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My guess is, the Spectrum Health-TOR exit node fairy tale was conjured up by "the Tea Leaves folks" sometime between late August 2016 and early September 2016.
ALFA:
What does the subject line FM FF refer to? Does FF refer to Frankling Foer? Does FM refer to Fergus McIntosh? McIntosh is the New Yorker fact checker who worked with Dexter Filkins, correct? Does this email refer to the server allegations?
ALFA:
Did you author the contents of this email? Why did you send it to yourself? At the end of the email, it says that the spam theory used to criticize your reporting should be discounted. Why did you believe the spam theory should be discounted?
ALFA:
The first paragraph also says, In this case, the DNS data is from a Metron meeting banking session. What was the DNS data referred to here? What is the database theory? Criticism 1 says the Metron app was used by Trump/Alfa/Spectrum. How did you determine that? #Fritsch
ALFA:
Mr. Fritsch, this is an email with Matthew Mosk, dated October 24. And you say, Are you able to send me whatever Alfa, Trump and Mandiant have sent you. I want to see if Laura [Seago] and the Krypt3ia blogger can unpack their explanations.
ALFA:
So it says, Any idea what he's talking about regarding encrypted emails? And your response is, No, but the email traffic cited by those Tea Leaves folks. So you refer to the Tea Leaves folks in the plural, correct? Who are you referring to when you say Tea Leaves folks?
ALFA:
So if you keep reading, it says, Those Tea Leaves folks almost certainly would have been encrypted. You don't reconfigure a mail server to make MX look-ups look like a look-up and then plant a tor exit node on someone's server and then not encrypt the email.
"There's something that the President said that's been sticking in my mind since last week. When people first started asking him about this idea, this conversation, with Zelensky, he said, 'Keep on climbing,' basically, 'up this ladder of this story...'"
"'...because you're going to fall a long way when the truth comes out.' And there's a little piece of me that's wondering if this is all orchestrated to bring everybody down who's seeking impeachment. That may be giving them too much credit. I dunno. But that stuck in my mind..."
"...what he said about 'Keep on pursuing this story because you're all gonna end up with egg on your face.' So when that transcript comes out tomorrow, I think that's gonna tell the story of whether the President really did something wrong, or everybody was just chasing a ghost."