Showing posts with label unmasking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unmasking. Show all posts

Monday, July 9, 2018

Zero Hedge — Researchers Unmask Anonymous Twitter Accounts With 97% Accuracy Using Machine Learning


The take-away.
A single tweet reportedly contains 144 fields of metadata, according to RT.
"That’s the mentality with metadata," the study’s lead co-author Beatrice Perez of University College London told Wired. "People think it’s not a big deal."
Something to remember when the intel agencies say that they are "just" collecting metadata and not reading text.

Zero Hedge
Researchers Unmask Anonymous Twitter Accounts With 97% Accuracy Using Machine Learning
Tyler Durden

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Claire Zillman — How Obama’s National Security Advisor Landed at the Center of Trump’s Wiretapping Claims


What we know so far is that Susan Rice did receive unredacted intelligence reports in which US citizens names were revealed ("unmasked"). 

Rice admits this and adding that it was not illegal to do so and no political use was made of the information. She points out that "unmasking" is not leaking, which is illegal, and she asserts that she did not leak anyone's name.

Who leaked Michael Flynn's name to David Ignatius, who then wrote in the New York Times about Flynn's meetings with the Russian ambassador, remains unknown. 

Since this information improperly identifying Flynn publicly was obtained through intelligence, it is a felony offense punishable by a prison sentence of up to ten years.

Presently, I have not seen a comprehensive non-partisan objective analysis of the situation. The alternative is piecing together a scenario using different sources.

This is complicated by Trump proponents and the Obama/Clinton proponents spinning the story oppositionally and sometime in a contradictory way. So it is difficult to tease out where the truth may lie in these narratives whose purpose is to dominate the news cycle.

It has been established, however, that the Obama administration had specific intelligence about the Trump team, which had previously not been established. What they did with it is so far unclear, as it the identity of the leaker(s). 

Fortune
How Obama’s National Security Advisor Landed at the Center of Trump’s Wiretapping Claims
Claire Zillman

Monday, April 3, 2017

Zero Hedge — Cernovich Explains How He Learned About Susan Rice

Ever since Mike Cernovich dropped the bombshell report over the weekend outing Obama's National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, as the person behind the unmasking of the identity of various members of Trump's team who were 'incidentally' surveilled during the 2016 campaign (see "Confirmed: Susan Rice "Unmasked" Trump Team"), a report which was subsequently confirmed by Eli Lake of Bloomberg earlier this morning, everyone has been wondering who within the Trump White House or the intelligence community supplied him with such a massive scoop.

But, as it turns out, Cernovich didn't need a 'deep throat' within the NSA or CIA for his blockbuster scoop, all he needed was some well-placed sources inside of a couple of America's corrupt mainstream media outlets. As Cernovich explains below, his sources for the Susan Rice story were actually folks working at Bloomberg and the New York Times who revealed that both Eli Lake (Bloomberg) and Maggie Haberman (NYT) were sitting on the Susan Rice story in order to protect the Obama administration....
Zero Hedge
Cernovich Explains How He Learned About Susan Rice
Tyler Durden

Eli Lake — Top Obama Adviser Sought Names of Trump Associates in Intel


The plot thickens. Susan Rice in the spotlight.

Bloomberg
Top Obama Adviser Sought Names of Trump Associates in Intel
Eli Lake