Is The Special Counsel Investigating The People Who Watch You Online?

This revelation raises concerns that the man referred to in special counsel documents as Tech Executive-1, Rodney Joffe, may have shared sensitive government and private internet data more broadly than previously thought.

Joffe's role in Spygate represents one of the most recent developments exposed by the Special Counsel's office.

According to the indictment, by July 2016, a computer researcher, now known to be April Lorenzen, "Had assembled purported DNS data reflecting apparent DNS lookups between Russian Bank-1 and an email domain, 'mail1.trump-email.com." Lorenzen, according to Durham's team, shared the information with Joffe and others, and Joffe told Sussmann about the data.

While the indictment focused mainly on Joffe's alleged exploitation of data to craft the Alfa Bank-Trump hoax, a subsequent filing by Durham revealed Joffe "And his associates" had also "Exploited his access to non-public and/or proprietary Internet data" to track internet traffic at the Trump Tower, Donald Trump's Central Park West apartment building, and the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

Equally significant was the special counsel's assertion that Joffe "Exploited his access to non-public and/or proprietary Internet data," including data Joffe's then-internet company had come to access "As part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS resolution services to the." The exploitation by Joffe of sensitive government or private data to target a political enemy should shock everyone.

"What about the sensitive data Joffe had provided to Georgia Tech researchers: Did he also provide that data to Ops-Trust members? What about other government data Joffe or other members of Ops-Trust had access to? And what about the law enforcement members of Ops-Trust or the"three-letter federal agencies? Did any of them share in the research project targeting Trump?

While the special counsel's office appears focused on the data Joffe provided to Georgia Tech, The New Yorker's attempt to get ahead of the story of Joffe's small band of dedicated "Guardians of the internet" suggests that is where the real story lies.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/23/lets-hope-the-special-counsel-and-others-are-investigating-the-people-who-watch-you-online/