THREAD: I am absolutely THRILLED the @WSJ is now digging into the details of the Alfa Bank data sharing here. h/t @McAdooGordon. Authors @ByronTau @dnvolz hit several key points that I reported on earlier but also missed several leads. 1/ wsj.com/articles/durha…
2/ They report on emails from GA Tech Right to Know (which I believe I was first reporter to obtain), but miss some of details elaborated on here in piece w/ assist by @Techno_Fog thefederalist.com/2021/11/17/ema…
3/ For those interested in the actual emails showing timing of the contract with DARPA.
https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1493980429766041601and
https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1493727304807325696Read those in conjunction with the above article showing data search requests. And also who they were going to in connection w/ yesterday
4/ Yesterday's transcript of dep of Joffe provides investigative trails to follow along with theo FOIA emails w/ a big ole h/t to @FOOL_NELSON and @RyanM58699717 who posted on deps release. 
5/ But 2 huge points missed in @WSJ piece concern Ops-Trust. Really key point to connect to privacy concerns on which they wrote. Details here, but again, this was team effort w/ @RyanM58699717 pulling those FOIA & @FOOL_NELSON catching Ops-Trust email. thefederalist.com/2022/02/23/let…
7/ Second HUGE point missed in @WSJ connecting to privacy was that that data mining they cover didn't involve just Joffe---Sussmann---CIA/FBI, but in MARCH 2016 also involved Sussmann taking similar data to DOJ's INSPECTOR GENERAL (top guy in OIG). thefederalist.com/2022/01/31/spe…
8/ And that second point reveals another HUGE point related to SpyGate (not these reporters wheelhouse but worty of broader coverage): The DOJ OIG WITHHELD reports on that meeting from Durham & expressly said there wasn't any more materials. (Covered in that article too.)
9/ Circling back now to the Ops-Trust and yesterday's deposition. Alfa's attorneys asked Joffe about the "Union of Concerned Nerds," which was Camp's self-depricating joke about the group. But note Joffe said he didn't belong to any organization.
10/ Compare Joffe's testimony to thefederalist.com/2022/02/23/let… discussion of Ops-Trust and Ops-Trust email Joffe forwarded to Manos.
11/11 So great reporting but given @ByronTau @dnvolz beat is tech and privacy I hope they follow up the Ops-Trust angle. My email to one of their top guys went unanswered as did my emails to lawyers for Joffe, April, Manos, and Dagon.
Post-Bad: Not bad beating the @WSJ by more than 3 months on story given I'm only a "hack" as one of the GA Tech researchers lawyers called me in an email @RyanM58699717 obtained in one of his Right to Know Requests...and since it's my schtick...
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