Thread by @kgosztola

I'm not the only one sharing this screen shot, but it seems important for this to get around to as many people as possible.

This is the "About" page for Shadow Inc, which was contracted to make the app for #IowaCaucuses. No staff named. This outfit is inexcusably secretive.

Update: While they may not list themselves on their own website, staff profiles can be found on LinkedIn.

I'll share some details on a few of them.

(Thanks to @KafkaHemingway for screen shots from LinkedIn.)

Gerard Niemira is CEO of Shadow Inc. In 2015, he was senior product manager for Hillary Clinton's campaign, developing tools for field teams to contact voters. And in 2016, he was in charge of the tools used by volunteers.

He worked as an intern for Rep. Eliot Engel in 2005.

Ahna Rao was special assistant to CTO for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. She worked for Merlon Intelligence, which uses tools to identify money laundering. She also was an intern at USAID for 3 months and an intern for House Foreign Affairs Committee for 4 months in 2010.

James Hickey is COO of Shadow Inc. He was engineering manager for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign and worked for Sprinklr, a "customer experience management" platform. Also previously worked as IT consultant for Bloomberg Philanthropies in 2012-2013.

Krista Davis is CTO/Chief Architect. She was a staff backend software engineer for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.

Sarah Chabolla is the director of organizing and client success at Shadow Inc. She was a regional organizing director for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.

So those are some of the people that work at the company that made the app.

I don't have a conspiracy, and anyone accusing me of promoting a conspiracy is trying to provoke conflict. All I believe is there should be transparency around the company involved in this fiasco.

Let's hope we don't see a repeat of what happened in Nevada on February 22

Here's @DMRegister's coverage of Shadow Inc. and app they developed for Iowa Caucuses.

Headlined, "Clinton campaign veterans linked with app that contributed to caucus chaos."

This is journalistic frame I adopted for my thread yet I was accused of pushing "conspiracy theory."

@DMRegister "Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Troy Price worked as Clinton’s 2016 Iowa political director."

The Iowa Democratic Party "paid $63,184 for website development and travel expenses."

The full report from @DMRegister: desmoinesregister.com/story/news/ele…

@DMRegister If it sounds like a conspiracy, maybe that is because the app developer has a cartoonishly evil name that if contracted by, say, Russia, China, Iran, Syria, or Venezuela, we would be calling any perceived winner(s) illegitimate. A raft of new sanctions would be prepared too.

Clinton Democrats are flipping out over people who suspect something rotten unfolded, but imagine if company with former Bernie Sanders staff named Shadow Inc. had developed this app. No way these Dems wouldn't have their chalkboards out, drawing arrows to "connect" to Putin.

Cronyism, not conspiracy. That's what happened.

Troy Price, Iowa Democratic Party chair who worked for Clinton in 2016, reached out to former colleagues and created a "process" within the caucuses then outsourced that "process." Former colleagues made 💵. Chaos ensued.

"A person with knowledge of the company’s culture, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal, shared communications showing that top officials at the company regularly expressed hostility to Sanders supporters." theintercept.com/2020/02/04/iow…