"Frank Colon, Senior Legal Counsel, Cyber Operations, U.S. Army, INSCOM."

That's a screen grab from Thursday's edition of "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" on MSNBC, at 4 minutes and 32 seconds into the 11+ minutes opening segment.

quote Claire McCaskill and Daniel Goldman join Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss how Donald Trump and his allies crafted proposals designed to steal the election in the days and weeks leading up to the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

"Trump Allies Schemed to Use NSA Data to Try to Prove Foreign Election Meddling: Memo"

quote Donald Trump and his allies devised several harebrained schemes to enable the former president to stay in power after the 2020 election. The Washington Post on Thursday reported on a memo detailing yet another such scheme: sifting through National Security Agency data to try to prove foreign election interference. The Dec. 18 memo, which circulated among Trump’s allies, laid out a plan for Trump to appoint a three-man team to carry out the scheme to use NSA data to overturn the election results: Army lawyer Frank Colon; former National Security Council employee Richard Higgins, who was fired for claiming Deep State actors were out to get Trump; and Michael Del Rosso, a one-time GOP congressional candidate in Virginia and, according to his resume, a Trump campaign surrogate. The team was to seize and analyze “NSA unprocessed raw signals data,” and to do so “confidentially” and over the course of “several days,” according to the memo. Once the alleged evidence was declassified to Trump, “next steps to defend the Constitution in a manner superior to current civilian-only judicial remedies” would be taken. The memo also included a line about shredding the data to avoid it getting into the wrong hands, a notable detail considering Trump reportedly tore up some of the documents requested by the Jan. 6 committee. . . .

William Vaillancourt for RollingStone; February 3, 2022.
https://www.rollingstone.co...nterference-1294450/

That's from RollingStone, and it's based on a report from the Washington Post:

"Memo circulated among Trump allies advocated using NSA data in attempt to prove stolen election"
Josh Dawsey, Rosalind S. Helderman, Emma Brown, Jon Swaine and Jacqueline Alemany for the Washington Post; February 3, 2022.
https://www.washingtonpost..../trump-nsa-election/


Cologuard... just in case everyone's not already in the loop.

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The mysterious and elusive Frank Colon.


This thumbnail is the only photograph of Frank Colon that I could find online with Google. Frank Colon's name was used 14 times in the Washington Post article that I cited in my previous message on this topic, and that's the most of all the people (there were many) whose names appeared in that article.

quote Building partnerships between federal, state and private sector provides a whole of internet solution to cyber security.

That sentence is attributed to Frank Colon, Cyber Attorney Advisor, 780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber), U.S. Army. It appeared in 2018 in the BYTE, which is (was) a publication of the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade (MI BDE), Fort Meade, Maryland.

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Cologuard has reached back in time, reversing the calendar by more than a full year, to find a brief article that focuses on Frank Colon.

"Even the Guy the MyPillow CEO Wanted to Enlist for a Coup Is Confused"
Ben Jacobs for New York Magazine, The Intelligencer; January 16, 2021.
https://nymag.com/intellige...oup-is-confused.html

A brief article. Here's the first paragraph:

quote My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell entered the West Wing of the White House on Friday [more than a year ago] bearing what appeared to be plans for something resembling a coup[,] ahead of his meeting with President Trump. An eagle-eyed Twitter user enhanced a photo of a piece of paper in the right hand of the mustachioed mattress topper mogul that included phrases such as “insurrection act now as a result of the assault” — apparently last week’s Capitol riot. It also clearly shows Kash Patel, a hardcore Trump loyalist, “as acting CIA” and references Trump’s former lawyer and noted conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell in some unknown context. In bold at the top it reads: “Frank Colon as acting National Security.” Colon is described as an attorney with “cyber … expertise” associated with “Fort Mead[e],” where U.S. Cyber Command is headquartered.

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