Thread by @joshrogin

Today I got a call that showed up on my phone as coming from my wife, but the person on the other line was from actually from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency @CISAgov. This is the second time this has happened... 1/?

@CISAgov When I answered, "Sidney" said he was returning a missed call from my number. I asked him who he worked for and he said "Homeland Security." I asked him was it CISA (because this happened to me before) and he said "Yes." 2/?

@CISAgov Like the last time, "Sidney" didn't seem to know why he had received a missed call or why his return call showed up on my caller ID as my wife's phone number. He asked me who I was and I told him my name and that I was a reported for the Washington Post. He got nervous... 3/?

@CISAgov I knew it wasn't my wife calling because she was standing next to me with her phone in her hand. She started to record, as Sidney played coy. He said "I don't know what's going on, this is just my work phone."... 4/?

@CISAgov I said, ""Don't you find it odd you would received a call from a Washington Post reporter and you would call back and it shows up as my wife? Doesn't that seem weird to you?" Sidney: "Yeah, I don't know about that. I'm just returning the phone call that you called." 5/?

@CISAgov He asked if I needed anything from him. I said, "I'd really like to know if @CISAgov is involved in monitoring the calls of an American journalist. That's what I'd like to know." Sidney hung up. My wife @alirogin, also a journalist, witnessed the entire call. 6/?

@CISAgov @AliRogin Both times this happened, it was right after I called her and we had a short phone conversation, and then someone from @CISAgov called me back like "Hey did I just miss your call" and I'm like "Hey why are you calling from my wife's phone number?" and then CLICK. 7/?

@CISAgov @AliRogin Here's a link to the part of the conversation we were able to record. It was weird. What is going on here? Can anyone help? @CISAgov please explain. dropbox.com/s/b1weqiepkj38… END THREAD

@CISAgov @AliRogin To be clear, the 1st time this happened was during the last administration, late last year. So it's not a Biden administration thing. OK, really this time, END THREAD