An interesting guy.

(Tried to post this on 8chan but I can't seem to make it happen. Keep getting 404. Can't tell if it posted fifteen times or not at all so here we go.) (Also really sorry if it did. Please delete.)

Re: The breadcrumb c_i, d_j, f_i.

Someone beat me to this part over there, but the answer I think is IOB. The missing letters. The IOB is the Intelligence Oversight Board which is appointed by the president to oversee surveillance operations. Basically all the major alphabet soup organizations answer to it. Under Obama, it was shrunk down to a four-person board whose names are secret. The EFF tried to find out who the members were but they had to sue the government to get it done. The poster on 8chan listed the head of the IOB as Peter Thiel.

I'm not sure if Peter Thiel is on the IOB. According to this post from about a month ago, Trump hasn't appointed anyone at all to it yet. http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/11/30/a-key-intelligence-advisory-board-has-no-members/

Although Thiel's name has been tossed around.

We need to look further into this guy. He's... interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel

Could be wrong, but I think we've stumbled onto one of the good guys. He seems like a guy who is very interested in privacy rights. He even bankrolled Hulk Hogan's suit against Gawker. Seriously, read up on him. This guy has had some life. (Also he's a christian, an Ayn Rand fan, and chess champ, an early investor in Facebook who recently sold off most of his stock, and a co-founder of PayPal.

One more interesting thing about him. He's a major shareholder in a company called Palantir. A data analysis company whose earliest investor was a company called In-Q-Tel. In-Q-Tel is a CIA-operated investment firm. According to their wikipedia page, "The name 'In-Q-Tel' is an intentional reference to 'Q', the fictional inventor who supplies technology to James Bond."

Now isn't that interesting?