotten key details re: the images. The primary point proved *very* valid, however.)
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "There are issues with encryption as well as the scale of an operation targeting a host of computers rather than just a few dozen or a few thousand nodes."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense The latter issue is unfortunately all too easily solved in the U.S.
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "The actual arrests, as rules against the seizure of property for drug-related crimes have recently been removed..."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "...mean a large-scale shutdown of any criminal darknet would be apt to lead to considerable property confiscations by local and state police."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "Hence, the arrest of numerous suspects could involve their local law enforcement and in many cases the cost would not only be shifted to the local level but would be offset by such confiscations."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "The other practical advantage would be finding a legal basis for the seizure of logfiles directly related to such a case..."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "...and then indirectly accessing data also on the individual computers found to be definitely and intentionally active in a such a crime by, say..."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "...using the node logfiles to prove culpability and then automating the sifting of data directly downloaded or further communications provided by the logfiles."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "The other reason for starting with a crime which is easily proven and involves data transmission and data storage is..."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "...because there is enough overlap between child pornography and darknet marketplaces to thoroughly expose the latter which can in turn..."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "...lead to other people of interest, such as hackers selling services or exploits over the same marketplaces."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "If said hackers happen to be intentionally facilitating the transmission of child pornography or engaged in other self-evident crimes, so much the better."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "The encryption is a more interesting challenge, but also strangely vulnerable."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "First, it is important to realize that the above information, combined with Treasury FinCen information on transactions through conventional banking and other government data resources..."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "...could create a revealing three-dimensional map of criminal, terrorist and espionage activities, particularly in the hands of a counterintelligence/law-enforcement agency able to bring these data sets together."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "In some cases, it will not just be the actor who was directly involved who is most important but the one who shows up again and again with data leading back to them –"
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "...ownership of businesses tied to multiple questionable organizations or transmitting large sums of money to people paying hackers, etc."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "But the key thing to remember, both in creating that map and unravelling these networks, is that we are not just dealing with a chart in space, but in operations taking place over time."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "While that temporal element will also be very useful in database forensics (accounts, botnets or intelligence assets remaining dormant until needed),..."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "...it is absolutely crucial in the mass-decryption of these networks and financial transactions."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "You have the time to decrypt, assess and unravel immense amounts of information, especially aided by the right technology..."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "Once collected, a year’s worth of logfiles along with other records will hold considerable evidence, and even if full decryption were not moving..."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "...at a rapid clip, radical improvements in decryption expected in the near future – especially with regards to quantum decryption – means full access to the data is only a matter of time."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "However, that is a timeline we should be able to dramatically accelerate."
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "Regarding mass decryption, you can take an “embarrassingly parallel problem” or set of problems, such as standardized encryption over a specific darknet, and..." (Information Redacted. See .@FBI for the rest.)
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "This is a place where cryptocurrencies help tie the entire map together..." (Less effective suggestions redacted.)
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "Other assessments may be more complex, but there are undoubtedly many simple indicators you can search to speed the process along, such as the one’s used by the NSA’s XKeyscore."
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "Relevant data points include multiple connections to known criminal sites or individuals, suspicious financial or cryptocurrency transactions, references to multiple indicative keywords, and so forth."
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "Having months to comb through this information means almost everything can be retrieved in time, but being able to automate the process not only accelerates everything, it lets you prioritize."
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "Some criminals and some crimes are obviously more important than others, and deals with anything ranging from heavy weapons to sensitive hacking to large drug shipments will be matters of concern."
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "Obviously investigators will want a tremendous amount of processing power to expedite this research."
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "One way to put together a computer with immense processing power for a relatively narrow set of tasks would be..." (Information Redacted.)
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "As noted by the Department of Energy, 'System power is the primary constraint for the exascale system.'"
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "The invention in question thus appears to solve the largest problem facing the development of exascale systems as well as facilitating the practical use of quantum computing."
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "Counterintelligence may find the unsecured computers drawn into a botnet remain vulnerable to counter-hacking and..."
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "...where they have the legal authority to do so, may be able to unravel them in a mass hack, possibly backed by the assets cited above."
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "A foreign-intelligence controlled botnet of foreign computers might be temporarily turned into a botnet under investigators’ control as part of a counterintelligence operation..."
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "...if only in using their own processors to search them for malware and data breadcrumbs."
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense "Mass hacking a foreign criminal darknet may be enabled by the ability to mass decrypt using clusters and/or quantum processing."
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense So yes I brought up details w/the @FBI re: the #cryptocurrency flaw, #botnet as evidence sources & "embarrassingly parallel problems" almost 12 months ago.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Apologies for the crude and incomplete nature of the work, but such are the consequences of not writing anything down, telling only one other person sworn to secrecy...
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense & trying not to think about the details for over half a decade.

& then writing the whole thing down in relative haste.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense So, aside from the #cryptocurrency flaw, reaping #botnets for evidence & embarrassingly parallel problems (& redacted computer architecture suggestions), I've provided a few other innovations.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Obviously, there's all the evidence sources cited above.

But yes, counterintelligence *is* a field my gifts are ill-suited to, & it's fair to acknowledge all the above as arguably some of my weakest work.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense The .@DeptofDefense might be more interested in the means to automate many functions, in particular front-line vehicles & troops.

(Replace "firefighters" w/"fire teams," etc.)
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA
futureimperative.blogspot.com/2016/06/automa…
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense Given every one of the off-the-shelf technologies used to do it can be supplied by @Google, & they are working with China on #AI but not the US military, it may prove *very* interesting.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google I've also passed a few things to the #CancerMoonshot.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
futureimperative.blogspot.com/2016/06/curing…
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google Including some further applications of the same technology towards addressing Alzheimer's, Parkinson's & viral & bacteria infections.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
futureimperative.blogspot.com/2016/06/curing…
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google On the other hand, how evolutionary algorithms could be applied to online psychological warfare - and how easily to track and neutralize them - is something else I've shared.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google There's a means for effectively tracking every nuclear, biological, chemical & radiological weapon on Earth, & immediately nailing every criminal who fires a gunshot, which will be with the .@FBI soon enough.
.@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google The breakthrough required to make 3D chips, quantum & post-zetascale supercomputing, cheap superconducting power storage/transmission & cheap portable fusion possible is a little more sensitive.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google The problem in transmitting it now or keeping it in a hackable format is that Russia et al might get it & while the US ignores it.

Russia, as noted above, is clearly paying attention.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google Remember most of the above items - biodigesters, automated delivery/installation/repair/remote manufacturing/etc & the flaw in #cryptocurrency are my *least* significant first-tier inventions.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google If my far more powerful technology is, by some logic, being reserved for Russia alone, then we are on the correct path.

Otherwise, *not.*

Either way, the evidence seems revealing of something.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google Speaking of decisions - or status quo non-decisions - leading to negative consequences, there is another major source of evidence to consider.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google Again, supposedly Mike Flynn drove the decision to move military data to vulnerable cloud computing, & per @LouiseMensch placed Russian assets in .@DARPA.

& why is #Kaspersky in use in the US?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google If foreign service nationals in our embassies truly are known to be overflowing w/foreign intelligence operatives, as @thespybrief has implied, why are we using them at all?

Is .@StateDept saving *that* much?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept If SS7 Protocols are so vulnerable, why are we allowing global cell communications to be so easily intercepted?

If there *was* a good reason, or we thought there was, is it possible the situation has changed?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept The *key,* however, is not to look at this as a series of gripes or policy failures.

The *pattern* of influence looks incredibly valuable in itself, especially once coupled to the oceans of evidence we now have.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept First ask: Were we influenced? At what levels?

What is the fastest way to uncover at least *some* of the evidence of this, and the players involved?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept Active assets, the unwittingly used, and all the means and tactics employed.

Why is this easier than you might expect? And more valuable?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept We clearly have a number of highly suspect flaws in our systems, and a number of highly suspect actors - not to mention clear foreign-intelligence operations and confessed Russian assets.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept There are three main obvious avenues to follow, and we should take them all.

First, what decisions were our known and all-but-certain assets involved in?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept Are they showing clear preferences? Do some or all of them line up on a particular side, even if they don't all harmonize simultaneously with the same position?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept Politically, some inexplicable alliances without a clear motivating reason (such as 9/11) may be intriguing, but what's really telling is who *know* was working for foreign intelligence the whole time.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept The second avenue, of course, amounts to decisions which look highly suspect in retrospect, particularly ones favoring the interests of particular foreign powers.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept The third avenue is to take all of the known assets & operatives & the known suspect actions & decisions & the larger map of evidence & to superimpose it all, looking for patterns.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept This last step looks forbidding or at least too demanding of resources, but if you start small and then merge your maps, it becomes far more manageable.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept Essentially, you take the starting points above - each Flynn or, say, Nunes or other known or suspected individual & each suspect decision & build a structure of enabling acts and individuals around each one.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept Then you look at other evidence. Were some #bitcoin passed to an individual working on a question or to someone who had their ear?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept Do we see certain individuals supporting a particular position, or making straw-man arguments that ultimately undermine the alternative?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept But finally we come to the gold mine.

We not only get to review the worst decisions in light of their consequences & who formulated them, but we get to see where else that full set of tactics & players was used.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept Given the chance to assess influence operations impacting the highest levels of our government going back at least two decades, there will certainly be an evolution in assets & instruments.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept But like the vast map of #cryptocurrency showing criminal & conspiratorial actions across the globe, what people do when they think they're invisible is often what reveals the most about them.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept Remember also that checking for suspect individuals and actions means looking at more than just the US Federal government.

Why are companies & law enforcement dragging their feet on dropping #Kaspersky?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept When targeted sanction after targeted sanction hits Russian oligarchs, who is noticeably slow or recalcitrant in fulfilling their legal duties?

Combined with other data points, what does that suggest about them?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept Presumably faulty decisions will be reviewed.

But to the extent they reveal further foreign-intelligence assets or decisions shaped by their instigation, each review may reap many harvests.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept So, to continue, I'm very good w/flaws & strengths in systems, tech nobody knows about because it's obscure or I created it, or things I'm the lone or primary witness to.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept But if we're hitting the endgame, I'd like to hammer a few things home, while we have the chance.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept My audience is really twofold.

One, anything that needs to get through to law enforcement/CI.

Two, anything that persuades more people to confess more, faster.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept So we'll continue in this vein a bit longer, particularly with any evidence sources that expand fractally into a multitude of associated sources, much like a cascade of #FARA proffers, or the #cryptocurrency map.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept I considered the flaw in cryptocurrency enabling the mass tracking/takedown of organized crime/Russian intel a modest side project for more than one reason.

As we proceed, *why* will become more apparent.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept So, SS7 protocols represent a massive flaw in cell-phone security. Likely useful for years, but less so as it becomes public knowledge.

But sources & methods you *can* safely declassify?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept What if a staggering source of hard evidence in the Russian coup came from a technical weakness of rapidly diminishing utility, & which urgently needed to be closed anyway?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept If we reached that tipping point where we had to closet it *anyway,* we could presumably dump rivers of intercepts taken via SS7 protocols into the courts.

How many espionage charges become viable then?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept Combined with so many other either easily accessible, fully public or already researched & analyzed evidence sources from Transition emails to the #cryptocurrency map of crime to #FinCEN investigations...
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept How many convictions become not only likely, but inevitable?

Sometimes missed in this upheaval:

If a technology is rendered obsolete, how does the secret of its existence weigh against the evidence revealed?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept So what else is exposed now, besides the SS7 protocols, which could thus provide oceans of admissible evidence for espionage charges?

Pho's actions exposure ended .@NSAGov initiatives.
.@FBI .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
politico.com/amp/story/2018…
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept Snowden's espionage for Russia & China doubtless exposed critical work as well.

The evidence made available shouldn't be employed recklessly, but with consideration for what *can* be employed, & in what courts.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept But if everything from initiatives ended by Pho's mishandling or Snowden theft or exposed flaws in urgent need of closing such as the SS7 protocol's abuse by criminals & spies to steal information is over anyway:
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept Why not use it in this vast, mass spy roll up?

Russian intel is laundering money through cryptocurrency, talking treason on Signal under warrant & issuing passports w/consecutive numbers.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept It's possible the US can make up the forensic shortfalls with, say, multiple breakthrough technologies we've been holding back anyway.

But if the methods are finished anyway, isn't *this* the moment to use them?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept With so many of our secrets uncovered, there seems to be no need to conceal those of our adversaries, be they hostile intelligence services or transnational organized crime.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept So how does this change the game?

The ultimate penalty for espionage... is death.

How many people can be proven by those intercepts to be engaged in espionage?

Perhaps even actively and knowingly?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept How many are thus looking at the end?

Either by way of execution or a sentence that will undoubtedly exceed their lifespan?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ @LouiseMensch @DeptofDefense @Google @thespybrief @StateDept What happens when they realize that a "lesser charge" without a deal just pins them down where they can't run until all the most terrible things are uncovered?

And the deferred prosecution of espionage begins?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury .@DARPA .@DeptofDefense

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Ralph Cerchione Profile picture
Sep 23, 2018
@ericgarland Only the beginning, Eric.

Why?

I considered the flaw in cryptocurrency enabling the mass tracking/takedown of organized crime/Russian intel a modest side project for more than one reason. As we proceed, *why* will become more apparent.
@ericgarland So, SS7 protocols represent a massive flaw in cell-phone security.

Likely useful for years, but less so as it becomes public knowledge.

But sources & methods you *can* safely declassify?
cc: @LouiseMensch @ninaandtito @thespybrief @911CORLEBRA777
@ericgarland @LouiseMensch @ninaandtito @thespybrief @911CORLEBRA777 What if a staggering source of hard evidence in the Russian coup came from a technical weakness of rapidly diminishing utility, & which urgently needed to be closed anyway?
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Ralph Cerchione Profile picture
Sep 15, 2018
@ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @JamesFourM @thespybrief @patribotics @LouiseMensch @ninaandtito @DirkSchwenk @xtrixcyclex @colinkalmbacher @claytonpurdom @emzanotti @RoyBlunt @FBIWFO @NewYorkFBI @FBILosAngeles @INTERPOL_HQ @DHSgov It's hard to overstate how important a cooperating Manafort becomes to unraveling media subversion.

But let's start with Eric's documentation of media-influence operations & go from there.
@ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @JamesFourM @thespybrief @patribotics @LouiseMensch @ninaandtito @DirkSchwenk @xtrixcyclex @colinkalmbacher @claytonpurdom @emzanotti @RoyBlunt @FBIWFO @NewYorkFBI @FBILosAngeles @INTERPOL_HQ @DHSgov First, remember @ericgarland initially just released the public, executive summary of his research into *one* aspect of this - a consistent pattern of harassment in response to his original Game Theory thread.
@ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @JamesFourM @thespybrief @patribotics @LouiseMensch @ninaandtito @DirkSchwenk @xtrixcyclex @colinkalmbacher @claytonpurdom @emzanotti @RoyBlunt @FBIWFO @NewYorkFBI @FBILosAngeles @INTERPOL_HQ @DHSgov There are so many critical details to go over here.

One, the patterns were easily detected, & hard evidence could be found in abundance.

Two, Eric *didn't* stop with documenting & researching just that one piece.
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Aug 21, 2018
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA Again, there was a warning about more evidence being released in tandem with egregious attacks on Kremlin's critics.

Given the targeting of Brennan, we’ve hit another tipping point.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA I was planning to drop more evidence sources, but I don't think everyone yet realizes the security-clearance fiasco is a giant evidence-reaping machine *in* *itself.*
@JohnBrennan @GenMhayden
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@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden As discussed previously in this thread, we have no shortage of people who direly need to proffer *something,* in the face of an investigation that needs neither their testimony nor their evidence.
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Aug 4, 2018
@ericgarland @20committee So, .@ericgarland gets a new kind of botnet targeting, & .@JamesFourM runs into issues w/his article on @Medium?

There was a warning about harassment & the countering release of evidence on the conspiracy.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ The warning: Any egregious harassment of Kremlin critics could release or expedite yet *another* major evidence source against the conspiracy.

While unpleasant, I think these two each warrant something modest… yet formidable.

& apropos.
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@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ So, Eric you brought up the agencies rating investments recently, as well as AIG, stock markets, etc.

What, you might ask, is so deadly about global finance & the conspiracy? Beyond the obvious flows of money & influence?
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Jul 28, 2018
@TheRickWilson @LouiseMensch Oops.

For everyone seeking a deal w/law enforcement, there is one *small* detail we may have glossed over for all parties.

Asset forfeiture. To the government, and... to civil suits.
cc: @thespybrief @ericgarland @TrueFactsStated
@TheRickWilson @LouiseMensch @thespybrief @ericgarland @TrueFactsStated And if you're thinking you'll fight - *great!*

A #RICO conviction proving guilt up front?

Involving treason, organized crime, media collusion, child trafficking, etc?

*&* you harassed or threatened people's kids? *Not* just the adult ones?
@TheRickWilson @LouiseMensch @thespybrief @ericgarland @TrueFactsStated I'm sure jury pools drawn from DC, New York, London, etc will be sympathetic.

But do remember a couple of *other* trivial details.

One, the Democratic Party already filed such a suit, and named Russian intelligence as a defendant.
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Jul 21, 2018
@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.
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