In an earlier article, after John Durham’s indictment of Michael Sussmann was filed, I noted that the millions of Pentagon-held IP addresses that were turned over in January 2021 to an obscure company in Florida had reverted to Pentagon stewardship the week before news of the indictment came out.
The Sussmann indictment’s filing date with the federal court for the District of Columbia was 16 September 2021. The true-bill signature date for the grand jury foreman was also 16 September 2021. DOJ prosecutors would have presented their information to the grand jury on or before that date. (The 16th was a Thursday.)
On 10 September 2021, the Washington Post reported that the IP addresses had been turned back over to the Department of Defense on 7 September. That was the Tuesday of the week before the Sussmann indictment.
The Post cited a brief notice from DOD on the matter, which was of interest given that there was no contemporaneous Pentagon announcement back on 20 January 2021, when the IP addresses were transferred to Global Resource Systems, the company (seemingly a sole proprietorship) headquartered in Plantation, Florida. As a reminder, Continue reading “September 2021: One ping on the IP addresses of war”
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