Breaking - this has just blown wide open - WH pressuring the Pentagon to give contract

[malaise]

to Rivada.
Tapper says Pentagon is resisting - lots of ReTHUGs are invested in said company.

https://www.lightreading.com/5g/what-trump!-president-calls-for-national-5g-network/a/d-id/763449

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/karl-rove-and-a-pitch-for-a-nationwide-5g-network-tailored-to-trumps-2020-campaign

[Mike 03]

1. Rivada - Wiki

Rivada Networks is part of a joint venture with Port Graham Development Corporation called Rivada Port Graham Solutions.[6] In April 2012, Rivada Port Graham Solutions was one of 30 prime contractors awarded a contract on the US Secret Service's $3 billion Tactical Communications (TACCOM) contract for the US Department of Homeland Security. Contractors received contracts in one or multiple technical categories, and each indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract has a 2-year base and three 1-year options. Some of the technical categories on the contract include portable/mobile radios, control/base stations, software, upgrades, repeaters, routers, comparator systems, engineering, design, installations, maintenance, frequency managers, spectrum managers and test equipment.[7][8]

In May 2016 it was disclosed that Rivada Networks had partnered with Harris Corporation, Ericsson, Nokia, Intel Security, Fujitsu Network Communications, and Black & Veatch to form Rivada Mercury. Rivada Mercury unsuccessfully bid to build a nationwide LTE network in the 700 MHz spectrum licensed to FirstNet.[9][10]

In 2019, Rivada Networks employed Karl Rove, a former Bush administration official, as a lobbyist.[4][3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivada_Networks

Website:

https://www.rivada.com/

[dalton99a]

2. +1

[malaise]

4. Looks like they know they are losing the election

and want to push this through

[Mike 03]

8. Exactly!

I think Jake Tapper said that it suddenly became an urgent matter in September.

They are going for the final grift!

I wonder how many millions in last-minute campaign "donations" came through to Trump over this, from investors and people on the board and upper management.

[BComplex]

38. So I guess they are the ones Rove used to mess with the electronic voting machines to make

republicans win, not only the presidency, but house and senate seats as well.

None of the exit polls were agreeing with the electronic totals for so many years.

Maybe they're trying to get this through before Nov. 3, so they can pulls some of their spycraft out of their asses again.

[malaise]

39. Down Memory Lane

https://www.projectcensored.org/12-mysterious-death-of-mike-connell-karl-roves-election-thief/

Karl Rove’s chief IT consultant, Mike Connell—who was facing subpoena in connection with 2004 Presidential election fraud in Ohio—mysteriously died in a private plane crash in 2008. Connell was allegedly the central figure in a longstanding plot to electronically flip votes to Republicans.

In July 2008, Connell was named as a key witness in the case known as King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association v. Blackwell, which was filed against Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth J. Blackwell on August 31, 2006 by Columbus attorneys Clifford Arnebeck and Robert Fitrakis. It initially charged Blackwell with racially discriminatory practices—including the selective purging of voters from the election rolls and the unequal allocation of voting machines to various districts—and asked for measures to be taken to prevent similar problems during the November 2006 election.

On October 9, 2006, an amended complaint added charges of various forms of ballot rigging as also having the effect of “depriving the plaintiffs of their voting rights, including the right to have their votes successfully cast without intimidation, dilution, cancellation or reversal by voting machine or ballot tampering.” A motion to dismiss the case as moot was filed following the November 2006 election, but it was instead stayed to allow for settlement discussions.

The case took on fresh momentum in July 2008 when Arnebeck announced that he was filing to “lift the stay in the case and proceed with targeted discovery in order to help protect the integrity of the 2008 election.” The new filing was inspired in part by the coming forward as a whistleblower of GOP IT security expert Stephen Spoonamore, who said he was prepared to testify to the plausibility of electronic vote-rigging having been carried out in 2004. The stay was lifted September 19, 2008 and Connell was served a subpoena on September 22.

[BComplex]

41. This issue has never been resolved, nor has it further been looked at. But with Karl Rove and Newt

Gingrich in the mix, this whole thing stinks worse than anything I've heard in 10 years.

[2naSalit]

3. K&R

Seems like gaining control over our phones and internet/cable access for consolidation.

[jpak]

5. The Swamp wants to drain your bandwidth

Fucking corrupt Trump Party.

Who are the investors?

Trump Party Big Names

Can you say KKKarl?

Yup

[Frustratedlady]

6. How would this be the end of the GOP?

Being "in" on something big and making money off it is Repuke MO and rarely is anything done to them. Right, Martha? At least she spent time.

[mucifer]

7. Sounds like Halliburton. It's corruption that somehow doesn't hurt politicians

I hope we win so we can change things.

[CaptYossarian]

18. I still see the first incarnation of Halliburton in Catch-22.

Erik Prince is Milo, an unscrupulous war profiteer who pretends to love America. He only loves getting away with it. Too bad we never met Milo's sister in the book or the movie.

[debsy]

9. Looks like the Dems are on this already...

[link:https://thehill.com/policy/defense/520386-democrats-inquiry-pentagon-5g-national-network|]

[malaise]

10. Thanks for this link

[debsy]

19. Thanks for posting this!

I hadn't even heard of Rivada until this post. It doesn't surprise me that Karl Rove is behind this. He and DJT are completely woven of the same scum!

[mercuryblues]

11. My question

Would this move give the government access to everyone's cell phone data in the US?

[malaise]

12. DU tech and legal experts can weigh in - I am not one of them

Last edited Tue Oct 20, 2020, 07:56 PM - Edit history (1)

[mercuryblues]

32. I hope they will

But it seems logical. The government owns that bandwidth. They will be just leasing it out to Rivada, who in turn will be subletting it out to the telcoms.

Now say someone like trump, has a problem with people protesting against him, he will have the authority to shut down the service in the name of a national emergency. The next step would be to find out who was organizing the protests AKA dissidents in trumpland. If the government owns the network, will warrants be necessary? trump has already ordered extra-judicial killings, this will give him or someone like him the means to further his agenda.

[malaise]

33. Can't believe I wrote way

[mercuryblues]

34. Eye can't believe eye didn't spot that

[malaise]

35. LOL

ma rolled in her grave
My young students would love that

[Sherman A1]

13. So much winning

at least for some perhaps.....

[Trumpocalypse]

30. FYI

[Midnight Writer]

14. Is this one of those deals where Trump calls the CEO and say "What can I do for you"?

[mysteryowl]

15. They make corrupt deals on the side all the time, I would assume.

This is but one of those corrupt promises as payment for something someone else got.

Our dysfunctional government must be overhauled!

[BComplex]

40. Because I fear they'll have access to the voting machine data that is going to be sent over the

wires on election day.

This is how Karl Rove cheats. And that's why it's so important that they do it "IMMEDIATELY".

This stinks to high hell.

[Upthevibe]

16. Kick....n/t

[Deb]

17. If true, what bids were offered or are they magically not necessary?

I'm so sick of suckling GOP politicians.

[superpatriotman]

20. Peter Theil-backed

https://fortune.com/2019/04/08/5g-rivada-networks-peter-thiel/

[malaise]

24. Great link

Thanks

[usaf-vet]

21. Duh,Duh, Duh!!!! what do you think these grifters have been doing for nearly 4 years.......

.....STEALING EVERY FU*KING dollars they can while NO ONE including the responsible GOP Congressional members who aren't doing their required oversite.

They are all trying to enrich themselves on the back of everyday taxpayers.

WHEN BIDEN and HARRIS win, they need to investigate every former member of the 45's administration.

Prosecute them to the full extent of the law. Additionally, we should claw back every penny we can find.

And finally, ANYONE who refuses to respect a Congressional subpoena THROW THEIR ASS IN JAIL UNTIL THEY DO!

WE NEED to demonstrate that we are not just going to walk away.

[ffr]

22. Absolutely! To stop future grifting while as an elected official

We need to fit the penalty to the crime.

It's slammer time!

[hadEnuf]

23. Well said!

[calimary]

27. THIS, THIS, THIS!!!!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

28. Well, there are already editorials popping up saying that if Dems win they must not

prosecute, or even investigate, those crimes. After all, it would just seem partisan, and Dems aren't perfect either. Blah blah blah blah blah.

Damnit, someone posted it here on DU, but I can't find it.

[not_the_one]

36. And THAT will be the death of the democratic party.

If there is no accountability, I, for one, will take my ball and go home. After voting republican my first vote, in 1976, for Ford over Carter, because I didn't trust a "pastor" in the white house, I recognized the error of my ways, and never looked back. Dem ever since.

I'm sure there are a lot of boomers left who feel the same way. You want to see a mass exodus? DO NOTHING.

[usaf-vet]

37. EXACTLY! DO NOTHING IS NOT and I repeat IS NOT AN OPTION. Be the real Law and Order party......

.... the repugs have shown that they are NOT and will break any law to get what they want.

Take that tattered and ripped flag away from the lawless GOP and claim the right to it.

If some democrats fall because they have broken laws, SO BE IT.

Going forward, the country needs an honest government.

[malaise]

29. Agree

This is a kakistocracy on steroids

[noneof_theabove]

25. For the past

3 years and 10 months only tRump has delayed immunity until Jan 21.

The rest of the cartel, Uday & Usay, McTurtle and others should already be in jail.

But those that aren't beware of Thu 21 Jan

[malaise]

26. +1,000

[WyattKansas]

31. Wasn't 5G a bigly QAnon conspiracy theory to control peoples minds and screw them up???

Yet they are okay with Donald Dumbass getting his fraudulent paws on it?

[malaise]

42. You know how that goes

It's always OK when it's ReTHUGs