Thread by @mopeng

@DavidManOnFire @HunterJCullen @CUPCAKEWILLIAM6 @gregolear @clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra Our interest was sparked by the arrest on child porn charges of the assistant to the US Senate Sergeant at Arms.

https://twitter.com/mopeng/status/1449120529600761859

@DavidManOnFire @HunterJCullen @CUPCAKEWILLIAM6 @gregolear @clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra This took my mind back to a previous U.S. Senate sergeant-at-arms in the 1980s, Howard Liebengood, who became executive VP for federal relations and chief of the Tobacco Institute and then a lobbyist for Philip Morris which opened up in Russia in the 1990s.

@DavidManOnFire @HunterJCullen @CUPCAKEWILLIAM6 @gregolear @clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra Liebengood's son, of the same name, filled his father's shoes as U.S. Senate sergeant-at-arms. Like Dad, he was responsible for enforcement of all rules of the Committee on Rules and Administration regulating the Senate wing of the Capitol and the Senate office buildings.

@DavidManOnFire @HunterJCullen @CUPCAKEWILLIAM6 @gregolear @clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra Howard Liebengood junior had responsibility for and immediate supervision of the Senate floor, Chamber, and galleries.

@DavidManOnFire @HunterJCullen @CUPCAKEWILLIAM6 @gregolear @clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra As we know, for the January 6 2021 coup attempt, the Capitol was not properly secured or prepared for the domestic terrorist invasion. Three days after the January 6 coup attempt, Howard Liebengood killed himself.

@DavidManOnFire @HunterJCullen @CUPCAKEWILLIAM6 @gregolear @clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra When Howard Liebengood senior worked as a lobbyist for Philip Morris, he was a connection of Paul Manafort.

@DavidManOnFire @HunterJCullen @CUPCAKEWILLIAM6 @gregolear @clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra Philip Morris has factories in Russia. pmi.com/markets/russia…

@DavidManOnFire @HunterJCullen @CUPCAKEWILLIAM6 @gregolear @clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra I bounced off @DavidManOnFire what I'd found on Stefan Bieret (Assistant to the U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms) and his marital status. I like to check partners and what they do/have. I realise that he's innocent of possession of child pornography until proven guilty but this is🔥

@DavidManOnFire @HunterJCullen @CUPCAKEWILLIAM6 @gregolear @clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra When someone's suspected of being involved in possession of child pornography, they're a key target for blackmail and can be convinced to provide information they have access to. On the other hand, they might be being set up.

@DavidManOnFire @HunterJCullen @CUPCAKEWILLIAM6 @gregolear @clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra When 41 year old Stefan Bieret's home was searched on Wednesday "multiple electronics" were recovered. He shares the house with his wife of seven years, an IBM executive in the area of Government & Regulatory Affairs.

@DavidManOnFire @HunterJCullen @CUPCAKEWILLIAM6 @gregolear @clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra Most recently, she was a Congressional Advisor in the State Department’s Bureau of Legislative Affairs, where she served as Congress’s point of contact on all Europe issues, including Russia, Ukraine, Brexit, Turkey, NATO, and the European Union.

@DavidManOnFire @HunterJCullen @CUPCAKEWILLIAM6 @gregolear @clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra She works on market access and global trade across a range of tech issues including, presumably, Hyperledger Fabric a blockchain framework that is taking on in China and Russia.

@DavidManOnFire @HunterJCullen @CUPCAKEWILLIAM6 @gregolear @clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra Hera Abbasi is a graduate of the USAF Air Command and Staff College. Languages include Spanish, Urdu, Arabic, and Latin. Travel experience includes a semester in Cairo, a summer in Morocco, two summers in South Asia, and several trips to Europe and East Asia. Brilliant career.

@DavidManOnFire @HunterJCullen @CUPCAKEWILLIAM6 @gregolear @clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra So, I'm not drawing any conclusions other than to mention that there are a few too many coincidences that dip into national security territory. @DavidManOnFire might like to add a few comments about what we've discovered.

@DavidManOnFire @HunterJCullen @CUPCAKEWILLIAM6 @gregolear @clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra As a Government & Regulatory Affairs Executive working on market access and global trade across a range of tech issues, her projects could include Hyperledger Fabric. Since 2019, this blockchain platform has been adopted by Russia - Potanin's Norilsk and the Ethereum Foundation

@DavidManOnFire @HunterJCullen @CUPCAKEWILLIAM6 @gregolear @clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra and China. In 2021, China launched the Blockchain-based Services Network (BSN), following its inclusion in the country’s national blockchain strategy in November 2019. The BSN itself is a permission chain forked from Hyperledger Fabric which is interoperable with public chains...

@DavidManOnFire @HunterJCullen @CUPCAKEWILLIAM6 @gregolear @clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra and other decentralised platforms including Hyperledger Fabric, Ethereum EOS, WeBan’s FISCO BCOS and Baidu’s Xuperchain.

@DavidManOnFire @HunterJCullen @CUPCAKEWILLIAM6 @gregolear @clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra Manafort-Liebengood-Tobacco Lobby-Philip Morris-Russia motherjones.com/politics/1996/…

@DavidManOnFire @HunterJCullen @CUPCAKEWILLIAM6 @gregolear @clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra I've prefaced this thread with the potential that Stefan Bieret could have been framed. Multiple electronics have been seized from his home. He should have his day in court. My other observations are mentioned in the hope that they'll be further investigated. Over to @DOJNatSec