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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs I said last week....Dunning Kruger Effect at work.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-crazy-cabal-trying-to-smear-robert-mueller
In his efforts to dig up dirt on Mueller, Burkman appears to have enlisted outside help. Jacob Wohl, a right wing Twitter personality and a self-described friend of Burkman, said Burkman had told him he had hired Matthew Cohen, who claims to be a managing partner at the private investigations company Surefire Intelligence, to assist with the investigation. In fact, it appears that Cohen is Wohl.
Surefire is a bit of a mystery. Since-deleted Craigslist advertisements for the company said it was founded by two members of Israel's elite intelligence community. The ads billed services including counter intelligence, private spies, and ethical hackers.
At least seven supposed employees of the company use fake headshots on their LinkedIn profiles. Talia Yaniv, whose page lists her as Surefires Tel Aviv station chief, uses a photo of Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli. The photo of Surefires financial investigator is actually actor Christoph Waltz. The companys station chief in DC uses a photo of Sigourney Weavers husband. And its deputy director of operations ripped off a headshot from a Michigan pastor.
Among the little public information available on the company is a pair of suspiciously vague posts on the publishing platform Medium. Both posts were written to appear as journalistic exposes of the company but neither does much beyond extolling its supposed expertise and impressive client listwithout naming any of the clients. Both the posts were written by self-described journalists whose Twitter accounts were created in the last three months, and neither has done much beyond promote their Medium posts on Surefire.
The website lists offices in Los Angeles and nearby Irvine, CA, Washington D.C., New York, Tel Aviv, London, and Zurich. All of the U.S. phone numbers are Google Voice contacts that redirect callers to a single phone number with an area code corresponding to Orange County, CA, from which Wohls family also hails.
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As I said last week....Dunning Kruger Effect at work. (Original Post)
Tommy_Carcetti
Oct 2018
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)1. Sounds like Wohl and Burkman are about to disappear up each other's assholes
Can the resurrection of Gannon/Guckert be far behind?
unblock
(52,243 posts)2. lol i'm wondering if erran morad works there!
Cary
(11,746 posts)3. D'nesh is available
BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)4. This sounds like high schoolers set it up...
Did they really think they could get away with this?
TheRealNorth
(9,481 posts)5. Follow the money
Who is paying all these clowns.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)6. K&R