'Mystery company' buys land worth $800M near Travis AFB, raising concerns
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#2yeah the CIA doesnt know who this is…ok mmm hmmm yeah…/s
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#3Maybe a bit off topic, but my first thought was wondering whether the OSINT community would get any further with figuring out who it was, but I then realised, the OSINT community often look successful because they publish, but we don't know if "closed source" intelligence knows the same things or is even more successful, but just doesn't publish.
Does anyone have any evidence one way or another? Are OSINT thinking outside the box and doing something materially different, or are they just visible? Are traditional intelligence communities still doing this but just being understandable secretive about methods?
This is not to down play the importance of the OSINT community in any way, I believe publishing does materially change things by increasing accountability to the public.
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#4If this land is so precious to our national defense, why wasn't the land already owned by the federal government? Eminent domain is the uno reverse card here.
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#5The USA has kept the top spot for paranoia for 70 consecutive years.
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#6WSJ has a map (and more details)
- "“Nobody can figure out who they are,” said Ronald Kott, mayor of Rio Vista, Calif., which is now largely surrounded by Flannery-owned land."
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#7It's taken 5 years after numerous land purchases and a giant $500m lawsuit against landowners for people to get suspicious? Doesn't that seem entirely backwards, that a "mysterious company" can own so much in such short time and that's perfectly legal no red flags? It's only a problem now because it's near a base which is pure absurdity, they would likely also buy the land the base is on and demolish it for their given reason "interstate commerce".
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#8I find it hard to believe if the Military was actually worried about this they would be going about it by having a House rep blast his mouth about it on local news.
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#9I doubt very much that it’s actually a mystery to the US government.
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#10this sounds easy to figure, simply occupy the land,deny use or entry, watch who starts squirming.