THREAD: @emptywheel's "Phil" AKA @GUCCIFER_2 and/or the @shadowbrokerss?

1/ In 2017, EW went to the @FBI to rat on a person she had a journalistic relationship with who she believed might be G2 and/or TSB. So who is "Phil"? Read https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/10/26/part-of-what-i-shared-with-the-fbi/ https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/11/01/show-me-the-metadata-a-forensic-tie-between-shadow-brokers-and-guccifer-2-0/

2/ So I did my thing. Originally, I thought he could be David House of @xychelsea fame because he lived near Lexington, AL, hence @LexingtonAl. So I've been leaving comments on her site to see if she would bite, and today she did. (It's not House btw) https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/12/01/hours-before-trump-pardoned-flynn-phil-weighed-in-a-pardon/

3/ Marcy states that "Phil has tried to leave at least three more comments, the last one making crystal clear that it was him". This is referring to when I figured out that "Phil" was Michael L. Adams or the defunct Twitter user @mla1396. Cc: @GenFlynn https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/12/01/trump-attempts-to-invalidate-the-mueller-investigation/#comment-869517

4/ Adams was a SOCOM Sergeant Major and the Global Director for Information Security @luxoft, a company he says is owned by the FSB founding fathers, indeed it was founded in Moscow. Major clients = @DeutscheBank, @Boeing, and @kaspersky. Dig in! https://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-l-adams

5/ Adams had mentioned Wheeler in one of his Luxoft blog posts and also even penned one article for @lawfareblog. https://www.luxoft.com/blog/madams/legal-cyber-killchain-is-now-global/ https://www.lawfareblog.com/why-opm-hack-far-worse-you-imagine

6/ At some point in or after 2017 he deleted all of his tweets and linkedin page, and has seemingly fell off of the map. Some of his tweets are archived though, Shadow Brokers are a theme. http://Linkedin.com/in/mla13 

7/ What needs to be investigated is that the day after G2 releases the DCCC docs, on August 13, 2016, "Phil" is at a Trump rally in CT, TSB's first publication occurs, and @hal_999999999 starts DMing Kaspersky. All a coincidence? Did Phil frame Hal? https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/09/russia-kaspersky-lab-nsa-cybersecurity-1089131

8/ I can't say for sure that Michael Adams is involved with Guccifer 2.0 and/or the Shadow Brokers, but I do know that it needs to be investigated and is potentially monumental and that furthermore I pwned the fuck out of Marcy Wheeler, holy shit!

Cc: @RealMattCouch, @CraigMurrayOrg, @with_integrity, @Bill_Binney, @stranahan, @tracybeanz, @gatewaypundit, @Consortiumnews, @KerriKupecDOJ, @KimDotcom, @DefendAssange, @wikileaks, @seanhannity, @SidneyPowell1, @rodwheeler, @EdButowsky, @Ty_Clevenger.

Sorry Marcy, the internet is forever. https://web.archive.org/web/20201201212338/https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/12/01/hours-before-trump-pardoned-flynn-phil-weighed-in-a-pardon/

Craig Murray doesn't deny meeting with "Phil" at American University in September 2016. He certainly didn't meet with @volf_the...

Adams potentially returning to the scene of the Shadow Broker crime, possibly fancying himself as a "Snowden junior". H/t @walkafyre who sent me down the Phil path. https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/ezp5na/former-nsa-staffers-rogue-insider-shadow-brokers-theory

Some more information about Adams from the emptywheel comment section, most intriguing are his "run-ins with at least one person at [ @CrowdStrike]".

Same day of the Boone texts, Michael Adams starts a dispute with Wheeler about attribution of the July 22nd DNC leaks, then on the 27th he claims that "Russia didn't write this APT". https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1334530153435820037

Michael Adams's https://twitter.com/mla1396  Bio at separate timepoints provided links to a @FreedomofPress Foundation github encryption post by Conor Schaefer and an Anonymous affiliated CyberGuerrilla site regarding OS anonymity. https://github.com/freedomofpress/encryption-works/blob/master/encryption_works.md https://web.archive.org/web/20170216181558/https://anonguide.cyberguerrilla.org/

Michael Adams interviewing @MalcolmNance about Russia hacking America is something to behold. H/t @15poundstogo http://techgenix.com/plot-to-hack-america/

The @walkafyre Interview Part 1: http://themyefiles.org  and @emptywheel's "Phil"/Guccifer 2.0? Background.

The @walkafyre Interview Part 2: FOOL Engineers @emptywheel To Out "Phil" As Michael L. Adams.

On August 2, 2016, Michael Adams invokes @emptywheel again in a @TechGenix article about Guccifer 2.0. http://techgenix.com/dnchack-politics/

On June 21, 2016 Adams texts Wheeler that his site is getting DDOSed, asking if it was her or imprisoned hacker "Gucifer". Then on July 6, 2016, Guccifer 2.0 mentions his wp account suffering two attacks and rumors about Marcel Lazar/Guccifer. Coincidence? https://guccifer2.wordpress.com/2016/07/06/trumpocalypse/