Thread by @DawsonSField

@nimkef has a great thread on Neustar, the company that is the clear favorite to be Internet Company-1 in the #SussmannIndictment.
It's making me reevaluate my identification on US Agency-1 in both the indictment & the 3 letter agency redacted from the FISC "about queries" ruling

https://twitter.com/nimkef/status/1439071149720211461

I have previously speculated that the agency in the FISC case where contractors got access to raw FISA data, was the CIA. As that case noted it was another agency that got the FBI to give contractors access to the data.

dni.gov/files/document…

Since 2018, the primary speculation has been that the 3 letter agency behind the first redaction is CIA.
But Neustar's relationship with FCC makes be now feel it is the agency behind this MoU to provide illegal access to NSA raw data.

We don't know how many different groups of contractors had access to that FBI FISA database, but it is at least 2 sets with DOJ promising to investigate to find more.

In 1997 Neustar (then part of Lockheed Martin) was given a contract by FCC to route & track all cellphone calls & texts in the US.
This consolidated all of this metadata into one place, which was very convenient for law enforcement seeking phone records.

https://twitter.com/nimkef/status/1439071167076347907?s=20

But it would also give Neustar emploees or executives access to all of that metadata to datamine information or to spy upon people.

How many people could you compromise & control with their phone & text data? Politicians, prosecutors, judges, witnesses, law enforcment officials

Neustar maintained this contract for almost 20 years, but faced losing it to Ericsson of Sweden in 2016.
So 07/21/16, FCC announces it wants to give the contract to Ericsson. Does this explain why TE-1 wanted HRC to win & so he could run US cyberdefense?

https://twitter.com/nimkef/status/1439071169492176897?s=20

Neustar focused it's opposition to Ericsson's bid on the grounds that they were a foreign company & a threat to US cybersecurity with access to that data.
Intelligence & cyber officials started their Swampy campaign in favor of Neustar keeping the contract

https://twitter.com/nimkef/status/1439071197522759681?s=20

Yes, that is Michael Chertoff. The Covington & Burling partner that convinced LTG Flynn's lawyers to get him to plead guilty. The firm that withheld their records of other clients influencing Chertoff about the Flynn case under attorney client privilege.

Neustar spend a lot of money lobbying Washington DC during this timeline. Almost certainly trying to keep the contract with FCC & their access to all that metadata...opensecrets.org/federal-lobbyi…

Of course as they started the push to use swampy connections to keep the FCC contract, that is when they hired Perkins Coie to represent them...

https://twitter.com/nimkef/status/1439071218485891077?s=20

Which leads to a lot of questions...

Was Neustar's involvement with Perkins Coie's efforts to get Hillary elected, part of their campaign to keep the FCC contract & deny it to Ericcson?

How did Ericsson win the contract?

Did they out swamp Neustar?

Ericsson plead guilty & cooperated with DOJ & pay fines for bribing officials in 5 foreign countries from 2000-2016 in order to secure telecom contracts with their government agencies.

https://twitter.com/SDNYnews/status/1203073397506355206?s=20

On 09/08/21, SDNY indicted another Ericsson employee for paying bribes to officials in Djibouti for a €20 million contract. The FCC contract is much larger than that!
justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/f…

So much fun watching these #ButNothingsHappening cases connect.