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pdsimdars

(6,007 posts) Wed Dec 12, 2018, 09:45 AM Dec 2018

Company bidding to store US nuclear codes has links to sanctioned Russian oligarch

A technology company linked to a sanctioned Russian oligarch is among the bidders for a Pentagon contract to store sensitive data — possibly even U.S. nuclear codes.

Viktor Vekselberg, who is close to the Kremlin and has ties to former Trump organization attorney Michael Cohen, also has links to one of the bidders for the cyber-cloud database called the JEDI project, reported the BBC.

The Russian oligarch has links to the cyber-investment firm C5 Group, which has worked closely with the leading bidder, Amazon Web Services.

Both C5 and AWS told the BBC that the Vekselber-linked investment firm was not involved in any way with the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure bid.

All bids for the cloud are sealed, and the Pentagon refused to comment on the report.

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned Vekselberg under the Magnitsky Act for his links to the Kremlin, and he was questioned by agents working for special counsel Robert Mueller — who also seized his electronic devices.

Vekselberg, a Putin friend who founded the Renova Group investment firm, was also a business partner of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross through the Bank of Cyprus.

The JEDI would hold military data — including classified details about weapons systems, military personnel, intelligence and operations — held in a storage cloud, rather than smaller servers across different departments at the Pentagon.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/company-bidding-store-us-nuclear-codes-links-sanctioned-russian-oligarch/

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Company bidding to store US nuclear codes has links to sanctioned Russian oligarch (Original Post) pdsimdars Dec 2018 OP

It never ends........ nt Guy Whitey Corngood Dec 2018 #1

Hint: I write Horror and Science Fiction... Zoonart Dec 2018 #2

If there are any grown ups in the room, that has to be a hard No, right? Iggo Dec 2018 #3

Wow, imagine that - our nuclear codes! FM123 Dec 2018 #4

Another agenda item for Democrats in the House next month dalton99a Dec 2018 #5

Because of course. Is anyone in this entire administration not linked to Russia? dewsgirl Dec 2018 #6

How absurd. It gets more ludicrous by the day. Firestorm49 Dec 2018 #7

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,848 posts)

1. It never ends........ nt

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Wed Dec 12, 2018, 09:47 AM

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Zoonart

(14,628 posts)

2. Hint: I write Horror and Science Fiction...

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Wed Dec 12, 2018, 09:48 AM

Dec 2018

YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP!

Iggo

(50,056 posts)

3. If there are any grown ups in the room, that has to be a hard No, right?

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Wed Dec 12, 2018, 09:49 AM

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FM123

(10,385 posts)

4. Wow, imagine that - our nuclear codes!

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Wed Dec 12, 2018, 09:50 AM

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dalton99a

(95,269 posts)

5. Another agenda item for Democrats in the House next month

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Wed Dec 12, 2018, 09:52 AM

Dec 2018

dewsgirl

(14,965 posts)

6. Because of course. Is anyone in this entire administration not linked to Russia?

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Wed Dec 12, 2018, 09:57 AM

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Firestorm49

(4,565 posts)

7. How absurd. It gets more ludicrous by the day.

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Wed Dec 12, 2018, 11:34 AM

Dec 2018

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