1/Multiple sources have confirmed to me that the Kremlin was in direct contact with Musk in 2020, and that the USIC was made aware of that fact at the time.
2/It is entirely likely he was “in network” prior to that through people like Dana Rohrabacher, with whom he was close. And there is some evidence to suggest Musk was involved as far back as 2016-2017.
3/So while it is difficult to say exactly when he was drawn into this operation, we can say with high confidence that it wasn’t recent, or a product of buying Twitter, or due to woke; the Kremlin activated him in 2020 and the USIC knew of the contact then.
4/Anyone credible who is working on this, please feel free to reach out for more info. davetroy.69 on Signal. Thanks.
It’s almost unbelievable to me that this was all known in 2020 — and I know this because I knew it, and I know the IC knew — and we did nothing about it. Yet here we are with a 5+ alarm fire a week before an election with a collapsed press and a feckless DOJ.
See this thread (the whole thing) for more info on the Musk/Rohrabacher bromance.
https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1584182727750062082
For those wondering “how could this happen” the simplest answer I can give you is that we basically quit doing serious counterintelligence after the Church Committee changes in the 70’s. While we still go after egregious cases where we have good intel, from what I’ve seen personally , “hot” cases (like Musk) that would make waves tend to get dropped under pressure from above, or slow-walked.
One can make a compelling argument that our lurch towards leniency was itself a product of active measures. But you also have clear FBI corruption, such as we have seen with McGonigal. Based on what I’ve seen, he is far from being unique; he’s just the one that got caught.
For those thinking my claims here are new or manufactured, do not miss the recent WSJ reporting making claims going back to 2022. I am merely asserting that we know this goes back further thanks to my own knowledge plus new corroborating sources.
wsj.com/world/russia/m…
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