Thread by @DawsonSField

What if I told you Durham's suspects, who were illegally accessing government databases to spy on Trump & his associates, may also have had the ability to spy on secure & classified FBI communications & investigative files?
#Neustar #RodneyJoffe #Spygate
#ButNothingsHappening

Durham's indictment of Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman exposed that one of his other client's Rodney Joffe, illegally accessed govt databases to spy on Trump & his associates during the 2016 election. Data they claimed to have found in public data.

https://twitter.com/DawsonSField/status/1446549691961856005?s=20&t=sPknRmKXb1jnuXiTZUu5LQ

Due to efforts by the FIS Court & others, the NSA's was forced to give up it's collection of American's phone data. In 2015, this data holding was outsourced to a contractor that a variety of evidence indicates to be Neustar where Joffe was CTO.

https://twitter.com/DawsonSField/status/1446616770656231427?s=20&t=sPknRmKXb1jnuXiTZUu5LQ

Neustar provides contracted services at the NSA's Utah Data Center. US Attorney Huber was investigating illegal access to NSA's data in Utah. But his case was later combined with Durham's case investigating alleged leaks from FBI HQ.

https://twitter.com/DawsonSField/status/1441094231854968835?s=20&t=sPknRmKXb1jnuXiTZUu5LQ

There is a huge intersection between contractors with illegal access to FBI systems including FISA & spying upon Trump that was later blamed on FBI.

But what if FBI was being spied upon too?

https://twitter.com/DawsonSField/status/1441098381825241091?s=20&t=sPknRmKXb1jnuXiTZUu5LQ

The FBI uses a secure internet system known as FBINet or FBI Secure Enclave for confidential & classified systems. Classified email, Sentinel (all FBI investigation case files, 302s, evidence, reports) personnel records & access to the DOD's SIPRnet classified systems.

A link provided by @BabeWictor lead me to FBI contracts for a secure VPN system provided by, Neustar where Chief Technology Officer Rodney Joffe worked until Sussman's indictment!

I expanded the search for all of their DOJ contracts from 2008-2022. usaspending.gov/search/?hash=6…

I have been unable to confirm if this secure network is for all FBI secure networking, or for specific portions of classified networks such as FISA or SIPRnet.
All of the contracts from 2010-2017 were awarded as no bid contracts that only a single source (Neustar) could provide.

Neustar had public & certainly classified contracts with a variety of DOD entities including NSA, DARPA, DISA (SIPRnet), & others.
So this may be Neustar providing a VPN into those systems or the VPN for all FBI secure system.

The problem being that FBI did not have safeguards.

We know that these were secure law enforcement sensitive systems that were being connected to the VPN. Multiple DOJ law enforcement agencies used Neustar some billing as law enforcement activities.
FBI: 3/30/10-3/30/18
DEA: 4/25/11-2/4/18
USMS: 6/13/12-2/1/18
ATF: 9/30/14-9/29/17

From 2010-2014 these agencies adopted Neustar to provide their VPN, then suddenly stopped.
The last single source contract was awarded on 9/1/17.
Then all contracts expired between 9/29/17 & 3/30/18.

What changed between 9/1/17 when Neustar was the only company & 9/29/17?

DOJ Office of Inspector General issued a classified report on 9/22/17 reviewing the FBI's Insider Threat Program.
1 of it's main focuses as you can see in this unclassified version: FBI has little oversight to detect access to their classified networks.
oversight.gov/sites/default/…

No one at FBI 'owns' many of these systems leaving them vulnerable that no one is watching when an insider (or an imposter with an insiders credentials) is accessing classified information. Nor are there User Activity Monitoring logs to detect & document access to classified nets

There is no explanation of what specifically triggered this investigation, but the OIG review focused on the time period of April 2014 through March 2017.
Which correlates with most of the access potentially involved in #Spygate & other issues.

DOJ OIG's latest update as of 12/31/21 shows that FBI still has not completed all of the projects to ensure that FBI can detect illicit access by an FBI agent or contractor with access to their classified systems. oig.justice.gov/sites/default/…

So how would you at FBI & DOJ investigate Spygate, knowing that FBI contractors could be reading (or editing) FBI secure communications & documents?
Would you let them think their efforts to frame Trump had succeeded & conduct the real investigations after you cleaned them out?

One thing from that 2017 Audit was quickly resolved...

In Sept. 2017, FBI Counterintelligence Division agreed to start regularly briefing OIG on Insider Threat investigations focused on Counterespionage!

FBI employees or contractors spying on the US of A!