{"id":355561,"date":"2018-04-06T23:05:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T22:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-us-phone-database-to-fall-under-foreign-control-unless-trump-stops-it\/"},"modified":"2018-04-06T23:05:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T22:05:04","slug":"prison-planet-com-us-phone-database-to-fall-under-foreign-control-unless-trump-stops-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-us-phone-database-to-fall-under-foreign-control-unless-trump-stops-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb US Phone Database to Fall Under Foreign Control, Unless Trump Stops It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Foreign-owned company linked to Chinese national & Clinton scandals to manage US phone database<\/p>\n

Kit Daniels<\/strong>
Prison Planet.com
April 6, 2018<\/p>\n

America\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

As of Sunday, April 7, the phone record database, which is central to \u201call significant criminal and national security investigations\u201d according<\/span><\/a> to Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), will be managed by Telcordia, a subsidiary of Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson which was accused of giving \u201cpay-for-play\u201d cash to Bill Clinton to escape sanctions in Iran while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/a> due to national security concerns.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese 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,\u201d reported<\/a> the Washington Post at the time.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s 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<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Lee Zeldin (@RepLeeZeldin) March 30, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Telcordia was then forced to rewrite the entire database,\u00a0which tracks nearly every phone number in America, from scratch.<\/span><\/p>\n