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ew as well. As we progressed with our testing and development of the program, others were involved to include the Office of General Counsel (OGC), the General Counsel himself, the Procurement Office, several ACsl, the NYFO ADIC, and various other leaders in FBI management. At a minimum, my squad SSA, branch ASA
o be connected to the Internet in order to send CSAM to NCMEC. As mentioned previously, the official way to send CSAM 4mageo—toINCMEC is to use the SIFTS online portal. EFTA00173593 . They will accept hard drives but it is not what they want, and NCMEC has been moving to eliminate the use of hard
d I exceed my authority by contracting an outside company. There was no contract. My chain of command, including our CDC and later OGC, to include the General Counsel himself, knew I was speaking with Apostlex and creating a solution to a problem. I c..1,,,-.1-ngaged in the Commented (CT7J: I did not highlight Mi
lab server had to be connected to the Internet II send CSAM to NCMEC. As mentioned previously, the official way to send CSAM to NCMEC is to use the SIFTS online portal. They will accept hard drives. but it is not what they want, and NCMEC has been moving to eliminate the use of hard drives altogether
were others in the office who knew as well. As we progressed with our testing and development of the program, others were involved to include OGC, the General Counsel himself, the Procurement Office, several SACs, the NYFO ADIC, and various other leaders in FBI management. At a minimum, my squad SSA, branch ASAC
rage media. Later, the FBI created the "SIFTS" program which was an online portal for CSAM transmission. As an example, the FBI's guidance on using SIFTS has been provided to INSD which includes a section that DExT machines must be connected to the Internet to use SIFTS. In approximately 2022, CACHT
Entities connected to both the General Counsel and SIFTS

Jeffrey Epstein
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Las Vegas
LOCATION
Stephen Hawking
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George W. Bush
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Roberto Cavalli
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Aaron
PERSON
Huntsville
LOCATION
Tommy Thompson
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Spencer Horn
PERSONHadden
PERSONthe New York Field Office
ORGANIZATION
Signal
ORGANIZATIONNCMEC
ORGANIZATIONStephen Flatley
PERSONAxiom
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PERSONPaul Abbate
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