and they made fun of Trump University
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The Pentagon's elite 'SWAT team of nerds' are the reason a Florida company took over a huge chunk of government internet space
gdean@insider.com (Grace Dean) 10 hrs ago
An unknown Florida company reportedly controls a huge chunk of the internet thanks to the Pentagon.
The Pentagon's Defense Digital Service (DDS) team told AP it's running the project to boost security.
The DDS' director calls it a "SWAT team of nerds." It also cyber-protected the US' vaccine efforts.
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An unknown Florida company reportedly took control of a substantial portion of the internet owned by the Pentagon, all thanks to a project run by an elite team of government "hoodies, hackers, and nerds."
Just three minutes before President Donald Trump's term in office ended, Global Resource Systems LLC took over a slice of government internet space through a Department of Defense (DoD) project, The Washington Post first reported.
Since then, the company has increased the number of IP addresses it manages for the Pentagon to about 175 million, The Post reported. That share is bigger than those owned by both Comcast and AT&T.
This is part of a pilot project run by the Pentagon's Defense Digital Service (DDS), according to The Post. This was corroborated by the Associated Press.
The DDS wouldn't say what exactly the project involved, but said it hoped that it would help prevent unauthorized use of DoD internet space and identify potential vulnerabilities, per AP.
In 2020, Brett Goldstein, the service's director, described the DDS as a "SWAT team of nerds" designed to tackle some of the department's biggest problems. It partnered with the National Security Agency to cyber-protect Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration's COVID-19 vaccine development program, and developed a prototype for a biometric app that lets soldiers identify others nearby when in combat, among other projects.
"At the end of the day, everything we do at DDS is to save lives," the DDS says on its website. "No one else is coming, and it's up to us. We have the ability to make a difference in the most important way."
> 2020, Brett Goldstein, the service's director, described the DDS as a "SWAT team of nerds" designed to tackle some of the department's biggest problems. It partnered with the National Security Agency to cyber-protect Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration's COVID-19 vaccine development program, and developed a prototype for a biometric app that lets soldiers identify others nearby when in combat, among other projects.
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‘Utter nonsense’: Blinken defends Kerry from GOP attacks following Iran leak claim
Joel Gehrke 3 hrs ago
Secretary of State Antony Blinken dismissed allegations that John Kerry revealed Israeli military secrets to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, rejecting a chorus of criticisms building in the wake of a leaked audio.
“These things were so secret that they were all reported in the press at the time,” Blinken told CNN’s Jake Tapper during a Tuesday interview. “So it is utter nonsense, and it’s really unfortunate that people continue to try and play politics with this.”
The controversy stems from a newly surfaced audio recording of Zarif, who can be heard claiming that Kerry notified him that “Israel had launched more than 200 attacks on Iranian forces in Syria.” Zarif doesn’t say when that conversation took place, but senior Republican lawmakers have construed the comment as a sign that Kerry passed a warning to Iran.
“If true, it is despicable. I think we should have a hearing. I doubt my Democratic colleagues will call a hearing,” Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, said Tuesday. “So my Plan B preference would be to have a classified briefing, and let's find out what happened.”
JOHN KERRY’S POSSIBLE DEFENSE IN IRAN LEAK UPROAR COULD SHOW HE UNDERMINED TRUMP
we did digs on the michael fanone guy back then
>JOHN KERRY’S POSSIBLE DEFENSE IN IRAN LEAK UPROAR COULD SHOW HE UNDERMINED TRUMP
April 27, 2021 05:25 PM
A leaked recording of Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has prompted allegations that John Kerry gave classified information to Iran, but the former secretary of state’s most persuasive defense could depend on his willingness to explain whether he undercut former President Donald Trump’s "maximum pressure campaign" against Tehran.
Zarif’s statement that Kerry notified him about “more than 200 attacks on Iranian forces in Syria” strikes some Republican lawmakers as an indication that Kerry betrayed Israeli secrets. Other observers, including the London-based Persian outlet that first published the audio, think it more likely that Zarif is referring to comments made during meetings after Kerry left office, when the Israeli barrages were well known — and the new U.S. administration suspected that their Democratic critics were encouraging Iranian officials to defy Trump’s use of economic sanctions to pressure them to begin negotiating a stricter nuclear deal.
“This is an impetus, many of us have been waiting for, to press current senior officials to disclose as much detail as possible about their ongoing relationships with senior officials of the leading state sponsor of terrorism over the last four years,” said Richard Goldberg, one of Trump’s top Iran advisers. “How did these now-current officials of the U.S. government actively undermine the United States of America in front of a leading state sponsor of terrorism. That’s the outrage.”
>JOHN KERRY’S POSSIBLE DEFENSE IN IRAN LEAK UPROAR COULD SHOW HE UNDERMINED TRUMP
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/john-kerrys-defense-iran-leaks-political-risks
In any case, Trump’s national security brain trust has been simmering about the Kerry team’s interregnum contact with Iranian officials since 2018, when then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo faulted him for meeting Zarif at the Munich Security Conference. “I am reasonably confident that he was not there in support of U.S. policy,” Pompeo said that September.
Kerry denied “coaching” Zarif on how to respond to Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal. “What I have done is tried to elicit from him what Iran might be willing to do in order to change the dynamic in the Middle East for the better,” he told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.
Pompeo’s team suspects that Kerry and the former officials stiffened Iran’s resolve not to negotiate under pressure from Trump, with the expectation that a Democratic president elected on a platform of restoring the nuclear deal would end the pressure campaign.
“It definitely negatively impacted one of our goals, which was to get Iran to the negotiating table as a result of our sanctions, because Iranians felt they had a possible out coming to them in November 2020,” former State Department official Gabriel Noronha said.
Noronha, a liaison between the State Department and Congress during Pompeo’s tenure, believes that Iranian officials regarded Trump’s overtures to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as a sign that a conversation may be fruitful. “There was very much a [sense that if] you call Donald Trump on the phone … you never know what kind of deal he’s going to be in the mood for, and if it’s right before the election and he wants an election win, in their minds, they could get a good deal out of it.”
That complaint encompasses not only Kerry but other Obama administration alumni who now hold high office.Current Deputy Secretary of StateWendy Sherman acknowledged in 2018 that she had met with Zarif but added she gave the Pompeo team advance notice. “The criticism of us is ludicrous on so many levels,” Sherman, a top negotiator of the Iran deal under Kerry, said in response to Pompeo’s criticisms.
Another senior member of Obama’s national security team, Robert Malley, who is now Biden’s special representative for Iran at the State Department, also met with Iranian officials in his capacity as International Crisis Group president.
Former Ambassador Dan Shapiro, who represented the U.S. in Israel during Obama’s tenure, defended the meetings as “completely legitimate” when Jewish Insider revealed them in 2019, with the caveat that his colleagues should “guard against giving Iranian officials the impression that they are an alternative outlet to debate U.S. policy. We have one government and one president at a time.”
WENDY!
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Cyber Ninjas is Florida-based ….I did not know that.
> warmongering fool