Memo circulated among Trump allies advocated using NSA data in attempt to prove election fraud

[Nevilledog]

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Chris Krebs
@C_C_Krebs
Crazy people floating crazy coup ideas to a desperate wannabe despot, Chapter 59. This one is just dumb. Three randos seize raw Intel from the NSA and in three days do what exactly? Make it stop.

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Memo circulated among Trump allies advocated using NSA data in attempt to prove stolen election
The proposal to seize and analyze “NSA unprocessed raw signals data” raises legal and ethical concerns that set it apart from other attempts that have come to light.
7:39 AM · Feb 3, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/03/trump-nsa-election/

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https://archive.fo/Ig45R

The memo used the banal language of government bureaucracy, but the proposal it advocated was extreme: President Donald Trump should invoke the extraordinary powers of the National Security Agency and Defense Department to sift through raw electronic communications in an attempt to show that foreign powers had intervened in the 2020 election to help Joe Biden win.

Proof of foreign interference would “support next steps to defend the Constitution in a manner superior to current civilian-only judicial remedies,” argued the Dec. 18, 2020, memo, which was circulated among Trump allies.

The document, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post, laid out a plan for the president to appoint three men to lead this effort. One was a lawyer attached to a military intelligence unit; another was a veteran of the military who had been let go from his National Security Council job after claiming that Trump was under attack by deep-state forces including “globalists” and “Islamists.”

The third was a failed Republican congressional candidate, Michael Del Rosso, who sent a copy of the memo to Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), who confirmed to The Post he received the document from Del Rosso. An aide to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) also said his office received the document but declined to say who sent it. Del Rosso did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

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[tanyev]

1. And in three days Trump would rise from the dead.

Obviously.

[uponit7771]

2. We're SCREWED as a country if these people get back in control of anything.

[Miguelito Loveless]

3. Given the reticence

to punish these people, they will be back in charge soon.

[obamanut2012]

12. Just stop

No, they won't.

[Miguelito Loveless]

13. People keep telling me this and it gets worse every week.

[suegeo]

4. DJT wanted to split US Cyber Command and the NSA

An excerpt from this news article seems relevant:

[link:https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/defense-secretaries-letter-warning-trump-signed-days/story?id=75036788|]

"There's the firing of Esper right after the election, there's the installation of this cadre of political appointees around (acting Secretary of Defense Chris) Miller there, there's the rush for the exit in Afghanistan," Edelman said, also citing a reported attempt by the Trump administration to split U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency last month as well as Trump's controversial call with Georgia's secretary of state on Saturday.

They were conspiring to overthrow Democracy at least as far back as December. (Yes, I know their plotting goes back much much further...)

[Deep State Witch]

8. Fortunately

There was enough pushback on that little adventure to stall it. I may have been getting ready to retire by then, but I wasn't totally checked out.

[suegeo]

10. Another douche bag mentioned in the article: Frank Colon

Frank Colon was another nut bar who would help lead the project to use/steal the NSA's data.

Colon is/was an army attorney with cyber expertise at Fort Meade, where US Cyber Command is head quartered.

He was mentioned in Mike Lindell's "magnified memo" while Lindell visited the West Wing.

[link:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/frank-colon-who-mike-lindell-wants-for-a-coup-is-confused.html|]

In bold at the top it reads: “Frank Colon as acting National Security.” Colon is described as an attorney with “cyber … expertise” associated with “Fort Mead[e],” where U.S. Cyber Command is headquartered.

[peggysue2]

5. And this is what needs to be revealed to the public in a harrowing, dramatic manner

How far Trump and his sycophants were willing to go to retain power and bring our democratic Republic crashing down around our ears.

I listened to Claire McCaskill last night on the ReidOut. IMO she nailed it in how narrow the window is to engage the American public on what happened before, during and after January 6th. Because we all know if the GOP takes over Congress at the end of the year, the January 6 Committee will be shut down.

McCaskill made an important point in delineating the public's awareness of the facts: Thirty percent of the public won't believe anything the Committee reveals; thirty percent of the public is keeping up on the facts; the remaining percentage is not paying attention, at least not yet.

It's the latter group that must be engaged, stirred up by the near-miss coup that Trump orchestrated and all the horror that would have resulted. These Americans need to be interrupted from their daily worries, responsibilities to understand what nearly happened and could happen again.

The sooner we get to public hearings and massive headlines and further DOJ involvement the better.

Time is ticking away; this is a deadline we cannot miss.

[suegeo]

6. Claremont Institute Rat: Michael Del Rosso was the failed GOP candidate

Wingnut alert!!! Claremont Institute is a rat's nest of seditionists!

The WA post article points out that Del Rosso is the failed GOP candidate who was to carry out the plot to use NSA data to overturn the 2020 election.

Del Rosso is a fellow at the Claremont Institute, where John Eastman is a senior fellow.

[link:https://wina.com/news/064460-third-republican-enters-5th-race/|]

A third announced candidate has entered the race for the Republican nomination for the 5th District congressional seat. Michael Del Rosso is a technology executive and fellow at the Claremont Institute and Center for Security Policy.

THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE is a rat's nest of fascists.

[link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_Institute|]

The institute was an early defender of Donald Trump.[3] After Joe Biden won the 2020 election and Donald Trump refused to concede while making claims of fraud, Claremont Institute senior fellow John Eastman aided Trump in his failed attempts to overturn the election results.[4][5] In 2021, the Claremont Institute published an essay written by one of its senior fellows which called for a "counter-revolution" against the "majority of people living in the United States today [who] can no longer be considered fellow citizens".

[Deep State Witch]

7. And Now We Know

Why TFG had forced in an appointee into the NSA Inspector General's office.

[Baked Potato]

9. Yes, this ⬆️ It was Michael Ellis I think. They had a plan. Nt

[obamanut2012]

11. They received it and didn't report it?!

Fuck them.

They could have sent it anonymously to CNN or WP.

[moondust]

14. Reeks of Flynn.

These ideas of using the National Guard, NSA, etc., sound very much like the kind of stuff a corrupt ex-military and ex-IC nutjob would propose.

Former Trump Adviser Michael Flynn Says Myanmar-Like Coup “Should Happen” in U.S.