bkdelong

Well, it's about time. Someone claiming to be with DHS placed a phone call to John Young at Cryptome asking about Jim Atkinson.

Is it me or does the whole context of this seem that DHS is pissed Jim didn't hand over his analysis to them as soon as he found it? He's just doing what his client asked & paid him to do and then shared his analysis with me via a private mailing list. I asked for permission to post his report and he said "sure".

Immediately after posting said report - the FIRST time - I emailed two FBI Special Agents, (whom I had previous contact with via the BlackHat conference I worked as PR Manager for), whom I knew had some involvement in anti-terrorist activities at the Bureau. Should I have contacted FPS? DHS? Maybe. But why me? It seems from my posts that the information Mr. Atkinson was providing both me and Cryptome was common knowledge and hopefully something that would be addressed prior to the opening of the convention. Not to mention the fact that I posted links to said articles to every friggin DNC site I could find.

I'm interested to hear what Jim has to say and whether or not DHS has contacted him first. I'm also very curious as to whether or not DHS will address the issues Jim raised - which was the point for making the posts in the first place.

I will keep people posted.

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