Foreign-owned company linked to Chinese national & Clinton scandals to manage US phone database
Kit Daniels
Prison Planet.com
April 6, 2018
America’s most sensitive phone records will soon fall under the control of a foreign-owned company that once employed a Chinese national and whose owners had given money to Bill Clinton amid a sanctions scandal.
As of Sunday, April 7, the phone record database, which is central to “all significant criminal and national security investigations” according to Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), will be managed by Telcordia, a subsidiary of Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson which was accused of giving “pay-for-play” cash to Bill Clinton to escape sanctions in Iran while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.
Additionally, in 2016 US intelligence agencies found out that Telcordia was using a Chinese national to help write the phone record database, which was a direct violation of a federal requirement that only US citizens could work on the project due to national security concerns.
“These officials fear that if other countries gain access to the code, they could reap a counterintelligence bonanza, learning the targets of U.S. law enforcement and espionage investigations,” reported the Washington Post at the time.
It’s urgent for Team Telecom to conduct review before 4/7 transition of US Telecoms database to foreign owned co. Telcordia. Failure to complete smooth transition could leave consumers w/o wireless service, inhibit emer services comms & hinder criminal & natl sec investigations. pic.twitter.com/zxdCjOWtgK
— Lee Zeldin (@RepLeeZeldin) March 30, 2018
Telcordia was then forced to rewrite the entire database, which tracks nearly every phone number in America, from scratch.
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However, despite the scandal, the FCC under the Obama administration had no problem allowing Telcordia to become the next database…