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Exclusive: A much deeper look at the story of the 2016 Trump-Alfa Bank suspicions thrust onto center stage by special counsel John Durham's indictment of a cybersecurity lawyer -- and filling in a lot of gaps. w/ @adamgoldmanNYT nytimes.com/2021/09/30/us/politics/trump-alfa-bank-indictment.html
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For 5 years, the identities of the data experts who identified the odd cyber links and theorized they could be covert Trump-Russia communications have been shrouded. They are April Lorenzen, Rodney Joffe & two Georgia Tech computer scientists, Manos Antonakakis and David Dagon./2
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The indictment referred to "updated allegations" taken to some agency in February 2017. They also found data suggesting Yotaphones--Russian smartphones rarely seen in the US--were being used inside networks for Trump Tower, Spectrum Health, & the White House, and told the CIA./3
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Durham's indictment had political reverberations bc it insinuated the researchers did not really believe what they said. Their lawyers say they did believe it (& still do) and said he misleadingly cherrypicked doubts raised for discussion while omitting how they were resolved./4