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        1. 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
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      We obtained some of the emails the indictment selectively quoted from or described in paraphrase and compared them. There are places in which Durham's portrayal suggested tepid support for what they were preparing to say, when the actual text was gung-ho and fully on board./5
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API