
The Gold Team also benefited from call detail records, or CDRs.
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His website published several documents related to the legal arguments people like Powell and Phil Waldron were making and hinted at their terrifying vision for how to achieve victory. In particular, Byrne struck me as an underrated part of the puzzle. My OSINT team drafted deep-dive dossiers on all these major players. But during the election result challenge, Trump also connected with a new wave of conspiracists including the lawyer Sidney Powell and Patrick Byrne, the multimillionaire former CEO of internet retailer. They were some of the more hard-core voices in Trump’s ear throughout his presidency. This included his family, staff, and informal advisers like Bannon, Rudy Giuliani, and General Flynn. Gold Team zeroed in on Trump and his inner circle. We brainstormed to help them prepare sharp questions and catch potential lies during depositions. Both my telephony and open-source intelligence team (or OSINT) analysts prepared files on people the committee investigators were set to interview. We also helped them track the connections among the various violent extremist groups. We matched names to numbers-and vice versa. The Red Team handed my telephone team their heaviest workload. The committee was looking at the storming of the building as a military operation. The militant groups that took part in the attack, namely the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and 1st Amendment Praetorian, were also part of this portfolio. This included the activists and conspiracists who planned the Stop the Steal and “Save America” protests that drew people to DC that day. Red focused on the rioters and what we termed “day-of command and control,” in other words, coordination among people who engaged in violence at the Capitol on January 6th.

Part of our work involved providing technical and investigative support for the six other teams. My operations were distinct from that structure. They were all code-named with different colors: Red, Gold, Green, Purple, Orange, and Blue. The select committee had six teams working separately.
