This article is *strongly* suggesting that a Kremlin insider with knowledge of the 2016 DNC hacks is turning coats and might help American intelligence. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Interesting @emptywheel piece suggesting that U.S. interest in Klyushin might have something to do with the Trump campaign strategy/polling data shared with Russian intelligence via Manafort/Gates ---> Kilimnik
I think this is a key point from @Mike_Eckel back in September: Klyushin is reportedly close to Gromov who 1) De facto runs the Kremlin's propaganda empire 2) Was sanctioned on the same day as Kilimnik and 3) has a son in business with Deripaska.
@Mike_Eckel Klyushin's insight into Gromov's activity would be a goldmine for American intelligence.
"Gromov leads the Kremlin’s use of its media apparatus that sought to exacerbate tensions in the United States by discrediting the 2020 U.S. election process." home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…
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.@forensicnewsnet is currently under a sustained, large DDoS attack.
@forensicnewsnet We experienced an absolute crush of requests in a very small time period on one of our articles. The traffic is largely coming from the US and the UAE.
@forensicnewsnet Just learned that Lin Wood posted one of our articles in his Telegram channel. This brought a ton of suspicious activity to the site.
@ImagineWorldas1 conducted a study looking at the corporations and organizations that gave the most money to the explosion of restrictive pieces of state legislation in 2021.
@ImagineWorldas1@forensicnewsnet This isn't about pushing a political agenda or ideology, this is about transparency. The public deserves to know which companies/orgs are pouring cash into anti-democracy bills in statehouses.
It reminds me that we never figured out the identity/details of the unnamed Israeli in Roger Stone's search warrant documents who allegedly tried to get the Trump team "critical intel" during the 2016 campaign.
And that Michael Flynn worked for NSO during the 2016 campaign.
NEWS: The FBI's most senior counterintelligence officer in New York left his position in 2018 and by 2019 he helped a top aide to Oleg DERIPASKA find a law firm and "business intelligence consultants" according to new Foreign Agent paperwork: forensicnews.net/retired-top-fb…
The foreign agent paperwork (first spotted by the amazing @WendySiegelman) was filed by a man named Sergey SHESTAKOV. I was able to establish, via multiple open-source intelligence tricks, that he is a former high-ranking Soviet diplomat.
Shestakov says he, with the assistance of Charles MCGONIGAL, the former Special Agent in Charge of Counterintelligence for the New York Office, connected the Deripaska aide Yevgenyi FOKIN to a US law firm and "business intelligence consultants"
A former defense contractor has been arrested after an 18-month long espionage sting operating. He attempted to sell classified info to a man he thought was a Russian government agent. It was an undercover FBI agent. justice.gov/opa/pr/former-…