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"Days after Donald Trump rode down an escalator at Trump Tower and announced he’d run for president, a little-known consulting firm with links to Israeli intelligence started gaming out how a foreign government could meddle in the U.S. political process."

thedailybeast.com/mueller-witnes…
Oh.

“At the time we were discussing the subject of cyber interference in democratic processes, it felt like just another idle intellectual exercise. But retrospectively, it feels a bit too on-the-nose not to be disturbing.”
If Wikistrat and Zamel sound familiar....they should.

This piece got me epic trolling & worse from the usual Trumpist assholes, so let them enjoy my I TOLD YOU SO here.

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John Schindler
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She was an enlisted SIGINT linguist (Farsi) who transitioned to AFOSI as an (enlisted) Special Agent, where she worked CI in the CENTCOM AOR. She left the AF in 2008 and worked as a contractor for AFOSI for 2 years before she, whoops, defected to Iran.

AFOSI's agent workforce is a mix of GS civilians and military (E & O). Like NCIS (which is basically all civilians), AFOSI handles #natsec investigations (CI & CT) as well as 'normal' criminal matters.
As usual, we've been dissecting the Witt case, based on DoJ paperwork, all day over at @thespybrief -- an ugly spy case, this one. She fired off plenty of warning flares prior to her summer 2013 defection to Iran, but....oh well.
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John Schindler
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Good eye, @mcmoynihan -- writers who steal the work of others must be treated like the thieves they are.

thedailybeast.com/former-nyt-edi…
Plagiarism is a serious matter for which my tolerance is zero.

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Especially when they steal my work.

cc @DailyMail @Telegraph @BBC

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John Schindler
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Speaking of BS: Trumpers are engaging in a ton of whataboutism now. What about Hillary's Kremlin ties? What about GCI's secret $$$? They are dragging up everything now, no matter how ridiculous. Hence this fresh turd, which deserves a bit of unpacking....

foxnews.com/opinion/newt-g…
First, the Newtster is a smart guy and the former House Speaker. He knows better; he knows how Congress works; he understands the rules; he knows what he's spouting is complete BS. There was no Feinstein "spy scandal" -- and Gingrich is well aware of that. Yet, he persists.../2
If you knew nothing about this case, you'd read Newt's screed and think: OMG! Why didn't the MSM cover the massive PRC intelligence penetration of Sen Feinstein's staff? How could this happen???

It's fair to point out that the MSM often low-balls negative stories about Dems. /3
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