Twitter Jira

The MSM and social media giants are predictably ignoring the Congressional Twitter hearings but I'm only surprised by one revelation. Not the tacit conspiracy with the FBI. Not the child porn and implied blackmail. Not the internal FBI unit. Not the evasion by the Twitter execs.

I expected these.

But I didn't expect the conspirators to leave a trail in 3rd party databases. I sure Roth, Gadde, Baker, etc shredded files as fast as possible but my inference from the hearings is that they didn't delete their Jira data at Atlassian, a 3rd party vendor.

Jira is a project management tool for internal company use. It contains future features, product roadmaps, bug issues, potential liabilities. Like source code, it's not for non-employees so this diagram was my surprise...

I've used Jira at several companies and to reiterate, it's not normal to grant access to numerous Federal agencies. But it makes perfect sense for a conspiracy. It's already embedded, a new channel and logins won't raise suspicion, enough security to hide nefarious activity, nobody will question its use. Smugglers use existing transportation venues for the same reasons.

My first question was "how did Congress get these logins?"

Twitter was probably using the hosted version (a few companies buy and run it internally), and Atlassian could provide those logins to Congress. Atlassian probably backed up Twitter's data for liability reasons, too. The Twitter execs may have hesitated to delete as it would be a huge legal liability for Atlassian, who would probably drag in lawyers, meetings, documentation, etc.

If my inferences are right, Congress probably has a database of all censorship requests, actions and identities of all parties.

Which, I imagine, is why that diagram was in the hearings.

Many liberal techies ridiculed this idea but most of them were equally clueless about FBI infiltration of MSM and the COVID vaccine collusion. They're young and naive and I've seen these sorts of conspiracies several times over the past thirty-three years, most notably at Infosys with visa, billing and resume fraud in 2008.