@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist One of the reasons it's useful to have multiple global, interlocking evidentiary maps showing hard, court-admissible evidence is it effectively *forces* many investigations to fuse.
It's not *just* where the money comes from and where it goes.
It's not *just* where the money comes from and where it goes.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist Other threads go into this in more detail, but it's really more than you can fit into even epic Twitter threads.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist Example given: Flip everybody. Sift their computers/devices for more evidence, whether they cooperator or not. Turn cooperators phones into walking bugs. Dial-a-crook.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist Taint the criminal underworld until nobody knows *who* is a cooperating witness.
Something you can easily do on this scale, by getting so many minor players to cooperate with local and state law enforcement.
Then, expand steadily on your map with all the relevant data tying in.
Something you can easily do on this scale, by getting so many minor players to cooperate with local and state law enforcement.
Then, expand steadily on your map with all the relevant data tying in.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist "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 @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist 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 @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist Then there's the enforced data fusion emerging from having a multitude of crimes all tying into the same overarching schemes, particularly RICO conspiracies of any stripe.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist The impulse, when you're engaged in aggressive psychological warfare, have access to this kind of data, and can enrich it with other data streams, is to merge it all together for maximum effect.
And to tie together and coordinate your various allies and underlings.
And to tie together and coordinate your various allies and underlings.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist Like linking together a series of rings into a single chain.
Each link may be useful on its own, but something else entirely in concert.
Each link may be useful on its own, but something else entirely in concert.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist There's a reason terrorist and insurgent networks use cells.
That limits damage when one or more are exposed.
But what if you're not only exposing your network of networks, but mapping it out, with damning evidence, everywhere?
That limits damage when one or more are exposed.
But what if you're not only exposing your network of networks, but mapping it out, with damning evidence, everywhere?
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist And tying it into crimes for which the whole could be prosecuted?
Committed on such a scale they could not be ignored?
Then you're breaching the barriers between ordinary crime, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and potentially outright warfare.
Committed on such a scale they could not be ignored?
Then you're breaching the barriers between ordinary crime, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and potentially outright warfare.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist We've grown acclimated, by the way, to the epic scale of data which every corporation, crimelord and terrorist somehow has a "right to," which is only off limits to law enforcement and counterterrorism.
Privacy makes sense. Blind spots do not.
Privacy makes sense. Blind spots do not.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist So what happens when the above data is actually relatively modest compared to what's ultimately done with it and how it's enriched to enable psychological warfare via, say, social media?
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist An expanding cloud of connections - of conspiracy and collusion, crime and coercion - convert *everything* into a crime scene.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist Remember, all this data, all these cooperators, didn't just *disappear* when they became inconvenient.
There was too much and there were too many to be swept under a rug.
And their witnesses, databases and algorithms have *much* to teach you.
There was too much and there were too many to be swept under a rug.
And their witnesses, databases and algorithms have *much* to teach you.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist Ever wonder how Mueller may have gotten - what's the Justice Department quote? - up to 11 *billion*-plus pages of evidence?
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist We won't be covering everything publicly know here, certainly.
But combine cryptocurrencies and #FinCEN investigations with micropayments, clickfraud, real estate, *archives* from money launderers, and everything else - just *financially.*
But combine cryptocurrencies and #FinCEN investigations with micropayments, clickfraud, real estate, *archives* from money launderers, and everything else - just *financially.*
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist Terrible people have built everything they have on a foundation built to fail - spectacularly.
The fatal flaw in cryptocurrency has been known for several years - to me, and presumably to others.
The fatal flaw in cryptocurrency has been known for several years - to me, and presumably to others.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist Other nifty flaws helping to bind this whole thing together?
All those executives - and especially all those *lawyers* - have a fiduciary duty to the *company,* not to a CEO, oligarch or dictator.
None of them want to go down for the conspiracy.
All those executives - and especially all those *lawyers* - have a fiduciary duty to the *company,* not to a CEO, oligarch or dictator.
None of them want to go down for the conspiracy.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist Other details?
The Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers and...
Mike Cohen reputedly storing tons of documents on everything, including voice records of a multitude of calls, all in law enforcement's hands.
Including 4-million+ pages cleared for use by prosecutors.
The Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers and...
Mike Cohen reputedly storing tons of documents on everything, including voice records of a multitude of calls, all in law enforcement's hands.
Including 4-million+ pages cleared for use by prosecutors.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist 1.5 *million* files in the *1st* batch of evidence at the trial of *1* spy, Maria Butina.
1-million+ pages of evidence against Jeffrey Epstein, presumably *not* including the *decades* of blackmail videos he had.
1-million+ pages of evidence against Jeffrey Epstein, presumably *not* including the *decades* of blackmail videos he had.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist And what can the FBI *do* with those videos?
Or with the terabytes of Darknet videos abusing children which they've *also* seized?
Or with the terabytes of Darknet videos abusing children which they've *also* seized?
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist Or for that matter, what the @FBI could do to sift automatically through databases like government security footage in DC, going back *decades,* and use GANs (generative adversarial networks) to identify operatives, assets and moles.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI Not to mention how much of this can also either be merged with high-fidelity audio or automatically lip-read by computers.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI And yes, there are existing tools which would enable us to merge this data and analyze it effectively.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI "Another method is to train on different crimes and/or datasets regarding the same crimes, which also shed light on what is most effective and what critical mass of data is needed for narrower selections of data –"
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI "... just automated sifting of video, facial recognition of contacts and assessment of who those contacts were – as opposed to broader datasets –"
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI "...financial/cryptocurrency transfers, relevant communications, tracking potential dead drops/brush pasts and other evidence used to enrich the above video surveillance and analysis."
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI "Datasets used to track drugs and WMDs can be combined with other critical information, such as vehicle movements, video surveillance/analysis, known networks and criminals, financial/cryptocurrency transfers, etc… or not."
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI I've sent the @FBI more, of course, as redacted on Twitter and Amazon.
Data Mining the Open Air: How to Track Weapons of Mass Destruction, Drugs, Diamonds, Stolen Children and More Around the World - Redacted from the Copy Sent to the FBI on 1/1/20
amazon.com/Data-Mining-Op…
Data Mining the Open Air: How to Track Weapons of Mass Destruction, Drugs, Diamonds, Stolen Children and More Around the World - Redacted from the Copy Sent to the FBI on 1/1/20
amazon.com/Data-Mining-Op…
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI And let's not forget using evolutionary algorithms in psychological warfare - a phenomenal method of documenting *all* the assets and evidence involved to an *excruciating* degree.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI Then think of all the tech companies, media assets, entertainment assets, politicians, hackers and others being precisely coordinated with similar talking points and timetables...
Showing further collusion in the evolutionary algorithms, botnet support, bitcoin payments, etc...
Showing further collusion in the evolutionary algorithms, botnet support, bitcoin payments, etc...
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI The data is endless, just from this one strategy, endlessly applied.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI The culpability for anyone attempting it is bottomless as well.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI What happens if you're under warrant or otherwise intercepted chatting on WhatsApp, Signal or just an ordinary, unencrypted cell phone operating under ordinary SS7 protocols?
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI What happens if you're exchanging illegal pornography, and are being monitored by law enforcement?
The intentional transmission and receipt are illegal. So they carry "probable" cause with them...
The intentional transmission and receipt are illegal. So they carry "probable" cause with them...
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI Worse still, not only do the various databases - many of them public-domain, like cryptocurrency - easily merge together, they will *never* be too large to be sifted for more crimes, thanks to quantum computing.
Grover('s Algorithm) says hi, criminals!
Grover('s Algorithm) says hi, criminals!
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI I'm not even going to get into the two different means I sent the FBI for tracking and mapping out most global malware.
Hopefully that went well, and since they kicked Chinese intel off the cloud shortly after the first one, I'll assume it did.
Hopefully that went well, and since they kicked Chinese intel off the cloud shortly after the first one, I'll assume it did.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI This is the legal event horizon which has been approaching for over 20 years.
This is the reason hostile foreign intelligence & transnational organized crime never had to make another mistake once they went online.
Something, in fairness, they had to do.
This is the reason hostile foreign intelligence & transnational organized crime never had to make another mistake once they went online.
Something, in fairness, they had to do.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI Even if people were clever.
But when you have multiple terabytes of evidence acquired in just individual archive seizures - bin Laden, Cohen, etc - being able to use quantum supercomputing dramatically augments your ability to sift not just for keywords or oddly similar actions.
But when you have multiple terabytes of evidence acquired in just individual archive seizures - bin Laden, Cohen, etc - being able to use quantum supercomputing dramatically augments your ability to sift not just for keywords or oddly similar actions.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI Your ability to check evidence - particular evidence the perpetrators never knew existed - against other databases of activities, seized communications, known associates, movements, activities, hacks, malware and on and on - increases exponentially.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI Some searches today that would just be too vast to even attempt, or that would take years for present supercomputers to accomplish, would become trivial, and even routine.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI Now imagine some group were hypothetically involved, such as Cambridge Analytica or Facebook.
Imagine if the records of the actions undertaken, and even the computers doing it, could be seized.
Not just the evidence but the crimes themselves, frozen in amber.
Imagine if the records of the actions undertaken, and even the computers doing it, could be seized.
Not just the evidence but the crimes themselves, frozen in amber.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI Or if *all* the records seized, from throughout the conspiracy, are so vast, so real time, and so constantly updated they aren't frozen at all?
A living sculpture of light, showing all this corruption elegantly, even as we speak, and well into the past, and well into the future?
A living sculpture of light, showing all this corruption elegantly, even as we speak, and well into the past, and well into the future?
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI And then finally, all the money is draining from our adversaries already.
Organized crime is finding its businesses and networks under lockdown during lockdown.
Oil has already plummeted.
Chinese exports have been decimated.
Organized crime is finding its businesses and networks under lockdown during lockdown.
Oil has already plummeted.
Chinese exports have been decimated.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI Their operations have not only been revealed.
They're self-destructing.
They're self-destructing.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI I should add one final point.
A simple clarification regarding our biological immune system: An antigen is not the same thing as an antibody, but is rather a molecule detected & targeted *by* antibodies, which lets them find & destroy invading pathogens.
Why is that important?
A simple clarification regarding our biological immune system: An antigen is not the same thing as an antibody, but is rather a molecule detected & targeted *by* antibodies, which lets them find & destroy invading pathogens.
Why is that important?
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI Because all the data and evidence discussed above does not amount to the antibodies of law enforcement, counterintelligence and even military defense, but rather the antigens marking the alien invaders and exposing them for destruction.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigen
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigen
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI And for so many of the offenses people are openly "tagged and bagged" for online - say, clearly selling drugs or trafficking people online, or taking illegal bribes - either have statutes of limitations which last for years...
Or. *Never.* Go. Away.
Or. *Never.* Go. Away.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI RICO statutes include “extortion, interstate theft, narcotics violations, mail fraud, securities fraud, currency reporting violations, certain immigration offenses, and terrorism related offenses” (per the Criminal RICO manual for federal prosecutors).
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI While you might wonder about some RICO crimes - did your trafficking involve the right (or *wrong*) immigration offenses, for example - we don't really have to guess whether a drug distribution ring, much less a drug *cartel* runs afoul of them.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI Not to mention their money launderers.
Other offenses, even if they tie into nothing else, *have* no statute of limitations, such as murder or espionage.
And then there are run-of-the-mill crimes, which have only a standard statute of limitations as short as five years.
Other offenses, even if they tie into nothing else, *have* no statute of limitations, such as murder or espionage.
And then there are run-of-the-mill crimes, which have only a standard statute of limitations as short as five years.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI So we have the people who are already *clearly* guilty of something - they exchanged money for an illegal good or service online, and we already have the evidence, and know who they are - and the ones who will emerge as we sift the data...
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI Finally IDing the owner of your bitcoin wallet, facial recognition tracking Russian or other foreign operatives through the security footage of DC/elsewhere to their meeting, brush past or dead drop that exposes who you are...
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI Facial recognition uncovering all the identities from those terabytes of seized Darknet videos, and so one through more examples than we can list.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI So in addition to all of these operations already self-destructing during the imposed lockdown of a pandemic & law enforcement/counterintel already uncovering & arresting a host of people, we've permanently marked a multitude of crimes & criminals with antigens they can't remove.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI & because of the extensive merger of criminal and espionage networks, we can roll up many assets/operatives/moles under the cover of seemingly unrelated, more mundane law-enforcement operations - imprisoning dangerous people, issuing warrants, tracing contacts... & making deals.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI Which goes back to effectively "flipping everybody" whether they cooperate or not.
No one has to know who is an informant, who is an *unknowing* informant (bugged or tracked to such a degree their every contact implicates other actors) and what evidence is already in hand.
No one has to know who is an informant, who is an *unknowing* informant (bugged or tracked to such a degree their every contact implicates other actors) and what evidence is already in hand.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI Not just tainting the underworld, but creating a rolling series of arrests and plea deals, rehabilitations, drug rehabs, informants, warrants, seized communications and computers and so forth.
One that will continue for years.
One that will continue for years.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI And be followed with systems for tracking drugs, WMDs, human trafficking, wanted criminals, diamonds and other gemstones, counterfeit cash, etc.
But this is all based on the antigens who mark the targets, not the antibodies who take them apart.
But this is all based on the antigens who mark the targets, not the antibodies who take them apart.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI Actually, that's also key.
The asset forfeitures involved, particularly given the trillions of dollars in offshored wealth showcased in the Panama and Paradise Papers, are apt to be immense as all the money is tracked down.
The asset forfeitures involved, particularly given the trillions of dollars in offshored wealth showcased in the Panama and Paradise Papers, are apt to be immense as all the money is tracked down.
@ericgarland @thespybrief @nielsrosenquist @FBI And again, much of this effectively has *no* statute of limitations.
Your statute of limitations in a RICO evidently starts with the "last act taken in furtherance of the conspiracy."
How recent is that act with a drug ring?
Much less a *cartel?*
Your statute of limitations in a RICO evidently starts with the "last act taken in furtherance of the conspiracy."
How recent is that act with a drug ring?
Much less a *cartel?*
