@markyzaguirre @TheRickWilson We've also been treating this 4-year, slow-motion explosion like new geography rather than the snapshot of a blastwave and scattering shrapnel that it is.
It's not just that none of this was sustainable.
It's how much of their reserves our adversaries burnt down to attempt it.
It's not just that none of this was sustainable.
It's how much of their reserves our adversaries burnt down to attempt it.
@markyzaguirre @TheRickWilson "Destroying their reputation."
Lawyers going into court with spurious arguments or spouting conspiracy theories and clear falsehoods are facing far more than a stern lecture or the scorn of their peers.
Lawyers going into court with spurious arguments or spouting conspiracy theories and clear falsehoods are facing far more than a stern lecture or the scorn of their peers.
@markyzaguirre @TheRickWilson See also the incredibly granular map counterintel and law enforcement now have of the offshored wealth being illegally onshored via money laundering and other illicit exchanges.
Or of the online, illegal-influence networks.
Darknet black markets.
Cryptocurrency.
Or of the online, illegal-influence networks.
Darknet black markets.
Cryptocurrency.
@markyzaguirre @TheRickWilson Signal/WhatsApp exchanges.
Twitter and Facebook messages.
Super resolution, face recognition and geolocation used to track foreign-citizen spies through DC's security videos (and others) going back years if not decades.
Twitter and Facebook messages.
Super resolution, face recognition and geolocation used to track foreign-citizen spies through DC's security videos (and others) going back years if not decades.
@markyzaguirre @TheRickWilson And the proffer cascade as everyone caught in blatant criminal violations has to plead out and hand over larger criminals - or a legion of their peers - to lessen their own sentence.
@markyzaguirre @TheRickWilson Lied about cryptocurrency profits in 2019 when the @IRS_CI already knew thousands of large American accounts via Coinbase and others? Aka, a de facto guilty plea on your tax returns?
Wildly on the record FARA violations, without the fig leaf of a single loophole in the law?
Wildly on the record FARA violations, without the fig leaf of a single loophole in the law?
@markyzaguirre @TheRickWilson @IRS_CI Unregistered income when you have a security clearance, especially via the aforementioned cryptocurrency wallets?
Hatch Act violations? Especially on live national television at, say, the Republican National Convention at the White House?
Hatch Act violations? Especially on live national television at, say, the Republican National Convention at the White House?
@markyzaguirre @TheRickWilson @IRS_CI And on and on.
Most people don't even know the worst of it.
Or even the worst of the relatively open-source, accessible material.
The evidence will *never* stop.
Most people don't even know the worst of it.
Or even the worst of the relatively open-source, accessible material.
The evidence will *never* stop.
@markyzaguirre @TheRickWilson @IRS_CI In fact, this is the irony of anyone talking about "sweeping it under the rug."
The sheer scale of what's irretrievably out there.
The sheer scale of what's irretrievably out there.
@markyzaguirre @TheRickWilson @IRS_CI Too much is already in motion, but we're looking at a vast, open-source archive of material which many influencers, intelligence agencies and organized crime put out there without realizing it was permanent and very, *very* visible.
There's never been open datasets like these.
There's never been open datasets like these.
@markyzaguirre @TheRickWilson @IRS_CI Literally, machine learning will be trained, for years, using this data.
All the cryptocurrency blockchains.
All the open-source social media harvested, including all tweets up until the end of 2017 which were archived in the Library of Congress.
All the cryptocurrency blockchains.
All the open-source social media harvested, including all tweets up until the end of 2017 which were archived in the Library of Congress.
@markyzaguirre @TheRickWilson @IRS_CI The Panama and Paradise Papers.
The sliver of SARs out there.
All of this combined with newscasts and coordinated propaganda.
Oh, everyone thinks about the NSA, FBI, IRS, FinCEN, etc.
But companies and NGOs will never have this kind of opening again.
The sliver of SARs out there.
All of this combined with newscasts and coordinated propaganda.
Oh, everyone thinks about the NSA, FBI, IRS, FinCEN, etc.
But companies and NGOs will never have this kind of opening again.
@markyzaguirre @TheRickWilson @IRS_CI We used to have a practice with new supercomputers.
One would come online, and we'd have it factor the largest numbers it could, so we could assess the scale of the work and the speed with which it was accomplished.
*That's* the most brutal twist in all of this.
One would come online, and we'd have it factor the largest numbers it could, so we could assess the scale of the work and the speed with which it was accomplished.
*That's* the most brutal twist in all of this.
@markyzaguirre @TheRickWilson @IRS_CI Supercomputers will be uncovering connections, conspiracy and crimes for years if not decades...
Not based on speculation but clear lines of connection, incredibly precise timing, vast oceans of data, and cold, hard facts.
There is no escape from this, and there never was.
Not based on speculation but clear lines of connection, incredibly precise timing, vast oceans of data, and cold, hard facts.
There is no escape from this, and there never was.
@markyzaguirre @TheRickWilson @IRS_CI And a multitude of unrelated crimes will be taken down in its wake, as reckless exposure and the last desperate moves of the last few desperate years burn down the few resources the transnational criminal underworld had left.
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